When you are reading something in English, you may often meet with a new word. What’s the best way to know it?
You may look it up in the English-Chinese dictionary. It will tell you a lot about the word: the pronunciation, the Chinese meaning and how to use the word. But how can you know where the word is ? How to find it in the dictionary both quickly and correctly?
First, all the English words are arranged(安排) in the letter order. In the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with letter A, then B, C, D…. That means, if there are two words “desert” and “pull”, “desert” will be certainly before “pull”. Then if there are two words both beginning with the same letter, you may look at the second letter. Then the third, the fourth… For example, “pardon” is before “plough”, “judge” before “just”, etc. Do you understand how to look up in the dictionary? The dictionary will be your good friend. I hope you’ll use it as often as possible in your English study.
【小题1】This passage is about______.

A.new words in writingB.different dictionaries
C.the best way of readingD.using an English-Chinese dictionary
【小题2】In the dictionary you may not find_______.
A.how to pronounce the wordB.the spelling of the word
C.who used the word firstD.how to use the word
【小题3】In an English-Chinese dictionary, the last word______.
A.begins with ZB.begins with AC.is a short oneD.is not often used
【小题4】Which group of words is in the right order in an English-Chinese dictionary?
A.perhaps, produce, plentyB.straight, subject, surprise
C.century, center, businessD.foreign, entrance, headache
【小题5】In the passage the writer tries to tell us _______.
A.we have to use a dictionary when we read something in English
B.an English-Chinese dictionary can tell us everything about a word
C.how to look up a word in a dictionary.
D.all English-Chinese dictionaries are the same

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Bollywood: the Hollywood of India
You might be surprised to learn that India produces about 800 movies a year, and that number continues to grow. Just as the movie Capital of the United States is Hollywood, the movie capital of India is Bombay (孟买), but it is usually called "Bollywood", a combination(结合) of the words Bombay and Hollywood.
No Bollywood movie is thought complete without a few songs and dances. In fact, music is an important part of Bollywood movies. Even a bad movie can still do well if the music is good. Music directors are sometimes more popular than the film stars. A Bollywood movie has five to six songs with at least three songs to show what the dances mean.
Bollywood may be different from Hollywood in music, but it is very like Hollywood in several ways. If Tom Cruise can hold a gun, so can the Bollywood hero Sharukh Khan. Hollywood stars are followed by news reporters just as often as Hollywood stars. The persona! lives of actors and actresses catch the headlines(头版头条), just as they do in the United States.
The Oscars are a very exciting time of the year for actors and actresses in America, Bollywood has its own form of the Oscars, and they are also very exciting.
【小题1】The name Bollywood comes from the words _____________________ .
【小题2】Bollywood is a place where many __________ are made each year,
【小题3】In India, the film stars are sometimes _______ popular than musk directors.
【小题4】 Every complete Bollywood movie has a few _______________ in them.
【小题5】The Oscars in India are as ________ as those in America though they are different.

Homesick is a compound (复合的) word made up of “home” and “sick”. You know

  1  each word means on its own, of course. But think about what the words mean when they are   2  together. “Homesick” means “Thinking of home, unhappy away from home.” In other words, it means “sick for home”.

  Now think for a minute   3  the word SEASICK. If you change the word “home” in the definition (定义) to the word “sea”, would the definition  4  “seasick” ? Does seasick mean “thinking of sea, unhappy away from sea”? It means something quite  5 . Seasick means “made sick by the only place where you are on the sea.” It means “sick because of the sea.” When you are homesick, the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick, the   6  place you want to be is at sea.

  Have you ever   7  a person being heartsick? Heartsick does not mean that something is wrong with a person’s heart. People are heartsick when they are   8 down deep inside as if (好像) their hearts are broken.

   And so, when you are carsick, you are “made sick by the movement of a car on the road.” You are sick because of the car, not sick for it.

You can see, then, that   9  compound words are what they seem at first glance (一瞥). Think about the compound words, such as handshake and   10 . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know something like this in your English study.

1.                A.what           B.that            C.which    D.who

 

2.                A.read           B.used           C.thought   D.understood

 

3.                A.for            B.from           C.about    D.like

 

4.                A.fit             B.read           C.get D.have

 

5.                A.different        B.same           C.right D.wrong

 

6.                A.first            B.only           C.safe D.last

 

7.                A.heard of        B.heard from      C.thought over   D.thought about

 

8.                A.hit            B.hurt           C.loved D.moved

 

9.                A.not others      B.not every       C.not all    D.not other

 

10.               A.careful         B.southern       C.illness D.handwriting

 

 

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