2019年高考英語難點37講--難點25 依賴語境的詞義猜測題
命題意圖：考查學生通過推理判斷來猜測詞義的能力。屬五星級題目。
錯解分析：本題錯解的原因主要在于太孤立地看待相關語句，沒能把上下文串起來。
解題方法與技巧：（1）通讀全文，了解全文大意：越來越多的人熱衷于有機食品。
（2）聯系上下文。由第一段“that(即organic fruit) is what gabriel gold prefers”,第二段“organic produce is always better,gold said.”可知gold對organic food深感興趣，再根據“gold is one of a growing number of shoppers buying into the organic trend,and supermarkets across britain are counting on more like him”，可知gold是越來越多的喜愛organic food的購物者中的一員，而且全英國的超級市場也正依賴（count on）越來越多的像他這樣的人（來賺錢）。因此可得出答案。
答案：a
●錦囊妙計
1.通讀全文，領會大意。
2.對上下文進行邏輯推理。
3.利用同義詞、反義詞、近義詞、構詞法（派生、合成、轉化）等推測詞義。
4.依靠自己的生活常識和社會經驗進行判斷。
●殲滅難點訓練
a
for more than twenty years scientists have been searching for signs of life on other planets. most of these searches have been done over the radio. the hope is that someone in outer space may be trying to get in touch with us. scientists also have sent radio and television messages on spaceships traveling through space,on the chance that someone may be receptive to such messages.
scientists are using powerful radio telescopes to listen to signals from about 1 000 stars,all within 100 light years of earth.in addition,they will scan(掃視） the entire sky to “listen” for radio messages from more distant stars. using a computer, they will be able to monitor more than eight channels at one time. scientists are looking for any signal that stands out from the background noise.
of the 200 billion stars in the milky way galaxy（銀河星系）, scientists find that five percent are like our sun. perhaps half of them have a planet like earth. such a planet would be a reasonable distance from the star for temperatures to be right for the evolution(進化） of life. based on the inhabitable(that can be lived in) planets in our galaxy,most scientists agree that chances are likely that one or more of these planets support some life.
however, many scientists wonder whether intelligent(有智力的） life exists on other planets.some believe that twenty years of searching without any intelligible messages shows that no one is out there. they say that the evolution of intelligence comparable to ours is unlikely.
other scientists believe that our search hasn’t been long enough to rule out the possibility that intelligent life exists in our galaxy. although our sun family is only about five billion years old, our galaxy is about 20 billion years old. in that time,some scientists think it is likely that civilization(文明） much more advanced than ours have developed. perhaps these civilizations send us no signals; perhaps we have not recognized the signals they have sent us. if we hope to find intelligent life, these scientists believe that we have to keep looking.