Text B Are You A Workaholic

《Text B Are You A Workaholic》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在教育资源-天天文库。

1、TextBAreYouAWorkaholic?1.ReadingSkillFindingOutWordMeaningsAswasintroducedinUnit2,weoftencanfigureoutthemeaningofanunfamiliarwordthroughthecluesprovidedbycontext.Thecontextcluesthatmightbehelpfulforyoutorecognizethemeaningofanewwordinclude:1)Somesentencesgivethedefin

2、itionforadifficultwordwiththehelpofpunctuationsuchascommas,dashesorparentheses(插入语).2)Contextsometimesgivesexamplestoillustrateadifficultwordratherthandefineit.Wecanusetheexamplestofigureoutthemeaningofanunfamiliarword.3)Synonyms(同义词)arewordsorphrasesthataresimilarin

3、meaning.Asynonymisonetypeofcontextcluethathelpsyoutodeterminethemeaningsofunfamiliarwords.4)Antonyms(反义词)arewordsorphrasesthathaveoppositemeaningstootherwordsorphrases.Antonymcluescanhelpyouunderstandnewwords.5)Sentencesbeforeorafterasentencethathasadifficultwordsome

4、timesexplainthemeaningoftheword.6)Sometimeswecanuseourownexperiences,orourknowledgeaboutacertainsubject,tofindoutthemeaningofanunfamiliarword.7)Wordpartclues.Wecanoftenfigureoutanunfamiliarwordbecauseweknowtheprefixorsuffixattachedtotherootword,orthetwowordsthatmakeu

5、pacompoundword.Herewepickoutsomeexamplesfromthepassageswehavelearnedtoexplainhowthisparticularreadingskillisusedinpractice.Example1Contextclue:Contextsometimesgivesexamplestoillustrateadifficultwordratherthandefineit.Wecanusetheexamplestofigureoutthemeaningofanunfami

6、liarword.Example:SosaysDr.RobertS.Eliot,authorofanewbooktitledFromStresstoStrength:HowtoLightenYourLoadandSaveYourLife.(Para.3)Explanation:Thewordtitledisusedafterthenounphrase“anewbook”.Followingitisalongstringofwordsinitalicswiththeinitiallettersincapitals.Clearlyi

7、tisthenameofabook.Allthishelpsustofindoutthemeaningofthewordtitled,thatis,“givenatitleof...ornamedorcalled”.Example2Contextclue:Antonym(反义词)clues.Antonymsarewordsorphrasesthathaveoppositemeaningstootherwordsorphrases.Antonymcluescanhelpyouunderstandnewwords.Example:T

8、hisisduepartlytothefactthatthetelephoneserviceissuperbhere,whereasthepostalserviceislessefficient.(L.46,Unit1-A,BookII)Explanation: