阅读理解 第第 2424 课时 词义猜测题课时 词义猜测题 四 (2011· 全国大纲卷 E 篇 ) It was four days after that life changing moment for the seventeen year old high school student from Destrehan, Louisiana — she was still on cloud nine. “I was so shocked! I never believed that it could actually really happen.” Present in the audience( 观众 )that day were: her mother and father, older brother, her friends, and her dance teacher. 56. What do the words “on cloud nine” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? A. Frightened. B. Troubled. C. Very happy. D. Very angry. C 考查猜测词义。根据后文中的“ I was so shocked! I never believed that it could actually really happen.” 可知 on cloud nine 即是心情愉快得飘飘然了。 思路点拨 猜词是英语阅读的重要技巧，也是高考中常考的题型。考生要学会“顺藤摸瓜”，通过构词、定义、对比、因果、联想、上下文等线索( 各种已知信息 ) 确定词义。要求猜测词义的词一般为实词 ( 动词、名词、形容词等 ) 。就方法来说，主要根据上下文线索和构词法。高考阅读文章中更侧重前者。根据定义猜测词义 通过定义、定语从句 / 词组或同位语从句 /词组等来确定词义。 1. 直接定义：如果生词是句子或段落所解释的定义，理解句子或段落本身就是推断词义。 如： In slang the term jam constitutes a state of being in which a person finds himself or herself in a difficult situation. 根据上下文的定义可知 jam 一词在俚语中的意思是“困境”。 定义句的谓语动词多为： be, mean, deal with, be considered, to be, refer to, be called, be known as, define, represent 等。 根据定义猜测词义 2. 同位语：构成同位关系的两部分之间多用逗号连接，有时也使用破折号、冒号、分号、引号和括号等。需要注意的是：同位语前还常有 or, similarly, that is to say, in other words, namely, or other, say, i ． e. 等副词或短语出现。 3. 定语从句：定语从句有时起着解释和说明的作用，据 此 我 们 可 以 推 断 出 所 修 饰 词 的 含 义 。 如 ： T...
