2014届高考英语二轮专项揭秘技能指导课件阅读理解系列主旨大意题.pptVIP

* 主旨大意题 我们阅读一篇文章，首先是要了解其大意，明确其主旨，因此，主旨大意题是常考题。主旨大意题包括：主要内容(main idea)型、文章标题(title)型。  主要内容型 一、题干形式 题干中一般含有main idea, mainly, theme等。如： 1. What’s the main idea of the passage? (2010福建) 2. What is the theme of the story? (2010湖北) 3. What is the text mainly about? (2010全国) 4. What does this text mainly talk about? (2010全国) 5. What does the passage mainly discuss? (2010江西) 6. What is the message mainly expressed in the story? (2010重庆) 7. What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2? (2010全国) 8. What does the fourth paragraph mainly talk about? (2010四川) 9. This passage is mainly about . (2010安徽) 二、解题方法 寻找主题句是解题的关键，主题句通常在文首、文末或首尾呼应，有时在文中，也有可能没有主题句，需根据文章所述内容进行归纳。寻找主题句有以下四个小窍门： 1.段落中出现转折时，该句很可能是主题句。 2.作者有意识地反复重复的观点，通常是主旨；反复出现的词语，一般为体现文章主旨的关键词。 3.首段出现疑问句时，对该问题的回答很可能就是文章主旨。 4.提出文章主旨时常伴有的文字提示有therefore, thus, but, however, in fact, in short等等。因此，这些词后的内容很可能就是文章主旨。 具体选择时，要仔细推敲各个选项，排除错误选项，缩小选择范围，从而选出最佳答案。错误选项有以下特征： 1.概括范围太窄，只含局部信息。 2.概括范围太宽，所表达的内容超出或多于文章阐述的内容。 3.无关信息：即文章中未提到，或找不到依据的信息。 请快速找出以下各段的主题句： (1) Infants spend most of their days fast asleep. In the days immediately after birth, newborns sleep an average of sixteen hours per day. But the amount they sleep decrease steadily with each passing month. By the age of six months, babies average about thirteen to fourteen hours of sleep per day. By twenty-four months, they average only eleven or twelve hours per day. In short, babies sleep a lot but the amount of sleep they need decreases over time. (2) Soap operas, the dramatic serials shown on afternoon television, are extremely popular. Every day millions of viewers tune into their favorite serial to discover the fate of beloved hero or a hated villain. However, although soap operas pretend to be realistic, they do not show what really happens in the world outside the television studio. In soap operas, people who commit vicious crimes are quickly punished, or else they die an untimely death. Even when suicide or murder enters the story, there’s usually a h