[分享] 常见阅读盲点 by J2

楼主: robert416 (萝卜)   2017-12-13 23:54:40
各位同学们好,我是J2.
之前也有写过一篇关于阅读盲点的文章,建议同学看此篇前,可以先看看
喔!
“你的阅读问题,真的在于题型吗?”https://goo.gl/j9aTh4
相信大家在爬了版上文章之后,都对于阅读该怎么准备有点概念了。计时20
分钟做完一篇文章,对完答案先不要急着看详解,从文章中试着找出答案,
并且也要找出错误选项错在哪里。当然最后一定要再把不会的单字都查过,
整理在同一本笔记本(或同一个电子档里),单字复习至少八次,即能变成熟
悉、随时都能即时反应的单字。
但阅读的其中一个盲点就是很多本来认识的单字,会转换一下用法,例如词
性转换,或是取其引申的涵义,这时候同学大部分都会忽略不去查,长久下
来就会变成单字的死角,以下举几个例子希望大家可以意识到,再多去查英
英字典确定,确保下次看的类似用法又不会再误会意思了!
同学在看以下例句的时候可以先自己想看看文意,再看解释喔!
请先看这篇来自scientific American探讨“地球的水从哪里来”的文章。
原文:https://goo.gl/2Q2J9T
以下文章因为原文过长有删减过:
We know that comets cannot have delivered all the water in the
earth's oceans because the ice in the comets contains twice as
many atoms of deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen) to each atom
of ordinary hydrogen as we find in seawater.
"At the same time, we know that the meteorites could not have
delivered all of the water, because then the earth's atmosphere
would contain nearly 10 times as much xenon (an inert gas) as it
actually does. … … A mixture of meteoritic water and cometary
water would not work either, because this combination would still
contain a higher concentration of deuterium than is found in the
oceans.
不知道同学有没有看出来 “A mixture of meteoritic water and
cometary water would not work either” 的 “would not work either
” 这边的意思是“地球的水是来自陨石跟彗星的水混合的这个理论也是说
不通的。”光看这句would not work可能很多同学会楞一下,但搭配一下先
前的两个理论,应该就可以推出来!
再看下一个例子:
This value is easily exceeded in most coastal water, but in the
deep sea, the levels of organic matter range from next to nothing
to around 7 micrograms per cubic liter.
这边的next to nothing三个字每个同学都看得懂,但合在一起可能会一时
愣住,而且通常也不会去查字典,刚好字典也查不太到 (我试了
learnersdictionary.com还有Cambridge Dictionary), 但其实稍微想一下
就知道“没有的隔壁 ”就是“几乎没有; 微乎其微”,后来直接google 才
有在the free dictionary找到这个idiom的用法https://goo.gl/h3NT4X。
类似的例子如下:
The prehistoric record of the meat-eating habits of early humans
is far from clear about the prevalence of scavenging.
far from clear到底是清楚还是不清楚,再仔细思考一下,知道这句话的重
点是
“从史前关于早期人类吃肉的习惯的纪录来看,人类是不是食腐者是不清楚
的。”
再看第三种类型:省略重复的受词。
例如:
Instrumental ties are social links formed when we cooperate with
other people to achieve some goal. Occasionally, this may mean
working with instead of against competitors.
不熟悉此用法的同学,可能会不懂working with的with为什么会出现在这
边,其实只是把working with competitors instead of against
competitors 简化下来而已。
另外较常用的省略重复字用法是 “that of”
这种用法也是可能一开始看不习惯,多看几次就好:
It compares the behavior of one type of person to that of another
type of person.
that of= the behavior of
The tradition of religious sculpture extends over most historical
periods but is less clearly delineated than that of stonewares or
porcelains
that of = the tradition of
One of the outer planets, Saturn, has a density of only 0.7 that
of water.
that of= density of
以上几个例子只是想帮助同学厘清一些盲点,很多时候知道的单字用法必须
用上下文判断、常见的字跟其他字搭在一起变idiom(next to nothing,
far from clear),或是习惯的省略用法。意识到这些盲点可以帮助同学理
解,甚至可以加快阅读速度(例如习惯that of的用法)。除了上述这些,建
议同学也可以用类似方法整理属于自己的问题,不只侷限在单字、题型,
希望同学可以借此提升阅读能力,早日获得理想分数!
Cheers,
J2
作者: dearamelia (Lia Hsu)   2017-12-14 00:04:00
实用推!上课时,我同样会请同学档案归类,思考哪里已经是“讲过的概念”,其实也呼应了这篇文章的主要呼吁。建议大家把自己不理解的句子抄写下来,再拿去和他人讨论喔!这样就真的会好好面对自己不理解的句子了,把他们一次搞懂了!
作者: earnest (大卫)   2017-12-14 00:48:00
作者: sonne1419 (Sonne)   2017-12-14 01:23:00
详细的分享!
作者: charlenebene (Charlene)   2017-12-14 18:16:00
推!感谢分享
作者: tootoobenee (A级垂耳兔)   2017-12-16 12:52:00
推!!

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