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阅读理解技巧之词义猜测

Lectured by Liao Xing

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Teaching Aims (1). Ability Objects A. Students will be able to find some connections between the underlined information and the context in a comprehension test. B. Students can use the connections mentioned above to guess the underlined words or sentence. . C. Through teaching, students will improve their comprehensive ability.

(2). Emotion and Attitude Objects Foster the students to be more confident when doing a comprehension test. 2.

Teaching Important and Difficult Points (1). To help students to understand the context of a comprehension test and use their logical ability to deal with the information given in it.

(2). To help students get some skills of doing the word or sentence guessing part in a comprehension test 3.

Teaching Methods Explanation methods 4.

Teaching Aids: multimedia 5.

Teaching Procedure Step 1. Lead-in 1.

Teacher shows a piece of Chinese poem《梅花》，

and ask the students to guess the Chinese character “槑”

墙角数枝槑，凌寒独自开，遥知不是雪，为有暗香来。

Teacher shows a piece of exercise quoted from a paper they have done, and guides the students to say some key words they just used to guess the Chinese character.

Step 2. Brief Introduction of Word-guessing test Recall the ways of asking questions about the meanings of words in the comprehension test. 这类考题包括对生词生义的推测、熟词生义的推测。提问的方式主要有：

(1)What does the underlined word “…” in the first paragraph mean?

(2)Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined word？

(3)The underlined word “…”most probably means____.

(4)The underlined word “…” could best be replaced by _______. (5)What does “…”in Paragraph 3 refer to?

Step 3. Skills of Guessing the Meanings of words 1.Word-formation

1）前后缀，词根

2）复合词，词性变化，派生词

2. Context (Exercise for every skills) 1）Definition &Examples 2）Synonym & Antonym

3）Cause & Effect 4）Common sense 3.Ways to Guess the Meaning of a Sentence

Step 4. Exercise Exercise1 1. Those new comers were not used to the life in the suburbs which was so different from that inside the city.

A. town

B. capital

C. countryside

D. house 2. He is a resolute man. Once he made up his mind to do something, he won’t give it up halfway.

A. weak

B. firm

C. kind

D. clever

3. The old woman has a strange habit to keep over 100 cats in her house. Her neighbor all call her an eccentric lady.

A. 爱猫的

B. 古怪的

C. 闲不住

D. 动物保护主义者

4. In many countries there are two financial extremes, from penury to great wealth.

A. 便士

B. 温饱

C. 非常贫困

D. 虚弱

5. Children are always boasting. They say things like “My Dad’s car is bigger than your Dad’s,” “My Mom is smarter than yours.” and “My family has more money than yours.”

The word “boasting” means _____.

A. 骄傲

B. 吹牛

C. 顽皮

D. 幼稚

6.A man’s position among the black-tent people depends on his ancestors, relatives, and fellow tribesmen. If they are honored, he is also honored. If they are disgraced, he too is disgraced. Therefore one carefully guards the honor of his family, his lineage(宗系), and his tribe. The word “disgrace” means _________ in this text.

A. honor

B. endanger

C. proud

D. shame

7. The ruler had been so cruel and dishonest that after the revolution he was banished. A few members of the Senate(参议院) opposed this decision, but the majority voted that the ruler should leave the country for ever.

The underlined word “banished” mean_______.

A. killed by stoning

B. sent away

C. imprisoned

D. punished by whipping

Exercise2 1. A two-bedroom flat in Moscow now costs $4,000 a month; a CD $24.83, and an international newspaper $6.30, according to Mercer. By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger is a steal at $4.80.

What do the underlined words “a steal” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. an act of stealing

B. something delicious

C. something very cheap

D. an act of buying 2. Study showed that it is an unusual kind of protein. It has many small sugar molecules(分子) held in special positions within each big protein molecule. Because of its sugar content, it is called a glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein, or AFGP.

What does “glyco” in underlined word “glycoprotein” in the this paragraph mean?

A. sugar

B. ice

C. blood

D. molecule 3. … Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.

What does the underlined phrase refer to?

A. Using too much packaging.

B. Recycling too many wastes.

C. Making more products than necessary.

D. Having more material than is needed. 4. Can dogs and cats live in perfect harmony in the same home? People who are thinking about adopting a dog as a friend for their cats are worried that they will fight. A recent research has found a new recipe of success. According to the study, if the cat is adopted before the dog, and if they are introduced when still young, it is highly probable that the two pets will get along swimmingly. Two-thirds of the homes interviewed reported a positive relationship between their cat and dog.

The underlined word “swimmingly” is closest in meaning to ____.

A. early

B. sweetly

C. quickly

D. smoothly

5. The plant is often pruned so that it remains only 60-90 centimeters high. Pruning is important because it encourages the growth of tender shoots, or young leaves. It is from these shoots that the best tea is got.

What does the underlined word “pruning” mean?

A.

regular cutting of the plants

B. frequent watering

C .regular use of chemicals

D. growing the plants high in the mountain

6. Rainforests like the Amazon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to slow global warming, Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tons of CO2 each year: equal to the total amount of CO2 giving off in the UK each year.

The underlined phrase “ mopping up” means:

A. cleaning up

B. taking in

C. wiping out

D. giving out 7. Societies all over the world name places in similar ways. Quite often there is no official naming ceremony but places tend to be called names as points of reference by people. Then an organized body steps in and gives the place a name. Frequently it happens that a place has two names: One is named by the people and the other by the government. As in many areas, old habits die hard, and the place continues to be called by its unofficial name long after the meaning is lost. What does the underlined phrase “die hard” probably mean?

A. Change suddenly.

B. Change significantly. C. Disappear mysteriously.

D. Disappear very slowly. 8. Not all of Mom’s advice passed the test of medical studies. For example, generations of children have been told not to go swimming within an hour after eating. But research suggests that there is no danger in doing so.

Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water, there is still a lot of truth in the old wives’ tales. After all, much of this knowledge has been accumulated (积累) from thousands of years of experience in family health care.

The phrase “hold water” in the last paragraph most probably means “_____”.

A. to be believable

B. to be valuable

C. to be admirable

D. to be suitable 9. So far scientists have focused mainly on public buildings. “We have a very limited number of studies, so we’re almost looking at the problem through a straw (吸管),” architect David Allison says. “How do you take answers to very specific questions and make broad, generalized use of them? That’s what we’re all struggling with.”

The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that ____. A. the problem is not approached step by step

B. the researches so far have faults in themselves

C. the problem is too difficult for researchers to detect

D. research in this area is not enough to make generalized patterns Step 5. Summary and Assignment Review the skills you learn today and finish weekly exercise 30.