2013年高考英语做题方法：阅读理解（满分必看）

【典例4】 Written language tends to be static,while spoken language constantly changes.

Q:According to the author, what does the underlined word “static” mean?

 A.unchangeable       B. inactive     C.respective       D. widespread

【分析】A。 考查猜词意。由句中转折连词while可知，“tends to be static”与 “changes”在意义上形成对比，从而得出static意为“停滞的”，故答案为A。

【点拨】转折或对比关系进行判断。

【题型解密】根据转折和对比关系作出判断。文中根据上下句的连接词，如but,however, otherwise等就可以看到前后句在意义上的差别，从而依据某一句的含义来确定另一句的含义。另外，分号（；）也可以表示转折，对比或不相干的意义。

【典例5】 There were so many demonstrators in the RedSquare that he had to elbow his way through the crowd.

Q:The underlined word “elbow”can be replaced by ____.

 A. lose       B. hide       C.make       D. push

【分析】D。 考查猜词意。根据“有许多示威者”可知，便可推断，elbow的词义为“用肘挤，用肘推”，故答案为D。

【点拨】因果关系进行判断。

【题型解密】根据因果关系作出判断。文中根据上下句的因果关系，即有因必有果，有果必有因进行词义推断是一项重要的猜词义的方式之一。

【典例6】 And if you’ve gathered your friends around you to rebuild a happy family atmosphere,you may fear that saying no will bring back the kind of conflict yougrew up with ---- or destroy the nice atmosphere you now enjoy.

Q:The underlined word “conflict” means ____.

 A. dependentlife       B. fierce fight       C.bad manners       D. painful feeling

【分析】B。 考查猜词意。根据破折号后面的or暗示出前后两句句意相近，由此推断conflict意为“冲突”，故答案为B。

【点拨】同位关系进行判断。

【题型解密】根据同位关系作出判断。文中有时出现新词，难词，这时候就跟着一个同位语，对前面的词进行解释，有时这种解释也可用连“or”连接。

【典例7】 Anyonechoosing to take up this free service will receive a recorded message directlyto their home, business or pager telling them of the level of warning, givingthem as much time as possible to carry out their flood plan and save items thatcannot be replaced if lost or damaged, such as photographs or children’sfavourite toys.

Q:What does the underlined word “pager”means in the passage?

 A. A boy employedto carry luggage in hotels.

 B. A piece of equipment designed to receiveand show messages.

 C.A page of pagers written to off messages.

 D. A person invited to write pages ofmessages.

【分析】B。 考查猜词意。文中由于pager与their home, business并列，因此推断它应该是表示地方或处所或属性或范畴的名词。根据上下文断定，pager应是“接受警告信号的地方或设备”，故答案为B。

【点拨】利用举例进行判断。

【题型解密】根据举例关系作出判断。常规来说，从具体到一般，依据文中所列举的例子便可猜出生词的意思。