高考阅读理解猜测词义练习

猜测词义读懂文章ExercisesRead the following passages and see if you understand the words or phrases that may be new to you: Passage 1.We can not feel speed. But our sense let us know that we are moving. We see things moving past and feel that we are being shaken. We can feel acceleration, an increase in speed. But we notice it for only a short time.For example we fee it during the takeoff run of an airplane.1. Acceleration is the name for _______. DA. any kind of movementB. the movement of a planeC. a steady speedD. an increase in speedPassage 2.A tornado can do a lot of damage. The wind of a tornado rushes at great speed around a funnel-shaped cloud.It travels in a path a few hundred feet wide and about twenty-five miles long. As the wind circles, the funnel spirals higher and higher.2. A tornado is a _______. CA. rainstormB. dust stormC. great circle windD. huge funnel of waterPassage 3.STOCKHOLM—A Swede and two Americans won the 2000 Nobel Prize for medicine on Oct. 9 for studies on how messages move around the nervous system. The discovery makes it possible to develop drugs against Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia. Arvid Carlson of Sweden and Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel of the United States share the first prize of the millennium, worth nearly US$ 1 million, for their discoveries, Sweden’s Karlinska Institute said. (2009NMET)3. What does the underlined word “schizophrenia” probably mean?AA. a kind of illnessB. a new discoveryC. a name of a subjectD. a new drugPassage 4.New Y ork: when the first jet struck 1 World Trade Center at 8:48 am on Tuesday, the people in 2 World Trade Center with a view of the instant damage across the divide had the clearest sense of what they, too, must do: get out fast…. Among the uncertainty about what was the best thing to do, formal announcements inside the south tower instructed people to stay put, telling them that the building was in good condition and the threat was limited to the other tower. C4. The underlined words “stay put”means______.A. to keep silentB. to leave at onceC. to stay in the buildingD. to put everything back and then leavePassage 5.All the athletes try to be at the closing ceremony. They have forgotten all their fears and worries. It does not matter whether they have done well or not. All the teams walk round the stadium together. Everybody in the village clears up and gets ready to leave. Everyone is hunting for local products. People exchange track suits, hats, running vest and so on. There is a last chance to take photographs and get addresses of new friends.Then each team starts its journey home.5. The underline phrase “clears up”in the paragraph means______. AA. packs upB. goes awayC. makes clearD. does the cleaningAssignment 作业1. The computer also counts the loads and gives a signal by phone when the box is full. And a special piece of equipment breaks up the nonrecyclables. ( 不可回收资源)2. Helping laid-off workers and unemployed people find jobs is crucial (关系重大的)and pressing task facing the Chinese Government, President Jiang Zemin stressed yesterday, he urged better service to create work for the unemployed. ( 下岗)3. Are you a man or a mouse? When people ask this question they want to know if you think you are a brave person or a coward. ( 胆小鬼)4. Most women in China ---educated and illiterated, urban and rural, the young and old-----work to earn an income in addition to maintaining their roles as housewives and mothers. ( 文盲的)5. Jane was talking with others while Tom remained reticent all the time. ( 沉默寡言的)6. The farmer is the most important person in the movie. He is the hero. ( 男主角)7. They surrendered, that is, threw out their weapons and walked out with their hands above their heads. ( 投降)8. Japan has a problem many other countries would envy—its workforce works too hard. Curing Japanese workers of disease “workaholism” is pro ving a difficult job, partly because many of them like work better than anything else, experts say. ( 醉心工作)9. The harbor is protected by a jetty—a wall built out into the water. ( 防波堤, 码头)10. Crime is a very serious problem in Britain. One sort of crime which particularly worries people is juvenile crimes—crimes committed by young people. ( 青少年犯罪)。