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理解文章的總體結構以及上下文之間的關系旨在考查文中某一句話的內涵。因此在解題時，考生要牢牢抓住這句話本身，弄清楚它的每個單詞、每個表達及整個句子所傳遞的信息，可以借助周邊的句子來幫助理解，但不要跑得太遠。
理解文章的總體結構以及上下文之間的關系要求考生做到：第一步，理清“文章思路”，即指考生首先應對文章總體的思路和結構有一個大概的了解，先不要急于去讀題目，而是應當將文章從頭到尾看一遍，弄清楚文章的中心意思，這一遍閱讀的目的并不是要立即找到答題所需要的信息點。在閱讀的時候還要有主次之分，文章的第一段是文章的靈魂和核心，也應當是第一遍閱讀的重點所在。考生要盡量將第一段的每一句話都理解透徹，因為掌握了第一段，就已經基本了解掌握了整篇文章的內容，至于其他的段落可以加快速度，看得懂就看，看不懂就暫時跳過去，在不懂的地方做出記號，留待以后解決。讀完文章并理清思路后就可以接著閱讀試題，命題專家在設計考卷時，題目排列的次序與文章的布局基本是相吻合的，也就是說題目所需要的信息點在文章中應當是按順序出現的，這一點對于基礎差的考生相當重要，因為考生完全可以根據每篇文章題目的題干來推測文章大致的內容和思路。
第二步，注重了解句與句、段與段之間的關系，特別是文章中的轉折關系，學會利用上下文進行必要的判斷、推理和引申。只有掌握句段之間的關系，才能摸清作者深層思路上的邏輯關系。從句子與句子，段落與段落之間的過渡可以讀出作者整個的思路及論證過程，才能做出正確的推理、判斷或引申。
【舉例說明】針對此題型，我們建議考生把握這樣幾個原則：
一、首段原則，首段原則應用于根據首段內容所設置的題目，它包括兩種形式：首句原則和末句原則。
1.首句原則
回顧近幾年的考研閱讀題，細心的考生會發現歷年考研試卷中都有題目針對首段第一句話設問，為什么會出現這種情況?原因很簡單，考研閱讀所選的文章均是議論文和說明文，此類文章的文體要求在首段提出觀點、突出中心，因此第一段就好像全篇文章的一個總綱，確定了文章的主要內容，而第一句話常常是一個自然段的主題句，首段首句自然就成為常考且必考的一個考點。例如2003年第56題：
It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional. Small wonder. Americans’ life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past century. Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, cataracts removed in a 30-minute surgical procedure. Such advances offer the aging population a quality of life that was unimaginable when I entered medicine 50 years ago. But not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.
What is implied in the first sentence?
[A] Americans are better prepared for death than other people.
[B] Americans enjoy a higher life quality than ever before.
[C] Americans are over_confident of their medical technology.
[D] Americans take a vain pride in their long life expectancy.
通過對首句的理解，我們得出該題的正確答案為C。
2.末句原則，有時一個自然段的主題句也會出現在段末，因此考點也相應轉向末句。例如1997年第59題：
Technically, any substance other than food that alters our bodily or mental functioning is a drug. Many people mistakenly believe the term drug refers only to some sort of medicine or an illegal chemical taken by drug addicts. They don’t realize that familiar substances such as alcohol and tobacco are also drugs. This is why the more neutral term substance is now used by many physicians and psychologists. The phrase “substance abuse” is often used instead of “drug abuse” to make clear that substances such as alcohol and tobacco can be just as harmfully misused as heroin and cocaine.
“Substance abuse” is preferable to “drug abuse” in that.
[A] substance can alter our bodily or mental functioning if illegally used
[B] “drug abuse” is only related to a limited number or drug takers
[C] alcohol and tobacco are as fatal as heroin and cocaine
[D] many substances other than heroin or cocaine can also be poisonous
考生對末句稍加深入理解即可得知D為正確答案。
二、段落原則。段落推斷原則考查考生對段落內容的理解，分為兩類題型：段落首句推斷和段落中句子推斷。針對這兩種具體題型的原則為：先看首句，如與選項符合即可選擇，不必再浪費時間看完整個段落，如首句不能與選項吻合時再將整個段落讀完以尋找符合的選項。
1. 段落首句推斷
例如2003年第44題：
Straitford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymaster’s dream. Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine. “As soon as that report runs, we'll suddenly get 500 new Internet sign-ups from Ukraine,” says Friedman, a former political science professor. “And we'll hear back from some of them.” Open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. That’s where Straitford earns its keep.
It can be learned from paragraph 4 that.
[A] Straitford’s prediction about Ukraine has proved true
[B] Straitford’s guarantees the truthfulness of its information
[C] Straitford’s business is characterized by unpredictability
[D] Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information
首句推斷D為正確答案。
2.段落中句子推斷
例如1999年第58題：
But it is hardly inevitable that companies on the web will need to resort to push strategies to make money. The examples of Virtual Vineyards, Amazon.com, and other pioneers show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mix of interactivity, hospitality, and security will attract online customers. And the cost of computing power continues to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in silicon. People looking back 5 or 10 years from now may well wonder why so few companies took the online plunge.
We learn from the last paragraph that .
[A]pushing information on the Web is essential to Internet commerce
[B]interactivity, hospitality and security are important to online customers
[C]leading companies began to take the online plunge decades ago
[D]setting up shops in silicon is independent of the cost of computing powe
考生是否看出B為正確答案?
三、轉折/對比原則
議論文和說明勤思強調邏輯的嚴謹性，而轉折和對比常常可以用來測試考生在這一方面的閱讀理解能力，所以考生對文中的轉折和對比關系應高度重視，只要看到標明轉折或對比的關系詞如but, however等，就應當立即在原文上進行標記。一般說來轉折后的內容多與上文所表達的意思相反，而對比往往是強調其中的一方。
1.首段的轉折/對比
只要首段中出現一對處于對比狀況的概念，命題專家通常都會就此設置考題，考生應掌握這一規律，在看到文章首段出現轉折對比的內容時，應當立即集中注意力，同時還要明白，第一段出現轉折關系時，轉折后所表述的一定是文章的中心議題，而在首段出現的對照或對比的內容將在下文中進行具體的議論，并在文章最后得出結論。例如1998年第51題：
Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is human kind’s long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the ideal of forcing the waters to do our bidding so fascinating. But to be fascinated is also, sometimes, to be blind. Several giant dam projects threaten to do more harm than good.
The third sentence of paragraph 1 implies that .(轉折)
[A] people would be happy if they shut their eyes to reality
[B] the blind could be happier than the sighted
[C] over-excited people tend to neglect vital things
[D] fascination makes people lose their eyesight
依據轉折關系推出C為正確答案。
2. 文中的轉折
例如1996年第55題：
It is a remarkable record, stretching back over 70 years—yet the BBC’s future is now in doubt.
The world famous BBC now faces.
[A] the problem of new coverage
[B] an uncertain prospect
[C] inquiries by the general public
[D] shrinkage of audience
推理同上題，B為正確答案
四、復指原則
在歷年的考題中，應用復指原則設問的題目較多，復指分為前指(anaphora)和后指(cataphora)。此類題目的考點是復指代詞或與復指副詞作用相同的詞。1994年、1995年時此類題目大多是直接問考生文章某句中的“it”或“that”等代詞指代什么。近幾年此類題目的問法開始轉向隱蔽，但無論題目用何種方式設問，考生都應當記住，此類題目的答案的位置必定在復指詞的上文中。因此，此類題目的解答只需返回原文，在復指詞上方掃描即可找到正確答案。如果按閱讀習慣接著讀下面的句子或段落，無論看多少遍也找不到答案。
例如1997年第57題：
For a long period of time and in many parts of the country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise dull existence. Dullness and loneliness were common problems of the families who generally lived distant from one another. Strangers and travelers were welcome sources of diversion, and brought news of the outside world. The harsh realities of the frontier also shaped this tradition of hospitality. Someone traveling alone, if hungry, injured, or ill, often had nowhere to turn except to the nearest cabin or settlement. It was not a matter of choice for the traveler or merely a charitable impulse on the part of the settlers. It reflected the harshness of daily life: if you didn't take in the stranger and take care of him, there was no one else who would. And someday, remember, you might be in the same situation.
Families in frontier settlements used to entertain strangers.
[A] to improve their hard life
[B] in view of their long-distance travel
[C] to add some flavor to their own daily life
[D] out of a charitable impulse
根據上述原則可推出C為正確答案。
五、類比原則
議論文和說明文在論證說明事理的時候均很抽象，為了讓考生更形象地理解一些抽象的內容，文章常會采用類比的手法。形象的類比不僅有助于將抽象的道理闡釋清楚，更可以讓讀者加深印象。類比在文中有兩種體現方式，一是明喻，即A像B一樣;二是暗喻，說A是B，由于暗喻更加隱蔽，近年來命題專家也越來越趨向于在暗喻內容上設問。
例如1996年第65題：
The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc., like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea.
A technologist can be compared to an artist because. (明喻)
[A] they are both winners of awards
[B] they are both experts in spatial thinking
[C] they both abandon verbal deion
[D] they both use various instruments
考生可否推出B為正確答案?
六、例證原則
讓事實說話往往是最有效的論證方式之一，命題專家在設置題目時往往也會針對文中的事例設問，考查考生對局部結構的理解。例證題1994年第一次出現在考研試卷上，共兩道題，占4分。但在1995年至1998年間，沒有出現過一道例證題，1999年再次出現，一樣是兩道題，占4分。之后，幾乎每年的考題都有一至兩道例證題，這就說明考研命題的一大特點，命題規則總是不斷重復的。考生們在應用例證原則解題時還應注意常用的例證方式有兩種：一是先提出觀點，后舉例說明;二是先列舉事例再做出結論。考生應當學會舉一反三，不要被各種原則的變化形式所迷惑。
例如1999年第53題：
Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts are beginning to side with defendants, especially in cases where a warning label probably wouldn't have changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successfully fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet. “We’re really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets aren’t designed to prevent those kinds of injuries,” says Nimmons. The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete’s injury. At the same time, the American Law Institute—a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight—issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. “Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities,” says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of customers and not as protection against legal liability.
The case of Schutt helmet demonstrated that .
[A]some injury claims were no longer supported by law
[B]helmets were not designed to prevent injuries
[C]product labels would eventually be discarded
[D]some sports games might lose popularity with athletes
根據文中事實可知A為正確答案。
【學習指導】
理解文章的總體結構以及上下文之間的關系旨在考查文中某一句話的內涵。因此在解題時，考生要牢牢抓住這句話本身，弄清楚它的每個單詞、每個表達及整個句子所傳遞的信息，可以借助周邊的句子來幫助理解，但不要跑得太遠。
對大部分考來說，欠缺的不是泛讀，而是精讀。總的來說，考生們在精讀文章的時候要對文章和考點、干擾項等進行詳細的分析、總結。 這時要仔細體會文章中精彩的語言，注意詞語的內涵、使用、擴展和搭配，代詞和名詞的指代，對精彩句型的模仿，以及對重要語法現象、長句、難句、文章結構的分析。另外，還要注意分析句子和句子之間的關系，是因果、遞近、轉折還是什么?尤其要注意文章的第一句和最后一句，以及每段的第一句和最后一句與其它句子的關系，體會每句話在文章中的作用。在閱讀過程中，要培養自己對文章主要討論對象、關鍵詞，作者和專家的觀點，以及語氣的把握。特別注意作者和專家的觀點，專家和專家之間的觀點是否相同或相反或互補，以及作者和專家的語氣是贊成還是反對，是關注還是樂觀等等。如果是真題，還要仔細分析考點和正確、干擾選項的規律、特征。在此過程中，可把文章盡可能的多讀幾遍，甚至翻譯一下，提高對文章中單詞、短語、句型等的反應速度，閱讀速度自然也就提高了。
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