Question

Homesick is a compound (復(fù)合的) word made up of HOME and SICK. You know what each

 46___   means on its own, of course. But do you know the meaning   47 ___  they are used together? The definition (定義) of homesick is SICK FOR HOME. It means you miss your home.

Now think for a minute  _ 48 _  SEASICK. If you change the word HOME in the definition to the word SEA, would the definition   _49 _  SEASICK? Does seasick mean SICK FOR SEA? It means something quite   50 . Seasick means SICK BY THE MOVEMENT ON THE SEA. When you are   _51   , the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick,  _ 52   you want to be is at sea.

Have you ever   _53   a person being heartsick? Heartsick doesn’t mean that something is wrong with a person’s heart. People are heartsick when they are   54 _  deep inside as if (好像) their hearts are broken.

And we also have other compound words, such as handshake and   55__ . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know something like this in your English study.

46. A. word             B. phrase            C. sentence          D. passage

47. A. how             B. why              C. when             D. where

48. A. for              B. from              C. about             D. like

49. A. get              B. fit                C. read             D. have

50. A. right            B. wrong             C. same             D. different

51. A. homesick        B. heartsick           C. seasick           D. carsick

52. A. the first place     B. the last place       C. the only place      D. the safe place

53. A. thought over      B. thought out        C. heard from        D. heard of

54. A. hurt             B. hit               C. loved             D. moved

55. A. hobby           B. height            C. heaven            D. handbag

Answer 1

【主旨大意】本文主要告訴了我們?nèi)绾卫斫庖恍��?fù)合名詞的含義，這對(duì)我們的英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)是很有幫助的。其中本文主要介紹了homesick，seasick，heartsick等詞的含義。homesick意為“想家的”， seasick意為“暈船的”， heartsick意為“傷心地”。

46. A  word意為“單詞”。 Phrase意為“詞組”。 Sentence意為“句子”。 Passage意為“篇章”。

47. C      when 意為“當(dāng)……時(shí)候”，句義為“但是，你知道他們?cè)谝黄鹩玫暮�義嗎？”

48. C      think about意為“思考，考慮”，是固定搭配。

49. B       fit意為“適合”，句義為“如果你把單詞home換成sea，定義還適合seasick這個(gè)單詞的含義嗎？”

50. D different意為“不同的”，有上下文可知。      

51. A homesick意為“想家的”，句義為“當(dāng)你想家的時(shí)候，你唯一想呆的地方就是家”。

52. B 文中seasick 意為“暈船的”， 句義為“當(dāng)你暈船的時(shí)候，你最后想呆的地方才是海”。

53. D  heard of意為“聽(tīng)說(shuō)”，句義為“你聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)悲痛的人嗎？”

54. A hurt意為“傷害”， 句義為“悲痛的人指的是那些內(nèi)心被深深的傷害過(guò)的人�！�

55. D有句中的handshake可知答案。