英语阅读理解词义猜测练习

阅读理解生词猜测实例

1.根据定义或解释说明猜测词义

1) A resolute man is a person who once makes up his mind to do sth , he won’t give

up half way .

2) Annealing is a way of making metal softer by heating it and then letting it cool

very slowly .

3) An expedition is a long , organized trip or journey which is made into an unfamiliar

area for a particular purpose by a group of people.

4) At forty-two he was in his prime and always full of energy .

5) Although Rao made a reasonable offer of help to her, Jones accepted it reluctantly,

with unwillingness.

6) Some myths , which are the stories handed down from ancient times and include

the early beliefs of nation, are widely spread around the world.

7) Of all other sciences and that arithmetic, which is the science of numbers, is the

base of mathematics.

2.通过同义词或同类词说明其意，一般用逗号将它与前面的生词隔开。

1) Luckily, most of the ailments (illness) that people suffer from can be treated at

home with little or no medicine.

2) Microwaves- the radio waves that we use for communications- travel in straight

line.

3) I think he is old-fashioned , thinking too much of old ways and ideas .

4) We are on the night shift --- from midnight to 8:00 am--- this week .

3. 通过对比去推断生词。如转折词：but , however , yet , otherwise , though；

1)Most of them agreed, however, I dissented.

2) Most people object to the plan ; only a few are for it .

3) Though Tom’s face has been washed quite clean , his neck still remains grubby .

4) One mistaken 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 .

4. 逻辑推理

1) Just before the exam, Joe’s hands shook and sweated so much that he could not

hold a pen. His heart beat fast and stomach ached, even though he knew the

subject very well. He really had a strange phobia about taking tests.

2)The noise was so faint that it was impossible to be sure what it was or even

where it came from.

3) The boy was charged for stabbing his father with a knife, but nobody really saw

him kill his father with a knife.

4）Kate was young and attractive. Therefore, she was almost always the cynosure of all attention the moment she appeared in the public place.

5) The river is so turbid that it is impossible to see the bottom even when it is

shallow .

6) Computers are now being used to direct traffic in the sky , find minerals in soil ,

control robots at work , diagnose diseases , analyze chemicals and make

movies .

7) As computers are used more and more at work , and some jobs are eliminated ,

people will have to be retrained for new jobs .

5. 利用词与词之间的一般与具体的关系（也称实例与总称的关系）推测生词词义。

举实例时，常见的短语有:such as, for example, including…, … included,等。

1)Most animals have one way or another of protecting themselves from being

attacked, the hedgehog, for example, may roll itself up into a tight ball; its

sharp spines discourage any attack.

2) Not every car, bus, jeep, or other kinds of vehicle can be made in the factory.