21世纪实用英语(第3版)综合教程2

刘国辉、逄勃、朱振香、崔瑶、杨红

目录

  • 1 Unit 1 Career Planning
    • 1.1 Lead-in
    • 1.2 Listening & Speaking
    • 1.3 Reading: Text A
      • 1.3.1 paragraph1
      • 1.3.2 paragraph2
      • 1.3.3 paragraph3
      • 1.3.4 paragraph4
      • 1.3.5 paragraph5
      • 1.3.6 paragraph6
    • 1.4 Basic Reading Skills and Grammar
    • 1.5 Practical Reading & Writing
  • 2 Unit 2 Medical Innovations
    • 2.1 Lead-in
    • 2.2 Listening & Speaking
    • 2.3 Reading: Text A
      • 2.3.1 paragraph1
      • 2.3.2 paragraph2
      • 2.3.3 paragraph3-5
      • 2.3.4 paragraph6-7
      • 2.3.5 paragraph8
    • 2.4 Basic Reading Skills and Grammar
    • 2.5 Practical Reading & Writing
  • 3 Unit 4 Tech Advances
    • 3.1 Lead-in
    • 3.2 Listening & Speaking
    • 3.3 Reading: Text A
      • 3.3.1 paragraph1
      • 3.3.2 paragraph2
      • 3.3.3 paragraph3
      • 3.3.4 paragraph4
      • 3.3.5 paragraph5
      • 3.3.6 paragraph6
      • 3.3.7 paragraph7
    • 3.4 Basic Reading Skills and Grammar
    • 3.5 Practical Reading & Writing
  • 4 Unit 5 Nothing Is Impossible
    • 4.1 Lead-in
    • 4.2 Listening & Speaking
    • 4.3 Reading: Text A
      • 4.3.1 paragraph1-4
      • 4.3.2 paragraph5-8
      • 4.3.3 paragraph9-11
      • 4.3.4 paragraph12-15
    • 4.4 Basic Reading Skills and Grammar
    • 4.5 Practical Reading & Writing
  • 5 Grammar Review
    • 5.1 Subject-verb Agreement (1)
    • 5.2 Subject-verb Agreement (2)
    • 5.3 The Infinitive
    • 5.4 V-ing
    • 5.5 V+V-ing or +Infinitive (1)
    • 5.6 V+V-ing or +Infinitive (2)
    • 5.7 V+V-ing or +Infinitive (3)
    • 5.8 V-ing Phrases, V-ed Phrases and To V Phrases  Used as Adverbials
    • 5.9 Glossary
  • 6 调查问卷
    • 6.1 英语考试调查问卷
Basic Reading Skills and Grammar
  • 1 book
  • 2 grammar


Guessing the Meaning of Unknown Words in Context


阅读中我们不可避免地会遇到一些生词,如果我们能掌握一些根据上下文猜测词义的技能,无疑会有助于提高我们的阅读速度。例如,假定你不认识下面句子中knack这个词,根据上下文也可以猜测它的含义:

Some people seem to have a knack for learning languages. They can pick up new vocabulary, master rules of grammar, and learn to write in the new language more quickly than others.

从这个词的上下文,即:有些人似乎具有一种学习语言的knack,他们比别人(没有这种学习语言的knack的人)能更快地学会新的词汇、掌握语法规则、学会用新学的语言写作,我们就可以猜到knack的大致意思:knack = natural skill or ability。 

我们还可以利用上下文中的同义词、反义词、上义词和下义词关系,或利用上下文中的举例、解释、描述、定义等猜测生词的词义。请看下面的例句:

I had been young, healthy, and smug. She had been old, sick, and desperate. Wishing with all my heart that I had acted like a human being rather than a robot, I was saddened to realize how fragile a hold we have on our better instincts. 

如果你把I和She两种截然不同的状况作对比,你就能猜出smug的大致词义: young  old;healthy  sick;smug( 自鸣得意的)  desperate( 绝望的)。

同样,要猜测下面句子中passionate的词义,你可以利用上文中的do not despair。

Similarly, not everyone is the enthusiastic type that falls in love with their work. However, do not despair, there are ways to become more passionate

再看下面的句子:

The initial training period, the first six weeks, is the hardest.

借助于对the first six weeks的理解,我们可以猜测出initial的词义:initial = first; happening at the beginning。


13.Choose the right answer by guessing the meaning of each of the underlined words.