翻開考研英語的試題卷,大家可以發(fā)現(xiàn)傳統(tǒng)閱讀的篇幅占了試題冊的一半多。從篇幅我們能推斷出傳統(tǒng)閱讀在考研英語中的“分量”應(yīng)該很大,事實(shí)也如此,傳統(tǒng)閱讀在考研英語總分100分當(dāng)中占了40分,即將近一半的分?jǐn)?shù),鑒于此,同學(xué)們可以根據(jù)閱讀的得分大概推測出自己英語單科的分?jǐn)?shù),因此江湖也有傳言稱:得閱讀者得天下。
閱讀縱然分值高,難度大,但我們可以通過揣摩命題人的出題思維及意圖并結(jié)合學(xué)術(shù)性議論文的文章結(jié)構(gòu)以及歷年的試題考查情況來總結(jié)出一些非常實(shí)用的解題技巧進(jìn)而提高做題的準(zhǔn)確率。在之前的文章當(dāng)中,我們給各位考生分享了關(guān)于細(xì)節(jié)題該如何通過“模糊定位”去確定答案出現(xiàn)的大概范圍的技巧,在這一期我們一起來學(xué)習(xí)在模糊定位之后如何準(zhǔn)確定位到解題句。
細(xì)節(jié)題準(zhǔn)確定位的方法有兩種,一種是通過題干關(guān)鍵詞定位,另一種是通過選項(xiàng)關(guān)鍵詞定位,其中前者的頻率更高,在解題的時(shí)候優(yōu)先使用。
要使用題干關(guān)鍵詞準(zhǔn)確定位就要先弄明白何為“關(guān)鍵詞”。與大家過往的認(rèn)知不同,關(guān)鍵詞是指“能夠定位到文中唯一一句話”的詞或詞組,簡而言之,關(guān)鍵詞具有唯一性,如下題:
The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat. USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67,000 birds over the next ten years. And it gives the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress. Overall, the idea is to let “states remain in the driver’s seat for managing the species,” Ashe said.
29.According to Ashe, the leading role in managing the species is____.
[A]. federal government
[B]. the wildlife agencies
[C]. the landowners
[D]. the states
本題通過題干識(shí)別出是細(xì)節(jié)題之后,通過“題文同序”原則模糊定位到該部分,接下要使用題干中有用的信息去定位,發(fā)現(xiàn)Ashe這個(gè)專有名詞可以定位到唯一一句話,之前的其他地方都沒有出現(xiàn)過Ashe這個(gè)詞,故Ashe這個(gè)詞就是我們要找的關(guān)鍵詞,本句也即解題句,通過同義替換直接選出D選項(xiàng)。
通過上面的例題給大家展示了關(guān)鍵詞的“唯一性”是如何體現(xiàn)的。同時(shí)上題是通過關(guān)鍵詞的原詞定位到解題句,換言之上道例題的關(guān)鍵詞的形式是原詞,但是關(guān)鍵詞也會(huì)以其他形式給出,如同義替換,所以當(dāng)題干信息的原詞無法解題時(shí),考慮尋找同義替換。如下題:
① Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned.② School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual.③ Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a students academic grade.
21. It is implied in Paragraph 1 that nowadays homework____.
[A]. is receiving more criticism
[B]. is no longer an educational ritual
[C]. is not required for advanced courses
[D]. is gaining more preferences
本題按照大多數(shù)考生的習(xí)慣,通過homework定位回原文發(fā)現(xiàn)homework以不同的形式出現(xiàn)在很多地方,如第一句的原詞,和代詞it等,不能準(zhǔn)確定位到一句話,故homework不是我們要找的關(guān)鍵詞。這時(shí)考慮題干中另外一個(gè)有價(jià)值的信息nowadays,發(fā)現(xiàn)沒有原詞復(fù)現(xiàn)。這種情況下我們?nèi)ふ疫@兩個(gè)信息的同義替換,發(fā)現(xiàn)homework無同義替換,nowadays對應(yīng)第一句的in recent years,其他地方未出現(xiàn),并且句中的it也對應(yīng)題干中的homework,故nowadays為關(guān)鍵詞,且本句為解題句,通過has been scorned與criticism之間的對應(yīng)關(guān)系選出A選項(xiàng)。
前兩題是通過題干的關(guān)鍵詞準(zhǔn)確定位到解題句,無法通過題干關(guān)鍵詞準(zhǔn)確定位或定位到的句子無法解題時(shí),我們考慮通過選項(xiàng)關(guān)鍵詞定位回原文,通過排除的方式選出正確答案。如下題:
① Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not.② Children were not color-coded at all until the early 20th century, in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.③ What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.④ When nursery colors were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine color, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength.⑤ Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolized femininity.⑥ It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
27. According to Para.2, which of the following is true of colors?
[A] colors encoded in girl’s DNA
[B] blue used to be regarded as the color for girls
[C] pink used to be a neutral color in symbolizing genders
[D] white is preferred by babies
本題通過唯一的一個(gè)題干信息定位回原文模糊定位段落的第四句,發(fā)現(xiàn)無法解題,所以只能通過選項(xiàng)關(guān)鍵詞定位回原文逐一排除。[A]選項(xiàng)通過girl’s DNA定位回第一句,發(fā)現(xiàn)最后說it is not,說明粉色并不是編輯在女性DNA中的,與題干中的color以及后半句表述都不符合,排除;[B]選項(xiàng)通過blue定位到原文第五句,刪除中間插入成分后,主干為“藍(lán)色象征著女性氣質(zhì)”,與[B]選項(xiàng)“女性被認(rèn)為是女子的顏色”是同義替換,故答案為[B]選項(xiàng);[C]通過pink定位回原文第四句,說的是粉色被認(rèn)為是更男性化的顏色,與[C]選項(xiàng)說的粉色是中性的顏色不符,排除;[D]選項(xiàng)通過white與babies定位回原文發(fā)現(xiàn)并未提及‘prefer偏好’的相關(guān)信息,排除。
總結(jié)來看,細(xì)節(jié)題在模糊定位之后,可以通過題干關(guān)鍵詞定位回原文解題,關(guān)鍵詞是“能夠定位到文中唯一一句話”的詞或詞組,題干關(guān)鍵詞的形式可以是原詞也可以是同義替換,在題干關(guān)鍵詞無法解題時(shí),可以通過選項(xiàng)關(guān)鍵詞定位回原文排除選項(xiàng)解題。這些解題技巧你學(xué)會(huì)了嗎?