現在已經到了12月初了,離12月22日的四六級考試還有不到一個月的時間了,同學們的備考也到了沖刺的時候了。什么叫沖刺呢?顧名思義,“沖刺”就是臨上戰(zhàn)場前的整裝待發(fā),要有一種“志在必得”的把握和心態(tài)。對于我們四六級考試來說,到了沖刺階段,最重要的并不是再做多少題,而是規(guī)范備考思路,要冷靜、冷靜、再冷靜,仔細分析過去做過的、而且做錯了的題目,找出差距,迎頭趕上。
而對于沖刺階段的備考要領,我從兩個角度來談:一個是題型,一個是備考材料選擇。
首先從題型的角度來說,就是一個取舍的問題,到了最后,一定要有“抓大放小”的思路,用毛主席的話來說就是:“集中優(yōu)勢兵力,殲滅敵人的有生力量”。而對于我們考試來說,傳統(tǒng)閱讀部分和寫作部分就是“敵人的有生力量”,所有我們要花大力氣,一舉拿下。而且這兩部分是最后階段最容易提高分數的。下面我會拿六級閱讀真題來分析如何進行操作。
其次,對于備考材料的選擇,還是那句老話:真題至上。尤其是近3年的真題,要仔細研究,總結出規(guī)律,提高實戰(zhàn)能力。對于新出現的題型,如長對話、快速閱讀、短文簡答和翻譯題,可以利用少量的時間進行模擬訓練,以檢驗復習效果。
下面,我就節(jié)選2007年6月的六級考試閱讀理解的Passage One 的前三段來說明如何更有效的研究真題的閱讀理解。
You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesn’t feel good. Why doesn’t ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.
The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours.” After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.
To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent. Through advertising, companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn’t really want or need. Because so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as “a necessary evil.”
52. What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society?
A) Why statistics don’t tell the truth about the economy.
B) Why affluence doesn’t guarantee happiness.
C) How happiness can be promoted today.
D) What lies behind an economic boom.
真題閱讀分析四步法:
第一步:針對題目進行分析:
包括兩部分:
1)對于正確選項的選取,最重要的定位與替換,這是閱讀理解解題和得高分的精髓。
2)對干擾項的分析,提高抗干擾能力;總結常見的干擾項的命題方式
對于第52題來說,我們根據題干中的定位詞The Affluent Society很快定位到原文的第一段的本句“It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society by John Kenneth Galbraith”。本句中所出現的“question”正是題干中的”question”,因為本句中question是一個指代,必須追到該句的上一句,并且去尋找question所指代的內容,這才是我們需要找的答案,通過定位與尋找,不難發(fā)現B選項就是我們所找的答案。
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