考点03 阅读理解之猜测含义（单词、短语、句子）-【核心全突破】2024年高考英语二轮复习核心考点&重难题型专项突破

考点3 阅读理解之猜测含义（单词、短语、句子） Part 1 题型详解： 猜测词义是高考的常考点之一，有时是让考生猜测单词的含义，有时是短语，有时甚至是推测某段中一个完整句子的含义，预测在2024年高考中仍是一个热门考点。 Part 2 常见设问方式： 1. What do the underlined words “......” mean in paragraph 2? 2. Which of the following best explains “......” underlined in paragraph 3? 3. What do the underlined words "......" refer to in the last paragraph? 4. The underlined part "......" in Para. 2 probably means __________. 5. By saying “......” in Para. 2, the author means _______. 6. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean? Part 3 常见干扰项设置方式： 无中生有、望文生义 Part 4 解题方法指导: 7. 猜测单词题要利用单词所在的句子，根据句子含义确定词义。 8. 猜测短语题要利用出现短语的上文与其意义上的联系或下文进一步的叙述来猜测它的意思 9. 猜测句子题要能识别错误选项只是某种程度的照抄 10. 关注同义词替换、反义词、解释、举例等多种方法猜测单词、短语、句子含义。 Part 5 真题检测 2023年北京卷英语真题 What is life? Like most great questions, this one is easy to ask but difficult to answer. The reason is simple: we know of just one type of life and it’s challenging to do science with a sample size of one. The field of artificial life-called ALife for short — is the systematic attempt to spell out life’s fundamental principles. Many of these practitioners, so-called ALifers, think that somehow making life is the surest way to really understand what life is. So far no one has convincingly made artificial life. This track record makes ALife a ripe target for criticism, such as declarations of the field’s doubtful scientific value. Alan Smith, a complexity scientist, is tired of such complaints. Asking about “the point” of ALife might be, well, missing the point entirely, he says. “The existence of a living system is not about the use of anything.” Alan says. “Some people ask me, ‘So what’s the worth of artificial life?’ Do you ever think, ‘What is the worth of your grandmother?’” As much as many ALifers hate emphasizing their research’s applications, the attempts to create artificial life could have practical payoffs. Artificial intelligence may be considered ALife’s cousin in that researchers in both fields are enamored by a concept call