大学四级英语仔细阅读技巧讲座.ppt

Lectures on Reading in Depth Jessica Feng 湖工公外二部 问题类型 1．问题类型一：主旨题 2．问题类型二：细节题 3．问题类型三： 推理题 4．问题类型四：词汇题 5．问题类型五：态度问题 根据问题内容的不同，这类问题可分为主题型、标题型和目的型 。常见的命题方式： 1）What is the main idea (subject) of this passage ? 2）What does this passage mainly (primarily) concerned ? 3）The main theme of this passage is ___________. 4）The main point of the passage is__________. 5）Which of the following is the best title for the passage ? 6）The title that best expresses the theme of the passage is _________. 7）On which of the following subject would the passage most likely be found in a textbook ? 8）Which of the following best describes the passage as a whole ? 9）The purpose of the writer in writing this passage _________. 10）The author writes this passage to________. 对于这种类型的问题，一般来说，首先要找出主题句，概括和归纳出主题思想。试看下面三篇例文。I 主题型例文 （2002年6月阅读部分第3篇） It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior. So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans. Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies. Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption (爆发) for the first time and that they plan similar studies. Other scientists have proposed to use the network