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阅读中如何猜测词义在阅读中, 我们往往会遇到一些不认识的单词或短语, 或者认识的单词在文章中有了新的意义、如果这些词或短语不影响对文章主要内容的理解, 我们便可以将它们略过, 继续阅读。如果了解这些词语的意思对正确理解文意很重要, 这时, 我们就必须根据上下文的联系, 对它们的意义进行猜测, 使之不影响对整篇文章的阅读理解。需要注意的是, 一个单词通常有好几个意思, 我们要解决的是这些词在文中所表达的意思。因此, 不可脱离上下文, 只根据自己以前了解的词义来确定其意义。通常, 猜测词义可采用以下几种方法： 一、利用所出现生词的上下文与其意义上的联系或下文进一步的叙述, 猜测词义。 1.The female mosquito is a vampire and lives on blood. 如不知道vampire的词义, 从上文1ives on blood(靠吸血而生存)则可得知其词义为吸血昆虫。 2.The old man put on his spectacles and began to read. 如不知道spectacles的词义, 从下文戴上spectacles后开始阅读可猜得其词义为眼镜。 3.Im sorry Ive been monopolizing you. Your other dinner companion should have the chance to talk to you, too. 根据第二个句子的意思, 可猜出monopolize之意为独占。 4.If I were a boy again, I would practise perseverance oftener, and never give up a thing because it was hard or inconvenient. 根据and never give up a thing ...可猜测perseverance之意为坚韧不拔 . 5.Pigeons have a natural instinct to return home, even if they are far away and the trip is hard or dangerous. 根据后半句让步状语从句, 可猜测instinct为本能。 6.14,000 sanitation workers who carry off, yearly, three million tons of refuse and keep 7,500 miles of streets clean and free of snow. 从上下文可猜出sanitation workers为环卫工人。 7.Human beings are a unique species. They have larger brains than any other beings. They have the gift of speech and can communicate their thoughts, ideas, and feelings. 从上下文可猜出the gift of speech为语言天赋。 8.Our earth is very old. It holds many secrets about life in the past. Archaeologists dig in the ground and bring out these secrets. They discover objects thousands of years old that inform us about how people lived long ago. 不难猜出Archaeologists 为考古学家 。 9.One of the newest American expressions is Where is the beef? It questions if something is as good or as honest as it claims to be. a 根据第二个句子的意思, 可猜测Where is the beef? 之意为拿出证据来 。 10.The girl began to feel homesick because she had been away from her family for years. 状语部分的意思是她离开家人好几年了, 对于一个女孩子来说, 想家的结果是必然的。所以, 我们通过状语从句所提供的信息可以推断出home