【南方新课堂】2016-2017学年高考英语一轮复习 专题突破 第Ⅱ题 专题四 词义猜测.docVIP

专题四　词义猜测 命题特点利用上下文判断单词、短语或句子在特定语言环境中确切含义的能力。考查重点(1)生词的语境猜测。(2)词组及短语的指代。设问方式(1)The word “...” refers to... (2)The underlined phrase means... (3)By saying “...” we mean... (4)The expression “...” stands for... 方法技巧(1)利用上下文通过对应结构或平行结构中的同义词、反义词进行判断；(2)利用定语从句、同位语从句等进行判断；(3)根据关联词如but等进行判断；(4)利用构词法进行判断。 Passage 1 Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch？Have you been doing Internet shopping rather than going to the stores？What cant you be bothered to do? A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so lazy that theyd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs. Just over 2，000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health，Britains largest health charity.The results were astonishing. About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken，they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up. More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus.Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children，64% said they were often too tired to play with them. This led the report to conclude that its no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese (very fat) before they start school. Dr.Sarah Dauncey，medical director of Nuffield Health, said，“People need to get fitter，not just for their own sake，but for the sake of their families，friends and evidently their pets, too. “If we dont start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.” And Scotlands largest city，Glasgow，was shamed as the most inactive city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise，followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton，both with 67%. The results cause serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of