Practical Skills of Word Guessing

Practical Skills of Word GuessingTask1. Check the homework：高考真题展示 (2008 广东卷) AParents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?’” says Ballmer. “There was just a complete gap in taste.”Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families…The underlined word gulf in Para.3 most probably means _________.A. interest B. distance C. difference D. separationTask2.Have a discussion in pairs on the meaning of the underlined words and list the approach of guessing words.1.The Wenchuang earthquake left the city flattened . 2.Modern medicine began with the stethoscope, a medical tool used for listening to the movements of a person’s lungs and his heartbeats.3.Though Tom’s face has been washed quite clean, his neck still remains grubby.4.Green loves to talk, and his brothers are similarly loquacious.5.Thousands of products have been prohibited because government officials judged them to be dangerous. A. offered B. supported C. provided D. forbidden6.Today young couples often spend lots of their money on appliances, for instance, washing machines, refrigerators and color televisions.7.Most women in Ghana —...