15．Dictionaries are not closed books．There is still plenty of room for more words in these great vocabulary authorities．New words are continually being created and added to our language．And many of today's word experts can credit a famous mathematician with the creation of the method by which they develop many new words．The mathematician was an Englishman named Charles L．Dodgson．In addition to working with figures，Dodgson wrote books．His imaginative stories and poems have made Dodgson beloved to generations of readers．We know him，however，not by the name of Dodgson but by his pen name，Lewis Carroll．
Lewis Carroll has delighted countless readers，young and old，with Alice in Wonderland，Through the Looking Glass，and numerous poems．In these works，Carroll developed dozens of nonsensical words such as"chortle"and"galumph"．Many of these words are combined naturally with more common words in the English language．Carroll referred to his made-up words as"portmanteau"words，named after a kind of leather suitcase that opens into two compartments．The name was well suited，because most of Carroll's words had two compartments．Rather than being entirely fabricated（虛構(gòu)），they were usually made from the combined parts of two different words．A"snark"，for example，clearly came from a snake and a shark．
Although Carroll died long ago，his technique continues to be used today．We clearly see his influence in such words as smog，brunch，and guesstimate．
21．What does the underlined sentence probably mean according to the passage？C
A．Dictionaries are open to the public．
B．Dictionaries are helpful to the public．
C．Dictionaries are ready to welcome new words．
D．The vocabularies in dictionaries are limited．
22．Dodgson's made-up wordsA．
A．a(chǎn)re based on different words
B．a(chǎn)re borrowed from other languages
C．a(chǎn)ll come from his poems
D．a(chǎn)re still widely used
23．This passage is mainly aboutD．
A．how Dodgson wrote his works
B．how English words are created
C．how a dictionary is written
D．how Dodgson created new words．
分析 通讀全文可知，文章開篇說字典會不斷收錄新詞匯，接下來著重介紹了Charles L．Dodgson創(chuàng)造新單詞的例子．
解答 21．C 句意理解題．根據(jù)劃線處后面一句"在這些偉大的詞匯權(quán)威里仍有很多空間給更多的單詞"可知，這里是指字典會不斷收入新詞匯．故選C．
22．A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題．從第一段的最后一句We know him，however，not by the name of Dodgson but by his pen name，Lewis Carroll．可知，Dodgson和Carroll是同一個人；再根據(jù)第二段第二、三句Carroll developed…Many of these words are combined naturally with more common words in the English language．（這些單詞是用英語中更常見的單詞自然結(jié)合而成的）可知，答案選A．
23．D 主旨大意題．通讀全文可知，文章開篇說字典會不斷收錄新詞匯，接下來著重介紹了Charles L．Dodgson創(chuàng)造新單詞的例子．故D項是文章的主要內(nèi)容．
點評 本文是一個文學(xué)藝術(shù)類閱讀，題目涉及多道細(xì)節(jié)理解題，做題時結(jié)合原文和題目有針對性的找出相關(guān)語句進行仔細(xì)分析，結(jié)合選項選出正確答案．推理判斷題也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確答案，切忌胡亂猜測，一定要做到有理有據(jù)．
