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四六级冲刺突破阅读第七讲：猜测词义网友常用标签（共0个）： 四级考试中考察生词词义的题目还是较普遍的。我们知道一个词的词义分为词典意义和语境意义，四级考试中考察的主要是后者-语境意义。 1. The word … in line … most nearly means ______. 2. The word … in line … probably means ______. 3. In line …, the word … refers to ______. 4. In line…, the word … could best be replaced by which of the following? 5. The word … as used in line … in this passage means ______. 6. The word … as used in line … is closest in meaning to ______. 7. In line…, … could properly be replaced by _______. 8. By …, the author means _______. 在解答这类问题时，我们有以下8种方法： 1． 通过上下文中对生词的定义和解释猜测词义，如or, that is, i.e. , refer...to, as等 2． 根据生词前后的举例，推测 3． 根据对应关系猜测词义 4． 根据常识 5． 根据比较联系猜测 6． 根据not, but, however, on the contrary等反义的词来推测。 7． 根据上下文重述来猜测。（同位语，定语） 8． 根据构词法（前缀，后缀，合成词） VIIA A breakthrough in the provision of energy from the sun for the Europe Economic Community (EEC) could be brought forward by up to two decades,if a modest increase could be provided in the EECs research effort in this field, according to the senior EEC scientific laboratories at Ispra,near Milan.The phrase be brought forward in Line 3 most probably means _______. A. be expected B. be completed C. be advanced D. be introduced 根据上下文的暗示，可以猜出be brought forward的意思是提出，提前。故选C VIIB Precipitation, commonly referred to as rainfall, is a measure of the quantity of water in the form of either rain, hail or snow which reaches the ground. The average annual precipitation over the whole of the United States is thirty-six inches. It should be understood however, that a foot of snow is not equal to a foot of precipitation. A general formula for computing the precipitation of snowfall is that thirty-eight inches of snow is equal to one inch of precipitation. In New York States, for example, seventy-six inches of snow in one year would be recorded as only two inches of precipitation. Forty inches of rain would be recorded as forty inches of precipitation. The total annual precipitation would be recorded as forty-two inches. 1. the term precipi