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猜测词义练习案

Excise1

1. Annealing is a way of making metal softer by heating it and then letting it cool very slowly.

2. It will be very hard but also very brittle — that is, it will break easily.

3.They traveled a long way, at last got to a castle, a large building in old times.

4. We are on the night shift—from midnight to 8 a.m.— this week.

5. Perhaps, we can see some possibilities for next fifty years. But the next hundred?

6.The lack of movement caused the muscles to weaken. Sometimes the weakness was permanent. So the player could never play the sport again.

7.Doctors believe that smoking cigarettes is detrimental to your health. They also regard drinking as harmful.

8. She is usually prompt for all her class, but today she arrived in the middle of her first class.

Excise2

A

Plagiarism is one of the most serious problems in schools and colleges. It has occurred as lon g as there have been teachers and students, but the recent growth of the Intenet has made it much worse. Recent studies show 30% of all students may be plagiarizing on every written homework th ey’ve done. What is plagiarism? It is using others' ideas and words without clearly mentioning wh ere the information is from.

Q: The word "plagiarism" means ________.

A. cheating in the exams

B. putting others' words in quotations

C. rewriting others' articles

D. stealing others' ideas or words

B

Both warm-blooded and cold-blooded desert animals have ways to escape the desert heat. Wa rm-blooded desert animals, such as rats and mice, rest during the day, often staying in cool underg round burrows. At night they search for food. Animals that are out during the day, such as cold-blo oded lizards and snakes, are active only for short periods. As their body tem- perature rises, these r eptiles move into the shade in order to cool down. In the early evening, when the sun grows weake r, the reptiles become more active and begin their search for food again. Getting enough wate r to survive is a major problem for all desert animals.

Q: The underlined word "burrows" in the first paragraph can be replaced by _______

A. holes

B. caves

C. rooms

D. openings

C

Fishermen later killed and sold the shark after oceanographers confirmed that it was a whale s hark and therefore not under State protection.

Q: The underlined word "confirmed "probably means ________.

A. said

B. believed

C. thought

D. made sure

D

Oxygen is vital to life; it is needed by the body cells of all animals. It is also very useful in in dustry. The method Priestley used produces only small quantities. The large amounts needed for in dustry are produced in a different way. Air is put into containers under great pressure. This turns it into liquid and makes it very cold. It is then gradually warmed up and each substance evaporates a t a different temperature. The boiling point of oxygen is -183°C. It is caught and stored in strong st eel cylinders at a pressure of 136 atmospheres. The process is known as fractional distillation. Q: Which word has the rough meaning of “vital”?

A. important

B. useful

C. helpful

D. interesting

E

These different kinds of learning disabilities are known by different names. For example, a person who has difficulty reading may have dyslexia. Someone who cannot do mathematics may h ave a disorder called dyscalculia(计算困难).

Q: The underlined word “dyslexia” in the paragraph probably means _______.

A. difficulty in seeing

B. problem in reading

C. trouble in listening

D. brain disorder

F

One of the best-known sayings must be “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wisdom”. The promises of health, wealth, and wisdom to those who join the teams of early retirees and rises must be particularly pleasing to many people in our modern society.

Q: The underlined word “retiree” here refers to_________.

A. people who give up their work

B. people who have a lot of free time

C. people who go to bed

D. people who live in a quiet place

G

The reasons for a visit to lighthouse are not all so backward-looking（思想过时的） in time. It is true that lighthouses were built in out-of-the-way places. But on a pleasant sunn y summer day, this very isolation has a natural beauty that many people will love to experience.

Q: The underlined phrase “out-of-the-way” probably means __________.

A. far-away

B. dangerous

C. ancient

D. secret

H

Our own native language and culture are so much a part of us that we take them for granted. When we travel to another country, it’s as if we carry along with our passports. We view the new e nvironment using our own culture as the standard, and although not purposely, our ways of thinkin g and acting often get in the way of our understanding other languages and cultures. The ability an d willingness to change lenses when we look at a different culture is both the cure and prevention f or such cultural blindness. Studying a new language provides us the opportunities to practice chan ging lenses when we also learn the context or the culture to which it belongs.

Q: The underlined word “it” in the last sentence refers to __________.

A. the context

B. the culture

C. the language

D. the opportunity