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研究生英语考试阅读理解题解题技巧㈡ 理解主旨要义 浙江绍兴越秀外国语学院 英语分院 王益民 邮编：312000 一、阅读理解主旨要义题的测试内容 研究生英语入学考试阅读理解主旨要义题主要测试两个方面的内容，即理解某个英语段落的主旨要义和理解整篇文章的主旨要义，以测试整篇文章的主旨要义为主。 测试某个段落的主旨要义题目一般是：What does the author intend to tell us in the …paragraph? / The main idea of paragraph…is? / The … paragraph suggests that… / From the…paragraph we can learn… / The controlling idea of the…paragraph is…等等。例如： Most women in Ghana — the educated and illiterate, the urban and the rural, the young and old — work to earn an income in addition to maintaining their role as housewives and mothers. Their reputation for economic independence, self-reliance, and hard work is well known and well deserved. The main idea of this paragraph is that ________. A. women in Ghana is lazy B. women in Ghana work and maintain families C. most women in Ghana are young D. few women in Ghana work outside home 根据该段第一句中的work to earn an income in addition to maintaining their role as housewives and mothers所传达的意思，我们不难确定B为正确答案。再如： The fact is that all of us, scientists included, see differently. Variations in human perception are well known and have been studied extensively. Distortions in perception are frequently seen among observers, even though they may be identical settings viewing identical phenomena. The controlling idea of this paragraph is ______. A. differently B. extensively C. frequently D. identical 在大多数的英语说明文的段落中都有一个主题句，在主题句中有一个或几个关键词，这一个或几个关键词在英语写作书中叫做controlling idea,整个段落的内容是围绕这个controlling idea展开的。上面一个段落的主题句是段首一句话：The fact is that all of us, scientists included, see differently.该主题句中的关键词是differently，是controlling idea,故答案为A。 阅读理解主旨要义主要测试对整篇文章主旨要义的理解，问的问题主要有两种情况，一种是涉及整篇文章内容的主旨要义，另一种是要求对所测试的文章给出一个确当的标题。前一种情况的问题常见的有：What is main idea of the passage? / What topic is this passage mainly concerned with? / The central idea conveyed in this passage is_____. / Which of the following best states the main point of the passage? / The author’s purpose to write thi