单选题 The dictionary is shabbily compiled. What makes up somehow is the ______ it encloses.
A. appliances B. apparatuses C. hardbacks D. appendices

【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】appendices附录，阑尾；appliance用具，装置；apparatus器官，器具；hardback硬封底，精装本。本句enclose(附带)暗示答案应为D。