阅读理解技巧之猜测词意概要.pptVIP

How to guess the meanings of words 利用文章中用不同的话对同一概念的解释，猜测词义。信号词：be, be called, means, be defined as ，that is,等等，标点符号有：——等 Ex. 3 symptoms,volatile,shivered Ex. 4 replica,shrewd,trim Ex. 5 dowry, wither, anaesthetic eg： One of the predominant concerns today is the future of our natural resources. This issue is of greatest importance because it is becoming clear to many people that our present resources will not last forever. eg： Cleaning up waterways is an enormous task. The job is so large, in fact, that the government may not be able to save some of the rivers and lakes which have been polluted.  eg： The old man put on his spectacles and began to read. eg： Some artists plan their paintings around geometric forms like squares, circles and triangles. geometric forms的意思，可从文中所列举的三角形，正方形、圆形来猜得其意义为“几何图形”。  Now let’s try some examples in the passages.Here are some examples in the exams.Try to guess the meanings of the underlined words in the following passages. Here is an example from the test paper of the 2008 final exams. 分析：此题考查考生猜词的能力。青少年太早来到学校上课，就坐在桌旁打盹。而且我们知道“nod”有点头的意思。根据常识，打盹的时候会情不自禁地垂下头。 eg： A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don’t start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce (确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead students aren’t used to the early hour. 49. The underlined phrase “nod off” most probably means “ _______”. turn around B. agree with others C. fall asleep D. refuse to work ? Here is another example from the test paper. 分析：此题考查考生猜词的能力。根据上下文原则里的并列关系，我们通过一个and可以断定apprehensive跟nervous是同义词。 eg：A heart-warming story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she felt nervous and apprehensive. Late in the afternoon she summoned the courage to approach her empl