TOEFL là một thử nghiệm đánh giá trình độ của bạn trong các loại hình sử dụng tiếng Anh trong một môi trường học tập. Đây là thử nghiệm được quản lý trên mạng Internet, mà chúng tôi sẽ cụ thể hơn trên trang 6. | POE Strategies for Vocabulary in Context Questions The previous questions may have been easy for you or they may have been fairly difficult. If they were easy chances are you were comfortable with the words. If you had a hard time you probably didn t know all the words. Even if you don t know all of the words in a vocabulary in context question there arc still some steps you can take to help increase your chances of getting the question correct. Let s look at the POE strategies we can use to answer this next question. 4. The word hazardous in the passage is closest in meaning to A frequent B perilous C outer D unpredictable Here s the text from the passage. These give the arthropod information about its surroundings much as the nerve endings in human skin do. Also like human skin the shell protects fragile internal organs from potentially hazardous contact with the environment. It seals in precious moisture that would otherwise evaporate but permits the exchange of gases. A few things may affect your ability to answer this question. First you may have trouble making sense of the lines in the passage. Second you may not be confident about each of rhe words in the answer choices. In cither of these cases your strategy is the same. Pick a word from the answers with which you are familiar. Let s start with frequent which means happening often. If this is the correct answer there should be a word or phrase in these lines that means something similar to happening often. However none of the words in the passage has anything to do with frequent or happening often. Therefore we can eliminate A . You can repeat this strategy for the other words with which you are confident. As we ve said before the right answer is supported by the passage. You should be able to match your answer to a word or phrase from the passage. If you can t it s not the right answer. For this question the correct answer is B . The sentence tells us that the shell . Therefore hazardous .
