我们以前曾经谈到过的结构化阅读方法实际上对于长小说来说也是适用的。因为任何一篇节选出来成为考题的小说必然会包含一定的人物和事件，而对人物和事件的描写或者叙述性段落必然会交代相应的背景以及事件的大致发展。如果对于人物的性格也有刻画，那么小说后文当中所涉及到的人物对白及其行为必然能够与人物的性格相联系。我们先看第一个例子：
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The following passage is excerpted from a British novel published in the mid-nineteenth century.
| It was interesting to be in the quiet old town once more, |
| i still believeand it was not disagreeable to be here and there suddenly |
| recognized and stared after. One or two of the tradespeople |
line | even darted out of their shops, and went a little way down |
5 | the street before me, that they might turn, as if they had |
| forgotten something, and pass me face to face- on which |
| occasions I don’t know whether they or I made the wor |
| pretence they of not doing it, or I of not eing it. Still, |
| my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all |
10 | dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of |
| that unlimited miscreant, Trabbs boy. |
| |
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It was interesting to be in the quiet old town once more, and it was not disagreeable to be here and there suddenly recognized and stared after. 第一段首句通过两个形容词interesting 和not disagreeable告诉我们作者自我感觉良好地回到了这个平静的小镇，并且被人认出的感觉很不错。最后一句话 Still, my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabbs boy.这句话包含作者情感上的变化：“我”一直觉得自己的位置是distinguished 并且not at all dissatisfied，但是就在“我”自我感觉良好的时候，突然遇到了那么一个恶棍小裁
缝。从这里开始，我们应该意识到，文章接下来要讲的就是“我”遇到了一个恶棍然后发生了一系列不愉快的事情。
接下来我们看第二段主题句和总结句：Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb’s boy approaching, lashing himlf with an empty blue bag. … As I pasd him, his teeth loudly chattered in his head, and with every mark of extreme humiliation, he prostrated himlf in the dust.“我”丈夫的英文沿街走的过程中眼睛四下打量，发现一个小裁缝走身上捆着个空的蓝袋子。…当我走过他的时候，他牙齿打颤，带着极度屈辱的表情跌倒在地。信件结尾
第三段的主题句和总结句：This was a hard thing to bear, but this was nothing. I had not advanced another two hundred yards, when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb’s boy approaching. … His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded. 第三段的第一句话实际上是对上一段的总结，告诉我们上一段发生了一件很难容忍的事情但是这还不算什么。“我”还没走多远，带着一种难以名状的恐惧、震惊和愤怒，又碰到他来了。…周围的观众以一种极大的的欢欣看着他的痛苦表现，而我却十分恼怒。
第四段的主题句和总结句：I had not got as much further down the street as the post office, when I again beheld Trabb’s boy shooting round by a back way. … The disgrace attendant on his immediately afterwards taking to crowing and pursing me across the bridge with crows, as from an exceedingly dejected fowl how had known me when I was a blacksmith, culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was, so to speak, ejected by it into the open country. “我”没走多远发现他又来了。最后一句话很长，按照我们以前谈到过的分析长难句的方法，就可以简化成 The disgrace attendant … culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was ejected by it into the open county.他带给我的这种耻辱最终导致我离开了小镇，并被驱逐到了乡村中。
这样来看文章后面的16recruitment题：
The general organization of the passage is best described by which of the following?
A. A remembrance of three encounters that lead to ignominious flight
B. An account of a looly related ries of eventsa of shoes
C. A narration that demonstrates the circular logic behind Trabb’s boy’s actions
D. A description of an action form veral points of view
E. A progression from a state of isolation to a state of community and fellowship
这是一道主题题。通过第一题段我们可以预知后文将会写“我”遇到一个恶棍的一件事情。第二段到第四段分别讲了“我”遇到他三次的不同情况，并且最后一段告诉我们，“我”被这场令人感到耻辱的遭遇赶出了小镇。这样的话就只能选A选项了。
再看后面的23题：
The narrators prentation is most like that of a
A.香奈儿英文 novelist commenting on an influential predecessor
B. mechanic explaining the reason a machine has broken down
C. social commentator delivering an exhortation
D. scientist explaining a controversial hypothesis
E. writer recounting an unpleasant personal experience
这实际上也是一道主题题，问作者在文中的写作方式最像以下的哪一个。由于作者就是记叙了一场令人感觉羞辱的遭遇，没有评论也没有解释，因此我们不难选出E选项。
如果说小说中包含大量对白的话，我们在阅读的过程中处理方式也是类似的。只是需要注意的是，在这种文章开始的部分通常会介绍人物的性格特征，这种情况下，我们需要牢牢把握住作者所给出的与人物性格特征有关的信息，比如相关的形容词或者名词，因为在后文中无论主人公说什么话做什么事，必然都与作者交代过的性格特点相吻合。我们来看一个例子：
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This passage, taken from an early nineteenth-century novel, prents two characters – Shirley Keeldar, a young woman of twenty-one who has inherited a fortune and land in Yorkshire, England, and Mr. Sympson, the uncle who was her guardian until she reached
adulthood.
| Miss Keeldar and her uncle had characters that |
| would not harmonize, -that never had harmonized. |
| He was irritable, and she was spirited; he was despotic, |
line | and she liked freedom; he was worldly, and she, perhaps, |
5 | romantic. |
| Not without purpo had he come down to Yorkshire: |
| his mission was clear, and he intended to discharge it |
| conscientiously: he anxiously desired to have his niece |
rop | married; to make for her a suitable match; give her in |
10 | charge to a proper husband, and wash his hands of her |
| for ever. |
| The misfortune, was, from infancy upwards, Shirley |
| and he had disagreed on the meaning of the words |
| “suitable” and “proper.” She never yet had accepted |
15 | his definition; and it was doubtful whether, in the most |
| bansheeimportant step of her life, she would connt to accept it. |
| The trial soon came. |
| … |
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斜体字告诉我们节选出来的小说将涉及到两个人，并且简单介绍了主人公的身份。第一段告诉我们这两个人的性格would not harmonize不会和谐，并且never had harmonized从来没和谐过。这里暗示着，发生在这两个人之间的任何事情都应该是不和谐的。那么这篇文章要记叙的事情必然也是不和谐的。由此我们来看这篇文章的第7题：
