在考研英語(yǔ)閱讀理解題中，主旨大意題可以說(shuō)是?？土?。這個(gè)題型也是很多考生的“老大難”。大家有沒(méi)有感覺(jué)到我們文章的主旨大意過(guò)于抽象，很難把握呢?今天我們就來(lái)揭示主旨大意題的“廬山真面目”。讓我們以2018年英語(yǔ)(一)的兩道主旨大意題為例，了解一下主旨大意題的解題思路。
主旨大意題在2018年共出了兩道題，兩道都是讓我們選擇最適當的標題(best title)，分別是第30題和第40題，分別是第二篇文章，和第四篇文章的最后一題，內容如下所示：
30. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. A Rise in Critical Skills for Sharing News Online
B. A Counteraction Against the Over-tweeting Trend
C. The Accumulation of Mutual Trust on Social Media
D. The Platforms for Projection of Personal Interests
40. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. the USPS Starts to Miss Its Good Old Pays
B. The Postal Service: Keep Away from My Cheese
C. The Postal Service Needs More than a Band-Aid
D. The USPS: Chronic Illness Requires a Quick Cure
既然它們的位置是文章最后一題，那么我們是不是要最后才來(lái)解我們的主旨大意題呢?當然不是!因為我們考研閱讀的文章前兩段往往都是文章中心思想(即文章主旨)的出處，所以從解題順序來(lái)看，主旨大意題是可以?xún)?yōu)先做的。那么既然解題順序確定，該怎么解題呢?下面我們就來(lái)破解主旨大意的奧。
正如我們剛才說(shuō)的，文章的中心思想往往出現在文章的前兩段內容。但是這個(gè)范圍還是太大，為了進(jìn)一步縮小范圍，我們可以根據考頻，著(zhù)重看前兩段的這幾部分：首段轉折，首段首句，二段首句。其中優(yōu)先看轉折，其次看首句，如果都不能幫助我們對應，再看第二段首句。下面我們將呈現第四篇文章(Text Four)的前兩段內容：
The U.S. Postal Service continues to bleed red ink. The USPS reported a net loss of $5.6 billion for fiscal 2016, the 10th straight year its expenses have exceeded revenue. Meanwhile, the Postal Service has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs. There are many reasons this formerly stable federal institution finds itself at the brink of insolvency. Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, first-class mail, and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.
And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s ultimate overseer--- Congress --- insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected. This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.
根據上面我們交代的解題位置，可以發(fā)現文章首段沒(méi)有出現轉折句，因此我們將目光投向我們的首段首句。The U.S. Postal Service continues to bleed red ink. (美國的郵政署正持續的流出“紅墨水”)。這句話(huà)中同學(xué)們可能不太理解，好端端的怎么滴紅墨水了呢?大家想一想，紅墨水是什么的象征?是不是就是血液的顏色!那么我們再來(lái)看：美國的郵政署正在滴血!什么情況下會(huì )流血呢?這說(shuō)明它內部出現了大的問(wèn)題!那么我們再看選項：
A. the USPS Starts to Miss Its Good Old Pays (美國的郵政署開(kāi)始想念過(guò)去的日子)
B. The Postal Service: Keep Away from My Cheese(美國郵政署：別動(dòng)我的奶酪!)
C. The Postal Service Needs More than a Band-Aid(美國郵政署需要的不僅是一個(gè)“邦迪”創(chuàng )可貼)
D. The USPS: Chronic Illness Requires a Quick Cure((美國郵政署：急性病還需猛藥醫)
通過(guò)選項我們來(lái)判斷一下，那個(gè)選項可以和我們上文說(shuō)的“(美國郵政署正在滴血)最能匹配呢?是不是就是我們的C選項：美國郵政署需要的不僅是一個(gè)“邦迪”創(chuàng )可貼。流血了當然需要創(chuàng )可貼來(lái)止血，而且還是不止一個(gè)!是不是也可以從側面美國郵政署說(shuō)明出現了大的問(wèn)題。所以，我們通過(guò)文章首段首句就可以把我文章的中心思想，從而解出了這道題，感興趣的同學(xué)們還可以具體來(lái)做一下2018年TEXT 4 這篇文章，來(lái)驗證一下我們通過(guò)解題技巧，用不到一分鐘的時(shí)間就解出的正確答案。
