【解题方法】:
1. 构词法猜词 2.语法猜词
【解题步骤】
1. 拆分词词根词缀
2. 联系上下文语法猜词
【例题】2011年Text1
22.
Tommasini regards Gilbert as an artist who is
[A]influential.
[B]modest. [C]respectable. [D]talented.
One
of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that
Gilbert is comparatively little known. Even Tommasini, who had advocated
Gilbert's appointment in the Times, calls him "an unpretentious musician
with no air of the formidable conductor about him." As a description of
the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians
like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least
some Times readers as faint praise.
【解题步骤】
第一步:本题表面是细节题,定位为
题干:Tommasini 文章:Tommasini
regards…as… call…(as)…
Gilbert
him
an
an
artist
musician
who
is unpretentious
第二步:本题转化为猜词题
词根词缀猜词:un+pretent+ious,其中pretent是pretend(假装)的词根,单词的表面意思是"不假装的",意思就是"谦虚的,低调的",因此选B。