阅读理解猜测生词的常见方法
阅读理解猜测生词的常见方法
阅读理解猜测生词的常见方法
阅读理解猜测生词的常见方法
阅读理解猜测生词的常见方法阅读理解越来越注重能力的考查。高考试卷阅读理解题设置的一个重要原则就是必须含有一定量的生词,而根据上下文猜测词义是提高阅读水平的重要途径。考生在应试中碰到一些不认识的词,这是正常现象,大可不必惊慌失措,也不要对某个词的词义纠缠不清,以致影响对文章的继续阅读、阅读的速度、阅读的质量,从而影响解题的效果。因此,如何通过语言环境和上下文联系,再结合正确的方法快速而准确地猜测出生词,对阅读理解和做好考题相当重要。有时,必须将生词撇开,继续阅读下去,也许等到将全文阅读完毕,你就会猜出生词的词义。另外,考生也可以通过派生、分解、转换、加减前后缀等方法来获取生词的词义。下面将分析一下近几年高考英语试卷中有关的题目。◎ 根据同义词猜词义He replied quickly. But after he considered the problem more carefully, he regretted having made such a hasty decision.句中hasty 是生词,根据上文所提供的信息所知,hasty是形容词,与quick 同义。The old woman had a strange habit. She kept over 100 cats in her house. Her neighbors all called her eccentric lady.句中eccentric 是生词,根据句中所提供的信息,我们可以断定该词是形容词,与strange是同义。◎ 根据反义词猜词义We can infer from the text that “computer-literate” means _______.A. being able to afford a computerB. being able to write computer programsC. working with the computer and finding out its valueD. understanding the computer and knowing how to use it句中的computer-literate 是生词,根据下文所提供的信息:David does not see it that way. He says that computertown UK was formed for just the opposite reason, to bring computers to people and make them “people-literate”.考生可以断定computer-literate与people-literate相反。Unlike his brother, who is truly handsome man, John is quite homely.句中unlike是关键词。它提示了John与他的兄弟情况相反。由此可知handsome与homely是反义词。故homely应是ordinary-looking的意思。◎ 根据定义猜词义文中常用解释性词语引出生词含义,如that is, mean, stand for, namely, in other words, to be等,有时用破折号,括弧来表示,或者用同位语、定语从句的形式出现。Have you ever wondered what a Degree might be worth to you in your job or career ?这儿or表示job与career同义,所以career译为职业较妥。Decision-thinking is not unlike poker…This card game has often been of considerable interest to people.从后面句子的解释不难看出,poker 应是一种玩纸牌游戏。This card game 就是poker 的解释。The herdsman, who looks after sheep, earns about 650 yuan a year. 句中herdsman是生词,但后面的定语从句已对该词作了解释,我们马上就能理解它的词义。[1][2][3]下一页 说明:引用此文请注明出处,并请保留该文章链接地址,谢谢~~◎ 根据对比关系猜词义句中常有两个意义相对比的词,只要把握其中一词,就不难推出另一词的含义,这时句中会有 unlike, although, but, while 等信息词。考生可以凭借信息词进行推测词义。Thousands of people got stuck in lifts. But no one panicked. We passed the time telling stories.句中panicked为生词,数千人困在电梯中,情况应该不妙,可but 引出的后半句却告诉我们“人们还在讲故事消磨时间”,因此panicked 应为“慌张”、“恐惧”之意。One idea about business is that it can be treated as a game of perfect information. Quite the reverse, business, politics, life itself are games which we must normally play with very imperfect information.由前句中perfect information 到后面imperfect information 这一组对比关系的词,我们不难推断“Quite the reverse”应表示“对比、相反”的意思。◎ 根据因果关系猜词义上下文中有连词because, as, since, so, therefore, so…that, such…that 连接,由已知的“原因”推出“结果”,反之亦然。The biggest power failure happened yesterday. All of our ice cream and frozen foods melted.考生可以从停电的原因上猜出冰淇淋、冷冻食品化冰的必然结果,因此“melted”是“溶化”之意。There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, collapsed on the lawn.文中的兄妹二人呼吸忽急忽缓,且咳个不停,最终的结果只能是“瘫倒”在草坪上了。上半句是出现的现象,导致结果是“瘫倒”在地。◎ 根据上下文猜词义高考试题中,还有一些要求考生用上下文提供的情景和线索猜测词义的题目。这已成了近年高考考查的热点。What did Cory Luxmoore mean when