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Three English dictionaries published recently all lay claim to possessing a "new" feature. The BBC English Dictionary contains b
Three English dictionaries published recently all lay claim to possessing a "new" feature. The BBC English Dictionary contains b
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2015-12-31
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问题
Three English dictionaries published recently all lay claim to possessing a "new" feature. The BBC English Dictionary contains background information on 1 000 people and places prominent in the news since 1988; the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary: Encyclopedic (百科全书 的) Edition is the OALD plus encyclopedic entries; the Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture is the LDOCE plus cultural information.
The key fact is that all three dictionaries can be seen to have a distinctly "cultural" as well as language learning content. That being said, the way in which they approach the cultural element is not identical, making direct comparisons between the three difficult.
While there is some common ground between the encyclopedic/cultural entries for the Oxford and Longman dictionaries, there is a clear difference, Oxford lays claim to being encyclopedic on content whereas Longman distinctly concentrates on the language and culture of the English-speaking world. The Oxford dictionary can therefore stand more vigorous scrutiny (审视) for cultural bias than the Longman publication because the latter does not hesitate about viewing the rest of the world from the cultural perspectives of the English-speaking world. The cultural objectives of the BBC dictionary are in turn more distinct still. Based on an analysis of over 70 million words recorded from the BBC World Service and National Public Radio of Washington over a period of four years, their 1 000 brief encyclopedic entries are based on people and places that have featured (占显著地位) in the news recently. The intended user they have in mind is a regular listener to the World Service who will have a reasonable standard of English and a developed skill in listening comprehension. In reality, though, the BBC dictionary will be purchased by a far wider range of language learners, as will the other two dictionaries. We will be faced with a situation where many of the users of these dictionaries will at the very least have distinct socio-cultural perspectives and may have world views which are totally opposed and even hostile to those of the West. Advanced learners from this kind of background will not only evaluate a dictionary on how user-friendly it is but will also have definite views about the scope and appropriateness of the various socio-cultural entries.
What is the passage mainly about?
选项
A、Different ways of treating socio-cultural elements in the three new English dictionaries.
B、A comparison of people’s opinions on the cultural content in the three new English dictiona-ries.
C、The advantages of the BBC dictionary over Oxford and Longman.
D、The user-friendliness of the three new English dictionaries.
答案
A
解析
本题是一道涉及全文中心思想的问题。利用浏览式阅读法通读全文,我们发现本篇文章首先介绍这三本新词典都包括了许多文化内容,收集了许多社会文化词条。但是它们处理文化内容的方法不一样。因此,对这三本字典进行直接的比较不容易。所以,本题的正确答案应是选项A“三本新英文词典在处理有关社会文化词条时的不同之处”。
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