在考研英語復習備考過程中，遇到生詞怎么辦?許多人選擇直接翻閱字典。也正是因此，很多考生在考試的時候遇到生詞就不知所措，因為考場上不會允許你攜帶字典進入。所以，在平常的復習中，我們就要養(yǎng)成良好的學習習慣，翻閱字典并沒有錯，但是在翻閱字典之前，不妨結合前后語境進行推測、判斷其詞義。

　　利用各種已知信息推測、判斷詞義是一項重要的閱讀技巧。在實踐中，我們可以靈活運用，綜合運用下面提到的幾種猜測技巧，排除生詞的障礙，順利理解文章的思想內(nèi)容，提高閱讀速度。

　　同時，考生們也應該避免以下兩種情況：第一，考生往往會隨便猜一個選項，錯誤率很高。第二種情況下，考生往往落入命題專家的陷阱，不知不覺地失了分，原因是考生并沒有掌握閱讀詞匯題的基本命題原則。在閱讀部分的詞匯題要考的并不是考生認不認識題中所考的單詞，否則便是命題失效。此處要考的是考生閱讀中的推斷能力，也就是說題中所考單詞的詞義必定能根據(jù)上下文推斷出來。所以考生在遇到閱讀中的詞匯題時，一定要冷靜，去上下文中細找，推斷出詞義后，可將詞義代入原文看是否通暢。

　　例如2003年第54題：

　　Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds that in the long run it reduces everyone’s cost. If railroads charged all customers the same average rate, they argue, shippers who have the option of switching to trucks or other forms of transportation would do so, leaving remaining customers to shoulder the cost of keeping up the line. It’s a theory to which many economists subscribe, but in practice it often leaves railroads in the position of determining which companies will flourish and which will fail. “Do we really want railroads to be the arbiters of who wins and who loses in the marketplace?” asks Martin Bercovici, a Washington lawyer who frequently represents shippers.

　　The word “arbiters” most probably refers to those_________.

　　[A] who work as coordinators

　　[B] who function as judges

　　[C] who supervise transactions

　　[D] who determine the price

　　該題的解題關鍵在于是否知道arbiters后的介賓短語of who wins and who loses in the marketplace就是對該詞的比較準確定義，依據(jù)該介賓短語，不難得出arbiters是決定誰輸誰贏的人，四個選項中只有B選項和這個意思比較為接近。

　　再例2004年第43題：

　　For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept—what you think you want to do—then broaden it. “None of these programs do that,” says another expert. “There's no career counseling implicit in all of this.” Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again. “I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a database that might interest me,” says the author of a job-searching guide.

　　The expression “tip service” most probably means .

　　[A] advisory

　　[B] compensation

　　[C] interaction

　　[D] reminder

　　該題的解題關鍵在于充分利用分號，分號前面的短語use the agent as a kind of tip service和分號后的consider it a reminder屬于并列關系，it和the agent都是指的文章中所說的搜索代理，自然我們就找到了tip service的同義詞reminder。所以該題答案D