Today：時間強對比

Think of laws forbidding anyone to teach slaves to read. Think of Hitler's book burnings. Think of all the attempts over the years to enforce either orthodoxy or the status quo by putting learning off-limits, and you begin to sense the power of what is happening. The walls of caste and class have not been razed, but they are suddenly, irrevocably, more porous.

Think of… Think of… Think of：并列的內容不太可能成為主題
Orthodoxy：正統(tǒng)觀念
status：拉丁詞，現(xiàn)狀
caste：這里指嚴格分化的社會階層
raze：夷為平地
irrevocably：不可撤銷的
porous：多孔的

And yet not completely porous.
Yet：強對比

The pertinence of the “digital divide” is a reminder that some Americans remain cut off from the power of the knowledge revolution.

Pertinence：恰當、適當
digital divide：數(shù)字鴻溝
cut off from：被……排除在外

注意：上下文邏輯出現(xiàn)跳躍，可能就是出題的位置所在

We have to get serious not merely about the technology but also the psychology of bridging that divide. We have to infect our turned-off adults and our uninspired children with the desire to know more of what is within their grasp already and the oceans more that shortly will be.

We have to…We have to　并列句，不太可能是主題句
Uninspired：無靈感的
Ocean：差距

If that's true of end-of-the-century America, it is immeasurably worse for much of the rest of the world. As U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan remarked in a recent speech, “Half the worlds population has never even made, or received, a telephone call.”

我們要關注隱藏在名人引言后的含義，而不是具體引言本身。

9. The author quotes U.N. Secretary General?s remark in the last paragraph mainly to demonstrate that _________.
(A) telephone is more important to the Web than the poor
(B) digital revolution will be welcomed by the poor
(C) the gap between the rich and the poor can be wider in the information age
(D) half the world's population will benefit from knowledge explosion

10. The last two paragraphs of the passage can be perceived as __________.
(A) the summary of the whole passage
(B) the introduction of the concept “digital divide”
(C) the prediction about America in the new century
(D) the warning of issues behind technological progress

本題是結構功能題

8. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
(A) Both Compton's and World Book are encyclopedias.
(B) Encarta Encyclopedia is giving way to Encyclopedia Britannica.
(C) The sales of Encyclopedia Britannica have been going down dramatically over the past decade.
(D) Encyclopedia Britannica opens its Web site to attract more readers.

本題是“殺手”題型，可以放到最后來做

Other Reading Skills:

一．主題原則
二．句義理解題要和主題掛鉤
三．抓住強對比
四. 最后兩段深化主題