阅读技巧训练——猜测词义
一.归纳总结猜测词义题常见的解题方法：
（一）根据______________猜测词义
1. A deaf and dump guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails.
2. All the houses in the city collapsed during the earthquake.
3. For people who live within a stone’s throw from the office to be late to work is unforgivable. （二）根据_____________猜测词义
1. Kleptomania is an illness of the mind that gives a person the desire to steal.
2. The word “lefty” means a person who uses his or her left hand for writing, eating and other jobs.
3. A person who has the SARS （非典型肺炎）may have symptoms like coughing and a high temperature.
（三）根据_______________猜测词义
1. Unlike the United States where many different nationalities make up the population, Japan‟s population is quite homogeneous.
2. Thousands of people got stuck in lifts. But no one is panic, we passed the time telling stories.
3. Most of us agreed; however, Gary dissented.
4. He is homely, not at all as handsome as his brother.
(四)根据_____________猜测词义
1．Not every historic mansion,church, battle site, theatre and other public halls can be preserved.
2．We should, therefore, learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar.
3．Their friends laughed at them, and my sister felt wretched, very unhappy.
（五）利用______________猜测词义
1．Many United Nations employees are polyglots: Mr. Simpson, for example, speaks five languages fluently.
2．The largest player---Shanghai Bashi Tourism Car Rental Center offers a wide variety of choices---Deluxe Sedans, Minivans, Station Wagons, Coaches, Santana Sedans are the big favorite.
3．When writing an article, we often use similes, such as “brave as a lion”and “quick like lightning”.
（六）根据_____________猜测词义
1.Iran quake leaves city flattened.
2.When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to
picture modern life?
3.The aging of population will affect American society in many ways----education, medicine
and business.
(七) 根据______________猜测词义
1. She did not hear what you said because she was completely engrossed in her reading.
2. “But，” began Kim，“I feel that since you are my superior，it would be presumptuous of me to tell you what to do.”
The word “presumptuous” in the passage is the closest in meaning to “_______”.
A. full of respect
B. too confident and rude
C. lacking in experience
D. too shy and quiet
（八）根据________ 猜测词义
First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet a real pounding（追击）ruining down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn‟t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.
53. The underlined word “them” (Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _____.
A. heart attacks
B. Back problems
C. famous joggers
D. physical weaknesses
Test:
1. (04全国)There is no cure for Alzheimer's. But a drug, called ARICEPT, has been used by millions of people to relieve their symptoms （症状） .
61. What is AIRCEPT?
A. A medicine to cure Alzheimer's.
B. A medicine to delay signs of aging.
C. A medicine to reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
D. A medicine to cure brain damage.
2. (05广东)“Unlike vitamin C，leadership skills can‟t be easily swallowed down. They must be carefully cultivated.”
1. The underlined word “cultivated” roughly means _________ .
A. encouraged
B. compared
C. examined
D. developed
3. (05北京) School uniforms are becoming more and more popular across the U.S.A. That’s no surprise, because they offer many benefits. They immediately end the powerful social sorting and labeling (标记) that come from clothing. If all students are dressed in the same way, they will not pay too much attention to their clothing, and some of them will not be laughed at for wearing the “wrong” clothes.
72. In Paragraph 1, the word “benefits” pr obably means .
A. tasks
B. messages
C. differences
D. advantages
4.(06安徽) Lions are opportunists. They prefer to eat without having to do too much work. …If another animal has made a kill, they will drive it off and take the kill for themselves.
64. By describing lions as “opportunist”in the first paragraph, the author means to say that lions____.
A. are cruel animals
B. are clever animals
C. like to take advantage of other animals
D. like to take every chance to eat
5. (06天津)Some children are natural-born bosses. They have a strong need to make decisions, manage their environment, and lead rather than follow. …
“Examine the extended family, and you‟ll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. It‟s an inheritable trait,” said Russell Barkley, a professor…
44. The underlined phrase “inheritable trait” in Paragraph 2 means _____.
A. inborn nature
B. developed character
C. accepted theory
D. particular environment
6. ( 06湖南)…When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American cultural life, trying hard to follow every new development, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.
71. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means Sontag _____.
A. was a symbol of American cultural life
B. developed world literature, film and art
C. published many essays about world culture
D. kept pace with the newest development of world culture
