那又如何是好呢?其實，閱讀的目的在於獲得整個句子、整個段落、乃至整個篇章的思想，而不是各個孤立的詞彙的意義。新口語考試中的閱讀，考查的是考生對段落中心思想整體把握的能力，只要能獲得閱讀材料的主要資訊，並隨後能用自己的話加以陳述，一兩個生詞不會有什麼大礙。不可否認，巨大的詞彙量是高質量的閱讀和高質量的口語的基礎。但當遇到生詞時總查字典又不現實(特別是在考試時)，那麼我們不妨利用上下文來推測，看看我們有多大的.猜詞本領。強大的猜詞本領無疑會有助於閱讀速度和閱讀能力的提高。一起來往下看看詳細介紹吧，更多訊息請關注應屆畢業生網!
1.根據定義、解釋猜測詞義
We all know that ants are ferocious eaters. They differ widely in their diets and may be carnivorous, herbivorous, or omnivorous, meaning that some eat meat; others eat only plants while others eat a combination of both.由後面的解釋我們可以得知："carnivorous"的意思是“食肉的”："herbivorous"的意思是“食草的”："omnivorous"的意思是“雜食的”。
2.根據複述(同位語、定語等)
Today, I'd like to talk about some of the changes land can undergo, specifically desertification, process through which land becomes part of a desert.
後面的同位語告訴我們"desertification"的意思是“沙漠化。”
Since the fossil of the Anchaeopteryx, the first bird, was discovered in Germany in 1861, there has been continuous disagreement as to whether or not it could actually fly.
Anchaeopteryx-the first bird:“始祖鳥”
3.根據舉例
After breakfast, many people go to church; but the children will be playing with their new toys, and the mother will probably be preparing the Christmas dinner. This includes poultry for the main course (e.g. chicken, turkey, duck, goose), salads, breads, and vegetable, and features a variety of desserts, for example, pies, puddings, and ice cream.
Directions：
Read the following three er the questions on eachtext by choosing A，B，C or your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Text 1
Karen and Ken Mullin.a youngprofessional couple in Cleveland，own fifty cookbooksand twofull)equipped kitchens in their they rarely cook their own meals;instead，on their way home from work they usually stop at a supermarket andchoose two portions of meat loaf and a containerof ready-to-serve potatoes.“My job，”says Karen，“is to pour the salad from the bag.”
A half-century after the first TVdinner was born，the food industry is approaching its long—sought dream of relieving people like the Mullins ofunpaid labor in the final，and arguably most profitable，step by which a cow gets turnedinto meat easingly，tables in America’skitchens are used not for cutting orpeeling but for putting takeout food onto thosewho even bother rding to Harry Balzar，an influential food—industry researcher，American dinners that came from atakeout counter increased by 24 percent in the past decade.“We thought the micro- wave would be acooking device，”says Harry Balzer，“but we find it reheating takeout pizza.”
Across the United States，entire business models arebeing rmarket takeout
counters，formerly aplace where unsold chickens were coated with sauce，increasingly resemble high-end corporate sushi bars and stir—fry stations.
One psychologist thinks the,trend toward healthier eatingis responsible：Americans have finally gotten the message that it’s bad to eat fried chicken，so they’re doing it at home where no one can see them.
Of course，there are people you wouldn’t expect to cook at home，like Steve Traxler，an un·married Chicago theaterproducer，whose refrigerator contains little more than orange juice，wine ard leftovers.
Well，somebody must beusing those cookbooks，right?“People don’thave time to cook;I think they’re reading them in bed，”says Rozanne Gold，author of a cookbook.
It’snot entirely a question of takeout fashion is fueled，in part，by the popularity of foods like sushi，which even adventuresomeAmerican cooks are unlikely to try to make at home.
And takeout fills another need aswell，for the atmosphere of thehome—cooked dinner.
the text we can learn that theMullins __________.
[A]are experienced in cooking
[B]are expert at food shopping
[C]often go dining out at arestaurant
[D]often eat ready—made food athome
food industry is approaching its finalgoal of __________.
[A]freeing people of cooking athome
[B]turning COWS into meat loaffor people
[C]relieving itself of unpaidlabor for people
[D]providing people withdelicious TV dinners
can infer from the text that someAmericans__________
[A]are too busy to cut or peel
[B]are too busy to use theirtables
[C]do not even use their plates
[D]do not even use themicrowave
rmarket takeout counters__________·
[A]have sushi bars and stir-frystations now
[B]used to process the left-overfood for sale
[C]cooperate with high-end‘corporationcafeterias
[D]used to coat chickens ofinferior quality with sauce
50 Takeoutfood is not only convenient but also enables Americans to __________·
[A]avoid taking unhealthy food
[B]follow the trend of eatingout
[C]enjoy eating together athome
[D]have time to improve theircooking
