2016届高考英语二轮题型专题方略课件：专题1 阅读理解第3讲词义猜测题（通用版）_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语二轮题型专题方略课件：专题1 阅读理解第3讲词义猜测题（通用版）

　　What does “that/those/them” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

　　(2015·高考重庆卷) Several safari camps operate as the base for this adventure，providing unique rides twice a day to explore deep into the delta.The camps have excellent horses，professional guides and lots of support workers.They have a reputation for providing a great riding experience. What does the underlined word “They” refer to?________ A．Flooded waters.

　　B．Wildlife journeys. C．Safari camps.

　　D．Unique rides. 【解析】　代词指代题。做代词指代题时一般应该从前文查找答案，画线代词所在句子与其前一句是并列的，前一个句子的主语是the camps，而the camps指前面提到的safari

　　camps，故应该选择C项。

　　(2015·高考四川卷)However，physicist Joseph West thinks there might have been a simpler way，who led the new study.West said，“I was inspired while watching a television program showing how sleds might have helped with pyramid construction.I thought，‘Why don’t they just try rolling the things？’”A square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides，he realized.That，he notes，should make a block of stone “a lot easier to roll than a square”． So he tried it． What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 7 refer to?__________ A．Rolling the blocks with poles attached. B．Rolling the blocks on wooden wheels. C．Rolling poles to move the blocks. D．Rolling the blocks with fat. 【解析】　代词指代题。根据So he tried it.中的So一词可判断，it指代的内容应该在第六段。由文章第六段中的A square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides...make a block of stone “a lot easier to roll than a square”．可知，物理学家West提出，在石块四周捆绑上木棒可以使石块更容易滚动。因此他对这种方法进行了尝试，故选A项。