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Guessing word meaning（词义猜测题）

By Lifa Huang April 27th,2018

Teaching Aims:1. To improve the students’ reading ability.

2.Help students learn the skills of Guessing word meaning.

Teaching Important Points: 1. Help the students to find the skills of Guessing word meaning.

3.To improve the students ’understanding ability of words.

Teaching Difficult Points: Help the students fully understand the whole sentence.

Teaching procedure

一、Find the Closest Meaning

1. faultless→( useless,perfect, hopeless, countless)

2. tough→( easy, rare, hard, final )

3. hurtful→（unkind, hopeful, careful, helpful)

4. handsome→(ugly, good--looking, vivid, basic)

5. kidnap→( steal, seize, prove, display)

6. tie→(draw, pull, throw, praise)

7. outlaw→( instruct, pack, ban, develop)

8. likelihood→( boyhood,probability ,neighborhood, friendly)

9. depressed→(sad, excited, soft, real)

10. desert→（abandon, hear, list, imagine)

二、Skills of Guessing word meaning.

1. Repeating(重述)

典例：(2015.天津高考阅读Ｃ节选)

In the library, Ｉfound my way into the “Children’s Room.”I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion lever had as a child.

“beagle”means: .

2.Giving Examples(举例)

典例：（2016.全国卷Ⅲ阅读Ｄ节选）

Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad. “negative”means: .

3. Opposite Meaning(反义词)

典例：（2015.福建高考阅读Ｅ节选）

If you’re tired of wandering around the gym wasting time and becoming bored , you can attend an upbeat group fitness class that’ll keep you workout on track.

73.The underlined word“upbeat”in the second paragraph probably means “”. Ａ. cheerful Ｂ. average Ｃ. serious Ｄ. temporary

4. From Word Formation (根据构词法猜测词义)

典例（2016.全国卷Ⅰ阅读D节选）

A silence in a conversation may also show stubbornness, uneasiness, or worry. “uneasiness”means: .

5. From Logic of Context(根据上下文逻辑猜测词义)

典例：（2015.北京高考阅读C节选）

The objects around you are visible because they interact with light. Light typically travels in a straight line. But some materials slow and scatter(散射)light, bouncing it away from its original path. Others absorb light, stopping it dead in its tracks.

64.The underlined word “dead”in Paragraph 3 means .

A. silently

B. gradually

C. regularly

D. completely

6. Referring to(代词指代上文的内容)

典例：（2018年赣州模拟阅读B节选）

Mr Jones had chosen me to start the race. The next runner would be Susan, In the beginning, whenever we practiced passing the baton, something would go terribly wrong. I would either be going too slowly or she would be taking off too late. We needed to perfect it.

24.What does the underlined “it”in the second paragraph refer to?

A. Going too slowly.

B. Taking off too late.

C. Passing the baton.

D. Going beyond the yellow line.

三、Practice

Try to guess the word meaning and find out which kind of skills it belongs to.

1、（2018年赣州模拟阅读C节选）We can, for instance, imagine that we are a business owner and we keep sabotaging our business deals, leading the company into great financial problems.

29.The underlined word“sabotaging”in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .

A. promoting

B. offering

C. damaging

D. striking

2、（2018年赣州模拟阅读D节选）Screaming is one of the responses humans share with other animals . Conventional thinking suggests that what sets a scream apart from other sounds is its loudness. However, many sounds that are loud do not raise goose bumps like screams can. ......While normal speech sounds only have slight differences in loudness-between 4 and 5 Hz, screams can switch very fast, varying between 30 and 150 Hz, thus considered to be rough and unpleasant.

33.What does the underlined phrase “raise goose bumps”probably mean?

A. Make people feel unpleasant.

B. Make people feel cold.

C. Make people rude and rough.

D. Make people unique.

3、（2018年衡阳一模阅读B节选）Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency administrator Vern Miyagi said,“there was no automated way to send a false alarm cancellation. We had to initiate a manual process. And that was why it took a while to inform everyone”. He apologized for the false alarm.

27.The underlined word “manual”in the last paragraph means .

A. expressed in words

B. controlled by computers