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东沟中学英语组 邱辉 Example one That museum is so immense that it will be impossible to see all the exhibits in one day. 既然一天之内看不完所有的展品，这个博物 馆当然是够“大的”了。 Today young couples often spend lots of their money on appliances, for instance , washing-machine, refrigerators and color televisions. （2011湖北）Howling, interestingly, is a contagious behavior. When one wolf starts to howl, very likely others will follow. This is often seen to occur in the morning, as if wolves were doing some sort of “roll call” where wolves all howl together to report their presence.58.“Howling… is a contagious behavior” (in the last paragraph) means_______.A. howling is a signal for huntingB. howling is a way of communicationC. howling aften occurs in the morningD. howling spreads from one to another * * * ---猜测词义 Unlike his brother, who is truly a handsome man, John is quite homely． “homely” means “ ”. ugly Unlike handsome e.g.. Although the early morning had been very cool, the noonday sun was tropical. ———— —— hot 热的 contrast 对比法：利用文中的反义词、表对比关系的词猜测词义。 表示对比的词有but 、 yet 、 while 、however、 otherwise等。 技巧 1 （2011江西卷）Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination of designs.67. The underlined phrase “drawing on ”in Paragraph 1 probably means______. A. making use of  B. making comments on  C. giving an explanation of  D. giving a description of — --------------------------------------- Doctors believe that smoking is detrimental to peoples health. They also regard drinking as harmful. 有害的 adj. also Example two similarity 相似法：利用同义词、近义词或词组猜测词义 作者可能会用一个近义词或者同义词去解释另一个更难的词，以便使他的文字意思更清楚，近义词往往出现在同一句或者同一段落中。 技巧 2 Quiz: However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time. They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun. They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour- glasses, and invented water-clocks. Indeed,