There is no doubt about it. The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously. I don’t mean while you’re unconscious. I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.
That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue. I just pick them up. But some of them may be misunderstood. Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand. To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.
The 5% mislearnt of all the words we “know” will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt. Some of the misunderstanding may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.
Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning. They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game. “There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across,” they will say. “You have to practice guessing what the word means from the context.”
This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work. It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.
And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves. Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings. A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.
Don’t guess! Look it up!
小題1: It is certain that the best way to learn new words is ______.
A．to learn them by oneself
B．to learn by living in an English-speaking world and using them frequently
C．to guess them from the context
D．to get more separate meanings of each word
小題2:The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to ______.
A．the 30, 000 words
B．English teachers
C．misunderstood words
D．frequently used words
小題3:Which of the following is most likely NOT true?
A．Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.
B．Most of the 30, 000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones.
C．How many words the writer got wrong are not known.
D．All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.
小題4:It can be inferred that ______.
A．when somebody is conscious, he or she usually can’t learn new words by heart
B．we must use the words as often as possible in order to master them
C．it’s the best way to learn new words that one should only guess their meanings from the context
D．only dictionaries can help us learn language well.

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:B 

小題1:D總結(jié)歸納題。從最后一段“Don’t guess! Look it up！”及倒數(shù)第二段“...there are  more separate meanings”可總結(jié)出學(xué)習(xí)新單詞的最好方法是掌握每個(gè)單詞更多的含義， 從而達(dá)到“do it unconsciously”(不經(jīng)意間習(xí)得或理解)的境界
小題2:A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從第二段開頭“That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my  vocabulary...”可知答案。
小題3:D推理判斷題。文章中并無依據(jù)表明作者所有的詞匯都是通過閱讀習(xí)得的。
小題4:B推理判斷題。從第三段中“...the more frequently used words are less likely to be  mislearnt.”可以推斷出正確理解并掌握詞匯的方法是盡可能地多使用它們。
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