2. When you are reading something in English, you may often
come acrossa new word .What’s the best way to know it?
You need an English-Chinese dictionary (字典).It will tell you a lot about the word, for example (例如) , how to read this word ,what it means in Chinese and how to use this word. But there are so many English words in the dictionary and how can you know where the word is? There is a way to look for it.
In the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with the letter A, then B,C,D,E…That means, if there are two words , “desk” and “hour”, “desk” will be before “hour”; “story” “before” “Sunday”, “tomato” before “tomorrow” etc. The English-Chinese dictionary will be your good friend. I hope you will often use it in your English learning.
【小题1】 When you don’t know a new word, the best way according to the passage is _________.
| A．to ask your teacher | B．to guess |
| C．to ask your friends | D．to use a dictionary |
【小题2】 What does “come across” mean (意思) in Chinese in the passage?
【小题3】Here are four words, “face”, “autumn”, “film” and “April”.
Their right order (次序) in the English-Chinese dictionary is _________.
| A．April, autumn, face, film |
| B．film, face, April, autumn |
| C．face, film, April, autumn |
| D．April, face, film, autumn |
【小题4】This passage is about _______.
| A．how to use the right words in your English writing |
| B．how to read the new words in the English story |
| C．how to use an English-Chinese dictionary |
| D．how to choose a right English-Chinese dictionary |