四．阅读与答题技巧

1． 如何选择重要信息：

1）  找出文章的中心或主题；

2）  判定各段的主题句；

3）  注意出现频率最高的词或词组。

2． 英文常见行文方式：

1）  问题解答型；

2）  信息传播型；

3）  分析论说型；

4）  事实说明型。

3．客观推论；

例2002

If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.

       53.    It can be inferred from the text that public services__________

[A] have benefited many people.

[B] are the focus of public attention.

[C] are an inappropriate subject for humor.

[D] have often been the laughing stock

     4．区分正确与易混淆选项

            Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal. （2003）

        57.       Misled people tend to think that using an animal in research is __________

[A] cruel but natural.

[B] inhuman and unacceptable.

[C] inevitable but vicious.

[D] pointless and wasteful.

     5．时刻注意文章中心和段落主题（瞻前顾后）

            The most obvious example is late-stage cancer care. Physicians—frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient—too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified.

        67.       The author uses the example of cancer patients to show that __________

[A] medical resources are often wasted.

[B] doctors are helpless against fatal diseases.

[C] some treatments are too aggressive.

[D] medical costs are becoming unaffordable.