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2）根据词缀猜测词义
例如：He fell into a ditch and lay there, semiconscious, for a few minutes. 根据词根conscious（清醒的、有意识的），结合前缀semi-（半，部分的，不完全的），我们便可猜出semiconscious词义“半清醒的、半昏迷的”。I'm illiterate about such things. 词根literate 意为“有文化修养的，通晓的”，前缀il-表示否定，因此illiterate指 “一窍不通，不知道的”。
3）根据复合词的各部分猜测词义
例如： Growing economic problems were highlighted by a slowdown in oil output. Highlight或许是一个生词，但是分析该词结构后，就能推测出其含义。它是由 high （高的，强的）和light（光线）两部分组成，合在一起便是“以强光照射，使突出” 的意思。 Bullfight is very popular in Spain. Bull（公牛）和fight（打、搏斗）结合在一起，根据两个单词的含义可推断出，该词指的是西班牙一种颇为流行的体育运动——斗牛。
综上所述，利用各种已知信息推测、判断词义是一项重要的阅读策略。在实践中，我们可以灵活运用，综合运用上面提到的几种猜测策略，排除生词的障碍，顺利理解文章的思想内容，提高阅读速度。
三、猜词技巧的作用
多个实验证明，猜词技巧的培训能明显提高英语阅读水平。猜词技巧是一种学习能力，学习者利用猜词技巧有助于迅速扩充词汇量，增强阅读兴趣，提高阅读能力。
一些考试，尤其是出国考试要求考生掌握大量词汇，在考试中又会经常出现一些考生没有见到过的词汇，而且这些词汇考生可能很难会再次碰到。要掌握这些词汇不太可能，在这种情况下，掌握猜词技巧就显得尤为重要。
四、猜词实战（以08年12月四级考试快速阅读真题为例）
It was a lovely day at the park and Stella Bianchi was enjoying the sunshine with her two children when a young boy, aged about four, approached her two-year-old son and pushed him to the ground.
"I'd watched him for a little while and my son was the fourth or fifth child he'd shoved," she says." I went over to them, picked up my son, turned to the boy and said, firmly, 'No, we don't push," What happened next was unexpected
shove
首先，我们可以判断shove是动词，表示动作。从上文得知这个小男孩“走到我两岁儿子前，把他推到了地上”，而且“我看到他一会功夫就shove了四五个孩子”。可以推断出，shove是与push相近的动作。（属于根据同义替代猜词词义）
"The boy's mother ran toward me from across the park," Stella says," I thought she was coming over to apologize, but instead she started shouting at me for disciplining her child, All I did was let him know his behavior was unacceptable. Was I supposed to sit back while her kid did whatever he wanted, hurting other children in the process?"
discipline
根据文中含义，我们可以推知，男孩的母亲生气了，对“我”大声嚷叫，责怪我“discipline”她的孩子。根据后面提到的“我”的动作All I did was let him know his behavior was unacceptable可知，这里的“discipline”应该有“教育”的含义。（属于根据同义词的替代关系猜测词义）
unacceptable
我们非常熟悉accept一词，又知un-是否定前缀，-able是形容词后缀，可直接推出unacceptable是"不可接受的"。（属于根据前后缀猜词词义）。
