1. Bob is often late for school because he always gets up late. This makes his teacher mad. He needs to buy something to wake him up in the morning.

2. Tim likes listening to music when he is free. And he has to send e-mails to his customers(顾客)every day. He wants to buy something that can help him.

3. Summer has come. Tony is fat and he can't sleep well on such hot days. This troubles him a lot. He'd like to buy something to make him feel cool.

4. Alice often washes her hair late at night. It is often wet when she goes to bed. She is going to buy something that can dry her hair in a short time.

5. Susan is an office worker. She wants to improve her English, but she's too busy. She wants to buy something that can help her learn English on her way to work or back home.

 

A.  This product can make you cool during hoi days. It can help you change the temperature and control the humidity(湿度)of your room.

B.   You can do many things with this product, such as sending e-mails,playing games, getting online and so on. You can also listen to music with it when you want to relax.

C.   This product is useful to all of us. People often have one at home. It is often put up on the wall. If you want to know the time, just take a look at it.

D.  This can help you wash your dirty clothes and dry them. What you need to do is to turn it on and later hang the clothes on the line. With this product, life will be much easier for you. 

E.  
This product is small and easy to carry. With this product, you can listen to books as well as read them. You can download books from our website. We offer books in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.

F.   It is a very helpful product which tells you the time. It can wake you up with a piece of music any time you want,but you have to set the time first.

G.  When you wash your hair,you need this product. It can make your wet hair dry in a minute. It can also be used for drying your wet clothes or some other wet things.

1._______  2._______ 3.      

4._______  5._________

In our English study,there are some compound(复合)words,such as housewife, granddaughter and so on. Homesick is a compound word made up of home and sick. You know what each word means on its own,of course. But think about what the words mean when they are used together. Homesick means SICK FOR HOME.

Now think for a minute about SEASICK. If you change the word home in the definition (释义)to the word sea,would the definition fit SEASICK? Does seasick mean SICK FOR SEA? It means something quite different. Seasick means SICK BY THE MOVEMENT ON THE SEA. When you are homesick, the only place you want to be is at home. But when you are seasick,the last place you want to be is a sea.

Have you ever heard of someone being heartsick? It doesn't mean that something is wrong with a person's heart. People are heartsick when they are hurt deep inside and they feel as if their hearts are broken.

But,on the other hand,we have such compound words as filmmaker and handbag. It's easy for us to write definitions for them and knowing something like this is really helpful in our English study.  

阅读短文,选择最佳选项。

(   ) 1. The word "seasick" means "  

A.  to want to go to the sea

B.   the sea is sick

C.   to be sick because of the sea

D.  it has nothing to do with the sea

(   ) 2. "The last place you want to be" is

A.  where you most want to be

B.   where you least want to be

C.   the best place you can go to

D.  where you go the last

(   ) 3. When we say a person is heartsick, we mean that      

A.  he breaks his heart in an accident

B.   there is something wrong with his heart

C.   his heart needs testing

D.  he's terribly disappointed and sad

(   ) 4. The definitions of " filmmaker" and "handbag" are      

A.  not difficult to know

B.   difficult to know

C.   impossible to learn

D.  not easy to learn

(   ) 5. What's the main idea of this passage?

A.  There are many compound words in English.

B.   The building of compound words is interesting.

C.   The definitions of some compound words are hard to guess.

D.  Not all the compound words are what they seem to mean.

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