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1、阅读技巧—猜测词义Doyouknowtheword“music”?Doyouknowthephrase“facethemusic”?Whatwillyoudoifyoucomeacrossawordyoudon’tknow?guessthemeaningofwordsTrytoguessthemeaningofthephrasefromthepassage:ThismorningIwaslateforschool.AndIfailedintheEnglishexam.Ididn’twanttogohomebe
2、causeIwasafraidIhadtofacethemusicwhentheteachercalledmyparents.Whatdoes“facethemusic”meanhere?Itmeans“toacceptthepunishmentbecauseofdoingsomethingwrong”.一题干特点词义理解题常见的题型有:Theauthorusestheword“…”tomean____.Theunderlinedword(phrase,term)“…”means_____.According
3、tothepassage,theword“…”properlymeans_____.Theword“…”inparagraph…refersto____.By“…”,theauthormeans_____.Whichofthefollowingisclosestinmeaningto“…”?Whatis“…”?Whatdoes“…”inthelasttwoparagraphsstandfor?二解题技巧Howtoguessthemeaningofawordaccordingtothecontext?弄清上下文
4、关系，找有效信息1．根据定义猜测词义如果生词是句子或段落所解释的定义，理解句子或段落本身就是推断词义eg：Anthropologyisthescientificstudyofman.anthropology-----“研究人类的科学”Inslangtheterm"jam"isknownasastateofbeinginwhichapersonfindshimselforherselfinadifficultsituation.jam——“困境”定义句的谓语动词多为：be,mean,referto,becall
5、ed,beknownas,define,等。.Itwillbeveryhardbutalsoverybrittle------thatis,itwillbreakeasily.从后面的解释中我们可以了解到brittle是“脆”的意思。.Theherdsman,wholooksaftersheep,earnsabout650yuanayear.定语从句中looksaftersheep就表明了herdsman的词义为"牧人"。定义法定义或释义关系常由定语从句或由is，or，thatis(tosay),inothe
6、rwords，becalled，beknownas,bedefinedas等词汇或破折号来表示.利用所出现生词的上下文与其意义上的联系或下文进一步的叙述，猜测词义。例一：Thefemalemosquitoisavampireandlivesonblood.如不知道vampire的词义，从下文livesonblood(靠吸血而生存)则可得知其词义为吸血昆虫。例二：Theoldmanputonhisspectaclesandbegantoread.如不知道spectacles的词义，从下文“戴上‘spectacl
7、es’后开始阅读”可以猜得其词义“眼镜”。2、根据复述猜测词义同位语：Semantics,thestudyofthemeaningofwords,isnecessaryifyouaretospeakandreadintelligently.semanties指“语义学”Capacitance,ortheabilitytostoreelectriccharge,isoneofthemostcommoncharacteristicsofelectroniccircuits.capacitance---电容量注意：
8、同位语前常有or,similarly,thatistosay,inotherwords,.Weareonthenightshift----frommidnightto8a.m.---thisweek.两个破折号之间的短语很清楚地表明nightshift是"夜班"的意思。同位法同位法的标志：逗号，破折号定语从句：KrabacbersuffersfromSAD,whichisshortforseason
