很多学生在雅思阅读准备过程中只是大量做题,而忽视词汇量的积累,另外有一部分学生在词汇上下了一定的功夫,但是碰到的问题却是,单词都认识,偏偏就是看不懂意思。因此,在定位到答案所在文章段落某一句的时候,还是不能理解或是出现误解而不能解答题目,这个是相当可惜的。
雅思阅读的准备过程中,后期会侧重于对篇章整体架构的把握,以及针对各类题型应试技巧的掌握。但作为考试准备的前期阶段,作为基本功的单词,无疑需要作为重点来进行突破。
以下主要就雅思阅读剑桥真题部分的一些存在熟词多义的题目进行解析:
In other words, they gave no indication of an appreciation of either the range of ways in which rainforests are important or the complex social, economic and political factors which drive the activities which are destroying the rainforests.
这是一个复杂的长难句,一共出现了三处定语从句,一处ways in which, 一处factors which,一处activities which。
drive的主语为连接代词which代指的先行词factors,提取之后变为factors drive the activities, 这里如果将这里作为动词的drive 翻译成驾驶,句子是完成不通顺的,我们从后一处的定语从句中得知,activities指的是破坏雨林的行为,也就是前面的社会经济和政治因素drive了一些破坏雨林的行为,也就是说,这里的drive是导致,迫使的意思。
Manufacturers of computers, for instance, are able to import 24_________ from overseas, rather than having to rely on a local supplier.
文章E段 To see how this influences trade, consider the business of making disk drives for computers. Most of the world’s disk-drive manufacturing is concentrated in South-east Asia. This is possible only because disk drives, while valuable, are small and light and so cost little to ship. Computer manufacturers in Japan or Texas will not face hugely bigger freight bills if they import drives from Singapore rather than purchasing them on the domestic market.
通过manufacturers of computers定位到E段。阅读后我们可以知道电脑制造商集中在东南亚制造和进口disk drives而不是本国市场。如果同学对电脑知识比较了解的话,对于drive在这里的理解应该问题不大。根据一定的语法知识我们看得出这里的disk drives和disk-drive是名词用法,可通过drive的基本含义“驾驶”进一步引申理解,“驾驶磁盘”过渡为“让磁盘启动”,正确的理解含义为:磁盘驱动器。对应到题目提供的选项“B components”
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