大学英语4级阅读解题策略.docVIP

大学英语四级阅读解题策略 作者： 黄小林 2007年1月大学英语四级考试全面实行新题型。在新的题型中阅读部分的比例调整为35%，时间是40分钟，题量和题型比以前有较大的增幅。在这种情况下，如何提高阅读的效率和速度就成为阅读解题的关键。本文从分析文章的结构入手，总结出解读阅读的两点策略。文章的结构一般是由主题（Subject Matter）、具体阐述（Supporting Details）以及结论等三部分组成。我们解题的核心就是抓住主题，关注细节。 策略一：主题一致原则 主题是作者在文章中要表达的主要内容，是全文的核心。作者在文章中通过各种Supporting Details的事实来阐述和发展主题。因此，在阅读解题中，首先要抓住文章主题，一切围绕主题，选择的答案必须和主题意思一致。 如何抓住主题方法比较多，由于篇幅问题，这里我们介绍一种常见的抓主题方法，即“BUT方法”。大家只要翻阅近几年来四级阅读，就不难发现这种方法非常奏效实用。下面以2008年6月份篇章阅读的第一篇文章来举例说明如何利用抓文章主题来解题的策略（阅读文章中和题目中的黑体是本文作者加注强调）。 例如： Global warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the 21st century, but—regardless of whether it is or isnt—we wont do much about it. We will argue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it. But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seem, the less likely they are to be observed. A1 Gore calls global warming an inconvenient truth, as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution. But the real truth is that we dont know enough to relieve global warming, and — without major technological breakthroughs —we cant do much about it. … No government will adopt rigid restrictions on economic growth and personal freedom (limits on electricity usage, driving and travel) that might cut back global warming. Still, politicians want to show theyre doing something”. Consider the Kyoto Protocol(京都议定书). It allowed countries that joined to punish those that didnt. But it hasnt reduced CO = 2 \* Arabic 2 emissions(up about 25% since 1990), and many signatories(签字国) didnt adopt tough enough policies to hit their 2008-2012 targets. The practical conclusion is that if global warming is a potential disaster, the only solution is new technology. Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it. The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when its really an engineering one. The inconvenient tr