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广东省深圳实验学校中学部2023-2024学年八年级上学期期中英语试卷
As everyone knows,the Encyclopaedia Britannica is the oldest English—language encyclopaedia.Actually,more than 300 years before it a Chinese encyclopaedia called the Yongle Dadian or the Yongle Encyclopaedia had already been there.
In 1403,the Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty asked Xie Jin to complete a collection of every subject and every known book of Chinese.One year later,Xie,finished the first version of the encyclopaedia named A Complete Work of Literature.
However,the emperor wasn't happy with it because it was completed so quickly and he thought the content wasn't enough.In 1405,he asked Yao Guangxiao to compile(编纂),196.Two years later,they completed the work and won praise from the emperor who named the encyclopaedia after his reign name.Then it took the team another year to write the final version.The Yongle Encyclopaedia was finally completed in 1408.
The Yongle Encyclopaedia contained 22,973 scrolls in 11,095 volumes,such as history,geography,art and science.It is the largest encyclopaedia ever compiled in the world.However,over the years
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