僧伽罗语：Sinhalese
僧侣主义：fideism
森罗殿：the Hall of Darkness
法: law
法办：deal with according to law; punish by law; bring to
justice
法场：executiion ground
法典：code; statute book
法定：legal; statutory
按照法定手续办理：do sth.according to legal procedure
法定年龄: lawful age; legal age
法定期限：prescription
法度：law; moral standard
法官：judge; justice
法规：laws and regulations; statutes
经济法规：economic statutes
法警：bailiff
法令：laws and decrees; decree
政府法令：government decree
法律保护：legal protection
法律地位：legal status
法律根据：legal bases
法律规定：legal provisions
法律手续：legal procedure
法律制裁：legal sanction
法律顾问：legal adviser
法人：artificial person; corporation
法庭：court; tribunal
法医：legal medical expert;
法医学：medic
- How to read a Text
- Reading in Thought Groups
- Using Context Clues for Word Meanings
- Using Word Part Clues for Word Meanings
- Reading for the Main Idea
- Recognizing Important Facts or Details
- Looking for the Topic Sentence
- Making Inferences While Reading
- Drawing Conclusions While Reading
- Understanding Figurative Language
We have talked about how to guess the meaning of unknown words
by using context clues. There is another way of guessing the
meaning of unknown words, and that is by looking at the formation
of these words.
1. Dividing Compound Words
An unknown word may be a compound word, that is, a word made
up of two or more words. By dividing the word into small units, you
may get a clue to its meaning. Here are some of the compound words
you have learned before:
background
back+ground
babysitter baby+sitter
classroom class+room
newspaper news+paper
runaway run+away
skyscraper sky+scraper
2.Recognizing Prefixes
Aprefix is a word or syllable put at the beginning of a word
to change its meaning or add to its meaning. By
More often than not, one sentence in a paragraph tells the
reader exactly what the subject of the paragraph is and thus gives
the main idea. This main idea sentence is called a topic sentence
or topic statement. The topic sentence states briefly an idea whose
full meaning and significance are developed by the supporting
details. It may appear at the beginnng, or in the middle, or at the
end of a paragraph.
Sample 1 : At the beginning
London's weather is very strange. It can rain several
times a day; each time the rain may come suddenly after the sun is
shining brightly. The air is damp and chill right through July. On
one March afternoon on Hampton Heath last year it rained three
times, there was one hail storm, and the sunshone brilliantly - all
this within two hours' time. It is not unusual to see men and women
rushing down the street on a sunny morning with umbrellas on their
arms. No one knows what the next few moments will bring
Generally, in a one-paragraph selection you read all the
sentences to find the main idea, while in a longer passage you put
together the main ideas of the various paragraphs to determine the
overall main idea.
To understand the main idea thoroughly, however, you must
recognize the important facts or details which help develop or
support it. These facts and details give you a deeper understanding
of the main idea. They may prove a point, show a relationship
between ideas, or serve as examples to help you understand the main
idea more fully.
Here are some ways to help you recognize important facts or
details:
- Read for the main idea. If you have identified the main idea,
you can more easily recognize the important facts that support
it.
- Keep it in mind that not all facts or details are equally
important. Look only for the facts related to the main idea.
- To check on your understanding of the material you have read,
review the fact
By 'reading comprehension', we mean how well one cn read. If a
student is 'good at reading comprehension,' then, he or she is able
to read with a high degree of efficiency and obtain maximum
information from a text with minimum misunderstanding. We are
going to suggest ways you can improve your reading
comprehension.
What is the most important element in any paragraph or
passage? Without a doubt, it is the main idea or the central ides,
which gives the paragraph or passage a purpose and direction.
Naturally, the first step to improve your comprehension is to
practise reading a bit faster for the main idea.
When you are reading paragraphs for the main idea, try to
force yourself to read a bit faster than usual. By doing so, you
will find it easier to concentrate on ideas and the relationships
between ideas. The slow reader usually cares too much about
individual words and thus may actually comprehend less than the
quick reader.
In reading
Context Clue 5: Examples
Examples can also give you some clues or hints to the meanings
of unfamiliar words. Study the following sentences:
a. Select any of these periodicals: Time,
Newsweek, Reader's Digest or The New Yorker. (From the
examples, you can easily figure out the meaning of the word
'periodicals')
b. She is studying glaucoma and other diseases
of the eye. (This sentence does not tell you exactly what
'glaucoma' means, but it does tell you that 'glaucoma' is
a kind of eye disease.)
c. They had been putting in place the tools of my new
business: currycomb, brush, pitchfork - everything
... (Using the clue 'my new business' as well as the word part
'-comb' you might figure out that 'currycomb'most probably means 'a
tool used to comb a horse.')
Context Clue 6: Comparison
When we compare thin
When you read a comprehension text, you will inevitably find
some words you don't know sometimes you take time out to look up a
new word in the dictionary, but doing that too many times slows
down your reading. In fact, you can often figure out meanings for
new words or expression_rs without using the dictionary. Look at
the context of each word or expression_r - the sentence that the
word or expression_r is in and the sentences that come before and
after. It is usually possible to find hints or clues about its
definition from the context.
Context Clue 1: Definition
Sometimes a writer knows that a word is unfamiliar or strange
to many readers. To make the word easier to understand, the writer
may include a definition of the word in a sentence. This context
clue is the easiest one to spot. Look at the following
examples:
a. All other birthdays are called sing il (born day).
The sixty-first birthday is called hu
Reading with understanding depends on the interplay of three
factors: vocabulary, structure (grammar), and meaning; in other
words, successful comprehension depends on one's actual command of
the language. But generally a good knowledge of reading techniques
or skills will not only make reading eaier, but also help improve
reading comprehension to a certain extent.
发博文
添加到我的博客
加载中…
