【正确答案】：
BECAUSE THE MEANING IS INFLUENCED IMMEDIATELY BY THE LINGUISTIC CONTEXT, AND IN MANY CASES BY THE WHOLE SPEECH AS WELL. WITHOUT CONTEXT, THERE IS NO WAY TO DETERMINE THE VERY SENSE OF THE WORD THAT THE SPEAKER INTENDED TO CONVEY; WHEREAS WITH CONTEXT THERE IS GENERALLY NO DANGER OF MISINTERPRETATION, FOR MEANING LIVES IN CONTEXT AND THE CONTEXT DEFINES MEANING.
【题目解析】：本题主要考查the understanding of word-meaning（语境词义的理解）很重要的原因。因为意义受到语言环境（linguistic context）的影响，而且在许多情况下也受到整个言语（the whole speech）的影响。没有语境，就无法确定讲话者想要表达的词的真正含义（the very sense of the word）；而在语境中通常不会有误解（misinterpretation）的危险，因为意义存在于（lives in）语境中，而语境定义（defines）了意义。