我們來看一道新托??荚嚬俜街改仙系念}目:
Several skeletons of another early whale, Basilosaurus, were found in sediments left by the Tethys Sea and now exposed in the Sahara desert.
6. The word exposed in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. explained
B. visible
C. identified
D. located
這道題目很多同學會選擇第四個選項(locate:坐落于…),將這個含義帶入到語句當中,意思也通順,指Basilosaurus坐落于撒哈拉沙漠。但是這里需要注意的是,托福的詞匯題并不是選項帶入搭配合適就一定是正確答案,而是應該從語境入手來選擇。
正確的做法是,首先查看生詞附近有無并列,轉(zhuǎn)折等語境上的含義暗示。本句當中,生詞的前方有“and”來暗示并列,而從句子結(jié)構(gòu)來看,前半句中的動詞“found”,意思是“找到,發(fā)現(xiàn)”,那么后半句的exposed對應語境也應該強調(diào)發(fā)現(xiàn)某物,即找到,或者看見某物。因此這道題目的正確答案選擇B(visible:可看見的)。