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1. Reading Section (;it 50 ?t)
Please read the following passages and then answer all the questions based on them..
(A)
WHY SHOULD anyone buy the latest volume in the ever-expanding Dictionmy ofNational
Biography? I do not mean that it is bad, as the reviewers will agree. But it will cost you 65 pounds.
And have you got the rest of volumes? You need the basic 22 plus the largely decennial
supplements to bring the total to 31? Of course, it will be answered, public and academic libraries
will want the new volume. After all, it adds 1,068 lives of people who escaped the net of the
original compilers. Yet in 10 year's time a revised version of the whole caboodle, called the New
Dictionary ofNational Biography, will be published. Its' editor, professor Colin Matthew, tells me
that he will have room for about 50,000 lives, some 13, 000 more than in the current DNB. This
rather puts the 1,068 in Missing Persons in the shade.
When Dr. Nicholls wrote to The Spectator in 1989 asking for names of people whom readers
had looked up in the DNB and had been disappointed not to find, she says that she received some
100,000 suggestions. (Well, she had written to "other quality newspapers" too.) As soon as her
committee had whittled the numbers down, the professional problems of an editor began.
Contributors didn't file copy on time; some who did sent too much: 50,000 words instead of 500 is
a record, according to Dr. Nicholls.
There remains the dinner-party game of who's in, who's out That is a game that the reviewers
have played and will continue to play. Criminals were my initial worry. After all, the original
edition
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