2024考研英语复习根据词根词缀猜词义

例如：(2006年Text1)In spite of “endless talk of difference”, American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people.There is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse，and the casualness and absence of deference” characteristic of popular culture.People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption” launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere.Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite”these were stores “anyone could enter，regardless of class or background.This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.” The mass media， advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.

21.The word “homogenizing” (Para. 1) most probably means .

[A]identifying [B]associating

[C]assimilating [D]monopolizing

我们不看文章，先看选项。Homogenizing这个词语大家可能不认识，没有关系，过词根词缀分析，我们知道homo-表示“相同的”，gen-表示“基因”而选项A中，identi-表示“识别”(我们的身份证ID card,就是识别我们身份的)选项B中，social-表示“社会的、联系的”选项C中，simila-表示“社会的、联系的”选项D中，mono-表示“单独的”。只有home-(相同的)和题干中考查词汇homo-(相同的)有相似的意思，那么答案建议选C。