24. The author's attitude toward SATAN is _____.
A) enthusiastic B) critical C) positive D) indifferent
重要提示:表現(xiàn)作者態(tài)度的句子的特征
1. 直接陳述式(主語是事、物)。
2.使用評述性的副詞在其他人的話里面。
3.他人的論述后面有連詞引出另外一種說法,見第一條。
4.其他人的說法后面的括號里的內(nèi)容。
態(tài)度題常見選項
arbitrary, concerned, critical, sarcastic, ironical, indifferent, sympathetic, enthusiastic, cautious, neutral, objective, subjective, optimistic, pessimistic, positive, negative, etc.
只作干擾選項的有arbitrary,
25. The author suggests in the last paragraph that .
A) we should make full use of the Internet before security measures are strengthened
B) we should alert the most influential businessmen to the importance of security
C) influential businessmen should give priority to the improvement of Net security
D) net inhabitants should not let security measures affect their joy of surfing the Internet
把握兩個詞:問題里的suggest, 原文里的expect的理解,必須結(jié)合主題.
提示:建議題(advise, advice; suggest, suggestion 等),結(jié)論題,答案通常要從文章最后一句往前推,同時必須結(jié)合最后一段首句主旨句。
Passage II.
Crying is hardly an activity encouraged by society. Tears, be they of sorrow, anger, or joy, typically make Americans feel uncomfortable and embarrassed. The shedder of tears is likely to apologize, even when a devastating (毀滅性的) tragedy was the provocation. The observer of tears is likely to do everything possible to put an end to the emotional outpouring. But judging form recent studies of crying behavior, links between illness and crying and the chemical composition of tears , both those responses to tears are often inappropriate and may even be counterproductive.
......省略。
33."Counterproductive"(Para,1) very probably means"________".
A) having no effect at all
B) leading to tension
C) producing disastrous impact
D) harmful to health
注意!選項中程度極端的(如夸大后果的),通常是錯誤選項。
34. What does the author say about crying?
A) It is a pointless physiological response to the environment.
B) It must have a role to play in man's survival.
C) It is meant to get attention and assistance.
D) It usually produces the desired effect.
開放性題目,如多項細節(jié)題,往往要多次快速定位。
Passage III.
As machines go, the car is not terribly noisy, nor terribly polluting, nor terribly dangerous; and on all those dimensions it has become better as the century has grown older. The main problem is its prevalence, and the social costs that ensue from the use by everyone of something that would be fairly harmless if, say, only the rich were to use it. It is a price we pay for equality.
Before becoming too gloomy, it is worth recalling why the car has been arguably the most successful and popular product of the whole of the past 100 years-and remains so. The story begins with the environmental improvement it brought in the 1900s. In New York city in 1900, according to the Car Culture, a 1975 book by J. Flink, a historian, horses deposited 2.5 million pounds of manure(糞)and 60,000 gallons of urine (尿) every day. Every year, the city authorities had to remove an average of 15,000 dead horses from the streets. It made cars smell of roses.
......省去三段。