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一．
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考试简介
1.
考试结构
3 hrs and 45
mins
10 sections (3 for Math3 for
Writing3 for Reading plus a variable section)
2.
选项设置
一共
5
个选项：
蒙猜答案的几率下降；审查选项的时间增加
3.
评分标准
√
1 point
○
0 point
×
-1/4 point
不鼓励
Random
guess
，不仅考察学术能力，还考察学术态度
二、
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阅读考试简介
1.
考试时间和分项组成
Type of Qs
No. of Qs
Time Allotted
Sentence
Completion
19
70 mins
(including two 25-min sections and
one 20-min
section)
Passage-based Reading
48
Total Qs
67
2.
文章特点简介
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导言
source, time, background, author
(status), key words, theme, etc.
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题材
一黑妹生自文艺社
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移民文化
（
cross-culture and
emigration
）
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黑人土著
(Black Americans & Native Americans)
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女性女权
(women & feminism)
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生物环境
(biology & environment)
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自然科学
(natural science)
?
文学作品
(literary fiction)
?
艺术评论
(art criticism)
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社会研究
(social
studies)
?
类型
?
根据文章体裁：
non-literary
/ literary fiction
?
根据文章长度：
short passage / long
passage
?
根据文章数量：
single passage /
paired passages
排列组合之后考试时所见到的文章类型有：
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SSP
（
short single
passage
）
?
SPP
（
short paired
passages
）
?
LSP (long
single passage) (non-literary)
?
LF (literary
fiction)
?
LPP
(long paired passages)
我将会在后面的课程中一一向大家进行阅读策略的介绍。
3.
题型及考查比重
（
< br>2005
年
10
月到
2009
年
5
月）
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推理（
8
）
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细节（
6
）
?
态度（
6
）
?
词汇（
5
）
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作用（
5
）
?
例子（
3
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主旨（
3
）
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互联（
5
）
?
求同（
2
）
?
求异（
2
）
?
修辞（
2
）
?
外援（
1
）
?
符号（
0
or 1
）
三．文章类型及阅读策略
1.
Strategy for SSP
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Quantity: 2
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Format: P + 2 Qs
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Word count:
100-150 /p
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Required time: 2-3 mins/p
①
Scan 2 Qs
quickly
A. Find the clue words;
B. Identify the type of Q
if possible;
②
Read the passage and take BRIEF notes
if necessary;
③
Scrutinize options;
④
Select the best
choice. (ABCDE and leave it blank)
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文章示范：新
OG P577-9-10
That nineteenth-century French novelist
Honore de Balzac could be financially wise in his
fiction
while losing all his money in
life was an irony duplicated in other matters. For
instance, the very
women who had been
drawn to him by the penetrating intuition of the
female heart that he showed
in
his
novels
were
appalled
to
discover how
insensitive
and
awkward
the
real
man
could
be.
It
seems
that
the
true
source
of
creation
for
Balzac
was
not
sensitivity
but
imagination
.
Balzac’s
fiction
originally
sprang
from
an
intuition
he
first
discovered
as
a
wretched
little
school
boy
locked
in a dark closet of his boarding school: life is a
prison, and only imagination can open its
doors.
9. The example in lines 4-8
primarily suggests that_______
A.
Balzac’s work wa
s not especially
popular among female readers
B. Balzac
could not write convincingly about financial
matters
C. Balzac’s insights into
character were not evident in his everyday
life
D. people who knew
Balzac personally could not respect him as an
artist
E. readers had unreasonable
expectations of Balzac the man
10. The author mentions
Balzac’s experience as a schoolboy in order
to
A. explain why Balzac was
unable to conduct his financial affairs properly
B. point out a possible
source of Balzac’s powerf
ul imagination
C. exonerate the boarding school for
Balzac’s lackluster performance
D. foster the impression that Balzac
was an unruly student
E. depict the
conditions of boarding school life during Balzac’
youth
举例说明概述题
(purpose of example)
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ID
：
The author
mentions/quotes/cites/uses/describes/discusses
sth to/ in order to…
The example in line X
suggests/emphasizes/illustrates…
The reference to X provides/presents an
example/examples of …
?
Structure:
①
TS.+(For
instance/example),+example.
②
Example. + Conclusion.
③
TS+(such as/by)+example.
?
Solution:
瞻前顾后，外加自恋！
TS/C
详读，例子本身可以扫读或阅读。
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nineteenth-century
French
novelist
Honore
de
Balzac
could
be
financially
wise
in
his
fiction while losing all his money in
life>
was an irony
?
It was
an irony
题目示范：
Each
passage below is followed by questions based on
its content. Answer the
questions on
the basis of what is stated or implied.
in each passage and in any introductory
material that may be provided.
Questions 6-7 are based on the
following passage.
Choice of
language frequently plays a significant role in
the development of
the
Hispanic
American
writer'svoice
and
message.
lack
language,
wrote
.Cherrie
Moraga,
author
of
Loving
in
the
War
Years:
lo
quenunca
pas6
por
sus
labios.
The
use
of two languagesin the
title itself expresses the difficulty that the
author
perceives in narrating personal
experience in one language when one has lived in
another.
6. The author cites
Moraga's book primarily in order to
(A)
emphasize
the
challenges
that
some
Hispanic
American
writers
face
in
getting
their work published
(B)
celebrate the achievements of a young Hispanic
American novelist
(C) demonstrate
the expressiveness of a writer whohas mastered
several
languages
(D)
confirm that American writers are exploringnew
artistic approaches
(E) illustrate
a dilemma that Hispanic Americanwriters often face
态度题
(attitude)
?
ID
：
tone, attitude, reaction, response,
feeling, sentiment, expression, view,
regard
，
describe, portray,
characterize
?
Type:
①
positive
attitude
②
negative attitude
③
mixed attitude
?
Solution:
①从情感态度词和转折句判断态度类型
②从作者语气辨别字面态度
/
反语态度
③用态度评价原则排除错误选项
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举例示范：
Students’ attitude toward NN can best
be described as
?
A.
好棒
B.
好土
C.
好囧
D.
好
cuo
E.
好吃
文章示范：
Questions 8-9 are based on the
following passage.
The science
fiction masterpiece 2001: A Space
Odyssey~will probably be remembered be~t for the
finely honed portrait of HAL, the
Heuristically pro-
Line grammed
ALgorithmic computer that could not only
5 reason but also experience human
feelings and anxiety.
Surprisingly, perhaps, computers have in some ways
surpassed writer Arthur C.
Clarke's and film director
Stanley Kubrick's vision of computing technology
at the turn of the millennium.
Today's computers are
lO vastly
smaller and more portable than HAL and use
software interfaces that forgo
the type of manual
controls found
on the spaceship that carded HAL.
8. The author's attitude toward the
best characterized as one of
(A) resentment
(B)
appreciation
(C) confusion
(D) awe
(E) derision
awe: a feeling
of great respect usually mixed with fear or
wonder.
文章示范：
Questions 13-25 are based on the
following passage.
This passage is
excerpted from a novel published in 1970.
As
the
passage
begins,
four
men
are
looking
at
a
map
in
preparation
for
a
canoe
trip.
It
unrolled
slowly,
forced
to
show
its
colors,
curling
and
snapping
back
whenever
one of us turned
loose. The whole land was very tense until we put
our four steins
on Line its corners and
laid the river out to run for us through the
mountains 150
miles north. Lewis' hand
took a pencil andmarked out a small strong X in a
place
where some of thegreen bled away
and the paper changed with high ground, and began
to
work
downstream,
northeast
to
southwest
through
the
printed
woods.
I
watched
the
hand
ratherthan
the
location,
for
it
seemed
to
have
power
over
the
terrain,
and
when
it stopped for Lewis' voice to explain
something, it was as though all streams
everywhere
quit running,
hanging silently where they were to let the point
be made.
The
pencil
turned
over
and
pretended
to
sketch
in
with
the
eraser
an
area
that
must
have been around fifty miles long,
through which the river hooked and cramped.
will be blue. The dam at
Aintry has already been started, and when it's
finished
next springthe river will back
up fast. This whole valley will be under water.
But
right
now
it's
wild.
And
I
mean
wild;
it
looks
like
something
up
in
Alaska.
We
really
ought to go up there
before
the
real estate people
get
hold
of
it
and
make it over
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into one of their heavens.
I
leaned forward and concentrated down into the
invisible shape he had drawn,
trying to
see the changes that would come, the nighttime
rising of dammed water
bringing a new
lake up with its choice lots, its marinas and beer
cans, and also
trying
to
visualize
the
land
as
Lewis
said
it
was
at
that
moment,
unvisited
and
free.
I breathed in and out
once, consciously; my body, particularly the back
and arms,
felt ready for something like
this. I looked around the bar and then back into
the
map, picking up the river where we
would enter it. A little way to the southwest
the paper blanched.
Yes, Lewis said, looking
quickly at me to see if I saw he was being
tolerant.
Ah,
he's
going
to
turn
this
into
something,
I
thought.
A
lesson.
A
moral.
A
life
principle.
A Way.
get through that in a
day, easy. And the water should be good, in that
part
especially.
I didn't
have much idea what good meant in the way of river
water, but for it
to seem good to Lewis
it would have to meet some very definite
standards. The way
he
went
about
things
was
strictly
his
own;
that
was
mainly
what
he
liked
about
doing
them.
He liked particularly to take some extremely
specialized and difficult form
5o of
sport--usually
one he could do by
himself--and evolve
a personal approach
to
it which he could then expound. I
had been through this with him in fly casting,
in archery and weight lifting and
spelunking, in all of which he had developed
complete mystiques. Now it was
canoeing. I settled back and came out of the map.
Bobby
Trippe
was
there,
across
from
me.
He
had
smooth
thin
hair
and
a
high
pink
complexion.
I
knew
him least well
of
the
others
at
the
table,
but
I
liked
him
a
good
deal, even so. He was pleasantly
cynical and gave me the impression that he shared
some
kind
of
understanding
with
me
that
neither
of
us
was
to
take
Lewis
too
seriously.
householders every once in a
while,
till the feeling
passes.
getting
up,
* A cemetery.
19.
Lewis' use of the word
(A)
appreciative
(B) deceitful
(C) tentative
(D)
defensive
(E) ironic
2. Strategy for SPP
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Quantity: 1
?
Format: P1 & P2
+ 4
～
5 Qs
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?
Word count:
250-300/P1&P2
?
Required time: 5-6 mins
①
Read P1 & P2
and take BRIEF notes;
A. read 1st
sentence, last sentence and the sentences
indicating change carefully;
B. judge
the
relationship
btw 2 Ps:
oppose
(
考查最多
)/support/loosely
related
②
Read a
question (clue words; type);
③
Scrutinize
options;
④
Select the best choice.
求异题
?
ID:
P1 differs from P2 in
that________________
Unlike P1,
P2_________________________
The
contrast/difference between P1& P2 is that _____
X in P1& P2 respectively
________________
Compared to P1,
P2____________________
_____________________is in P1, but not
in P2?
?
Solution:
Try to find the DF btw 2 Ps
in
①
view/attitude
②
contents
③
style/ rhetoric
求同题
?
ID:
P1 is similar/
analogous/ parallel /akin to P2 in
that_______________
Which of the
following statement is shared by P1 & P2?
Both passages__________
X in P1 is most like ________ in P2?
What do P1& P2 have in common?
?
Solution:
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先找交集
;
?
若无交集，再找补集并取反
.
互联题
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ID:
①
Which best describes the
relationship between the two passages?
②
____ in one passage would
most likely + VERB +___ in another passage?
TYPES OF VERBS:
↑support/
exemplify/agree with/espouse/strengthen
↓weaken/undermine/discredit/criticize/d
amage
？
respond
to/react to/ claim/assert/argue/
contend /suggest/consider/
interpret /view/regard
?
Solution:
①弄清题干中的已知信息
②根据另一篇文章内容和题干中的动词找出最佳选项
文章示范：
The passages below are followed by
questions based on their content; questions
following a pair of related passages
may also
. be based on the
relationship between the paired passages. Answer
the questions
on the basis of what is
stated or ~ in the
passages and in
any introductory material that may be provided.
Questions 6-9 are based on the
following passages.
Passage 1
The eighteenth-century botanist
Carolus Linnaeus'
enormous and
essential contribution to natural history
was to devise a system of
classification whereby any
Line plant
or animal could be identified and slotted into
5 an overall plan. Yet Linnaeus
himself would probably
have been
the first to admit that classification is only
a tool, and not the ultimate
purpose, of biological
inquiry.
Unfortunately, this truth was not apparent
to his immediate successors, who
for the next hundred
10 years were to
concern themselves almost exclusively
with classification.
Passage 2
I am a heretic about Linnaeus. !
do not dispute the
value of the
tool he gave natural science, but I am wary
about the change it has effected on
humans' relationship
15 to the world.
From Linnaeus on, much of science has
been devoted to sorting masses into individual
entities
and arranging the entities
neatly. The cost of having so
successfully itemized and pigeonholed nature is to
limit
certain possibilities of
seeing and apprehending. For
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20 example, the modem human thinks that
he or she can
best understand a
tree (or a species of tree) by examining
a single tree. But trees are not
intended to g~ow in isolation.
They
are social creatures, and their society in turn
supports
other species of plants,
insects, birds, mammals, and micro-
25
organisms, all of which make up the whole
experience of
the woods.
6. Compared, to the author of
Passage 2, the author
of
Passage 1 regards Linnaeus with more
(A) cynicism
(B) bafflement
(C) appreciation
(D) nostalgia
(E) resentment
7. Unlike the author of Passage 1, the
author of Passage 2
makes use of
(A) scientific data
(B) literary allusion
(C) historical
research
(D) personal voice
(E) direct citation
8.
Both passages emphasize which of the following
aspects of Linnaeus' work?
(A) The extent to which it
contributed to natural
science
(B) The way in which it
limits present-day science
(C) The
degree to which it revived interest in biology
(D) The decisiveness with which it
settled scientific
disputes
(E) The kinds of scientific
discoveries on which
it built
9. The author of Passage 1 would most
likely respond
to the opening of
Passage 2 (lines 12-17) by arguing
that the author of Passage 2 has
(A)
demonstrated that Linnaeus should be better
known as a scientist than he
currently is
(B) minimized the
achievements of those scientists
who built on Linnaeus' work
(C)
refused to appreciate the importance of proper
classification to scientific
progress
(D) failed to distinguish
the ideas of Linnaeus from
those of his followers
(E)
misunderstood Linnaeus' primary contribution
to natural history
文章内容简介：
P1: CL
tool
S
P2: CL
大小
tool
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Strategy for LSP
（说明文，评论文）
?
Quantity: 1 or 2
?
Format: P+ 5
～
13 Qs
?
Word count: 450-850/P
?
Required time:
10
±
4 mins
Structural reading strategy
①
Scan the blurb
and mark useful info;
②
Read the crucial parts
of
the passage and take notes
(3’
-
5’);
③
Read a question
and its corresponding contents in the passage;
④
Select the best
choice from options.
Crucial parts of a passage
You should read at least the
followings:
①
1
st
sentences of
each paragraph
②
last sentences of
1
st
para & last para
③
major sentences
indicating change
文章示范：
Questions
18-22 are based on the following passage.
This excerpt discusses the relationship
between plants and their environments.
Why do some desert plants grow tall and
thin like organ pipes? Why do most trees
in the tropics keep their leaves year
round? Why in the Arctic tundra are there no
trees
at
all?
After
many
years
without
convincing
general
answers,
we
now
know
much
about what sets the
fashion in plant design.
Using
terminology
more
characteristic
of
a
thermal
engineer
than
of
a
botanist,
we
can think of plants as mechanisms that
must balance their heat budgets. A plant by
day is staked out under the Sun with no
way of sheltering itself. All day long it
absorbs
heat.
If
it
did
not
lose
as
much
heat
as
it
gained,
then
eventually
it
would
die: Plants get rid of
their heat by warming the air around them, by
evaporating
water,
and
by
radiating
heat
to
the
atmosphere
and
the
cold,
black
reaches
of
space.
temperature is
tolerable for the processes of life.
Plants in the Arctic tundra lie close
to the ground in the thin layer of still
air that
clings there. A
foot or two
above the
ground
are the
winds of Arctic cold.
Tundra plants absorb heat from the Sun
and tend to warm up; they probably balance
most
of
their
heat
budgets
by
radiating
heat
to
space,
but
also
by
warming
the
still
air hat is trapped
among them. As long as Arctic plants are close to
the ground,
they can balance their heat
budgets. But if they should stretch up as a tree
does,
they
would
lift
their
working
parts,
their
leaves,
into
the
streaming
Arctic
winds.
Then
it
is
likely
that
the
plants
could
not
absorb
enough
heat
from
the
Sun
to
avoid
being
cooled
below
a
critical
temperature.
Your
heat
budget
does
not
balance
if
you
stand tall in the
Arctic.
Such
thinking
also
helps
explain
other
characteristics
of
plant
design.
A
desert
plant faces the
opposite problem from that of an Arctic plant the
danger of
overheating. It
is
short of water and
so cannot
cool itself
by evaporation
without
dehydrating. The familiar
sticklike shape of desert plants represents one of
the
solutions to this problem: the
shape exposes the smallest possible surface to
incoming solar radiation and provides
the largest possible surface from which the
plant can radiate heat.
In
tropical
rain forests, by way of
contrast, the scorching
Sun is not a
problem for plants because there is sufficient
water.
This
working
model
allows
us
to
connect
the
general
characteristics
of
the
forms
of plants indifferent habitats with
factors such as temperature, availability of
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water, and presence or absence of
seasonal differences. Our Earth is covered with
a patchwork quilt of meteorological
conditions,
and the patterns of this
patchwork
are faithfully reflected by
the plants.
18. q-he passage primarily
focuses on which of the following characteristics
of
plants?
(A) Their
ability to grow equally well in all environments
(B) Their effects on the Earth's
atmosphere
(C) Their ability to store
water for dry periods
(D) Their
fundamental similarity of shape
(E)
Their ability to balance heat intake and output
Questions 16-24 are
based on the following passage.
This passage is from a boo.k of nature writing
published in
1991.
In North America, bats fall into mainly
predictable
categories: they are
nocturnal, eat insects, and are rather
small. But winging through their lush, green-black
world,
Line tropical bats are more
numerous and have more exotic
5 habits
than do temperate species. Some of them feed on
nectar that bat-pollinated trees
have evolved to profit from
their
visits. Carnivorous bats like nothing better than
a local
frog, lizard, fish, or
bird, which they pluck from the foliage
or a moonlit pond. Of course, some
bats are vampires and
10 dine on blood.
In the movies, vampires are rather showy,
theatrical types, but vampire bats
rely on stealth and small,
pinprick incisions made by razory, triangular
front teeth.
Sleeping livestock
are their usual victims, and they take
care not to wake them. First, they make the
classic incisions
15 shaped like
quotation marks; then, with saliva full of anti-
coagulants so that the victim's
blood will flow nicely, they
.quietly lap their fill. Because this
anticoagulant is not toxic
to
humans, vampire bats may one day play an important
role in the treatment of heart
patients--that is, if we can
2o just
get over our phobia about them. Having studied
them
intimately, I now know that
bats are sweet-tempered, useful,
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and fascinating creatures. The
long-standing fear that many
people have about bats tells us less about bats
than about
human fear.
25 Things that live by night live
outside the realm of
wake by day and sleep by night, we come to
associate night
dwellers with
people up to no good, people who have the
jump on the rest of us and are
defying nature, defying their
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circadian rhythms.* Also, night is when we dream,
and so
- we picture the bats moving
through a dreamtime, in which
reality is warped. After all, we do not see very
well at
night; we do not need to.
But that makes us nearly defense-
less after dark. Although we are accustomed to
tnastering
35 our world by day, in the
night we become vulnerable as
prey. Thinking of bats as masters of the night
threatens the
safety we daily take
for granted. Though we are at the top
of our food chain, if we had to live alone in the
rain forest,
say, and protect
ourselves against roaming predators, we
40 would live partly in terror, as our
ancestors did. Our sense
of safety
depends on predictability, so anything living
outside the usual rules we suspect
to be an outlaw, a ghoul.
Bats
have always figured as frightening or supernatural
creatures in the mythology,
religion, and superstitioo of
45
peoples everywhere. Finnish peasants once believed
that
their souls rose from their
bodies while they slept and flew
around the countryside as bats, then returfied to
them by
morning. Ancient Egyptians
prized bat parts as medicine
for a
variety of diseases. Perhaps the most mystical,
ghoul-
50 ish, and intimate
relationship between bats and humans
occurred among the Maya about two thousand years
ago.
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Zotzilaha Chamalc~in, their bat
god, had a human body but
the
stylized head and wings of a bat. His image
appears
often on their altars,
pottery, gold ornaments, and stone
55
pillars. One especially frightening engraving
shows the bat
god with
outstretched wings and a question-mark no~e, its
tongue wagging with hunger, as it
holds a human corpse in
one hand and
the human's heart in the other. A number of
other Central American cultures
raised the bat to the ulti-
60 mate
height: as god of death and the underworld. But it
was Bram Stoker's riveting novel
Dracula that turned
small, furry
mammals into huge, bloodsucking monsters
in the minds of English-speaking
people. If vampires were
sernihuman, then they could fascinate with their
conniving
65 cruelty, and thus a spill
of horror books began to appear
about the human passions of vampires.
* Circadian rhythrns are patterns of daily change
within one's body that
are
determined by the time of day or night.
16. The author's main point in the
passage is that
(A) there are
only a few kinds of bats
(B)
humans are especially vulnerable to nocturnal
predators
(C) bat saliva may have medicinal uses
(D) only myth and literature have depicted the
true
nature of the
bat
(E) our perception of
bats has its basis in human
psychology
主旨题
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ID:
The passage serves mainly to __________
The passage primarily focuses on
__________
The passage is primarily
concerned with _______
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The main idea/ point/purpose of the
passage is __________
The passage as a
whole is best described as _____________
The passage as a whole answers which of
the following question?
?
solution:
①画圈后做
②（导言）
+
关键词
+
重点句
↓
（各段）首句
（首末段）尾句
重要转折句
细节题之一：寻因题
?
ID:
because/due to/attribute to/in that
?
Solution:
根据题干中的结果，向前或向后找原因。
文章示范：
Questions
18-22 are based on the following passage.
This excerpt discusses the relationship
between plants and their environments.
Why do some desert plants grow tall and
thin like organ pipes? Why do most trees
in the tropics keep their leaves year
round? Why in the Arctic tundra are there no
trees
at
all?
After
many
years
without
convincing
general
answers,
we
now
know
much
about what sets the
fashion in plant design.
Using
terminology
more
characteristic
of
a
thermal
engineer
than
of
a
botanist,
we
can think of plants as mechanisms that
must balance their heat budgets. A plant by
day is staked out under the Sun with no
way of sheltering itself. All day long it
absorbs
heat.
If
it
did
not
lose
as
much
heat
as
it
gained,
then
eventually
it
would
die: Plants get rid of
their heat by warming the air around them, by
evaporating
water,
and
by
radiating
heat
to
the
atmosphere
and
the
cold,
black
reaches
of
space.
temperature is
tolerable for the processes of life.
Plants in the Arctic tundra lie close
to the ground in the thin layer of still
air that
clings there. A
foot or two
above the
ground
are the
winds of Arctic cold.
Tundra plants absorb heat from the Sun
and tend to warm up; they probably balance
most
of
their
heat
budgets
by
radiating
heat
to
space,
but
also
by
warming
the
still
air hat is trapped
among them. As long as Arctic plants are close to
the ground,
they can balance their heat
budgets. But if they should stretch up as a tree
does,
they
would
lift
their
working
parts,
their
leaves,
into
the
streaming
Arctic
winds.
Then
it
is
likely
that
the
plants
could
not
absorb
enough
heat
from
the
Sun
to
avoid
being
cooled
below
a
critical
temperature.
Your
heat
budget
does
not
balance
if
you
stand tall in the
Arctic.
Such
thinking
also
helps
explain
other
characteristics
of
plant
design.
A
desert
plant faces the
opposite problem from that of an Arctic plant the
danger of
overheating. It
is
short of water and
so cannot
cool itself
by evaporation
without
dehydrating. The familiar
sticklike shape of desert plants represents one of
the
solutions to this problem: the
shape exposes the smallest possible surface to
incoming solar radiation and provides
the largest possible surface from which the
plant can radiate heat.
In
tropical
rain forests, by way of
contrast, the scorching
Sun is not a
problem for plants because there is sufficient
water.
This
working
model
allows
us
to
connect
the
general
characteristics
of
the
forms
of plants indifferent habitats with
factors such as temperature, availability of
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water, and presence or absence of
seasonal differences. Our Earth is covered with
a patchwork quilt of meteorological
conditions,
and the patterns of this
patchwork
are faithfully reflected by
the plants.
20. According to the
passage, which of the following is most
responsible for
preventing trees from
growing tall in the Arctic?
(A) The
hard, frozen ground
(B) The small
amount of available sunshine
(C) The
cold, destructive winds
(D) The large
amount of snow that falls each year
(E) The absence of seasonal differences in
temperature
21. The author
suggests that the
can be attributed to
the
(A) inability of the plants to
radiate heat to the air around them
(B) presence of irregular seasonal differences in
the desert
(C) large surface area
that the plants must expose to the Sun
(D) absence of winds strong enough to knock down
tall, thin plants
(E) extreme heat
and aridity of the habitat
4. Strategy for LF
Para by Para reading strategy
①
identify the
type of passage by scanning blurb (novel, memoir,
autobiography, narrative, etc.);
②
mark questions
related to 1st para according to line reference or
clue words;
③
read 1st para and answer concerned
questions;
④
treat other Qs in other paragraphs
similarly;
⑤
answer Qs abt the whole passage if any.
文章示范：
The
passage
below
is
followed
by
questions
based
on
its
content.
Answer
the
questions
on the basis of
what is stated or in the passage and in any
introductory material
that may be
provided.
Questions 7-19 are based
on the following passage.
This
passage is adapted from a 1998 memoir in which
the author recalls her childhood
in Chicago in the 1960's.
A
trip to the library was like a great excursion to
a different country. To get
there, we had to walk a mile.
But
the distance between where we lived and where we
Line were going was much greater. To
get there we traveled
5 beyond the
usual parameters of school and church and the
shopping strip we frequented,
into the manicured lawns
and
gardens of Hyde Park. I loved the walk as much as
the destination itself. In the
middle of the anger that was
my
home and the upheaval of a changing world in which
10 it seemed I had no place, our
semimonthly excursions to
the
library were a piece of perfection. I had around
me
at one time all the people I
loved best--my mother and
brothers and sister--and all the things I loved
best--
quiet, space, and books.
15 We went to the T. B. Blackstone
Library, not far from
Lake
Michigan. You could easily miss the building if
you
didn't know what you were
looking for. But once you
were
inside, you could never mistake it for anything
else.
We passed through two sets
of heavy brass doors to the
20 lobby
of the library, a great domed entrance with a
ceiling
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adorned with what I used to
imagine were the angels of
books.
They were great gilded figures armed with harps
and with scrolls and other
instruments of learning.
If
we turned right, we could see an alcove with
tables;
25 this led, in turn, to a
spacious reading room adorned with
a gigantic and ancient globe that sat in front of
the largest
windows. At some
point during every visit, I found my
way into that room to touch the globe, to finger
the ridges
and the painted canvas
already frayed and separating from
30
its sphere. I liked to look at Africa, with the
coded colors
of the different
countries like the Belgian Congo and
Rhodesia, and try to remember which countries were
fighting to be free just as we
were struggling for civil
rights.
I had heard Daddy talking about the struggle,
35 arguing with the television as
someone discussed it on
a news
show. And I had seen pictures on the news of
people gathered together
marching. But I didn't really
know anything about Africa except what I saw in
the
Tarzan movies, which I
watched a lot, but thought were
40
really strange. (Why did that White man live in a
tree?)
I read a lot of books
about mythology, and then about
science: not the missiles and spaceships Brother
preferred,
but the birds and the
bees--literally. I brought home a
giant book of birds and searched the skies and
trees for
45 anything other than
robins and pigeons. And I read about
bees because I liked the idea that all of them
listened to
the queen and couldn't
go on without her. I went through
a phase of loving books with practical science
experiments
and used up a whole
bottle of white vinegar by pouring it
5o on the sides of our apartment
building to prove that it was
constructed of limestone. ~
One
Saturday, as I wandered through the young adult
section, I saw a title: Little
Women, by Louisa May Alcott.
I
could tell from looking at the shelf that she'd
written
55 a lot of books, but I didn't
know anything about her. I
had
learned from experience that titles weren't
everything.
A book that sounded
great on the shelf could be dull once
you got it home, and every bad book I brought home
meant
one less book to read until
we went back in two weeks. So
60 I sat
in a chair near the shelves to skim the first
paragraphs:
any
presents,
looking
down at her old dress.
65
plenty of pretty things, and other
girls nothing
at
all,
other,
70 It was a good thing I'd
already decided on some
other books
to take home, because I didn't look through
the rest of the section that day. I
read and read and read
Little Women
until it was time to walk home, and, except
for a few essential interruptions
like sleeping and eating,
75 I would
not put it down until the end. Even the freedom
to watch weekend television held no
appeal for me in
the wake of
Alcott's story. It was about girls, for one thing,
girls who could almost be like me,
especially Jo. It seemed
to me a
shame that she wasn't Black; then our similarity
8o would be complete. She loved to
read, she loved to make
up plays,
she hated acting ladylike, she had a dreadful
temper. I had found a kindred
spirit.
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7. The author viewed the
(line 10) with
(A) apprehension
(B)
detachment
(C) resentment
(D) pride
(E) delight
8. In lines
16-18 (
the author distinguishes
between
(A) general and
particular impressions
(B)
objective and subjective experiences
(C) external and internal appearances
(D) public and private observations
(E) true and false assumptions
9. The
tone of the statement in lines 17-18
(
(A) arrogance
(B) foreboding
(C) conviction
(D) diffidence
(E) sarcasm
10. The author'~ reaction
to the
conveys her
(A) aspirations of becoming a novelist
(B) distaste for religious imagery
:
(C) puzzlement about artistic symbolism
_
(D) reverence for
the library's educational
~:
offerings
i (E) discomfort in the
presence of high
i culture
11. For the author, to
i'
(line 30) served as a reminder of
i
(A) an American movement for social change
(B) a personal experience abroad
(C) the diversity of cultures
around the world
(D) the ethnic
diversity of her neighborhood
(E) the influence of African politics on America
i. 12. What does the description in
lines 34-36 (
show
(A) He was uncomfortable discussing politics
with his children.
(B) He did not approve of
most television news
coverage.
(C) He had strong
feelings about the Civil Rights
~
movement.
(D) He generally had a
pessimistic worldview.
(E) He
was an outspoken public advocate for equal rights.
13
．
The author
refers to
“
Tarzan
movies
”
in line 39
to demonstrate
that
，
as a
child
，
she had
fA)no concerns about the authenticity of most
films
(B)a
preference for watching movies rather
than reading books
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fC)a fascination with movie actors
(D)limited knowledge about Africa
(E)little interest in fictional
characters
14
．
The primary purpose 6f
the fourth paragraph
(1ines
41
—
51)is to
(A)contrast the books about mythology
and science that the author had been
’
reading
(B)discuss why the author enjoyed books
that were about birds and bees
(C)characterize the
author
’
S reading interests
during a particular period of time
(D)distinguish between books
preferred by
j the author and those
preferred by her
brother
(E)provide several examples of
practical
science experiments that
the author
conducted
15
．
Lines 52
．
60(
“
One Saturday
?
paragraphs
”
)
suggest that the author accepted
which of the
following
generalizations about books?
fA)Books seem duller when read in libraries
‘
than when read at
home
．
(B)Interesting books are often very dull
in their first few
paragraphs
．
。
(C)Novels are usually
more interesting
than nonfiction
works
．
fD)Book titles can sometimes be
misleading
．
(E)Books are rarely as interesting as their
titles
．
16
．
The author uses an
extended quote in lines
61
—
69
(
．
．
．
corner
”
)as part of a larger attempt
to
(A)convey the impact of an
unexpected discovery
(B)illustrate
the suddenness of a decision
(C)simulate a child
’
S
misconceptions
(D)criticize the
artificiality of the
“
young
adult
”
classification
(E)describe a young
reader
’
S sense of history
17. In line 65,
(A)
comely
(B) temperate
(C) equitable
(D) auspicious
(E) mediocre
18. The
description in lines 70-75 (
suggests that the author found Little Women to be
(A) bewildering ,
(B) unremarkable
(C) hilarious
(D) profound
(E) captivating
19. The
list in lines 80-82 (
serves
primarily to
(A) support a
hypothesis
(B) challenge an
interpretation
(C) emphasize an
inconsistency