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In this set of materials, the reading passage tells about polysemy words

and provides examples of polysemy words, and the listening passage provides exa
mples of another type of polysemy words.
The reading passage tells us about polysemy words, which mean a word tha
t has many meanings. Usually, polysemic words can be used as a noun,verb,adverb,
inquiry, and many more. The example of polysemy word is "sound". Sound has many
differents meanings when is used as different parts of speech.
The listening passage provides examples of another type of polysemy word
s. We certainly think that a polysemy word only has different meanings and there
isn't any words that has contradicts meaning. The examples of this type are "bo
lt","fast", and "sanction". Bolt and fast could be intrepeted as lock and can't
move, or moving very quickly, while sanction could be intrepeted as permitted, o
r don't permitted.

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