2017年考研英语:阅读理解解题技巧之推理题范文
江苏高考科目-齐肇楠
2017年考研英语:阅读理解解题技巧之推理题
推理引申题
主要测试考生理清上下文逻辑关系的能力,要求大家领悟所读材
料中句子之间的逻辑关系,并且根据材料
提供的已知信息进行分析、归纳和推理。
判断推理能力对深刻理解一篇文章十分重要,特别是理解作者字
里行间的言外之
意、作者的观点、写作意图和态度。
前言 命题专家
在命制此类试题时通常要求大家对文章或段落进行深层
推理和理解,不可能把试题的答案非常直接地暴露
于选项中。因此大家应该注意
把它与事实细节题区别开来,推理引申题必须以事实为依据,但是得出的结
果又
绝对不是事实本身,即不能“就事论事”。
推理引申题对一些基础比较薄弱的同学而
言是一个难点,大家似乎对文章读
懂了(可称之为“自我感觉良好”),然而在解题时却始终不知如何下
手,试题也
做得不好。这是因为没有领会命题专家设置推理引申试题的用意的缘故。事实上
推理
引申题考查的不仅是考生对字面意义的理解,更要求大家透过文章的字里行
间去推测作者未明说而又意欲
表达的含义。解此类题,大家应该根据文中的材料
进行有关的判断、推理和引申。接下来就为大家详细讲
解推理题的解题技巧。
广义的推理引申题涵盖的范围极其广泛。它既可以就总体信息也可以就具体
或特定信息提问。总体提问通常包括文章主旨题、作者观点态度题,局部提问通
常指段落主旨题
、猜测词义句意题。但是为了突出这四种出现频率很高且带有
典型性的题型,我们下面谈到的推理引申题
是排除以上情况的狭义概念。命题模
式 狭义的推理引申题题干中常有infer,imply,su
ggest,deduce,conclude
等词出现,常见的命题模式有:
(1)It can be inferred from the textthe
last paragraphthe first
sentence that...
(2)We can infer (assume, deduce) that .
(3)Which of the following can (not) be
inferred from the passage?
(4)It is
implied (indicated, suggested) in the passagethe
first
paragraphthe second sentencethe example
that .
(5)By... the author implies
(suggests, indicates )that .
(6)The passage
implies in the passage that .
(7)The author
suggests(indicates)in the passage that .
(8)It can be concluded from the passage that .
(9)From the passage the third paragraphthe
last sentencethe
example that... we can draw
the conclusion that .
(10)What conclusion
can be drawn from the passage (the first
paragraph, the last paragraph)
引申推理题按照解题思路主要可以分为暗指题、推理题和结论题。
暗指题的特点是要求读者体味“
言外之意”,信息只能从字里行间获得。对
于这类试题,考生首先要分清是明述还是暗指,即言内还是言
外;其次,要尽最
大可能与命题者达成“共识”,因为命题人事先确定的答案不允许考生的认识有
任何偏差;最后,要对文章中的有关事实和观点进行分析和研究,按照事实发展
的逻辑次序,总结出合
情合理的结论。
Example 1
If experiments are
planned and carried out according to plan as
考研1号英语
基础薄弱者专用
faithfully as the reports in the
science journals indicate, then it is
perfectly logical for management to expect
research to produce results
measurable in
dollars and cents. (1999年 Passage 5)
The
author implies that the results of scientific
research .
[A] may not be as profitable as
they are expected
[B] can be measured in
dollars and cents
[C] rely on conformity to
a standard pattern
[D] are mostly
underestimated by management
原句是个假设条件句,指出“假如
科学实验像科学杂志登载的科学报告显示
的那样完全按事先的计划去规划和实施,那么,对管理层来说,
期待研究能够产
生可以用金钱衡量的结果是完全合理的”。此处正话反说,作者的言外之意是,
科学实验总有不可预测的现象,产生的结果也难以预测,因此不能肯定有效益。
[A]选项“可能不像预
料的那样有利可图”才是作者真正想要表达的含义。
Example 2
Why
mention the elementary schools? Because thanks to
these schools
our early mechanics, especially
in the New England and Middle Atlantic
states,
were generally literate and at home in arithmetic
and in some
aspects of geometry and
trigonometry.
Acute foreign observers
related American adaptiveness and
inventiveness to this educational advantage.
As a member of a British
commission visiting
here in 1853 reported, “With a mind prepared by
thorough school discipline, the American boy
develops rapidly into the
skilled
workman.”(1996年 Passage 4 )
It is implied
that adaptiveness and inventiveness of the early
American mechanics .
[A] benefited a lot
from their mathematical knowledge
[B] shed
light on disciplined school management
[C]
was brought about by privileged home training
[D] owed a lot to the technological
development
这里第二段的首句指出:敏锐的外国观察家将美国人的适应能力和创新能
力
与这个教育优势联系在一起。this往回复指前述的最后内容,也就是前一段末
句谈到的“
技工们有文化并且熟知算术、几何学、三角学”,从而可知这种教育
优势就是熟练掌握数学。因而作者暗
指的意思是[A]选项“它们很大程度上得益
于数学”。命题模式 推理题与暗指题虽然有许多相似之
处,但是其思路与方
法更侧重于推理,主要测试考生的思维判断能力,即由已知的事实为依据去获得未知的信息。考生解题时首先要把握推理范围——大至段落或全文,小至词语或
句;其次要严格遵循
逻辑规律,保持正确的思维过程和严密的逻辑;再次可以利
用相关部分提供的事实、背景知识和常识去推
理。
干扰项的特点:根据文章中某些事实亦可以推导,然而又答非所问。
(1)推断文章内容的含义和引申意思
Example
Examples of
benefits or costs of the current concentration
wave are
scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine
that the merger of a few oil firms today
could
re-create the same threats to competition that
were feared nearly
考研1号英语 基础薄弱者专用
a century ago in
the U. S., when the Standard Oil Trust was broken
up.
The mergers of telecom companies,
such as WorldCom, hardly seem to
bring higher
prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of
technical
progress. On the contrary, the price
of communications is coming down fast.
In
cars, too, concentration is increasing-witness
Daimler and Chrysler,
Renault and Nissan—but
it does not appear that consumers are being
hurt.(2001年 Passage 4)
From
Paragraph 4 we can infer that .
[A] the
increasing concentration is certain to hurt
consumers
[B] WorldCom serves as a good
example of both benefits and costs
[C] the
costs of the globalization process are enormous
[D] the Standard Oil Trust might have
threatened competition
命题者设置的难点是第二句中定语从句的理解。
原文谈到“目前难以预料,
数家石油公司的合并是否会再次对竞争造成威胁。100年前美国的标准石油
联合
公司(Standard Oil Trust)被解散,就是因为当时人们担心它会对竞争构成威
胁”,由此引申推理可知[D]项“标准石油联合公司可能曾对竞争形成过威胁”。
此外,考生
还需要注意,might have threatened是虚拟语气,表示对过去的推
测。
(2)运用数字进行推理
Example
Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a
nation developing
more and more regional
competition, as population growth in the Northeast
and Midwest reaches a near standstill. This
development—and its
strong implication for US
politics and economy in years ahead—has
enthroned the South as America’s most densely
populated region for the
first time in the
history of the nation’s head counting.
Altogether, the Us population rose in the 1970s by
23.2 million people
—numerically the third-
largest growth ever recorded in a single decade.
Even so, that gain adds up to only 11.4
percent, lowest in American annual
records
except for the Depression years.
Americans
have been migrating south and west in larger
numbers since
World War Ⅱ, and the pattern
still prevails. (1998年 Passage 4)
Discerned
from the perplexing picture of population growth
the 1980
census provided, America in 1970s .
[A] enjoyed the lowest net growth of
population in history
[B] witnessed a
southwestern shift of population
[C]
underwent an unparalleled period of population
growth
[D] brought to a standstill its
pattern of migration since World War
Ⅱ
这
是一道涉及数字的题目,从标志词1970s可以定位为文章第三段,本段指
出:“20世纪70年代,
美国人口总共增长了2 320万——从数字上看,这是有
纪录以来10年期人口增长的第三高峰。即使
如此,人口总数也只增加了11.4%,
考研1号英语 基础薄弱者专用
除了大萧条时期,这是美国年度记录最低的
增长率。”因此,[A]选项和[C]选项
与文意不符。接着文章第四段谈到人口普查显示出“第二次世
界大战以来,美国
人不断移居西部和南部,现在这种趋势依然存在”。因此可以得出[B]选项是正确<
br>答案,而[D]选项与该段内容正好相反。
(3)用类比的例子,要求考生进行推理演绎
Example1
There are two basic ways to
see growth: one as a product, the other
as a
process. People have generally viewed personal
growth as an external
result or product that
can easily be identified and measured. The worker
who gets a promotion, the student whose grades
improve, the foreigner who
learns a new
language-all these are examples of people who have
measurable
results to show for their efforts.
By contrast, the process of personal growth
is much more difficult
to determine, since by
definition it is a journey and not the specific
signposts or landmarks along the way. The
process is not the road itself,
but rather the
attitudes and feelings people have, their caution
or
courage, as they encounter new experiences
and unexpected obstacles. In
this process, the
journey never really ends; there are always new
ways
to experience the world, new ideas to
try, new challenges to accept. (1995
年 Passage
2)
A person is generally believed to achieve
personal growth when .
[A] he has given up his
smoking habit
[B] he has made great
efforts in his work
[C] he is keen on
learning anything new
[D] he has tried to
determine where he is on his journey
本文指出看待人
的成长有两个观点:一是视为结果,一是视为过程。第一段
具体讲到第一种观点的详细内容。它是大部分
人都持有的观点,看重外在结果因
为其可以量化,可以通过具体事例反映出来,如:工人得到升迁、学生
成绩提高
和外国人学会了一门新的语言。第二段讲第二种观点的详细内容:成长是人在遇
到新的
经历和意外险阻时表现出来的态度和情感,而不是实在的结果。问的是根
据第一种观点,以下哪一种是成
长表现。
通过文中类比的例子可知只有[A]选项是实在的结果。