200 שאלות תרגול במשמעות מילה בהקשר באנגלית מתוך פרק האנגלית של הבחינה הפסיכומטרית. לכל שאלה פתרון מלא ומוסבר, ואפשר לתרגל לפי רמת קושי.
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איך פותרים משמעות מילה בהקשר באנגלית
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1עברו על השאלות ראשונות, בלי האפשרויות. שתי דקות שם חוסכות יותר משהן עולות.
2קראו את הקטע ברצף אחד. אל תעצרו על מילה לא מוכרת - ההקשר יסביר אותה, ואם לא, כנראה לא צריך אותה.
3סמנו בראש איפה כל פסקה נמצאת: על מה היא, ומה תפקידה בטיעון.
4לכל שאלה חזרו לשורה שעונה עליה. תשובה שאתם לא יכולים להצביע על המקום שלה בטקסט היא ניחוש.
המלכודתאפשרות שנכונה בעולם אבל לא נאמרה בקטע. המבחן שואל מה כתוב, לא מה נכון - וידע כללי הוא מה שמפיל כאן, במיוחד כשהנושא מוכר לכם. אם אי אפשר להצביע על השורה, זו לא התשובה.
שאלות לדוגמה
ארבע מתוך 200, עם הפתרון המלא.
שאלה 1
Read the passage:
The Iron Lady of Paris
When Gustave Eiffel's company won the competition to build a monument for the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, not everyone was pleased. In 1887, while construction was under way, a group of well-known artists and writers published a letter of protest in a Paris newspaper, describing the planned tower as useless and monstrous and arguing that it would overshadow the city's historic buildings. Their objections, however, did little to slow the work. Built from thousands of iron parts held together by millions of rivets, the tower was completed in about two years and, at roughly 300 metres, became the tallest structure in the world.
The tower's troubles did not end when the fair closed. Eiffel had been given permission to keep it for only twenty years, after which it could have been taken down. Aware of the danger, he worked hard to show that it served a practical purpose, encouraging scientific experiments on it, from weather observations to studies of air resistance. Most importantly, it proved to be an excellent support for radio antennas, and its value for communications, particularly to the military, helped secure its future. Today it is hard to imagine Paris without the structure that some of its most respected citizens once opposed.
The word "overshadow" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to -
אcopy the building style of
בhelp to preserve
גmake seem less important
דbe built next to
הפתרון
overshadow = להאפיל על, לגרום למשהו להיראות פחות חשוב. האמנים חששו שהמגדל ימשוך את תשומת הלב מהמבנים ההיסטוריים.
שאלה 2
Read the passage:
Drifting Continents
In 1912 the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had once formed a single landmass and had since drifted apart. His evidence was varied and, in retrospect, compelling: the coastlines of South America and Africa fit together remarkably well; fossils of the same plants and land animals appear on continents now separated by oceans; and rock formations and traces of ancient glaciers line up across the Atlantic. Yet for decades most geologists dismissed the idea, some with open contempt.
It is tempting to read this as a simple tale of narrow-minded experts, but the reality is more nuanced. Wegener could not explain what force could push continents through the solid ocean floor, and the mechanisms he did suggest were shown by physicists to be far too weak. His critics were thus not unreasonable in demanding a mechanism before accepting so radical a claim. What was missing was not evidence of movement but an account of how movement was possible.
That account emerged only after Wegener's death in 1930, on an expedition to Greenland. In the 1950s and 1960s, surveys of the ocean floor revealed that new crust forms along mid-ocean ridges and spreads outwards, carrying the continents with it. By the late 1960s, continental drift, reframed as plate tectonics, had become the foundation of modern geology.
The word "compelling" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to -
אconfusing
בforced upon
גlimited
דconvincing
הפתרון
compelling evidence = ראיות משכנעות. forced הוא מלכודת צליל (compel = לכפות), אך כאן המשמעות היא 'משכנע'.
שאלה 3
Read the passage:
Lightning and Thunder
During a storm, you usually see a flash of lightning first and hear the thunder a few seconds later. Many children believe that the two happen at different times, but in fact they happen at the same moment. Lightning is a giant electric spark, and it heats the air around it until it is hotter than the surface of the sun. The air expands so quickly that it makes a loud bang, and that bang is thunder.
We notice the flash first for a simple reason: light travels much faster than sound. Light from the flash reaches our eyes almost immediately, while sound needs about three seconds to travel one kilometre. This difference gives us an easy way to find out how far away a storm is. Count the seconds between the flash and the thunder, then divide the number by three. If you count nine seconds, the lightning struck about three kilometres away.
Counting can also tell you whether a storm is coming closer. If the gap becomes shorter each time, the storm is moving towards you. However, experts advise people to go indoors as soon as they hear any thunder at all, because lightning can strike far from the centre of a storm.
The word "expands" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to -
אcools down
בbecomes larger
גbecomes quieter
דgets darker
הפתרון
expand = להתרחב, לגדול בנפח. האוויר החם מתרחב במהירות ויוצר את הרעם.
שאלה 4
Read the passage:
Losing the Night Sky
For most of human history, anyone could look up on a clear night and see thousands of stars and the pale band of the Milky Way. Today, many people have never seen it. The reason is light pollution: the glow from street lamps, advertisements, car parks and buildings that spreads into the sky and hides the stars. In the centre of a large city, a person may see only a few dozen of the brightest stars.
Light pollution is not only a problem for people who enjoy the stars. It also confuses animals. Many birds that travel at night can lose their way around brightly lit buildings. Newly hatched sea turtles normally find the sea by moving towards the brighter horizon over the water, but near a lit road they may crawl towards the lights instead.
The good news is that this kind of pollution is one of the easiest to fix. Unlike smoke in the air or plastic in the ocean, it disappears the moment a light is switched off. Lamps that point downwards instead of up into the sky, lights that turn off when nobody needs them, and softer, less bright bulbs can all make a real difference. Some towns have already made these changes, and their residents can once again enjoy a sky full of stars.
The word "residents" in the last paragraph refers to -