【正文】 y known by the pany they keep. A word’s context or surroundings, can provide clues to meaning. calendar is a list of days, weeks,months of a particular year. 2. Today young couples who are just starting their household often spend lots of money on appliances, for instance, washing –machines, fridges and color TVs. 3. Unlike his brother, who is truly a handsome man, John is quite homely. 4. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, collasped on the lawn. 5. We watched as the cat came quietly through the grass toward the bird. When it was just a few feet from the victim, it gathered its legs under itself and pounced… 6.“ Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Rubin writes, “ the two share little about their innermost feelings…..” 7. Heart transplants began ten years ago. Why have British doctors done only four since then. Apple trees may grow as tall as twelve metres. They do best in areas that have very cold winters. Although no fruit is yielded during the winter, this cold period is good for the tree. The word yielded in the last sentence means __ A. improved B. increased C. produced D. sold This kind of flower thrives in this area because the weather is warm, the soil is excellent and there is a lot of rain. well B. makes a few flowers C. dies D. fails to grow TERNANG,Mon More than 10,000 people were made homeless in Ternang when the Sungai Mas overflowed its banks yesterday after six days of continuous heavy rain The National Flood Relief(救助） Center was informed and by early evening all the people had left the town, helped by the army, police, Red Cross Society and others. The flood victims are now temporarily housed in various relief centers in the nearby town of Tulang. The underlined word in the fifth paragraph “temporarily” probably means_______. A. for the time being B. mostly C. hurriedly D. obviously In the sale fever, people were spending money like water without thinking whether they needed what they were buying. As long as it was a bargain, it was OK. You won’t believe this but as soon as I got home, I crashed out for four hours. Then I had dinner and went back to bed, fearing the sound of the alarm which would tell me to get ready for the second day of the sale. The expression “crashed out” means _____. A. chatted with her friends B. slept soundly C. broke down D. dined out Textbased Inferential Comprehension Implied meaning Question forms: 1. It can be inferred/concluded/seen from the passage that _________. 2. Which of the following conclusions can we draw according to the passage? 3. The passage implies, but doesn’t directly state that _________. 4. The writer suggests that _________. 5. According to the author, which of the following best describes the tone of the passage? 6. The write’s purpose in writing this text is________. TIPS ?Put yourself in the writer’s shoes ! With a touch of a button, television brings the world into the home of modern man. Through the miracle of television, man can be informed about events in faroff countries. He can be entertained by humorous edies, or he can be moved by stirring dramas. Television broadens the mind and enriches the lives of people everywhere. The write thinks that television is . A. a great invention B. a bad thing C. a great surprise D. of no use If I had to select a word that best describes the majority of American parents, that word would be GUILTYRIDDEN(內(nèi)疚的 ).How sad it is to see parents bee the willing victims(受害者 ) of the “give me game”, only to discover that no matter what they do, it isn’t enough. In the end, they are blamed when their spoiled children get into trouble. With this in mind, I shall first answer the question: “ What do parents owe their children?” and I shall start with what they don’t owe them. The author’s attitude towards the parents is______ A. angry B. pitiful C. disappointed D. satisfied The question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that, since women have cl