第一课斟酌
找寻主旨题的答案
在阅读理解的题目中主旨题主要考查读者对文章的主题思想、写作意图等的把握。其常见的提问形式如下：
*What is the main/general idea of the passage?
(文章的主要思想是什么？)
yinmimi*The main theme of the passage is___?
(文章的主题是雅思常识____?)
*The passage is mainly about____?
文章主要关于_____?
rockroll*Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
圣诞饼干下面哪个可以作为文章的标题？
*What is the author’s main point?
作者主要想表达什么？
主旨题的答案通常可以在下面这些地方找到：
文章开头处攀登英语
例文：
What will man be like in the future — in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guess, of cour, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.
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问题：
The passage mainly tells us that _______________.
A. man’s life will be different in the future
B. man is growing taller and uglier as time pass
harbin weatherC. future man will look quite different from us
如何系统的学日语D. human beings’ organs will function weaker
解题：问题是要我们答出文章主要是讲述什么的。我们只要看看这句的第一段就可以得出答案了。第一段的第2句说道“...we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today...”，从这句话中，我们知道答案应为C。
英语四级成绩查询系统入口
文章结尾处
例文：
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Apart from looking after people during the day at work, women often have to take care of family at home too, which may mean they have less energy to complete in the race for professional development. In almost every field, top positions are more likely to be filled by men. While most teachers are women, for example, most headmasters are not. School cooks are women, head cooks are men and even cleaners tend to be watched over and directed by male caretakers.
问题：
The writer mainly tells us that _____.
A. women are kept busy all day long
B. women usually learn things faster than men
C. some women teachers cook better than their husbands
D. some women have to do cleaning at night
解题：问题要求我们答出作者在文中主要说了些什么？从文章的最后一段，我们得知妇女们不管在单位还是在家里都是非常忙碌，所以，选择A。
文章开头+文章结尾
例文：
In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business .But he was not a good artist .So he invented a very simple camera .He put it in a window of his hou and took a picture of his garden .That was the first photo.
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Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century .Some photos were nor just copies of the real world .They showed ideas and feelings,like other kinds of art.
问题：This passage tells us_____________.
A. how photography was developed
B. how to show your ideas and feelings in pictures
C. how to take pictures in the world
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D. how to u different cameras
解题：问题是要我们答出文章主要是讲述什么的。第一段中说大一个法国人需要拍一张照
片，我们得知这篇文章应该和拍照片有关。在看文章的最后一段的第一句说到“Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century”（在19世纪末期拍照也成了一门艺术），这样我们得知答案应该为A：照片是如何发展起来的。
在文章中间部分
例文：
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Is it true that children learn a foreign language more efficiently than adults? On the contrary, rearch studies suggest that the opposite may be true. One report, on 2,200 Danish children studying Swedish, concluded that the teenagers learned more, in less time, than the younger children. Another report, on Americans learning Russian, showed a direct improvement of ability over the age range tested, that is, the ability to learn incread as the age incread, from childhood to adulthood.
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问题：
Which of the following statements best express the main idea of the passage?______.
A. Teenagers are more difficult to teach than adults
B. Danish teenagers can learn Swedish faster than younger children can
C. Adults are more logical than children are
D. The ability to learn languages increas with age
解题：问题让我们答出ABCD四个句子哪一个能够最好的表达了文章的主要思想。这个题目的答案出现在文章的中间部分。在上面的段落中，第一句提出了一个问题“孩子是否比成年人更擅长学习外语呢”，作者接着话锋一转，说道“On the contrary, rearch studies suggest that the opposite may be true.”（研究表明事实却与此相反）。下面还列举了丹麦
的例子，故我们得出答案为D。
窍门：这类题目，我们可以阅读每个段落的第一句话和最后一句话，这是因为段落的第一句话和最后一句话总是有承上启下的作用。有时候这样读完后还是难以找到答案，此时我们可以再读一读每段的第2句话，以此类推。下面举个实例：
例1
What will man be like in the future — in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guess, of cour, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.
Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is a relatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again in the modern world we u our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make u of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity (容量). As time goes on, however, we shall have to
u our brains more and more, and finally we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change too: the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.
