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名师版考研英语必考点专题分析详解 阅读的方向——感情色彩 一篇文章的中心主旨通常由两大部分构成： 1)关键词，也就是前文提到的“中心词”; 2)作者对这一关键词的态度。这就意味着考生在阅读过程中 应时刻注意把握作者用词的感情色彩并做好标记。 大体来看，词语的感情色彩分三类： 1)褒义(肯定);2)贬义(否定);3)中性。 与之相应，作者的观点态度也可以分作三类： 1)积极的(画“+”号);2)消极的(画“-”号);3)客观的(画 “o” 号)。 通常，确定了作者用词的感情色彩也就确定了一篇文章的中 心，所谓“中心即态度，态度即中心”。 Part One 首尾句串读法 既然“中心即态度，态度即中心”,那么寻找中心主旨的方 法同样适用于寻找体现作者态度的表达。其中， “首尾句串 读法”仍然是最普遍适用的一种方法。 真题案例2011英语二Text 1 I Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachss board as an outside director in January 2000; a year later she became president of Brown University. … … But by the end of 2009 Ms.Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldmans compensation committee; how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts passunremarked? … … Ⅱ①Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firms board.. … .... Ⅲ①The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10,000 firms and more than 64,000 different directors between 1989 and 2004. … …④They found that after a surprise departure,the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20%. … … IV ①But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at thetime any wrong doing occurred.②Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives. … … 题目The authors attitude toward the role of outside directors is [A] permissive [B] positive [C] scornful [D] critical 解析 从首段句①我们可以获知以下信息：露丝 ·西蒙斯既是高盛公 司的外聘董事(outside director),又是布朗大学的校长。 这是一个细节信息，由此可以推测本段是要用一个事例来引 出文章讨论的重点。首句没有重要信息，接着，句③出现了 转折词，转折词之后的内容应作为阅读的重点，尤其是首尾 段的转折内容。But之后的信息告诉我们，露丝 ·西蒙斯因为 未能履行好自身的职责而遭到批评(under fire)。 读到这里，外聘董事貌似有问题，应该画“-”号。 第二段首句是对外聘董事的直接评价。作者认为，外聘董事 对公司董事会而言应该是有帮助且不带个人偏见的顾问。 这句话中的helpful和less biased都是好词，也