英语猜词技巧练习

1、细心整理Directions: Guess the meaning of each underlined word. 1. The doctor is studying glaucoma and other diseases of the eye 2. The harbor is protected by a jettya wall built out into the water 3. Skimming means looking over a passage quickly to get the main idea before you begin to read it carefully 4. The early scientific study of chemistry，known as alchemy，grew up in Egypt in the first few centuries AD 5. A glacier is a river of ice. 6. The nations skies were temporarily closed to all air trav

2、el. Travelers remain frightened and are avoiding flying.7. She is usually prompt for all her class, but today she arrived in the middle of her first class.8. John usually wastes a lot of money on such useless things, but his wife is very thrifty. 9. The museum is so immense that it will be impossible to see all the exhibitions in one day. 10. The lack of movement caused the muscle to weaken. Sometimes the weakness was permanent. So the player could never play the game again. 11. The door was so

3、low that I hit my head on the lintel. 12. My uncle was a nomad, an incurable wanderer who could never stay in one place. 13. Procrastinators are people who have a chronic habit of putting things off，usually until the last minute and sometimes until it is too late altogether 14. Insomnia is the inability of fall asleep or sleep restlessly 15. More recently, scientists have documented an alarmingly high occurrence of frogs with malformations. 16. In the strong wind, the beggar shivered with the te

4、rrible cold. 17. Jean was born with spina bifida, a birth illness that damages the spine (脊骨). 18. Saint Valentines Day is a time of happiness for loversBoys like to give girls flowers as presentsOn that day, he came to see me with a forget-me-not in his hand 19. When he reached the place with his army, he found an impassable river in front of him 20. The womans feet hurt, so she went to a podiatrist 21. Mr. Smith always arrive home punctually，neither early nor late 22. The major points of your

5、plan are clear to me, but the details are still hazy 23. The purpose of the campaign was to catch “ringers”，students who take test for other students 24. Unlike her gregarious sister，Jane is a shy，unsociable person who does not like to go to parties or to make new friends 25. He had left his wet swimming trunks in the dark closet for over a weekof course they had begun to mildew 26. The Chunnel，a tunnel connecting England and France，is now completed 27. The Greek marriage was monogamousmen and w

6、omen were allowed only one spouse at a time 28. The breakthrough meant that it was possible to make tallow candles that would not produce the usual smoke and rancid odor. 29. A good supervisor can recognize instantly the adept workers from the unskilled ones. 30. Someone likes milk, but others abhorred it. 31. Jerry is one of the most supercilious men I know. His brother, in contrast, is quite humble and modest. 32. John loves to talk, and his sisters are similarly loquacious. 33. Although he of

7、ten had the opportunity, Mr. Tritt was never able to steal money from a customer. This would have endangered his position at the bank, and he did not want to jeopardize his future. 34. Doctors believe that smoking cigarettes is detrimental to your health. They also regard drinking as harmful. 35. Giraffe is an animal with a very long neck, four legs and orange skin with dark spots. 36. Anthropology is the scientific study of man. 37. What is plagiarism? It is using others ideas and words without

8、 clearly mentioning where the information is from. 38. Semantics, the study of the meaning of words, is necessary if you are to speak and read intelligently. 39. Capacitance, or the ability to store electric charge, is one of the most common characteristics of electronic circuits. 40. Numbers such as 1,2,3,4,10,100 are called whole numbers, or integers. 41. The word “adolescence” means the period between children and adulthood. 42. A byline, that is, the line at the head of a newspaper article t

9、hat tells the authors name, is rarely given to an inexperienced reporter. 43. Second generation Puerto Ricans who were born in New York but who have returned to the island, are called Nuvoricans. 44. Psychophysiology is a science which deals with the relationship between mind and body. 45. Tom is considered an autocratic administrator because he makes decisions without seeking the opinions of others. 46. There were so many demonstrators in the Red Square that he had to elbow his way through the crowd. 47. Krabacber suffers from SAD, which is short for seasonal affective disorder, a syndrome characterized by severe seasonal mood swings. 48. In slang the term jam constitutes a state of being in which a person fin

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