一、考查一些字母的特殊读音。
1．元音字母a,e,i,o,u.⑪ a通常在重读开音节中读[e]，在重读闭音节中读[æ]，在w后通常读[]，在s,ss,st,sk,ch,th,n,f 前读[:]，在非重读音节中读[][].特殊：①[:] water②[e]any,many,anyhow,anything等含有any的不定代词中。
③[]courage,encourage,language,necklace,orange,average,baggage⑫ e 通常在重读开音节中读[:]，在重读闭音节中读[e].特殊：①[]actress, careless, develop, entire, perfect, reduce, secret, carpet, celebrate, desert②[]children, open, problem, silence, satellite, September③不发音：frighten, listen, often, garden, citizen⑬ i通常在开音节中读[ai]，在闭音节中读[i].特殊：① [] impossible,possible,terrible，holiday,horrible②[:] police,Pisa,machine,magazine,technique③ []live, give, notice, native, office, promise, imagine, opposite④不发音：basin, civil, pencil, pupil, cousin,⑭ o通常在重读开音节中读[]，但在do, to, who, move, prove, lose, whose等读[u:]；在重读闭音节中读[]，但在most, post, cold, both, roll, hold, scold, host等st, ld, th前常读[]特殊：①[u]woman②[]collection, complete, compare, composition, custom, develop, iron police, polite, observe, official, Europe③[]women④[] (多在m, n, th, v等前时，如comfort，Comfortable，come，company等)⑤[:] story⑥[] comb,Negro,piano,radio,tomato⑦[] gone，common，concert⑧不发音：cotton,reason,prison,person,pardon,lesson,poison⑮ u通常在重读开音节中读[:]或[:]，在重读闭音节中读[]或[].特殊：①[]autumn, August, industry, succeed, success, suppose, until, unless，supply, difficult②[e]bury③[]busy,minute,business④[]museum,communism,unite,January,occupy2．辅音字母c,w,n,s,g.⑪ c通常发[k],（在元音a,o,u前和辅音前，以及在词尾时）特殊：① [] delicious,musician,special,social,socialist,official(在ea,ia前)② [s]ceiling,century,celebrate,cinema,city,incident(多在e,i前)⑫ w通常发[w]特殊：不发音：answer,sword,two⑬ n通常发[n]特殊：[ŋ]uncle,English,single,thank,anxious,drink等(在c,g,k前)⑭ s通常发[s],[z]特殊：① []sugar,sure② []measure,pleasure,treasure,usual，conclusion⑮g通常发[g]特殊：① []age,apologize,apology,page等(e,i(y)前)②不发音：design,foreign,sign等(在n前)二、考查一些常见字母组合的特殊读音。
