英语猜词技巧练习

1、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.

2、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 travel. Travelers remain frightened and are avoiding flying.7. She is usually prompt for all her class, but

3、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

4、 the weakness was permanent. So the player could never play the game again. 11. The door was so 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，usual

5、ly 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 terrib

6、le 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,

7、 he found an impassable river in front of him 20. The woman's 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 plan are clear to me, but the details are still hazy 23. The purpose of the campaign was to catch “

8、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 "Chu

9、nnel"，a tunnel connecting England and France，is now completed 27. The Greek marriage was monogamousmen and women 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 super

10、visor 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. A

11、lthough he often 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 ha

12、rmful. 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 clearly mentioning where the information is from. 38. Semantics, the study of the mean

13、ing 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” mean

14、s the period between children and adulthood. 42. A byline, that is, the line at the head of a newspaper article that 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 Nuv

15、oricans. 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

16、 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 finds himself or herself in a difficult situation. 49. Hus

17、band：it's really cold out tonight. Wife: Sure it is. My hands are practically numb. How about lighting the furnace? 50. After inventing dynamite, Nobel became a very rich man. 51. The man has worked in Taiwan for a decade（ten years）since he graduated in 1992. 52. We can feel acceleration, an inc

18、rease in speed. 53. The old man put on his spectacles and began to read 54. Only archaeologists can find out a lot about our early history 55. Both the Greeks and the Romans minted coins. 56. I have a policy of penalizing heavily for late assignments. 57. I have taken the computer into the campus co

19、mputer workshop but they cannot retrieve any of my files. 58. Robert was supposed to present that day but I understand he was in a serious car accident and had to withdraw from university. 59. Though the army appropriated land and some goods, it also paid for many supplies, stimulating local economi

20、c growth. 60. Light-loving species are always among the first invaders, while shade-tolerant species appear later in the succession. 61. Ordinary meteoric water is water that has soaked into the ground from the surface, from precipitation (rain and snow) and from lakes and streams. 62. The commonest

21、 spaces are those among the particlessand grains and tiny pebblesof loose, unconsolidated sand and gravel. 63. Consolidated (or cemented) sediments, too, contain millions of minute water-holding pores. 64. Because bushs laconic reply lacked specificity，it raised more questions than it answered. 65.

22、Studies of primitive societies suggest that the earliest method of making fire was through friction. 66. European peasants would insert a wooden drill in a round hole and rotate it briskly between their palms this process could be speeded up by wrapping a cord around the drill and pulling on each en

23、d.67. The ancient Greeks used lenses or concave mirrors to concentrate the suns rays and burning glasses were also used by Mexican Aztecs and Chinese. 68. Percussion methods of fire-lighting date back to Paleolithic times, when some Stone Age tool-makers discovered that chipping flints produced spar

24、ks. 69. Structures are designed to withstand the forces of compression (pushing together), tension (pulling apart), bending, or a combination of these in different parts of the structures. 70. Then he devised a way to make the piston turn a wheel and thus convert reciprocating (back and forth) motio

25、n into rotary motion. 71. The sudden warm weather increased our indolence; we failed to complete the job.72. When the rebels took control, they ruled by their own laws and abrogated the constitution. 73. They have sanctioned the proposed law because they know it will benefit the environment. 74. Eac

26、h day she vacillated about whether to take the job; she could not make a decision. 75. The officious clerk interfered in things that were not his concern and often annoyed his coworkers.76. A facile assignment is completed easily and quickly. 77. Some may have slithered into the United States. The w

27、orld trade center bombing brought home the need to have good intelligence on terrorists. 78. Congress and white house still deluge the agency with requests for intelligence on the former Soviet Union. 79. CIA officers still have to elude Russian agents who trail them as closely as the old KGB did. 80. We are now still living in jungle filled with a bew