英语专业四级考试阅读理解考前最后冲刺技巧上

英语专业四级考试阅读理解解题步骤

1．浏览试题，明确目标

在进行阅读之前，首先浏览短文后面的题目。看完试题题干和四个选项后，分析掌握每道试题考查的内容和题型（如是主旨大意题、细节理解题，还是推理分析题等），以便带着问题有目标地阅读短文，按照相应的解题技巧寻找正确答案。

2．略读全文，掌握大意

有效的阅读是先掌握全局，再寻求细节。略读（skimming）又称跳读（reading and skipping）或浏览(glancing)，是一种专门而实用的快速阅读方法，主要特点是选择性地阅读。拿到一篇500字左右的文章时，应先用30秒左右的时间进行略读，其目的一是：以尽可能快的速度获取文章主旨大意或中心思想；二是辨识文章体裁，掌握结构（如果是记叙文，就需要了解故事发生的时间、地点、背景和人物活动等主要线索；如果是议论文，就要弄清文章的中心论点以及论述内容）。略读完成后就去看题干，这时有关文章主旨大意题已经有了答案，而对细节题要根据题目的具体要求回到文章中再进行快速扫读以找到相应的信息。

【真题示例】（2009）

Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere. Probably thousands of people have already been using it, but I just discovered it, so I’m going to claim it and also name it: Fake Foning.

The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite applications. Virtually in any public space.

Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can’t walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.

So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don’t dial. Just h old that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.

For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business:

“Yes, I’m glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details. What’s that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins

right there.”

Be animated. Be engaged in your fake fone conversation. Make eye contact with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.

Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching (用手捏) unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you’d be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.

One important caution about fake foning. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished. I was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor. “So I don’t need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news.”

And then: Brrrrrrng! Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped. “What is the matter with this thing?” I sai d, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.

“Hello? Are you still there?”

Oops.

【解题点拨】通过略读各段的主题句可知其讲述内容为作者自己命名的一种手机“服务”：假装打电话。全文是先归纳后演绎的结构，第一段给“假装打电话”下定义，下面各段说明这一策略的应用，最后几段说明应该注意的问题并附有例子。文章后的题干为：

85. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A. Cellphone service is popular among people.

B. Cellphone has much use in office.

C. Fake foning is a new cellphone service.

D. Fake foning is a new discovery.

【解题点拨】通过略读首段的主题句Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere. 这里提到的service是第二句中指出的Fake Foning. 从后面的阐述来看，这不是真正的cellphone service，而是作者自己发明的用法，因此，选项C错误，故为答案。首段第二句指出，thousands of people have already been using it，选项A是正确说法，而选项D 是对but I just discovered it的解释，第二段首句The technology has been working well for me at the office，表明选项D也是正确说法。

86. What is fake foning?

A. A strategy to avoid people.

B. A device newly produced.

C. A service provided everywhere.

D. A skill of communication.

【解题点拨】通过略读第三段和第四段，作者以去洗手间为例，说明如何利用fake foning 避免路上被同事拉住谈话。此外，第五段明确提及，For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business:，由此推断，fake foning是避免同事的策略，故选项A为答案。

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87. In the author’s opinion, in order to make fake foning look real one has to

A. talk about interesting matters.