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8．利用词义搭配关联猜词
任何一个单词在句子中总是与其他词相关联的，我们可以通过这些前后的关联来猜测生词的词义。
例题：I wish this medicine may really cure my backache.
分析：通过cure前面的“这种药”和后面的“我的背疼”，很容易地判断出 cure的词义为“治好”。
9．根据语义转折猜词
有时文章的作者为了增强表达效果，会用一些含有表示意思转折的连词，副词或短语。如：though, although, still, but, yet, instead, instead of, however, while, on the contrary, on the other hand, unlike, rather than, for one thing, for another等，我们可以根据转折意思猜测词义。
例题（2008年全国高考—广东卷B篇）
…Unlike vitamin C, leadership skills can’t be easily swallowed down. They must be carefully cultivated.
Different from popular belief, most good leaders are made, not born. They learn their skills in their everyday lives. But which do they develop? How do they (and how can you) get others to follow? …
60. The underlined word "cultivated" (paragraph 1) roughly means _______.
A. encouraged B. compared C. examined D. developed
答案与解析：
选D。从上句的对比可知，领导能力不是“swallowed down”，而是慢慢培养的。从第二段第一句“Different from popular belief, most good leaders are made, not born. They learn their skills in their everyday lives. But which do they develop?”也可以得到启发。
例题2：（2008年全国高考—北京卷D篇）
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However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject.
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71. In Paragraph 3, “take special pains” probably means “_____”.
A. try very hard B. take our time
C. are very unhappy D. feel especially painful
答案与解析：
选A。由However从句当中的at first glance（乍一眼看上去），与下文中的take special pains进行对比，既然不是一眼就看出那么简单，那么自然要费力去想了。由此可以推断出A项为最佳选项。
10．利用经验和常识猜词
例题1：Young Hoover died. Over a thousand people attended his funeral.
分析：通过“年轻的Hoover去世了”，根据我们的常识猜测出一千多人参加的应该是他的“葬礼”。
例题2：All the houses in the city collapsed during the strong earthquake.
分析：凭经验我们知道：强烈地震会使房子倒塌。据此很容易猜出collapsed是“倒塌”的意思了。
例题3：（2004年全国高考—北京卷C篇）
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“I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40, blue lights and sirens(警笛) going, I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder.”
63. The meaning of “panicked” in Paragraph 2 is related to ___________ .
A. shame B. hate C. anger D. fear
答案与解析：
根据本段内容描述，可以知道panicked 意思是“惊慌”，相当于fear。
最后提醒考生，掌握了一定的生词推测技巧后，也不要去“死抠”个别词，除了人名、地名等一些专有名词不必去细究每一处，那些一时难以断定其意思却又不妨碍理解或答题的生词，大可不必理会。
当然，做完题之后，可以查阅字典，一方面可以检测自己的推断是否正确，另外，可把一些单词、短语记在专门的本子上，以后经常积累并复习这些词汇（注：最好连同文章中的句子一起摘抄下来）。这样对今后的阅读将会有一定的帮助。因为考试没有很多时间去推测大量的单词，平时一定要尽可能地去积累并熟背大量的单词、短语，经典句子甚至文章。