高三英语模拟考试专题汇编-考点-阅读理解-词义猜测题（解析版）.doc

阅读理解之 A组课堂专项训练 模拟专场一贵州六校联考D篇When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person, it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle. New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the rule is simple—look down, or look at their phones. Why are we so awkward in lifts? “You dont have enough space，” Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. “Usually when we meet other people, we have about an arms length of distance between us. And thats not possible in most lifts.” 1．The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to “________”． A. judge B. ignore C. put up with D. make the best of 解析1．A词义猜测题。根据文章第七段第一句“…and then act decisively…”可推知，新进电梯的人要对电梯内的状况做一个判断，然后才决定站在什么样的位置上，故选A项。ignore忽略；put up with容忍；make the best of充分利用。模拟专场二B篇July 21st. was a typical English summer’s day—it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was amiss. By the time I left work at 5p.m., however, the road into our village was flooded. Our house had never been flooded but, as I opened the front door, a wave of waters greeted me. Thank God! The kids weren’t with me, because the house was 5 feet deep in water. We lost everything downstairs. And the plaster had to be torn off the wall’s ceilings pulled down. At first we tried to push on through. We didn’t want to move the children out of home. So we camped upstairs. We put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we felt very sick, so we move to a wooden house in a park. The house was small, but at first we were all just delighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10 months. The life there was inc