托福阅读猜词技巧也是大家应对托福阅读生词的一种方法。词汇积累是解决托福阅读生词的最有效方法,但是因为托福阅读涉猎词汇量太广,即便是背完了词汇书,还是有可能会遇到生词,此时我们就要用到阅读的猜词技巧了。下面,牛学君通过实例为大家讲解托福阅读猜词技巧。
托福阅读猜词技巧一 语境猜测
1、根据同义、反义关系猜词
Today' s teenagers seem to be more liberal in their ideas than their _______ grandparents.
A. freethinking B. traditional C. old D. happy traditional与liberal意思相反,故选B。
2、根据句意或段落文章的上、下文猜测词义
Klebold and Harris felt _______ and wanted to revenge against those who disliked playing
together with them or laughed at them.
A. discouraged B. ashamed C. tired D. separated
根据下文的disliked playing together with them判断此处应为“感到孤立”,故选D。
托福阅读猜词技巧二 构词法猜测
1.前后缀
英语中的前缀、后缀构词颇多,且特定的缀往往表示特定的含义,把握住这一点,可起到以不变应万变的效果。
1)He had been overworking and fell ill at last.
overwork是由前缀over-加动词构成,over有“超过、过于”之意,overwork意思是“工作过多,劳累过度”。再如,overburden负担过重,overcharge要价过高,overdo做得过分。英语中常用的前缀还有:
mis-错,误:misfortune不幸;mislead误导;mismanage处理不当
mid-中央:midnight半夜;midway半路
under-低于:underdone半生不熟的;underestimate低估
anti-反对:antibody抗体;anticyclone反气旋;antifreeze防冻剂
下面划线单词为常见后缀派生词:
1)You must stop dreaming and face reality.(-ty为名词的标志)
2)The country is trying to popularize education. (-ize为及物动词的标志,再如realize, modernize)
2.合成词
Family members take turns choosing a special activity for the evening, and everyone partakes in for fun.
根据短语构成及上下文意思看,此处partakes in相当于takes part in。再如break out-outbreak(名词爆发),set out-outset(名词起始),come in-income(名词收入) 。
上文中通过实例为大家讲解了托福词汇的猜词方法,如果大家在做阅读的时候遇到影响理解的生词可以结合语境猜测词义,也可以通过构词法来猜测。