英语中一词多义的现象普遍存在，阅读中常会遇到熟悉单词的不熟悉的意思，甚至与词典中能查到的意思也不相同，这就是常说的“熟词生义”现象。遇到这种情况，我们要善于结合上下文，在具体的语境中理解其特殊的含义。
2024年高考真题熟词生义
1. cover【熟义】v.覆盖【生义】①v.报道②v.涉及，处理③v.走完（一段路程）
①Jonson began writing about sports as a second year student at the University of Colorado,covering high school volleyball games for his hometown newspaper.（2024新课标I卷听力）
②And are listening to and viewing content as effective as reading the written word when covering the same material?（2024新课标I卷阅读C篇）
③However, most produce at the store went through weeks of travel and covered hundreds of miles before reaching the table.（2024新课标II卷阅读C篇）
2. condition 【熟义】n.状况【生义】n. 疾病
Leigh Tindale’s dog Charlie had a serious heart condition.（2024新课标I卷阅读B篇）
3. property 【熟义】n.资产【生义】n.性质，特性
The differences between print and digital reading results are partly related to paper’s physical properties.（2024新课标I卷阅读C篇）
4. geography【熟义】n.地理【生义】n.布局
With paper, there is a literal laying on of hands, along with the visual geography of distinct pages.（2024新课标I卷阅读C篇）
5. piece【熟义】n.碎片【生义】n.文章，报道
However, psychologists have demonstrated that when adults read news stories, they remember more of the content than if they listen to or view identicalpieces.（2024新课标I卷阅读C篇）
6. role【熟义】n.角色【生义】n.作用
Digital texts, audio and video all have educationalroles, especially when providing resources not available in print.（2024新课标I卷阅读C篇）
7. print【熟义】n.印刷【生义】n.印刷品；出版物
The benefits ofprint reading particularly shine through when experimenters move from posing simple tasks — like identifying the main idea in a reading passage — to ones that require mental abstraction — such as drawing inferences from a text.（2024新课标I卷阅读C篇）
8. pose【熟义】n.姿势【生义】v.提出
The benefits of print reading particularly shine through when experimenters move fromposing simple tasks — like identifying the main idea in a reading passage — to ones that require mental abstraction — such as drawing inferences from a text.（2024新课标I卷阅读C篇）
9. say【熟义】v.说【生义】v.比方说
Audio (音频) and video can feel more engaging than text, and so university teachers increasingly turn to these technologies — say, assigning an online talk instead of an article by the same person.（2024新课标I卷阅读C篇）
10. enter【熟义】v.进入【生义】v.报名参加
I got a good bike and rode a lot. I dreamed ofentering cycle races until I flew to San Diego to visit my sister.（2024新课标I卷完形填空）
11. favorite【熟义】adj.最喜爱的【生义】n.最喜欢的东西
These plants included modern Westernfavorites such as rosemary, lavender and fennel.（2024新课标I卷语法填）
12. roll【熟义】v.滚动【生义】v.行驶
Finally, with just two minutes to spare werolled into the bus station.（2024新课标I卷读后续写）
13. promise
With environmentalist Eanna Lamhna as the guide, this walkpromises to be an informative tour.（2024新课标II卷阅读A篇）【熟义】v.承诺【生义】v.有……的希望；有……的可能
14. introduce【熟义】v.介绍【生义】v.使初次了解/尝试
This informative walk led by Richard Smythintroduces you to the basic principles of photography in the wild.（2024新课标II卷阅读A篇）
15. original【熟义】adj.最初的【生义】adj.原创的
Some are classic short stories, and some are neworiginal works.（2024新课标II卷阅读B篇）
16. call【熟义】v.打电话【生义】n.请求；呼吁
We wanted to do something where we do acall to artists in the Bay Area to submit stories for a contest.（2024新课标II卷阅读B篇）
17. solid【熟义】adj.固体的【生义】adj.可靠的
While farmer’s markets are asolid choice to reduce the journey, Babylon Micro-Farm (BMF) shortens it even more.（2024新课标II卷阅读C篇）
18. greens【熟义】adj.绿色的【生义】n.绿叶菜
The innovative design requires little effort to achieve a reliable weekly supply of freshgreens.（2024新课标卷II阅读C篇）
19. power【熟义】n.力量【生义】v.驱动
In the wrong hands, such a book could prove as complicated to process as the computer code (代码) thatpowers AI ...（2024新课标II卷阅读D篇）
20. point【熟义】v.指向【生义】n.观点
Campbell’spointis to wake up those responsible for AI — the technology companies and world leaders — so they are on the same page as all the experts currently developing it.（2024新课标II卷阅读D篇）
21. address【熟义】n.地址【生义】v.处理；应对
This absorbing new book by Catriona Campbell is a practical roadmapaddressingthe challenges posed by the forthcoming AI revolution (变革).（2024新课标II卷阅读D篇）
22. translate【熟义】v.翻译【生义】v.（使）转变
... but, thankfully, Campbell has more than two decades’ professional experiencetranslatingthe heady into the understandable.（2024新课标II卷阅读D篇）
23. draw【熟义】v.画【生义】v.吸引
Go somewhere only when the landscape, culture or food deeplydraws you.（2024新课标II卷七选五）
24. skip【熟义】v.跳过【生义】v.避开；不做
Minimize impact and maximize experience byskipping major holidays or rush hour.（2024新课标II卷七选五）
25. side【熟义】n.一边【生义】n.一面；方面
You’ll compete with fewer tourists, save money, experience a differentside of a popular place.（2024新课标II卷七选五）
26. slower【熟义】adj.缓慢的【生义】adj.冷清的
You’ll compete with fewer tourists, save money, experience a different side of a popular place, and boost the economy when tourism is traditionallyslower.（2024新课标II卷七选五）
27. visibility【熟义】n.能见度【生义】n.关注度；知名度
Those cultural elements have increased Stratford’s internationalvisibility.（2024新课标II卷语法填空）
28. throw
WheelThrowing（2024全国甲卷阅读A篇）【熟义】v.投；掷；抛【生义】v.把……拉制成坯
29. tell【熟义】v.告诉；告知【生义】v.辨别，识别
That’s why most pet cats are able totell immediately if their owners were around any other cats, which they don’t usually like.（2024全国甲卷阅读B篇）
30. favor【熟义】n.帮助；恩惠【生义】v.偏袒，特别照顾
Like in typical families, where boys werefavored much more than girls, my grandma had to stay at home to do housework.（2024全国甲卷完形填空）
31. closely【熟义】adv.紧密地，密切地【生义】adv.仔细地
She would sit quietly at the far end of the long dinner table, listeningclosely.（2024全国甲卷完形填空）
2023年高考真题熟词生义
熟词 | 熟义 | 生义 | 出现生义的真题例句 |
【2023新高考Ⅰ&Ⅱ卷Text 8】 | leaf 熟义：n.叶；叶片；叶子 | 匆匆翻阅；浏览 | 原句：As I leafed through the novel, a piece of paper fell out. 生义： leafthrough:to quickly turn over the pages of a book, etc. without reading them or looking at them carefully匆匆翻阅；浏览 |
land熟义：n.陆地；大地 | 生义：落；降落；着陆 | 原句：So, all the way across the country, your sister’s old book landed in your hands. | |
【新高考Ⅰ&Ⅱ卷Text 10】 | issue 熟义：重要议题；争论的问题 | 生义：one of a regular series of magazines or newspapers一期；期号 | 原句：In every issue, you will find an interesting mix of interviews and essays on the good life, history, philosophy, arts and fashion photography. |
【新高考Ⅰ卷A篇】 | Cover 熟义: v.掩蔽；遮盖 | 生义:包括；包含 | 原句：The 2.5-hour tour covers the Gooyer Windmill, the Skinny Bridge, the Rijksmuseum, Heineken Brewery and much more. |
【新高考Ⅰ卷B篇】 | Trap 熟义：v.使落入险境；使陷入困境 | 收集；吸收 | 原句：Why can certain plants trap harmful bacteria (细菌)? |
新课标I卷-阅读理解C篇 | Run熟词生义 []v.跑 | [生]v.进行 | In doing so, I'll draw on an experiment I ran in 2018 in which over 1,600 people agreed to perform a digital declutter. |
新课标I卷-完形填空 | course 熟词：课程 | 生义：跑道 | On Oct. 1l, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota.Melanie Bailey should have finished the course earlier than she did. |
新课标I卷-七选五 | iron熟义：n.铁 | 生义：（用熨斗）熨，烫平 | It might be the time when you helped a friend with their homework, when you did the ironing without being asked, |
新课标II卷-阅读理解A篇 | draw熟词v.画 | v生义 吸引 | Discover why artists and photographers continue to be drawn to this special place. |
全国乙卷-阅读理解A篇 | practice熟词：v.实践 | 生义：v.从事(医务工作、法律专业等) ;执业 | Jacqueline Felice de Almania (c. 1322) highlights the suspicion that women practicing medicine faced. |
新课标II卷-阅读理解B篇 | harvest 熟义：n.收获季节；收割；收获 | 生义：v.收割（庄稼）；捕猎（动物、鱼） | Turning soil, pulling weeds, and harvesting cabbage sound like tough work for middle and high school kids. |
新课标II卷-阅读理解B篇 | produce 熟义：v.生产；制造 | 生义：n. 产品；（尤指）农产品 | Urban Sprouts’ classes, at two middle schools and two high schools, include hands-on experiments such as soil testing, flower-and-seed dissection, tastings of fresh or dried produce, and work in the garden.在两所初中和两所高中开设的“城市豆芽”课程包括动手实验，如土壤测试、花和种子解剖、品尝新鲜或干燥的农产品，以及在花园里工作。 |
新课标II卷-阅读理解C篇 | Represent 熟义：v.代表 | 生义：表现，展示；描绘 | Reading Art: Art for Book Loversis a celebration of an everyday object — the book, represented here in almost three hundred artworks from museums around the world. |
新课标II卷-阅读理解C篇 | Volume熟义：n. 体积；容积；容量 | 生义：n. 书 | Adults are portrayed (描绘) alone in many settings and poses —absorbed in a volume, deep in thought or lost in a moment of leisure. |
新课标II卷-七选五 | Still 熟义：adv.还；还是；仍然；依旧 | 生义：adj.静止的；平静的；安静的；寂静的 | Whether you paint still lifes, portraits, or landscapes, paint from life as much as possible. |
新课标II卷-七选五 | tip 熟义：n.尖端；尖儿；端 | 生义：n.指点；实用的提示 | So I’ve put together some good tips for starting an art journey. |
新课标II卷-语法填空 | look. 熟义：v. 看；瞧 | 生义：n. 表情；神情；脸色,眼神 | Whenever I tell people that I teach English at the Berlin Zoo, I almost always get a questioning look. Behind it, the person is trying to figure out who exactly I teach…the animals? |
【2023新高考Ⅰ&Ⅱ卷读后续写】 | Present 熟义：n. 礼物；礼品 | 生义：v.上演；公演；推出 | Writing was so difficult and painful for me that my teacher had allowed me to present my paper on the sinking of the Titanic by acting out a play, where I played all the parts. |
【2023新高考Ⅰ&Ⅱ卷读后续写】 | subject 熟义：n.学科；科目；课程 | 生义：主题；题目；话题 | I chose Paul Revere’s horse as my subject. Paul Revere was a silversmith (银匠) in Boston who rode a horse at night on April 18, 1775 to Lexington to warn people that British soldiers were coming. |
【2023新高考Ⅰ&Ⅱ卷读后续写】 | correct 熟义：adj. 准确无误的；精确的；正确的 | 生义v.：改正；纠正；修正 | I asked my older sister to correct my grammar. |
【2023新高考Ⅰ&Ⅱ卷读后续写】 | shot射击 | ：(n.) the act of trying to do or achieve sth尝试，努力 | If you’re willing to apply yourself, I think you have a good shot at this.” |
【2023新高考Ⅰ&Ⅱ卷读后续写】 | Sympathize熟义v:同情 | 生义v：to support sb/sth赞同，支持 | Have doubts? Did he want to quit? I sympathized immediately. |
全国乙卷-阅读理解A篇 | Walk 熟词生义 熟义：n.行走；步行；徒步旅行；散步 | 生义：a walk of life行业；职业；地位；阶层 | 原文：Tan treated women from all walks of life. 译文：谭治疗过各行各业的女性。 分析：a walk of life在此句中为固定搭配，意为：a person's job or position in society（行业；职业；地位；阶层） |
全国乙卷-阅读理解B篇 | shoot 熟词生义 熟义：v. 开（枪或其他武器）；射击；发射 | shoot 熟词生义 熟义：v. 开（枪或其他武器）；射击；发射 | 原文：To make same of my landscape shots, I have traveled up to four hours away to shoot within a 10-minute time frame. 译文：为了拍摄相同的风景照片，我曾在10分钟的时间内跑到4个小时以外的地方去拍摄。 分析：shoot在此句中作动词 意为“to make a film/movie or photograph of sth ”（拍摄；摄影）。 |
全国乙卷-阅读理解B篇 | Still 熟词生义 熟义：adv.还，依旧；仍然，还是 | 生义：但；不过 | 原文：Still, looking back on the photos, they are some of my best shots though they could have been so much better if I would have been prepared and managed my time wisely. 译文：不过，回过头来看这些照片，它们是我拍得最好的一些照片，尽管如果我有准备并明智地管理我的时间，它们可能会好得多。 分析：still在此句中作副词，意为“despite what has just been said ”（但；不过）。 |
全国乙卷-阅读理解B篇 | Class 熟词生义 熟义：n.班级；（一节）课，上课时间 | 生义：a group of people, animals or things that have similar characteristics or qualities种类；类别；等级 | 原文：Even though Britain has a reputation for less-than-impressive cuisine, it is producing more top class chefs who appear frequently on our television screens and whose recipe books frequently top the best seller lists. 译文：尽管英国的美食的名声不那么令人印象深刻，但它正在产生更多的一流厨师，他们经常出现在我们的电视屏幕上，并且他们的食谱书经常在畅销书排行榜上名列前茅。 |
全国乙卷-阅读理解C篇 | account 熟词生义 熟义：n. 账户，户头 | 生义：n. 描述；叙述；报告 | 原文：When we consider contact(联系) between literate and non-literate societies such as these, all our first-hand accounts are necessarily twisted, only one half of a dialogue. 译文：当我们考虑诸如此类的有文字社会和无文字社会之间的联系时，我们所有的第一手资料描述都必然是扭曲的，只有对话的一半。 分析：account在此句中作 意为“a written or spoken description of sth that has happened ”（描述；叙述；报告）。 |
全国乙卷-阅读理解C篇 | present 熟义：n. 现在，眼前；礼物，赠品 | 生义：（以某种方式）展现，显示，表现 | 原文：How past events should be presented. 译文：过去的事件应该如何呈现。 分析：在此句中作动词,意为“to show or describe sth/sb in a particular way ”(（以某种方式）展现，显示，表现)。 |
全国乙卷-阅读理解七选五篇 | 熟词生义 熟义：backn.（人体或动物的）背部，背；腰背 | 生义：v.支持；证实（某人所言） | back up 原文:Several studies have backed this up and found that indoor plants can improve creativity, focus and memory. 译文：几项研究支持了这一观点，并发现室内植物可以提高创造力、注意力和记忆力。 分析：在此句中作动词 意为“ to support sb/sth; to say that what sb says, etc. is true ”（支持；证实（某人所言））。 |
全国甲卷-阅读理解A篇 | 熟义：scene n.场景 [ | 生义：：n.圈子;界 | Bo.lan has been making waves in Bangkok's culinary scene since it opened in 2009. |
全国甲卷-阅读理解C篇 | 熟义：frame （图画、门、玻璃等的）框架 | 生义：(以某种方式表达; | Weiner starts each chapter with a scene on a train ride between cities and then frames each philosopher’s work in the context (背景) of one thing they can help us do better. |
全国甲卷-阅读理解C篇 | Work n熟义：工作 | 生义： n作品 | Weiner starts each chapter with a scene on a train ride between cities and then frames each philosopher’s work in the context (背景) of one thing they can help us do better. |
全国甲卷-阅读理解D篇 | quarter n 熟义：处，所 | 生义：文中指动物的窝棚 | Putting electric fencing around chicken houses and other farm animal quarters is also highly effective at getting grizzlies away. |
