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ook at the title of the passage. Choose the most likely main idea. A. Past, present and future of the OED B. New developments in writing dictionaries. C. The future of the OED online. D. A history of dictionaries. read the text carefully and finish the table according to the text past present future Sorting quotation slips Explanation of words and how used Electronic dictionary Available on the WWW 60 million words Structure and anization Accurate display of words Unlimited space Biographical and geographical entries Multimedia past present future Sorting quotation slips Explanation of words and how used Electronic dictionary Available on the WWW 60 million words Structure and anization Accurate display of words Unlimited space Biographical and geographical entries Multimedia How often do you use a Chinese dictionary? What kind of information are you usually looking for? Do a survey about the history of Oxford Dictionary Read the passage and answer the questions. 1. Would you prefer to use Roget’s Thesaurus or an AZ Thesaurus? 2. What Chinese language reference books do you know? 。 can you see in the picture? 2. Does everybody have a dictionary? 3. How often do you use your dictionary? 4. When do you usually refer to your dictionary? Think of as many words connected with dictionaries as possible refer to … look up…. consult… hard pape