Reading
• Part 5
Questions 21-26
For each question, choose the correct answer.
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Online dictionaries
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How many times have you asked someone the meaning of a word, only to be told '(21) ...............
up in the dictionary.'? Not so long ago, this meant getting up out of your seat, going to a bookcase,
taking out a thick, heavy book, finding the page with the first letter of the word and then looking
through a long list of words, thinking about the (22)
of the letters in the word until you
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found it. Then, and only then, could you find out what it meant.
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Nowadays, this is far easier to do, thanks to that wonderful twentieth-century (23)
Internet. Apart (24) .............. the fact that you only have to write the word in the 'search' box for it
to appear magically, at the click of a button (or tap of a finger if you've got a touch (25)...........
I can also hear the correct (26) .............. of the word!
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21 A
22 A
Read
B Search
C Look
D
Find
order
B
pattern
C line
D
group
23 A development
B
idea
C invention
D
improvement
24 A
of
B from
Coff
D
for
25 A
server
B screen
C switch
D
software
26 A
accent
B
sound
C pronunciation
D
spelling