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1、2022年雅思阅读：Guessing,meaning,from,context|雅思阅读真题雅思网权威发布2022年雅思阅读：Guessing meaning from context，更多2022年雅思阅读相关信息请访问雅思索试(IELTS)网。【新东方】轻松直达90分！2022年雅思（IELTS）金牌课程火热开售中在雅思索试中，依据上下文揣测词义是一项重要技能，可以帮助你驾驭阅读技巧，提高阅读速度。考试中不能带字典，因此很有可能会出现许多你不相识的单词。假如在考试中遇到不相识的单词，不能花费太长时间思索它的意思，因为每篇文章你只有20分钟时间。因此，有必要依据上下文揣测词义。这就意味着你要
2、依据目标词所在位置的上下文或段落主旨揣测它的意思。请看下面一个例子：It had been raining hard through the night so the ground was saturated.What does saturated mean?可能你已经知道这个词的意思，假如不知道，可以依据这句话猜一下。雨始终在下意味着地面肯定湿了，而且雨下的很大，就意味着地面特殊湿。因此，saturated = completely wet猜词也不是为所欲为，随意猜。遇到不相识的词，你应当依据词所在的句子的意思，来揣测它的意思。万一这一句子的意思不是特殊清晰，那就可以依据所在位置的上句或下句
3、来揣测词义。假如太多词不相识，可能就没有时间揣测全部词的意思了，特殊是阅读速度较慢的考生。有些不相识的词并不会影响对文章的理解，因此可以跳过。Guessing meaning from context - Practice请看下面一篇文章，你可能不相识那些加粗斜体词。试着依据词所在句子、上下文或段落主旨揣测词义，并做完文末的练习。Thai Museum Catalogs Opium Dreams - and NightmaresCHIANG SAEN, Thailand, Wednesday December 04 (Reuters).First reactions to Thailands
4、giant new opium museum in the Golden Triangle are confused: pleasant surprise at cool air after the intense tropical heat, but then disorientation, shock, even fear. Visitors enter the 101-acre complex through a long, dark, mist-filled tunnel, which winds into the base of a hill past bas-reliefs of
5、distorted human figures before emerging suddenly into bright sunlight in front of a field of poppies. This is the mystery, the contradiction of opium, says Charles Mehl, head of research for the Mae Fah Luang Foundation, which has just completed the $10 million museum. Opium is one of the very best
6、drugs we have for treating chronic pain and bringing relief from suffering. But it can also be one of the worst, destroying lives if it is used for recreation or exploitedfor commercial gain.Built into a hillside by the Mekong River on the northern tip of Thailand, the museum lies at the heart of th
7、e Golden Triangle. Chiang Saen town is about 470 miles north of Bangkok, overlooking the junction of the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Golden Triangle is a largely lawless region that last year produced more opium and heroin than Afghanistan and more synthetic s
8、timulant pills than all the rest of the laboratories in Southeast Asia put together, drugs agencies say.Western backpackers and busloads of other day-trippers pour daily into the picturesque Chiang Saen district, in Chiang Rai province, to buy souvenirs on the Mekongs banks. Some try illicit puffs o
9、n opium pipes in nearby villages. The museum, which will open officially early next year, aims to exploit this tourist business, luring the curious with the promise of entertainment and impressive audio-visual displays in English and Thai. But as visitors progress down the labyrinthine corridors tha
10、t stretch across three floors, the warnings against narcotic abuse gradually become more powerful. People think at first they know what they will see - a quaint presentation about hill tribes growing opium. But thats only a small part of the story, said Mehl.Mae Fah Luang has fought a 15-year battle
11、 against drug-taking and addiction in Chiang Rai province, establishing what the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says is probably the best anti-drugs crop-substitution program in Asia. Lessons from that program, which has succeeded in the nearby Thai mountains of Doi Tung in part by
12、 offering farmers of opium poppies a better income from alternative crops such as coffee and macadamia nuts, are built into the museum. But it also offers a thorough lesson in the history of opium, its derivatives such as heroin and laudanum, and explains how the drugs trade has helped change the wo
13、rld for hundreds of years.Tradgedy and TraumaThought to have been used first along the coast of the Mediterranean, archaeologists say the earliest evidence of opium was found in Switzerland dating from the Neolithic period. It was a popular sedative in ancient Egypt and Greece before spreading to no
14、rthern Europe and Asia and becoming a key commodity that was exchanged for Chinese tea and other spices by the British and Dutch. With 360-degree special effects, the museum traces the 19th century opium wars between Britain and China before looking at prohibition in the 20th century and official ef
15、forts, often spectacularly unsuccessful, to stop the use of illegal drugs.The museum asks visitors to themselves decide what could be the best approach to narcotics - prohibition, drug eradication schemes, decriminalisation or legalisation - but it pulls no punches on the tragedy and trauma inflicte
16、d by drugs on abusers. A final, heart-wrenching gallery recounts the powerful true stories of victims of drug abuse around the world through intimate video testimonies by their families.The feelings which develop through a visit to the museum change toward the very end when there is evidence of the
17、death and suffering that drug abuse produces, said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the Vienna-based UNODC. The end message is very strong, namely that use of drugs should be fought. Society has to use all its instruments, which means law enforcement for sure, but not only law enforcement.
18、 Prevention and treatment are equally important.通过上下文揣测词义，选择最佳答案：1. The word disorientation in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:(a) being introduced(b) total confusion; nothing being clear(c) happiness(d) understanding2. The word distorted in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:(a) fomous(b) ex
19、traordinary; very unusual(c) bent; twisted; strange shape(d) unclear3. The word poppies in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:(a) chattle(b) flowers(c) crops(d) sheep4. The word contradiction in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:(a) opposite of something else(b) illegality(c) beauty(d) wonder5.
20、 The word exploited in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:(a) firings; loss of jobs(b) promitions; raises(c) used unfairly; developed in a bad way(d) employed6. The word synthetic in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to:(a) fast(b) cheap(c) natural(d) artificial7. The word illicit in paragraph 3 i
21、s closest in meaning to:(a) unlawful; not allowed(b) free(c) cheap; inexpensive(d) exciting8. The word curious in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to:(a) interested; eager to know(b) middle class(c) bored; disinterested(d) rich and famous9. The word narcotic in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to:
22、(a) drug(b) physical(c) local(d) international10. The word addiction in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to:(a) sales; export(b) encouragemnt(c) cruelty; meanness(d) hooked; unable to stop11. The word alternative in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to:(a) new(b) different(c) fast growing(d) legal1
23、2. The word prohibition in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to:(a) sales(b) banning; stopping; making illegal(c) promting; encouraging(d) increases; rises13. The word eradication in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to:(a) making mistake(b) removing completely; getting rid of(c) explaining; giving information about(d) nature; propagete; grow14. The word tragedy in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to:(a) difficulty(b) damage; harm(c) expense(d) great sadness and pain 第9页 共9页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页第 9 页 共 9 页