一、主旨大意題

例：(2016年英語(yǔ)二text3) That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliché. But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully: There’s never any time to read.

(2020年英語(yǔ)一text3)Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field. But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.

主旨大意題主要是尋找一篇文章的中心論點(diǎn)，回到文章首段，我們如果發(fā)現首段出現轉折句，極有可能就是這篇文章的中心論點(diǎn)，也就成為主旨大意題的答案出處，以上段落都是英一英二試題中的典型案例。

二、段落推斷題

例：The researchers suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a cooperative, group-living species. Such cooperation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation, it seems, are not the preserve of people alone.Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.

25. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

[A] Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions.

[B] Human indignation evolved from an uncertain source.

[C] Animals usually show their feelings openly as humans do.

[D] Cooperation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild.

段落推斷題實(shí)則是在考查某個(gè)段落的分論點(diǎn)，當我們在這個(gè)段落中發(fā)現有轉折時(shí)，那轉折句就最有可能命制正確答案。案例如上,however引出轉折句，講句子主干拎出來(lái)——whether...，or whether...,is,an unanswered question.(是...還是...，是一個(gè)懸而未決的問(wèn)題)，根據主干語(yǔ)義直接對應選項，會(huì )發(fā)現和B選項相吻合。B選項uncertain(不確定的)對應unanswered(沒(méi)有答案的)。

三、態(tài)度題

例 (2012年英語(yǔ)一text 4)

John Donahue at Harvard’s Kennedy School points out that the norms of

culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers. The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $ 250,000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States. Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

40. John Donahue’s attitude towards the public-sector system is one of ______.

[A] disapproval

[B] appreciation

[C] tolerance

[D] indifference

在態(tài)度題中，可以先排除選項中不可以表達的態(tài)度，再回到原文確定

答案，而回原文確定答案很多時(shí)候是在段落的轉折句。案例如上，先排除選項C和D(均屬于解題技巧課中講過(guò)的可以直接排除選項)，回原文定位，發(fā)現轉折詞but,抓重點(diǎn)表達“a much bigger problem”,可以判斷出來(lái)表述偏負面態(tài)度，對應正確答案A選項。

因此，在各個(gè)題型中，抓住“轉折”，會(huì )讓你事半功倍。