阅读词汇题【课堂精讲】I. 阅读猜词题常用的问题形式：1. He underlined word（phrase）in the passage means _ 2. The word it（them）in the first paragraph refers to _ 3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means _4. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word in the second paragraph？5. What does（do）the underlined word（words）refer to？6. According to the passage, “” probably means _.7. The author uses the word “” to mean _. 8. The underlined word/phrase/team “”means _. 9. The word “” in paragraph refers to _. 10. What does “” in the second paragraph stands for?11. The sentence “” means _.II. Exercise.AApple trees may grow as tall as 12 metres and they grow best in areas that have cold winters. Although no fruit is yielded during the winter, this cold period is good for the tree. The underlined word “yielded” most probably means_. A. sold B. bought C. improved D. produced 【Keys】: D【解析】: 该词所在句的句意为“尽管冬季不产苹果，但寒冷期有益于果树的生长”。由此可知yield意为“生产”，故选C。BAnother source of knowledge is the vast store of traditional practices handed down form father to son, or mother to daughter, of old country customs, of folklore. All this is very difficult for a college student to examine, for much knowledge and personal experience is needed here to separate good plants form wild grass. The college student should learn to realize and remember how much of real value science has found in this wide, confused wilderness and how often scientific discoveries of what had existed in this area long ago.In this paragraph the phrase “this wide, confused wilderness” refers to _. A. personal experience B. wild weeds among good plants C. the information from the parents D. the vast store of traditional practices 【Keys】: D 【解析】: 划线部分指的就是上文的another source of knowledge，即： the vast store of traditional practices。CMontreal(Reuters)-Crossing the US-Canada border to go to church on a Sunday cost a US citizen $10,000 for breaking Washingtons strict new security(安全)rules.The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church. There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and the USwhich in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings. As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs station in this area is closed on Sundays, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later, Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally. Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint. Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since,. “I feel like Im living in a prison,” he said.61. The underlined word “detour” in paragraph 5 means _. A. a drive through the town B. a race across the fields C. a roundabout way of traveling D. a journey in the mountain area 【Keys】: D【解析】:从介词短语along hilly roads可知答案选D。DAs any homemaker who has tried to keep order at the dinner table knows, there is far more to a family meal than food. Sociologist Michael Lewis has been studying 50 families to find out just how much more. Lewis and his co-workers carried out their study by videotaping（录像）the families while they ate ordinary meals in their own homes. They fond that parents with small families talk actively with each other and their children. But as the number of children gets larger, conversation gives way to the parents efforts to control the loud noise they make. That can have an important effect on the children. “In general the more question-asking the parents do, the higher the childrens IQ scores,” Lewis says, “And the more children there are, the less question-asking there is.”The study also provides an explanation for why middle children often seem to have a harder time in life than their siblings (兄弟姐妹). Lewis found that in families with three or four children, dinner conversation is likely to center on the oldest child. Who has the most to talk about,. And