大学英语四六级阅读理解——如何猜测词义发布时间:2007-07-29 11:43:40 来源:英语帮 作者:谢忠明 浏览: 评论:0四、利用文章中所出现的、与某生词或词组意思相反的内容,猜测词义。 例八: American businessmen expect employees to be punctual. They do not expect that the workers will come late. 文中be punctual的意思,可理解为“not come late”,即“准时,不迟到”。 例九: Unlike her gregarious sister, Jane is a shy person, who does not like to go to parties, or to make new friends. 根据文中“unlike...”的意思,可将gregarious理解为与文中“a shy person who does not like to go to parties, or to make new friends.”相反的意思,即:表示“好交际的”。 五、利用文章中用不同的话对同一概念的解释,猜测词义。 例十: Should the government regulate the cost of resources such as oil and gas? Some people do not believe that government control is the solution to the problem of the rising cost of fuel. 文中“regulate”的词义可猜测为与“government control”的意思相近。 例十一: One of the predominant concerns today is the future of our natural resources. This issue is of greatest importance because it is becoming clear to many people that our present resources will not last forever. 文中“predominant”的词义可猜测为具有与“of greatest importance”相近的意思。 例十二: Cleaning up waterways is an enormous task. The job is so large, in fact, that the government may not be able to save some of the rivers and lakes which have been polluted. 文中“enormous”的词义可猜测为与“so large”的意思相近。 六、利用基本的构词方法,猜测词义。 例十三: They overestimate the interviewee's ability and asked him many difficult questions. 在overestimate词中over-是前缀,意为“过分”。因此overestimate的词义可以猜测为“过高估计”的意思。 例十四: We were told that our's was the most spacious room in the hotel. That was why we had to pay so much for it. Spacious是由词根space(空间)+ious(形容词后缀)构成。由此我们可以猜得其大概意思为“有空间的,宽敞的”。 然而,需要指出的是,不要花费太多的时间去试图猜出所有生词确切的意思,因为有的生词只能猜出大概的意思,有的生词则根本无法猜出其意思。一般来说,碰到一、两个不会的词,无关紧要。重要的是,要弄懂整篇文章表达了什么思想。 在阅读理解中要求判断词语意义的问题,通常有下列形式: 1. According to the author, the word “...” means ___________ . 2. By “...”the author means ___________ . 3. Which of the following is nearest(closest)in meaning to “...”? 4. The word “...”in the passage means ___________ . 5. “...”is ___________ . 6. The word “...” most likely means ___________ .
作者:谢忠明 恩波特聘教师,专门从事测试学研究,著有多本四、六级专著。基础扎实,对历年试题了如指掌。从事四、六级辅导十多年来,所辅导学员均取得优异成绩,进步神速。谢老师上课有方法,有提高,幽默风趣,活力四射,口语极佳。既有基础知识训练,又有针对性模拟;既有语言知识的学习,又有听力训练。其新书《大学英语四级考试全真阅读》已面市。
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