高考英语专题复习《阅读理解专题——猜测词义》1.ppt

Passage 1. A tornado can do a lot of damage. The wind of a tornado rushes at great speed around a funnel-shaped cloud. It travels in a path a few hundred feet wide and about twenty-five miles long. As the wind circles, the funnel spirals higher and higher. 2. A tornado is a _______. A. rainstorm B. dust storm C. great circle wind D. huge funnel of water Passage 2. STOCKHOLM—A Swede and two Americans won the 2000 Nobel Prize for medicine on Oct. 9 for studies on how messages move around the nervous system. The discovery makes it possible to develop drugs against Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia. Arvid Carlson of Sweden and Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel of the United States share the first prize of the millennium, worth nearly US$ 1 million, for their discoveries, Sweden’s Karlinska Institute said. 3. What does the underlined word “schizophrenia” probably mean? A. a kind of illness B. a new discovery C. a name of a subject D. a new drug Homework 1. Go over what we learned in this period. 2. Finish exercises in the material book. Enjoy English, Enjoy life! Bye-bye! I.Learning aims 1.To enable the students to learn about the skills of reading comprehension. 2.To improve the students’ ability of reading 3.To let the students master the ways of guessing unknown words phrases. 对考纲外生词的猜测 Many United Nations employees are polyglots: Mr. Jim, for example, speaks five languages fluently. “polyglot” most probably means “_______________.” 对考纲内熟词新义的猜测 I had first known she was wrong, that her anxiety had clouded her judgment. (04全国卷) “cloud” means “_____________________.” The biggest finding in brain research in the last ten years is that the brain at any age is highly plastic. If you ask your brain to learn, it will learn.(07四川卷) By saying “the brain at any age is highly plastic”, the writer means the brain can be _____. A.used B. mastered C. developed D. researched 对句义的猜测 语境法猜测词义 1. 定义描述