阅读技能训练—— 猜测词义How to guess the meaning of words? A French student goes to London for his holiday. He knows a little English, but he can’t speak it very well. One day he goes to a restaurant. He wants to have some eggs, but he can’t remember the English word for “egg”. He looks around and sees a picture of a hen. He shows the picture to the waiter. “ What do you call her children?” he asks. “Chicks, sir.” “ And what do you call chicks before they’re born?” “ Eggs, sir.” “Very well,” says the French student. “ Give me two eggs and a cup of tea, please”. If you meet the new words when reading, what will you do ?•Pay no attention and continue reading.•Look them up in the dictionary.• Guess the meaning. 1. I will not make friends with a dishonest person.2. When the little boy finished, his father was speechless.3. If some athletes use drugs, it is unfair to the others.根据构词法猜词 首先要熟悉基本的构词法及其规律 , 其次要掌握一定的词根和词缀。如 :un-,im-, mis-, -less, -ness 等。小结dis+honestspeech+less 说不出话的un+fair 1. It will be very hard but also very brittle—— that is , it will break easily. 2. The purpose of the campaign was to catch “ringers”, students who take tests for other students. 3. A calendar is a list of the days, weeks, months of a particular year.根据释义猜词 释义常由定语从句或由… is, or, that is (to say), in other words, be called ，be known as 等词汇或破折号来表示。 小结脆的冒名替考者日历 根据同义词关系猜词根据同义词关系猜词1. He replied quickly, but after he considered the problem more carefully, he regretted having made such a hasty decision.2. Your ideas are so nebulous that they are not clear to me.小结 and , or , such as, like, for...
