高考英语阅读理解提分技巧
▼ 转折与对比
人的五行
转折与对比处常常是语义的重点，命题常常要涉及，转折一般通过however, but, instead, yet, in fact等词语表示。
【真题示例1】 (2015 浙江，阅读C)
If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal (夜间活动的) species on this planet. Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun’s light. This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of us don’t think of ourlves as diurnal beings. Yet it’s the only way to explain what we’ve done to the night: We’ve engineered it to receive us by filling it with light.
50. According to the passage, human beings _________.
A. prefer to live in the darkness
B. are ud to living in the day light
C. were curious about the midnight world
D. had to stay at home with the light of the moon
【答案解析】 B 考查推理判断。命题点在“Instead”处。根据第二句“Instead, we are diurnal creatures ”可知，人类日间活动，眼睛习惯了阳光下的生活，B项与文章内容一致。
【真题示例2】 (2015 天津, 阅读B)
The more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. “We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us,” said Breazeal.
44. We can learn from the last paragraph that social robots will ___________.
A. train employees
B. be our workmates
C. improve technologies
D. take the place of workers
【答案解析】 B 考查事实细节。命题点在“but”处，根据 “But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees.”可知，设计这种机器人不是用来替代人工的，而是和其他工人一起工作，因此它们会成为我们的同事。
【真题示例3】(2015 安徽，阅读B)
Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn’t have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny’s mother, Dia
na, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietname restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business becau she thought it was too hard.
佛教起源于61. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family _______________.
A. started a business in 1975新密县衙
B. left Vietnam without much money
和和气气C. bought a restaurant in San Francisco
D. opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles
【答案解析】 B 考查事实细节。命题点在“However”处，根据第二句 “However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn’t have much money.” 可知答案。
▼ 列举项
由as, such as, for example, for instance等引导的'短语或句子一般是举例项，需要注意的是例子一般是和文章的中心或段落中心紧密相关的，常考“推理性问题”和“细节性问题”，这类试题可通过“中心思想”来解答。
【真题示例1】 (2015 天津， 阅读B)
The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn’t just deliver general answers to questions; it responds bad on what it learns about each individual in the houhold. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.
42. What can a Jibo robot do according to Paragraph 3?
一次性医疗补助金A. Communicate with you and perform operations.
如愿以偿B. Answer your questions and make requests.
C. Take your family pictures and deliver milk.
D. Obey your orders and remind you to take pills.
【答案解析】 D 考查事实细节。命题点在“such as”处，根据“It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.”可知，这种机器人可以提醒老人吃药或者拍全家福。D项中“服从命令”和“提醒吃药”都是这种机器人可以胜任的。
【真题示例2】(2015 江苏，阅读C)
Let’s begin with the question of why people volunteer. Rearchers have identified veral factors that motivate people to get involved. For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unlfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships. If volunteer positions do not meet the needs, people may not wish to participate. To lect volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract.
61. People volunteer mainly out of ________________.
A. academic requirements
抗日传奇之北战神B. social expectations
陈永镐C. financial rewards
D. internal needs
【答案解析】 D 推理判断题。命题点在“For example”处，根据“Rearchers have identified veral factors that motivate people to get involved. For example, people volunteer to express personal values ... to strengthen social relationships.”可知，人们做志愿者主要是处于内在需求。For example引出factors that motivate people to get involved。
▼ 数字与年代
文中的数字、年代、日期等也是高考易考点。出题特点：
1. 运算题：四则运算得出答案，需要注意原始数据。
2. 多选一：文中出现多个时间、数字，对应不同的事件或事物，只考其中一个。
【真题示例1】 (2015 四川，阅读C)
Mothers have long known that their home workload was just as heavy as paid work. Now, the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours, they would earn as much as ￡172,000 a year.
The study looked at the range of jobs mothers do, as well as the hours they are working, to determine the figure. This would make their yearly income ￡30,000 more than the Prime Minister earns.
