阅读理解.
You, of course, know that you will never add vcry rapidly to your vocabulary by merely coming across
words, or by reading or by talking. You must have a plan.
Here is one way to get ahead with words in everyday life. It's the simplest thing in the world.
Buy a small pocket notebook. When you read a newspaper, a magazine, or a book, or listen to TV or
radio, and come upon a strange word, enter it in your notebook. Then look it up in the dictionary. If you
find that it's a word too difficult to understand or a highly technical mterm, just pass it by. But if it sounds
like a word that will be helpful to you. take possession of it, make it your own personal possession. Say
it aloud many times. Study its exact meaning, and note its root. Be sure, also, to copy from the dictionary
the example sentence in which it is used, if such is given. Then write your own sentence in line with the
example in the dictionary.
All this will take only a few minutes or so, but it is necessary to make the practice a daily habit. Then
the list in your notebook will grow gradually, as will your command of English.
1. This passage is mainly about_________.
A. adding vocabulary by keeping notes
B. a rapid way to add vocabulary
C. a simplest wav to add daily vocabulary
D. a plan to add technical vocabulary
2. According to the passage, when you come across a new word, _____________.
A. you just forget it
B.you must look it up in the dictionary and possess it if it will be useful
C. just enter it in your notebook and remember it
D. first look it up, then only the one which is helpful needs to be possessed
3. In the passage the phrase "in line with" in the third paragraph means "_________".
A. according to
B. beside
C. under the line of
D. between the line of
4. From this passage it can be inferred that the most effective way to add vocabulary is ___.
A. to look up any word you meet
B. to list useful words in your notebook
C. to keep on practicing helpful words in your notebook every day
D. to write down example sentences from the dictionary
