You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you ________ today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the important ________ work on dictionaries. They spent nearly all their lives trying to ________ words for their dictionaries. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the word, is Oxford English dictionary. The ________for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary. Murray had never been to ________. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. ________ he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small ________ in his garden to do the work. Every morning Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and ________ in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was ________ adding words for the letter “A”! He worked on the dictionary ________ he was very old.

Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.

We can’t remember clearly since when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table. This happens a lot, _______ when we go out to have dinner. Once a dish comes, instead of lifting our chopsticks, we take out our _______ and click. Later, we post the photos onto Weibo or WeChat, waiting to be “liked”. Then we check our mobiles from time to time during the meal, to see _______ we get “liked” or not. We just cannot leave our mobiles for only a meal.

Does that sound _______ to you? Do you do that often? If not, how do you feel when _______ do that when having dinner with you?

A recent study suggests that _______ we are used to doing is not so good. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant. To test this, some _______ did an experiment. Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food. As a result, it showed that the more photos they took, _______ delicious the food seemed to them. So, why not stop taking photos and just enjoy the food in front of you?

Besides the scientific result, there are also some other _______ influence of taking photos of food before meals. After ________ the photos onto the Internet, one will not be able to control himself and check his mobile many times. “Does everyone like my photos? I hope a lot of people like ________!” It seems that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time, even when you are ________ real people.

So, next time you ________ with your family or friends, how about not taking photos of food? Let the food be delicious as it is, and ________ your life with people around you.

Trust me, it will be a ________ time.

Li Xia is the end of _________ and the beginning of summer. In the past, people knew the beginning of summer by _________ signals (信号). First, frogs start to cry in the water. _________, earthworms (蚯蚓) come out in the fields. _________ third, melon seedlings (瓜秧) begin to grow fast.

Li Xia is a turning point for the weather. After Li Xia, the weather becomes _________. Everything on the earth _________ becoming active.

Around Li Xia, the temperature is about 18℃ or 20℃ in most parts of _________. It is a _________ time for people to enjoy the beautiful countryside.

In many places of China, people keep the tradition (传统) of _________ special porridge (稀饭), drinking tea and eating eggs on Li Xia. People do some sports at this time of year __________ spring and summer. It is very important.