Whatisthebest-sellingbookintheworld?IsittheHarryPotterseriesorSecretGarden?AccordingtotheGuinnessWorldRecordstheXinhuaDictionarypublishedbytheCommercialPressinChinaistheworld’smostpopulardictionaryandthebest-sellingbook.

In1950Chineselanguageexperts(专家)andscholarsWeiJiangongandYeShengtaostartedtoedit(编辑)theXinhuaDictionary.Therewasalotofdiscussionresearchandpaperwork.Somehandscripts(稿件)werecheckedagainandagainlikecompositionsPeople’sDailyreported.Manypeople’shardworkandinterestingstorieswentintomakingthedictionary.

In1953thefirstXinhuaDictionarywaspublished.Today567millioncopiesofthedictionaryhavebeensoldworldwide.

Howeverrevisions(修订)tothedictionarycontinuetobemade.AccordingtoYuGuilinfromCommercialPresseditors(编辑)usuallysummarize(总结)themeaningofwordsagainwhilerevising.Iftheexamplesentencesareoutofdateeditorsneedtohaveexperiencesand mmakenewexamples.“Togiveacorrectexplanationoftheword‘焗油(deepcondition)’oneeditorwenttoabarbershop(理发店)toexperienceitforhimself”YutoldtheBeijingTimes.SofartheXinhuaDictionaryhasbeenrevised11times.

Tokeepupwiththetimessomepopularandwidelyusedinternetwordsarealsoaddedtothedictionary.Forexampleinthe11theditionthephrases“晒工资(showoffsalary)”and“晒照片(showoffpictures)”wereincluded.

Alltheseeffortscreatethe“NationalDictionary”ofChina.TheXinhuaDictionaryisnotonlyausefultoolforgenerationsofChinesepeople.ItalsohelpsforeignerswhoarelearningtheChineselanguageandculture. 

1.AccordingtoGuinnessWorldRecordsthebest-sellingbookis_____.

  A.theXinhuaDictionary                      B.theHarryPotterseries

  C.SecretGarden                               D.GuinnessBookofWorldRecords

2.What’sthemeaningoftheunderlinedword“scholars”inthesecondparagraph?

  A.校长                 B.学长               C.学者             D.学生 

3.WhichofthefollowingisNOTtrueaboutthefirstXinhuaDictionary?

  A.WeiJiangongandYeShengtaoeditedit.

  B.Theeditorshadalotofdiscussio