人教专题13：阅读理解微技能之词义猜测（解析版）-2023年高考英语二轮复习讲练测（新高考专用）.docx

►专题13 阅读理解微技能之词义猜测题
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【思维导图】
【词义猜测题微技能】
1．单词或短语意义猜测
词汇量小是制约学生阅读理解能力的一个重要因素。具体技巧如下：
(1)根据定义或上下文解释进行猜测。有时短文中出现一个需要猜测其意义的词或短语，下面接着出现其定义或解释，这就是判断该词或短语意义的主要依据。
(2)根据同位关系进行猜测。阅读中出现的难词有时后面紧跟一个同位语，对前面的词进行解释，这时可利用同位关系对前面或后面的词义或短语意义进行猜测。
(3)根据同义关系进行猜测。当词或短语之间有并列连词and 或or时，其连接的两项内容在含义上是接近的或递进的或相反的，由此确定同等关系中的某个生词所属的义域，进而可推知其大致意思。
(4)根据构词法(合成、派生、转化等)进行猜测。在英语中，有很多词可以在前面加前缀或在后面加后缀，从而构成另外一个词，乍看起来，这个词可能是新词，但掌握一定的构词知识，就不难猜出它的词义了。
(5)根据因果关系进行猜测。在一篇文章中，根据原因可以预测结果；同样，根据结果也可以找出原因。
(6)根据上下文的指代关系进行猜测。文章中的代词it，that，this，he，him 或them等可以指上文提到的人或物，其中it和that还可以指一件事。有时代词指代的对象相隔较远，要认真查找；有时还需要对前面提到的内容进行总结，才能得出代词所指代的事。
【典例剖析1】
Rather unsurprisingly, a massive 77 percent of the people surveyed admitted to being obsessed with regularly taking selfies. What was more interesting, though, was the fact that an astonishing 82 percent of people said that they would rather see other selfies on social media.Diefenbach calls this the “selfies paradox”: the idea that we like taking selfies but seriously dislike looking at other people’s selfies online.
41. What does the word “paradox”(paragraph 5) mean?
A. complicated statements B. contradictory statements
C. constructive statements D. complimentary statements
[解析]　词义猜测题。根据画线词后的“the idea that we like taking selfies but seriously dislike looking at other people’s selfies online.”可知，我们喜欢***，但不喜欢在网上看别人的***，这两点是相互矛盾的，由此可知画线词词义为“相互矛盾的说法”，故B项正确。
【典例剖析2】
Take the mystery of migration for example. Scientists can’t really explain why many species of birds migrate in the autumn even though the temperature is still summery. The birds just seem to snub the comfortable weather that they are having. When a certain time comes, they travel south by the thousand. In spring time, they migrate northwards when though there probably is snow still covering the ground when they finally arrive. Something said “go”, and they did.
37. The underlined word “snub” in the third paragraph probably means ________.
A. fight B.