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大学英语精读第3册 第1课 课后阅读 READING ACTIVTTY Skill: Basic Reading Skill III How do Use a Dictionary In Books 1 and 2 we have suggested using context clues and word part clues to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. But when those methods dont work, you have to use the dictionary. A dictionary is like any other tool: you must familiarize yourself with it and learn how to use it before it begins to work well for you. We would advise you to use an all English dictionary, as it provides you with word definitions often impossible to learn in other ways, Here is an example of the dictionary entry for the word shaft. Now lets see if you can decide which of the definitions from the above entry best fits the shaft in each of the sentences below and what part of speech it is. 1. The accident took place when the miners had just gone down the shaft. 2. There seemed to be a shaft of light in the far distance. None of us could tell what it was. 3. If you shaft some body who is already down, no one will trust you any more. 4. The shaft of love has struck him all of a sudden. 5. There might be something wrong with the shaft of the engine. Passage Read the following article, and the do Exercises A B and C. Words to Know Justice 司法 Await wait for Shot 开枪;射击 Insurance 保险 Cabin 小屋 Legal 法律(上)的,合法的, 法定的 Scare frighten Expense cost in money, time or effort Interfere 干涉 Partner 伙伴合伙人 Surrender 投降 Settlement 解决;清偿;支付 Justice Gets Its Shot at Policeman Mike Royko Joel Smith is in poor health and he is thinking of retiring to a quiet cabin in Tennessee. But a few years ago he was strong and he liked his job as a cop in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont. One day in 1979, he was informed that a man was firing a gun in front of an apartment complex. The man had quarreled with his girlfriend and had fired a gun into the air to scare away people who were interfering. Then he dragged her into his apartment. Smith and his partner hurried there, knocked, and told him to