What is the main idea?

　　A．People remember well what they learned in childhood.

　　B．Children have a better memory than grown­ups.

　　C．Poem reading is a good way to learn words.

　　D．Stories for children are easy to remember.

　　4．One of the greatest contributions to the first Oxford University in England asked Professor James Murray to serve as an editor for what was to be the most ambitious dictionary in the history of the English language. It would include every English word possible and would give not only the definition but also the history of the word and quotations (引文)showing how it was used.

　　This was a huge task. So Murray had to find volunteers from Britain, the United States, and the British colonies to search every newspaper, magazine, and book ever written in English. Hundreds of volunteers responded, including William Chester Minor. Dr Minor was an American surgeon who had served in the civil war and is now living in England. He gave his address as “Broadmoor, Crowthorne, Berkshire”， 50 miles from Oxford. r joined the army of volunteers sending words and quotations to Murray. Over the next years, he became one of the staff's most valued contributors.

　　But he was also a mystery. In spite of many invitations, he would always decline to visit Oxford. So in 1897, Murray finally decided to travel to Crowthorne himself. When he arrived, he found Minor locked in a book­lined cell at the Broadmoor Asylum for the criminally insane.

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