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猜测词义题型阅读解题技巧
巩固练习
一、推测词义
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1. When he reached the place with his army, he found an impassable river in front of him.
2. It’s true that lighthouse were built in out-of-the-way place.
3. When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life?
4. We are on the night shift --- from midnight to 8 a.m. --- this week.
5. Though Tom’s face has been washed quite clean, his neck still remains grubby.
6. 4.John usually wastes a lot of money on such useless things, his wife, however, is very thrifty.
7. In the past the world seemed to run in an orderly(有秩序的) way. Now, however, everything seems to be in a state of turmoil. 8. Some human actions are learned, but quite a few other actions are innate.
9. Since I could not afford to purchase the original painting, I bought a replica. An inexperienced eye could not tell the difference.
10. He’s such a shrewd businessman that he loses no money in any trade.
11. She wanted the hairdresser to trim her hair a bit because it was too long.
12. The new couple bought a lot of household appliances, such as washing machine, fridge and microwave oven etc.
13. When a doctor performs an operation on a patient, he usually gives an anaesthetic to make him unconscious, because he does not want his patient to feel pain or to know what is happening to him.
14. When you throw a stone into still water of a lake, you will watch a ripple spread in rings on the surface of water.
15. One of symptoms caused by the peculiar(=strange) illness is a high fever.
16. Because this chemical liquid is highly volatile, we must keep it in a bottle which has a tight lid.
17. “Unlike vitamin C, leadership skills can’t be easily swallowed down. They must be carefully cultivated.”
The underlined word roughly means ____.
A. encouraged B. compared C. examined D. developed
18. The homeless people may have become jobless and then been unable to pay their rent and