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阅读训练材料 Word Study Context Clues Although there is no formula that you can memorize to improve your ability to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words, you should keep the following points in mind: Use the meanings of the other words in the sentence or paragraph and the meaning of the sentence as a whole to reduce the number of possible meanings. Use grammar and punctuation clues that point to the relationships among the various parts of the sentence. Be content with a general idea about the unfamiliar word; the exact definition or synonym is not always necessary. Learn to recognize situations in which it is not necessary to know the meaning of the word Example I removed the ____from the shelf and began to read. Harvey is a thief; he would ____the gold from his grandmothers teeth and not feel guilty. Our uncle was a ____, an incurable wanderer who never could stay in one place. Unlike his brother, who is truly a handsome person, Hogartty is quite ____. The Asian ____, like other apes, is specially adapted for life in trees. But surely everyone knows that if you step on an egg, it will ____. Tom got a new ____for his birthday. It is a sports model, red, with white interior and bucket seats. Stems and Affixes Prefixes com-, con-, col-, cor-, co- together, with cooperate, connect in-, ira-, il-, ir- in, into, on invade, insert in-, im-, il-, ir- not impolite, illegal micro- small microscope, microcomputer pre- before prepare, prehistoric re-, retro- back; again return, retrorocket Stems -audi-,-audit- hear auditorium, auditor -chron- time chronology, chronological -dic-, -dict- say, speak dictator, dictation -graph-, -gram- write, writing telegraph, telegram -log-,-ology- speech, word, study biology -phon- sound telephone -scrib-, -script- write describe, script -spect- look at inspect, spectator -vid-, -vis- see video, vision Suffixes -er, -or one who worker, ,spectator -ist one who typist, biologist -tion, -ation condition, the act