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In the 1930s,a lot of people in the USA were out of work.Among these people wasa man named Alfred Butts.He always had an interest in word games and to fillhis time he planned a game which he called“Lexico”.However,he was notcompletely satisfied with the game,so he made a number of changes to it and changed its name from“Lexico”to“Alph”and then to“CrissCross”.He wanted to make some money from his new game but he didn’t have any real commercial(商业性的)success.
反义法如hot and cold,give and receive等,或前句为肯定,后句为否定。总之,词与词间都起着互为线索的作用。
释义法对文章中的生词用定语(从句)、表语甚至用逗号、破折号等标点符号引出并加以解释说明。
情景推断法、代词替代法等
例如:Most women in Ghana--the educated and illiterate,the urban and rural,the young and old work to earn an income in addition to maintaining their rolesashousewi-ves and mothers.
Q:Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word“illiterate”?
A.repeat B.reiterated C.uneducated D.sick
在本题中,即使我们不认识illiterate这个词,urban和rural也不认识,但没关系,大家一定认识young and old,那么我们就可以推测educated和illiterate一定也是一对反义词或对应词,所以不难判断出答案为C。其中educated受过教育的,那自然illiterate便是没有受过教育的;