Question

 This dictionary tells you about English words and how to use them in reading, writing and speaking English. It not only gives the meaning of words, it can also help you with spelling, word building, grammar and pronunciation.

To use your dictionary correctly, you will find two spellings for this word. “Colour” is used in British English, while “color” is used in American English. When there are differences between British and American spelling, the dictionary shows it with the word “BrE” for British English and “AmE” for American English.

The dictionary also helps you pronounce words correctly. If you turn to the inside back face, you will see all the phonetic letters (音標(biāo) ) with some words to show you how they are pronounced. Just look at the inside back cover when you're not sure how to say a word.

The most important reason for using a dictionary is to find out the meaning of a word — its definition.

In this dictionary, the definitions have been written using only 2, 000 words. This means that the definitions of even the most difficult words are simple and easy to understand.

1.________ of the words in the dictionary have two spellings.

A．All

B．Some

C．Few

D．One

2.What is the main reason for us to use a dictionary？

A．To read the word correctly.

B．To write the word out.

C．To know the meaning of the word.

D．To find the difference between British English and American English.

3.The phonetic letters helps you ________ each word correctly.

A．say

B．write

C．understand

D．know

4.The Chinese meaning of “definition” here is________.

A．詞性

B．詞條

C．詞義

D．詞庫

5.How many words are there in this dictionary?

A．Two thousand.

B．One thousand.

C．One hundred.

D．We don't know.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.C

5.D

【解析】

1.此題需要仔細(xì)推敲第二段文字，通過理解段意(如果熟悉英文詞典或懂得一些英文詞典的使用常識則可以直接進(jìn)行選擇)和推敲四個選項的詞語意思而確定。All和One都屬于“走極端”的選項，不能入選；Few本義是“幾乎沒有”，不符合文意，只有B項正確。

2.細(xì)節(jié)題: It not only gives the meaning of words, it can also help you with spelling, word building, grammar and pronunciation.可知選C 。

3.通過文中“We use a special alphabet(特殊字母表)to show pronunciation.”一句判斷。關(guān)鍵詞是“pronunciation(發(fā)音)”，清楚這個詞的意思，我們無疑會選擇A。

4.應(yīng)重點(diǎn)參考5—6段。實(shí)際上，第五段中已有“to find out the meaning of a word—its DEFINITION.”。“meaning of a word”中沒有生詞，那么，選擇對應(yīng)的漢語“詞義”豈不易如反掌！選C

5.要讀完全文后，才能確認(rèn)。因為文中提到的數(shù)字只有一個“2000”，但它決不是詞典的收詞數(shù)，而是用來“簡單解釋”詞義的用詞數(shù)。文中并沒有提及詞典的“收詞量”，因此，答案應(yīng)該是D。