Without________ , there is no way to determine the very sense of

Without________ , there is no way to determine the very sense of a word that the speaker intended to convey.
A、meaning
B、context
C、clues
D、culture
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：题干中提到说话者所说的词的含义不好确定，需要空里的这个词，四个选项中meaning首先排除，它和sense意义接近，clues比较泛，culture是个氛围，说话者可以处于某个特定文化，因此context最合适，它只说话内容的上下文。答案依据在课本第149页。