2015考博英语阅读理解答题步骤及经验技巧

考博英语阅读理解答题步骤及经验技巧

阅读的步骤： 分三步走

1）通读全文，抓住中心：首段原则（第一段非常总重要）首末句原则

a. 文章论述的主要内容是什么？

b.作者的态度有没有？

c.有没有一些核心的概念？

2）仔细审题，返回原文（搜索题干中的时间地点人物概念，然后去原文中对照找出相应的地方）3）重复选项，得出答案（ 选一个选项要有选它的理由，不选一个选项要有不选它的理由） 几种题目的对策:

1）细节事实题：标志：fact(from the fact we could learn) (we learn from the fact that) 从两个方面返回原文：a.题干的时间地点人物概念；b.四个选项的共同点。在细节实事题中常见的迷惑手段：单词替换；常识判断；颠倒因果；偷换概念；扩大范围

2）例证题：标志：example,illastration,case/examplify,illastrate,demostrate 返回原文找出该例证（定位）90％向上,10% 向下搜索例证支持的观点在四个选项中找出与所找到的观点最一致的一个作为正确答案。

3）词汇题：标志：在题干中明确指出原文中某处的单词或词组要求急于解释判断该词是否超纲若未超出大纲则其常见意思必然不是正确答案，其正确答案是根据上下文推测处的一个深刻涵义或生僻涵义若为超纲词或为大多数人不认识的单词，则其字面意思或常见意思就是正确答案。怎样推测不认识的单词：以该词为中心，向上向下搜索同词性的单词，并将其代入替换看意思是否通顺。

4）句子理解题：标志：在题干中明确提出原文中某处的一个句子要求进行理解。返回原文找出该句，并对其意思进行精确理解，必要时进行语法分析。正确答案是与原句意思最接近最一致的一个选项。其中不涉及任何推理过程。尽管英语阅读有“精读”和“泛读”之分，然而，无论哪一种阅读，只有采取了正确的阅读策略，才能达到你的阅读目的。

一般来说，阅读目的不外乎分为这么几种：要么是为了了解文章的大意，或者掌握具体细节，要么是寻找某些问题的答案，或者是为了学习语言。针对不同的阅读目的，你必须采取相应的阅读策略，只有这样才能真正做到有效的阅读。

如果你是为了了解文章的大意，建议你不妨首先研究一下文章标题，看看是否可以从中找到有用的信息；如果文章中还含有小标题的话，可以把它们结合起来加以综合考虑。接着，你可以采用类似浏览的略读策略(skim)，从主要部分(如文章的首段和尾段，及每一段的首句和末句等)寻找关键内容，从而快速准确地把握文章大意。

为了及时把握文章细节，你可以运用寻读策略(scan) 。所谓“寻读”， 就是要求你在阅读的时候，不过分强调对文章内容的整体理解。只要按照文章顺序，跳跃式地寻找有关的具体内容加以阅读理解即可。换句话说，就是只阅读你认为重要的细节部分，其他可以略过不读。

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如果是为了寻找某些问题的答案，可以运用主题句(topic sentence) 定位策略。按照英语的习惯，通常一段话的首句即为这一段的主题句(当然，有时候主题句也可能是该段落的末句)。针对问题，

找到相关的主题句，再对这一段加以仔细阅读、理解，以求找到问题的答案。

如果想要借助阅读来学习语言，由于这类阅读的目的超越了阅读的本质，一般可以运用“精读” 学习时采用的单词和语法学习策略，留到以后再具体说明。

二、提高

字斟句酌，精深当先——提高考博英语阅读实力之道很多同学在阅读备考中，半个多小时能做四篇阅读，对完答案后，就把它扔在一边了。这样做是很不经济的。第一，大量的经常在阅读和词汇题中出现的词汇就白白的从眼皮底下溜走了。第二，很多似懂非懂的句子结构，没能够真正掌握，即使在正式考试中再次遇上它们，您仍然是似懂非懂。最后，做了很多题目，仍然感觉不到阅读速度和理解深度的提高，阅读成绩总是在一个不太理想的水平上徘徊。其实，如果大家能够把100篇左右的考博英语真题的阅读文章，按照“不可一词无来历”和“不可一词不讲究”的标准，逐词逐句抠，力求做到词词懂、句句懂，达到能给别人讲解的熟练程度，这样认真抠上几十篇阅读文章，你就会深深体会到，阅读简直是遍地珠玉，词汇量会进一步巩固和提高、语法知识会在阅读中变得水乳交融，很多阅读文章的主题，也将会成为您和老外今后进行交流的热门话题。

100篇文章后，阅读实力肯定能产生质的飞跃。这样做似乎很慢，其实不然，您可以先背一套题中的生词，然后在四十分钟内做一套题目，接着对答案，然后再一句一句的分析对照汉语译文，分析句子结构，然后通篇读几遍，最后总结题目做错的原因。

平均下来，完全可以在一小时内，拿下一篇文章，在阅读上花上100个小时的时间，阅读拿下高分不成问题。字字珠玑，珠联璧合——在阅读中提高词汇量很多同学是按照词汇表或者词汇书来背单词的，这样记忆的一个缺点是各个单词之间是孤立的，很容易忘记，此外，因为没有上下文语言环境，即使单词背过了，词的用法很难掌握住。于是，很多同学选用配有例句的单词书，觉得这样就可以解决单词的用法问题了。殊不知，单词的例句之间没有必然的联系，仍然是孤立的信息，仍然很容易忘记。因此，在文章中记忆单词并掌握单词的用法，成了提高语言水平的主要方式，汉语和英语都是如此，这就是中小学我们学语文时，不直接用词典而是在很多文章中提高和掌握汉字的重要原因。本专栏将以四篇文章或者一套真题作为一个单元，以3000词汇为基础，将文章中出现的生词全部列出来，同学们可以先背一个单元的生词，然后按照考试的要求做题，这样，刚刚背过的单词就会得到应用，印象会很深。

此外，文章中的句子，就是一个个具有密切的逻辑联系的例句，为大家掌握单词的用法提供了绝佳的语言环境。最后，大家还会发现，阅读中重点词汇的重复率很高，在前一个单元中掌握的词汇，很可能多次出现在后面的文章中，这样，反复在不同的语言环境中出现，掌握起来就更容易了。“得阅读者得天下”，阅读的成绩好坏，直接关系到能否取得一个理想的分数。但是，很多同学的阅读理解部分得分情况并不理想。很多同学在考试中，遇到了以下几种困难：生词太多，不认识；句子太长太难，读不懂；考试时间太短，读不完，来不及做题；文章读懂了，题目做不对。前三个问题，可归咎于阅读实力没有达到考博英语的要求，最后一个问题，主要是是因为没有掌握做题技巧。

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考博英语作文常用短语100个 1.经济的快速发展 the rapiddevelopment of economy 2.人民生活水平的显著提高/稳步增长 the remarkable improvement/ steady growth of people's livingstandard 3.先进的科学技术advanced science and technology 4.面临新的机遇和挑战 be faced with new opportunities and challenges 5.人们普遍认为It is commonly believed/ recognized that… 6.社会发展的必然结果 the inevitable result of social development 7.引起了广泛的公众关注 arouse wide public concern/ draw public attention 8.不可否认 It is undeniable that…/ There is no denying that… 9.热烈的讨论/争论 a heated discussion/ debate 10.有争议性的问题 a controversialissue 11.完全不同的观点 a totally different argument 12.一些人…而另外一些人… Some people… while others… 13. 就我而言/ 就个人而言 As far as I am concerned, / Personally, 14.就…达到绝对的一致 rea ch an absolute consensus on… 15.有充分的理由支持 be supported by sound reasons 16.双方的论点 argument on both sides 17.发挥着日益重要的作用play an increasingly important role in… 18.对…必不可少be indispensableto … 19.正如谚语所说 As the proverb goes: 20.…也不例外…be no exceptio 21.对…产生有利/不利的影响exert positive/ negative effects on…

北京大学考博英语阅读理解模拟题 Passage one No agricultural operation has ever been invested with so much glamour as the making of maple syrup.We tapped about two hundred trees,few enough for us to know the personality of each.In a hollow on the south-east corner of the woods was a vast gnarled specimen which always had its three small red buckets full and often running over. I still think of that tree with affection,admiration,and gratitude. On the more exposed westerly side of the wood were almost equally sizeable specimens which scarcely produced a drop.We regarded them with dislike and resentment.Like certain politicians they had successfully divorced promise from performance. Sap in those days was collected in a wooden tub mounted on a sleigh. A circular track wound through the black,silent woods.The horses pulled the tub on the sleighs from point to point along this track. At each stop we fanned out with large pails to collect the sap from the bucket attached to each tree.If the sap was running well there might be a pleasant air of urgency about this task for numerous buckets would be spilling over.The sap was then boiled in a flat rectangular pan,about three feet by six or seven,which sat on a cement arch over a vigorous log fire.Immediately behind the arch,from which the operation could be watched,and with the whole front open to the fire, was the small,tin-roofed shed.There is no aroma on earth like that of boiling sap.In good years it was necessary to boil all night to keep abreast of the run.Then hour after hour the white steam billowed off into the black night or,on occasion,rolled into the shed as a special reward.Neighbors who did not make syrup came across the fields and through the woods to sit and watch the fire and the steam and enjoy the smell.One could take a dipper,dip out a pint or two of the thickening sap,cool it in a snowbank,and drink it all. The flavor of the syrup then produced was far better than what a less fortunate generation now gets.I learned the reason in what I believe was my first introduction to scientific investigation.Two brothers named John and Angus McNabb went into production of maple syrup on a commercial basis:they bought covered buckets and an evaporator and a galvanized tank for the sap and set out to make a quality product.

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Passage10肺癌 Among all the malignancies,lung cancer is the biggest killer;more than 100,000Americans die of the disease,giving up smoking is one of obvious ways to reduce the risk,but another answer may lie in the kitchen.According to a new report,even heavy smokers may be protected from developing lung cancer by eating a daily portion of carrots,spinach or any other vegetable or fruit containing a form of vitamin A called carotene. The finding,published in The Lancet,is part of a long-range investigation of diet and disease.Since1957,some American researchers have monitored the dietary habits and medical histories of2,000middle-aged men employed by the Western Electric Co.in Chicago.Led by Dr.Richard Shekelle of St.Luke’s Medical Center,and the researchers recently began to sort out the links between the subjects’dietary patterns and cancer.Other studies of animals and humans have suggested that vitamin A offers some protection against lung cancer.The correlation seemed logical,explains Shekelle,since vitamin A is essential for the growth of the epithelial(上皮的)tissue that lines the airways of the lungs. But the earlier research did not distinguish between the two different forms of the vitamin.“Preformed”vitamin A,known as retinol,is found mainly in liver and dairy products like milk,cheese,butter and eggs.But vitamin A is also made in the body from carotene,which is abundant in a variety of vegetables and fruits, including carrots,spinach,squash,tomatoes,sweet potatoes and apples.

The physical distribution of products has two primary aspects:transportation and storage. Both aspects are highly developed and specialized phases of marketing.The costs of both trans-porting and storing are built into the prices of products.Transportation can be by truck, rail-way,ship,or barge.For some items,such as exotic plants and flowers,or when rapid delivery is essential,air freight may be used. Storage,or warehousing,is a necessary function because production and consumption of goods rarely match:items generally are not sold as quickly as they are made.Inventories build up, both in warehouses and at retail establishments,before the foods are sold.The transporta-tion function is involved in bringing goods to a warehouse and taking them from it to retail stores. Storage performs the service of stabilizing market price.If,for example,no agricultural product could be stored,all food would have to be put on the market immediately.This would,of course,create a glut and lower prices drastically.There would be an immediate benefit to consumers,but in the long run they would suffer.Farmers,because of low prices,would be forced off the land,and the amount of food produced would decrease.This,in turn,would raise consumer prices. Warehouses for storage are of several types.Private warehouses are owned by manufactur-ers. Public warehouses,in spite of their name,are privately owned facilities,but they are in-dependent of manufacturer ownership.General-merchandise warehouses store a great variety of products. Cold-storage warehouses store perishable goods,especially food products.Grain ele-vators are a kind of warehouse used to keep wheat and other grains from spoiling.A bonded warehouse is one that stores foods,frequently imported,on which taxes must be paid before they are sold. Cigarettes and alcoholic beverages are common examples. The distribution center is a more recently developed kind of warehouse.Many large com-panics have several manufacturing plants,sometimes located outside the country.Each plant does not make every company product but specializes in one or more of them.The distribution center allows a manufacturer to bring together all product lines in one place.Its purpose is to minimize storage and to ease the flow of goods from manufacturers to retailers rather than build up extensive inventories.It reduces costs by speeding up product turnover.Very large corporations will have several distribution centers regionally or internationally based 1.The main subject of this passage is______. A)transportation and storage B)storage of products C)distribution center

中央财经大学考博英语阅读模拟题精解As is the case in many cultures,the degree to which a minority group was seen as different from the characteristics of the dominant majority determined the extent of that group’s acceptance. Immigrants who were like the earlier settlers were accepted.The large numbers of immigrants with significantly different characteristics tended to be viewed as a threat to basic American values and the American way of life. This was particularly true of the immigrants who arrived by the million during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most of them came from poverty-stricken nations of southern and Geng duo yuan xiao wan zheng zhen ti ji qi jie xi qing lian xi quan guo mian fei zi xun dian hua:si ling ling liu liu ba liu jiu qi ba,huo jia zi xun qq:qi qi er liu qi ba wu san qi eastern Europe.They spoke languages other than English,and large numbers of them were Catholics or Jews. Americans at the time were very fearful of this new flood of immigrants.They were afraid that these people were so accustomed to lives of poverty and dependence that they would not understand such basic American values as freedom,self-reliance and competition. There were so many new immigrants that they might even change the basic values of the nation in undesirable ways. Americans tried to meet what they saw as a threat to their values by offering English instruction for the new immigrants and

考博心得之考博英语阅读理解 阅读理解在大家看来，是英语考试中最关键的部分，因为这部分所占的分数最多，在试卷中的地位举足轻重。有很多方面的书籍，介绍大家如何来提高阅读理解水平，却很少提到不同类别的英语考试试卷中，都有自己的出题特点。其结果是，大凡英语考试，大家都采用几乎一样的思考模式，这在相当程度上影响了具体类别考试复习时的针对性。 首先，介绍如何提高阅读理解的基本功 很多参考书中（推荐一本考博英语阅读理解精练220篇(上下册)）。都提到在阅读时，不能读出声来，要快速的阅读。要达到这个水平需要相当的训练，可惜的是大部分考生由于各种原因，没有这样的条件。根据个人的体会，阅读中，碰到的最大问题往往不是理解不了其中内容，经常让人头痛的是阅读过程中，会在一些关键地方碰到自己不认识的单词，大大影响了自己对文章的领悟。所以第一个基本功还是词汇部分，我们不需要把大纲中所有的词汇（考博英语10000词汇详解）都会拼写，因为除了写作之外，会认某个词与会写某个词没区别，即使是写作，用到的词也都是常见的。 学会用自己的呼吸来控制自己的阅读，进而提高阅读速度。这点可能不少朋友没有听说过吧，对，这是我自己体会后总结出来的。针对一个句子，大家要学着在吸气的过程中，看明白前半部分的意思，而在呼气的过程中，看明白后一半的内容。开始训练时，大部分人达不到这个要求，没关系，重新吸气，呼气，直到这个句子看懂。选择的文章不要太难，但也不能过于简单，仔细体会这个过程。 我比较推荐的一个方法是：充分利用选择填空题目，在要填空的位置上，先写上正确的答案，然后尝试着在一个呼吸过程中看懂它所表述的意思。这不仅将来能提高选择填空的阅读速度，也提高了语感。当训练的差不多后，可以转入阅读文章了，把呼吸和大脑的思维连贯性统一起来。 其次，阅读理解过程中，需要从头读到尾吗？ 这个问题，我也曾经问了自己很多次。经过尝试后，我总结的经验是没必要。说起来大家可能不相信，我觉得阅读理解，如其说是阅读，不如说是把文章的内容结构搞懂：这篇阅读理解分了几个段落？每个段落中最重要的那个主旨句要表达的是什么意思？文章作者是以什么口气、什么态度来看待自己文章所描述的内容的？实际就是从宏观上把握作者的意图 全面阅读有什么不？第一个就是浪费时间，考试中的时间是最宝贵的，如果费了不少时间读懂了文章的某些内容（即使是比较重要的），可偏巧这在后边的题目中又没有体现出来，不就是浪费时间和精力吗？第二就是使得人容易忘记其他部分的内容，当我们看第一段的时候，看明白它的内容了，可当你把最后一段也看懂之，第一段的内容你还能记得多少呢？这个问题在阅读理解进行到第三篇，第四篇的时候尤其突出，以至于头晕脑胀。相信很多人有这个感觉，英语考试过程中，觉得自己脑力不够用，或者考试结束后有朦胧的倦意。这对后边题目的完成绝对是个巨大威胁。第三就是缺乏对整个文章的理解，由于在全面阅读过程中，人的精力集中在具体句子的理解上，冲淡了整体的认识，而几乎每个阅读理解后的题目中，总少不了1个或2个关于文章整体概括性的题目，稍有偏差，就会出错。

【每日一篇】华慧考博英语:考博英语作文优秀范文100篇（5） 如此快速提升考博英语的写作能力？华慧考博老师告诉你——多背考博英语作文范文，多掌握一些考博英语作文范文中的优秀长句。这对于一名作文小白来说是最快速地提升考博英语作文写作能力的途径。自今天起，华慧考博小编将为广大考博考生们每天提供一篇考博英语作文的范文来给考生做为参考和背诵。（范文如有瑕疵，请考生们谅解！） 华慧考博英语作文范文第五篇： 【题干】 Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. 【正文】 People seldom agree with each other even in such trivial issues as preference between a big city and a small town. It's a little bit haste to say that it is better to live in a big city than to live in a small town, or vice versus. Living in a big city has several benefits. First, there're more job opportunities readily available in big cities than in a small town. Furthermore, not merely there are more job positions in big cities, the qualities of the position are much higher as well. In addition, the pay is more decent. Second, children are supposed to be able to receive an education with a higher quality compared with their counterparts who live in a small town. For families, children's education is always put in the first place. Finally, living in a big city has a superior overall living standard to that in a small town. There are more commodities and services in city markets; there are more public utilities available in big cities; there are even much more television channels in big cities. However, living in a small town also has some advantages. People who live in a small town often have a much comfortable life style. Most of them are immune from suffering of high working stress. Although the average pay is much less than that of big cities, the price of daily necessities, such as vegetables or meat, is usually more inexpensive. Instead of suffering loneliness which is prevalent in big cities, children might grow up more healthily because of harmonious relationship among residents in small town. People in a small town do not have to get up so early in the morning because there has been no traffic jam, and no body drive so fast in a small town as to cause accidents. They might have fewer channels in television, but they have more friends readily available to chat or entertain with. According to my current situation, although I am longing for the cozy atmosphere and relationship among neighbors and friends which almost only exist in big cities, I have chosen to live in one of the biggest cities in my country --- Beijing, since I have found a pretty good job here, and a decent pay. I think I would prefer living a small town when I get retired one day.

北京外国语大学考博英语模拟真题及其解析 Directions: In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1-5, choose the most suitable one from the list A―G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. A new volcano was being born.Geng duo yuan xiao wan zheng kao bo ying yu zhen ti ji qi jie xi qing lian xi quan guo mian fei zi xun dian hua:si ling ling liu liu ba liu jiu qi ba ,huo jia zi xun qq: qi qi er liu qi ba wu san qi. The volcano in the cornfield grew until it was bigger than the cornfield! 1 People called the volcano the Little Monster because it grew so fast. Scientists came from all over the world to study it and watch it grow. It is not often that people get a chance to watch a volcano from the very beginning. Most of the volcanoes have been here for a very long time. Some have been here so long that now they are cold. They are called dead volcanoes. They have stopped throwing out fire and melted rock and smoke. It is safe to walk on them. Farms are plowed on the quiet slopes, and people have built houses there. Some volcanoes have stopped throwing out hot rock, but they still smoke a little now and then. They are "sleeping" volcanoes. Sometime they may "wake up". 2 Today volcanoes are not so dangerous for people as they were a long time ago. Now we know more about why volcanoes do what they do, and we can usually tell when they are going to do it. 3