3. A。语义理解题。从文章第 3 段第 2 句话 In these courses, advisors and
psychologists try to help students by teaching them to manage test anxiety 可以看出大学开设这门特殊课程的目的。
(2)
The
average person learns most of the 30 000-40
000 words whose meanings he or she recognizes by hearing them or getting
familiar with them in the context or simply absorbing them without conscious(意识到的) effort. The best way to build a good
vocabulary, therefore, is to read a great deal and to participate in a lot of
good talks. There are relatively few words that we learn permanently(永久的)by purposefully referring to
dictionaries or keeping word lists. However, even those extra few are of value,
and no one will make a mistake by working on developing a larger vocabulary.
Here are some suggestions of how to do it.
Read
plenty of good books. When you come across a new word, or a new meaning of an
old word, stop and see if you can understand it from its context. If you can't,
and if you can manage without interrupting the thought of the book too much,
look it up in a dictionary or ask somebody and then repeat its meaning to
yourself a couple of times. If you are really conscientious(认真的), write the word and its meaning in a
personal vocabulary list - preferably using it in a sentence, or you can keep a
special vocabulary notebook. Go over the list from time to time. Further, try
to use a new word in writing or conversation a few times over the next several
days.
Listen
to good talks and be alert to new words you hear or to new meanings of
words you already know. Then treat them just as you treat the new words you
read.
Learn
and be alert to the parts of words: prefixes, suffixes and roots. Knowing them
enables you to make intelligent guesses about the meaning of words.
If you
are studying a foreign language, be alert to words in that language which
relate to words in English. English has inherited(继承) or borrowed much of its vocabulary of
500 000-600 000 words from Latin,
Greek, French, Spanish and German.
