阅读理解生词猜测实例1.根据定义或解释说明猜测词义1) A resolute man is a person who once makes up his mind to do sth , he won’t giveup half way .2) Annealing is a way of making metal softer by heating it and then letting it coolvery slowly .3) An expedition is a long , organized trip or journey which is made into an unfamiliararea for a particular purpose by a group of people.4) At forty-two he was in his prime and always full of energy .5) Although Rao made a reasonable offer of help to her, Jones accepted it reluctantly,with unwillingness.6) Some myths , which are the stories handed down from ancient times and includethe early beliefs of nation, are widely spread around the world.7) Of all other sciences and that arithmetic, which is the science of numbers, is thebase of mathematics.2.通过同义词或同类词说明其意，一般用逗号将它与前面的生词隔开。

1) Luckily, most of the ailments (illness) that people suffer from can be treated athome with little or no medicine.2) Microwaves- the radio waves that we use for communications- travel in straightline.3) I think he is old-fashioned , thinking too much of old ways and ideas .4) We are on the night shift --- from midnight to 8:00 am--- this week .3. 通过对比去推断生词。

如转折词：but , however , yet , otherwise , though；1)Most of them agreed, however, I dissented.2) Most people object to the plan ; only a few are for it .3) Though Tom’s face has been washed quite clean , his neck still remains grubby .4) One mistaken idea about business is that it can be treated as a game of perfectinformation . Quite the reverse , business , politics , life itself are games whichwe must normally play with very imperfect information .4. 逻辑推理1) Just before the exam, Joe’s hands shook and sweated so much that he could nothold a pen. His heart beat fast and stomach ached, even though he knew thesubject very well. He really had a strange phobia about taking tests.2)The noise was so faint that it was impossible to be sure what it was or evenwhere it came from.3) The boy was charged for stabbing his father with a knife, but nobody really sawhim kill his father with a knife.4）Kate was young and attractive. Therefore, she was almost always the cynosure of all attention the moment she appeared in the public place.5) The river is so turbid that it is impossible to see the bottom even when it isshallow .6) Computers are now being used to direct traffic in the sky , find minerals in soil ,control robots at work , diagnose diseases , analyze chemicals and makemovies .7) As computers are used more and more at work , and some jobs are eliminated ,people will have to be retrained for new jobs .5. 利用词与词之间的一般与具体的关系（也称实例与总称的关系）推测生词词义。

举实例时，常见的短语有:such as, for example, including…, … included,等。

1)Most animals have one way or another of protecting themselves from beingattacked, the hedgehog, for example, may roll itself up into a tight ball; itssharp spines discourage any attack.2) Not every car, bus, jeep, or other kinds of vehicle can be made in the factory.3) You can take any of the periodicals : The World of English , Foreign LanguageTeaching in Schools , or English Learning .6. 结构分析这个手段就是借助语法知识，猜测词义。

例如：There are some erroneous answers on the students’ test paper, but there are not enough wrong answers to fail him.7. 经验体会这个手段就是借助我们自己的常识和生活经验来推测词义。

如：1) Abraham was about 2.34 meters tall and , no matter where he went, he was alwayscareful of his head. One day when he got through the door of his friend’s house, he hit his head on the lintel and hurt himself much.2) Afraid of waking the baby up , she tiptoed out of the room .3) We begin to lose calcium from our bone cells by the time we are 50 years old . Ourbones get weaker and can break more easily . This condition is called osteoporosis .The older a person is , the more calcium is lost .8. 比喻猜测在阅读过程中，我们常会碰到一些这样的词组或语句，如：as sharp as a knife;as firm as a rock ;When they were sure that the children were sound asleep, the parents slipped like robbers into their bedrooms, and left the presents near their beds.9. 有时用于说明和解释生词的词语之前有that is, namely, for instance, for example,in other words等提示词。

The material was made of blocks of pure graphite, that is , the lead we use in our pencils.10. 据构词法The American idea of the future is limited , however . It is the foreseeable future and not the future of involving (牵连) many centuries .中学英语中常见的前缀和后缀有：super- (超)，inter-(在…之间)，-able(能…的)，mini-(极小的，微型的)，re-(再，反复)，sub-(底下)，co-(共同)，post-(后)，pre-(前)，trans-(超越，转换)，under-(在…之下，低于…,不足)，-hood(状态，性质，时期)，-ish(如…的，有点儿…的)，-proof(防…的，不能穿透的)，-scape(景)，-ship (身份，资格，权力，性质)，-some(易于…的)，-wards (向),mis-(误，恶)，anti-(反，防)，un-(不，非)，in-(不，非)，im-(不，非)，dis-(不)，-less(无，不)等。