第17讲 阅读理解词义猜测题（练）-2024年高考英语一轮复习讲练测（新教材新高考）（原卷版）.docxVIP

第17讲 词义猜测题 （模拟精练+真题演练） 根据文章选择正确的选项 1.（2023年浙江绍兴高三统考）As the pandemic began to take its toll on New York in March 2020, Invisible Hands Deliver witnessed a massive outpouring of support from like-minded individuals in the community. Besides volunteering to deliver groceries for free, New Yorkers also reached out to translate the Invisible Hands flyers into over a dozen languages, enabling the organisation to reach out to more members of the community. What does the underlined phrase “take its toll” mean in paragraph 3? A．Cause great damage. B．Reduce the impact. C．Fill a huge gap. D．Recover slowly. 2.（2023年浙江宁波高三校联考）The bare fact is that we will continue to improve our intelligent machines. We have problems that we desperately need to solve. So we will do this, if we can. The train is already out of the station, and there’s no brake to pull. If we build machines that are more intelligent than we are, they will very likely develop in ways that we can’t imagine, and transcend us in ways that we can’t imagine. What does the underlined word “transcend” in Paragraph 3 mean? A．Disable. B．Inspire. C．Disappoint. D．Outpace. 3.（2023年浙江宁波高三校联考）The National Merit Scholarship is one awarded to those who do well on the Preliminary SAT or the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation will grant around 7,600 students the scholarship after an intense filtering of about 1.6 million entries. What does the underlined word “filtering” mean in paragraph 2? A．Selecting. B．Cooperating. C．Fighting. D．Matching. （2023年湖北襄阳四中模拟测试） It may seem very different, but babies are certainly not lying around randomly. “Babies don’t explore the world by chance, with their eyes falling on it. Babies have a strategy if they want to understand the world. First, they look for those pieces of information that allow them to understand other information faster and more efficiently. On the contrary, if they see an object or event from which they can learn nothing furt