Question

阅读理解就一道题，答案是D，帮忙解释一下为什么！

阅读理解。
Homesick is a compound (复合) word made up of HOME and SICK. You know what each word means
on its own, of course. But think about what the words mean when they are used together. Homesick means
SICK FOR HOME.　　
Now think for a minute about. If you change the word home in the definition (释义) to the word sea,
would the definition fit SEASICK? Does seasick mean SICK FOR SEA? It means something quite different.
Seasick means SICK BY THE MOVEMENT ON THE SEA. When you are homesick, the only place you want
to be at home. When you are seasick, the last place you want to he is at sea．　　
Have you ever heard of a person being heartsick? Heart-sick doesn't mean that something is wrong with
a person's heart. People are heartsick when they are hurt deep inside and when they feel as if their hearts are
broken.　　
But, on the other hand, we have such compound words as handshake and handbag. Perhaps you may
write definitions for them and knowing something like this must be helpful in your English study.

The writer wanted to tell us that _____. [ ]

A. there are many compound words in English 　
B. the building of compound words is interesting
C. the definitions of some word are hard to guess
D. not all the compound words are what they seem to be

Answer 1

这道题可以从这篇文章举得例子来说。HOMESICK和SEASICK，一个想家一个晕船，他们都是复合词，但是意思却有不同。HOMESICK 是SICK FOR HOME, 一般我们举一反三会想，这类词也许就是SICK FOR STH. 这是我们自然而然会产生的惯性思维。但另一个例子SEASICK却不是SICK FOR SEA. 那么答案就很明显了。作者想告诉我们，复合词往往不一定是他们看起来的那样。
再分析一下其他答案。A答案并没有在文中着重体现。B答案，作者也没有表示他觉得复合词的构成方式很有意思。C答案也许会沾到一些边，但是，这也是一个陷阱。最后一段作者用一个BUT进行了转折，handshake和handbag词义是很好猜的。那么C答案已经被推翻。HOMESICK和SEASICK的例子占的篇幅最大，一篇好的文章，一般是不会花大篇幅去写没用的东西。那么这个时候你就要留意了，这里面往往有作者的侧重点。先举HOMESICK的例子，我们便会产生一个猜测词义的方向。再举SEASICK的例子，我们又蓦然发现，原来不是所有复合词都这样。
同样阅读理解，题目看起来很类似，但是不是所有答案都那么简单，作为考题，他经常会有陷阱存在，但是当你完全理解透文章的意思，并且正确理解了出题人的意思，那么答案便会呼之欲出。希望对你有帮助哟~

Answer 2

因为这篇英语阅读讲的是一个英语复合词有几种不同的意思。
a选项讲的是英语里有很多英语复合词
b选项讲的是创造英语复合词是很有趣的
c选项讲的是一些单词的意思很难猜
d选项讲的是不是所有英语复合词的意思都像它们看上去那样，例如sick for home，看起来像是生病在家，实际它的意思是想家了。

Answer 3

B

其余三项均可用排除法喀嚓掉。