【小试牛刀】 (1)猜猜看,以下单词是什么意思呢?
①ill-treat ②keyboard ③single-handed ④air-conditioned ⑤pineapple
【典例】Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking. Without fail one would declare, "But Im just not creative."...
Q:What does the underlined word "downside" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Mistake. B. Drawback. C. Difficulty. D. Burden.
【解析】根据构词法进行猜测,downside由down和side组成,字面意思为"下面的一边",初步可以猜测出词义为"不足部分"。再根据画线单词后的"I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking"可知,我冒着失去那些有不同思维方式的学生的危险,说明我的这种教育方法也有不足之处。故画线词意为"缺点"。B。