成人英語三級考試閱讀理解解題技巧(2)

閱讀理解文章基本上是說明文，議論文。而這類體裁的文章少不了用例子、事實來說明觀點。因此往往會碰到要求推測文章舉例的目的(這些例子要說明什么觀點)的題目。如

The example of…is given to show / illustrate that .

What can be inferred from the author'S example of…?

The experiment/study suggests/shows that .

例證題為三級閱讀理解的常考點之一，所以閱讀時對于for example, for instance, such as, as等引出的例子可以注意，劃出這幾個提示詞，以便做題時查找。這類題的基本結構為The author provides in Line…(或Paragraph…)an example in order to…，意思是問文中舉出某現象或例子的目的。由于三級閱讀理解文章大都是說明文和議論文，所以文章中舉出一些例子無非是為了說明一定的道理。關鍵在于這個例子在原文出現的位置，但不管如何，這個例子之前或之后不遠處通常都有一句總結說明性的話，這句話就是答案，即被例證的對象。如果例子與全文主題有關，則例證主題，答案為主題句;如果例子與段落主題有關，那就是例證段落主題，則答案為段落主題句;此外，答案為例子前后總結說明性的話。做例證題的注意事項如下。

1.illustrate(例證)、give an example(舉例)、verify(證實)等不同表達法在題干或選項中并不影響答案。

2.假如題干問的是某一具體事物，其所在的句子就是例證的內容。例子為句段的，通常為兩種模式：a.先總結說明，再舉例子(例證)，總結說明后有時伴有提示詞，如for instance, for example等;b.先舉例子(例證)，再總結說明，總結說明前有時伴有提示詞，如thus, therefore, in conclusion, as a result等。

3.注意例證所在的段落主題句。如果例證所在段有概括段落思想的主題句，就首先讀這個主題句，看它的意思和問題下四個選擇項哪項意思一致。一致的那個就是答案，不要去讀具體例證了。因為舉例的目的是為了說明觀點，而段落中的例子大多是說明段落主題思想的。

Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child--or even an animal, such as a pigeon--can learn to recognize faces, we all take this ability for granted.

We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone's per-sonality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels that make that individual different from others.

Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone's personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a "nice face" looked like, you probably would have a diffi- cult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a "nice person", you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm, and so forth.

There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Gordon Allport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people's behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for de- scribing, or typing his personality. Bookworms, conservatives, military types―people are described with such terms.

People have always tried to "type"each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villain's (壞人) or the hero's role. In fact, the words "person"and "personality"come from the Latin persona, meaning "mask". Today, most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we can easily tell the "good guys"from the "bad guys"because the two types differ in ap-pearance as well as in actions.

By using the example of finger prints, the author tells us that

A. people can learn to recognize faces

B. people have different personalities

C. people have difficulty in describing the features of finger prints

D. people differ from each other in facial features

這是一道例證題，實際上考的是對文章首句的理解：Faces, like fingerprints, are unique(人的面孔像指紋一樣獨一無二)，由此可知D項為正確答案：各人的面孔各不相同。

4.注意例證上下文、上下旬的作者觀點。如果例證所在段沒有主題句或例證本身就是一段，就要看例證上面一段或句、下面一段或句有否相關的歸納性的作者觀點。如果這個作者觀點和問題中的某一個選擇項意思一致，那就是答案，也不要去讀具體例證了。

Most people would agree that, although our age exceeds all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no corresponding increase in wisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define "wisdom" and consider means of promoting it.

There are several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of these I should put first a sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a prob-lem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in scien- tific medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your mind.

You have no time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say) as modern medicine has succee-ded, in enormously lowering the infant death-rate, not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of making the food supply inadequate and lowering the standard of life in the parts of the world that have the greatest populations. To take an even more dramatic example, which is in everybody's mind at the present time; you study the makeup of the atom from a disin-terested(無利害關系的)desire for knowledge, and by chance place in the hands of a powerful mad man the means of destroying the human race.

Therefore, with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom becomes more necessary, for every such increase augments(增強)our capacity for realising our pur-poses, and therefore augments our capacity for evil, if our purposes are unwise.

The author uses the examples in the passage to illustrate his point that

A. it's extremely difficult to consider all the important elements in a problem

B. success in medical research has its negative effects

C. scientists may unknowingly cause destruction to the human race.

D. it's unwise to be totally absorbed in research in scientific medicine

題干問的是幾個例子的例證作用。事實上，本文的兩個例子都集中在第二段：第一個例子從第二段第四句開始，有一個標志詞，for example，這屬于上述的“從總結說明到舉例子的模式”，答案在例子之前;第二個例子在第二段末，也有提示詞：To take an even more dramatic example，它進一步例證第一個例子所說明的意思。因此，只需直接找第一個例子之前的總結性語句即可：This has become more difficult than it used to be ow-ing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. 這是緊承上句"take account of all the important factors in a problem"而來的，由此可知正確答案A為被例證的論點：考慮一個問題中的所有重要因素極為困難。

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