高中英语阅读理解-巧解词义猜测题

高中英语阅读理解-巧解词义猜测题考查“不明身份”的代词指代

代词指代题要求考生依据语境的逻辑关系，判断画线的人称代词或指示代词在文章中指代的对象，包括考查it(指动物、无生命的事物、特定的事件或人)，they/them(指代人、物、事件的复数名词)，he/she等人称代词的指代意义，以及指示代词this，that，these，those等在文章中的指代意义，以考查考生对文章中叙述的特定的人、物、事件的再认能力。

解答代词指代题时，我们要认真阅读画线词所在句和前后邻近句的内容，分析人称转换和动作变换的详细过程，理清其来龙去脉和前后的因果关系，从而准确推断其指代的对象。

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations —UNESCO and National Geographic among them —have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center, Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that__tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakersand Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

33．What does “that tradition”in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Having full records of the languages.

B. Writing books on language teaching.

C. Telling stories about language users.

D. Living with the native speakers.

【分析】 A 根据画线词上一段的内容可知，有很多学者一直致力于对快要绝迹的语言和文化的记录工作。再结合画线词所在句可知，耶鲁大学的Mark Turin 也在做这件事，即记录语言，防止语言的消失。

考查“熟词生义”的单词词义

英语单词的含义丰富、搭配灵活，一些熟词在不同的语境或不同的搭配中有不同的含义，而这些含义与其本义有时没有密切的联系，这就需要我们结合语境来推断其含义；有时这些单词的新义既体现了其基本含义，又有迁移与拓展。在解答此类词义猜测题时就要求我们将单词的本义和语境有机地结合起来，综合考虑，然后准确推断其在特定语境中的含义。

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers...At last they had seen a half－

written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

23．What does the underlined word “restored”in the last paragraph mean?

A. Showed.

B. Sent out.

C. Delivered.

D. Gave back.

【分析】 D restore的含义是“恢复，使复原，修复”，但在本文的语境中，根据上文中的“found”、画线词后面的内容及故事情节的发展可知，此处指作者的丈夫找回了丢失的重要文件，因此give back“归还，还给”，符合语境。

考查“深奥难懂”的单词词义

这种类型是最常见的词义猜测题的命题方式，考查考生猜测文章中某个生词或短语的含义，或考查该词能被哪个单词或短语代替。此时我们可以借助下面这些方法来答题：

1．“拆猜”并用解决问题

阅读中常常会遇到一些由熟悉的单词派生或合成的新词。此时可以用“拆猜”的方式，先把该词的各种词缀或前后两个合成部分拆开，再结合我们掌握的构词法知识，根据中心词的含义和词缀的含义猜测其意思。

Passenger pigeons (旅鸽) once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers...described flocks (群) so large that they darkened the sky for hours.

It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons...making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world... was seen near Cincinnati.

Sadly, the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. 25．The underlined word “undoing”probably refers to the pigeons'______．

A. escape

B. ruin

C. liberation

D. evolution

【分析】 B 画线词undoing可分解为否定前缀un－和doing。画线词前面叙述了旅鸽数量很多，画线词后提到大量的旅鸽被杀害，结合否定前缀un－和选项看，该词的含义与ruin“毁灭”相近。

2．利用同义词、近义词猜词