1. 题干特征:
1.1 题干提及文中具体的人、物、事、概念等
1.2 题干重现或同义改写文中原词
1.3 题干直接问一句话、一个词、一个短语的涵义
例如:
56. What has contributed to the rapid economic growth in China and India? (样题)
文章第二段:
Just a few decades ago, Asia's two giants were stagnating under faulty economic ideologies. However, once China began embracing free-market reforms in the 1980s, followed by India in the 1990s, both countries achieved rapid growth. …
58. What stopped the American economy from collapsing in 2007? (样题)
文章第三段:…
Of course, when the markets came crashing down in 2007, it was decisive government intervention that saved the day. Despite this fACT, many Americans are still strongly opposed to "big government."
57. What does Ronald Reagan mean by saying "government is the problem" (Line 5, Para. 3)? (样题)
文章第三段:
Contrast this middle path with America and Europe, which have each gone ideologically overboard in their own ways. Since the 1980s, America has been increasingly clinging to the ideology of uncontrolled free markets and dismissing the role of government—following Ronald Reagan's idea that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." …
2. 解法:
2.1 关键:找准题干信息的来源句(也就是找准定位句)
2.2 如何找准:定位词原则
二、段落题
1. 题干特征:
1.1 题干明确面向一个或几个段落提问
1.2 题干常问整段大意、或从整段归纳及推理
1.3 题干问的某信息在某段中出现多次
例如:
59. We can infer from the fifth paragraph that ____. (2007-12)
文章第五段:
What's happening? The very rich are just as trendy as you and I, and can be so when it comes to politics and policy. Given the recent change of control in ConGREss, the popularity of measures like increasing the minimum wage, and efforts by California's governor to offer universal health care...
52. What can we learn from the first paragraph? (2011-6)
文章第一段:
At the heart of the debate over illegal immigration lies one key question: are immigrants good or bad for the economy? The American public overwhelmingly thinks they're bad. Yet the consensus among most economists is that immigration, both legal and illegal, provides a small net boost to the economy. Immigrants provide cheap labor, lower the prices of everything from farm produce to new homes, and leave consumers with a little more money in their pockets. So why is there such a discrepancy between the perception of immigrants' impACT on the economy and the reality?
56. What do we learn from the first few paragraphs? (2012-12)
文章开头几段:
Amid all the job losses, there's one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
From self-service checkout lines at the supermarket to industrial robots armed with saws and taught to carve up animal bodies in slaughter-houses, these ever-more-intelligent machines are now not just assisting workers but ACTually kicking them out of their jobs.
Automation isn't just affecting fACTory workers, either. Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly-paid human lawyers.
例如:
65. What is the author's purpose of writing the passage?
① You've now heard it so many times, you can probably repeat it in your sleep. President Obama will no doubt make the point publicly when he gets to Beijing: the Chinese need to consume more; they need—believe it or not—to become more like Americans, for the sake of the global economy.
② And it's all true. But the other side of that equation is that the U.S. needs to save more. For the moment, American households ACTually are doing so. After the personal-savings rate dipped to zero in 2005, the shock of the economic crisis last year prompted people to snap shut their wallets.
65. What is the author's purpose of writing the passage?
⑥ That's what happens when you're the world's biggest creditor: you get to drop hints like that, which would be enough by themselves to create international economic chaos if they were ever leaked. (Every time any official in Beijing deliberates publicly about seeking an alternative to the U.S. dollar for the $2.1 trillion China holds in reserve...