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总结中心之三法找出文章的中心，是主题概括题的主要形式之一。此类题目的设问方式一般有以下几种： 1. What is the passage mainly about? 2. Which of the following best summarizes the passage? 3. What does the passage mainly deal with? 4. What is the main / general idea of the passage? 5. What is the main purpose of the writer? 6. What does the story tell us? 7. This article mainly tells about the story of ______. 8. The writer’s purpose in writing this story is ______. 具体而言，解答此类题目的方法如下： 一、寻找主题句，得出中心 主题句表达了文章的中心思想，它们一般位于文章或某些段落的开头、结尾处。一般情况下，议论文和说明文中往往有主题句。同学们做题时，可采用浏览法，重点搜索文章的首段、尾段或段落的首句和尾句。 如2007年高考英语浙江卷第55题： Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people’s mind to another culture or race. People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own. “Most local stories are based on a larger theme,” American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, “Cinderella(灰姑娘), or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.” Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoners too, helping them know who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don?t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “there is a greater need for communication.” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of t