高考英语难点注意25

难点25 依赖语境的词义猜测题

猜测词义题要求学生根据以往所学知识，对上下文的理解及自身的生活经验等猜测生词意义或仅从字面无法确认其意义的短语的准确含义，是阅读理解题中的难点。

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1.(★★★★)Mental health care in China has dramatically improved over the last 10 years,according to experts.

Increasing numbers of urban Chinese are today seeking counselling on a wide range of issues related to mental health.

“We receive more than 120 visitors a day right now—20 per cent up over that of 1998,”said Zhang Haiyin,chief doctor with the Shanghai Mental Health Centre.Ten years ago,the centre received 70 to 80 visitors a week.

To accommodate the growing number of patients,the clinic has had to extend its service from five days to seven days a week.

Most of the counselling focuses on problems to do with education,employment,family life,relationships as well as mental distress,trouble and insomnia.White-collar workers are the major recipients of counselling,accounting for 30 percent of total patients,said Zhang.

“The growing visits indicate Chinese people pay more attention to their quality of life.They have a better understanding that mental health is as improtant as physical well-being.”

Chen Zhigang,an employee of a foreign-funded consulting firm in Beijing,felt depressed and was encouraged by friends to seek mental health counselling.The doctor found he was suffering as a result of workplace pressure and competition.After several months of treatment,he was back to full health.

“Mental health counselling helped reduce my pressure,”said Chen.

But many people are still reluctant to use counselling services.Zhu Chengyi,a railway worker from Shanghai,is unwilling to seek help.

“I will not go for it.It is too embarrassing for me,”said Zhu.“How can I tell my colleagues and family that I am seeking mental health counselling?They would think I was crazy.”

Zhang said a lack of information about mental health care prevented the grown of services in China.

He said a standardized training system was required to make sure all mental health doctors were properly trained.

“In Western countries,mental health counselling has a wide range of methods for consultation and treatment.We need to improve our training to upgrade our services.”

Question:1.The underlined word “extend”in Paragraph 4 means ________.

A.pay attention to

B.feel like doing

C.enlarge and lengthen

D.reduce

2.(★★★★★)Professor Reason recently persuaded 35 people to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for two weeks. When he came to analyse their embarrassing errors, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groups.

One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her pet dog cer ear-rings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her car. “The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer,”explains the professor. “People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her ear-rings. But somehow the action got reversed(颠倒) in the programme.”About