雅思阅读四大策略

雅思阅读四大策略

《Four Strategies in IELTS Reading】

1.策略之一:关键词【Key Words】确定【identify】题目中的关键词.

在文章中搜寻【search】提到这些关键词的地方。

同时搜寻这些关键词在文章中的同义词【synonyms】和反义词【【antonyms】.

答案往往就在出现关键词或同义词、反义词的附近。

Example

T: Over the past fifteen years, information technology 【IT】 has become an essential part of the managerial vocabulary for a great many businesses. Today, however, telecommunications is rapidly becoming as important as the computer industry. This can be attributed to the liberalization of world markets, which has created an explosion in the development and availability of advanced communications services.

Q: Complete the sentence below using a maximum of four words.

Rapid development in advanced communications has resulted from

注: T表示选取的文章部分，Q表示选取的题目部分，以下皆同。

解析:题中的关键词为advanced communications, rapid development, result

from.首先，advanced communications出现在文章的后一句中;其次, rapid development有对应的同义词组an explosion in the development;后，result from的反义词在文章中为create，故此，答案为被定语从句修饰的名词词组liberalization of world markets.

2.策略之二:略读与扫描【Skimming and Scanning】

·略读是用来获取一个段落的中心思想【main idea】的方法。

·扫描是用来寻找一个段落中特定的关键信息【specific key information】的方法.

·在阅读每个段落时，我们必须综合运用这两种方法。

·首先，在略读时，要花足够的时间去读段落的第一句和第二句，直到完全理解作者的含义，因为第一句往往是该段的主题句【top sentence】，而第二句往往是对前句的延伸【extension】或进一步的解释【explanation】.

·然后，运用扫描方法，迅速浏览从第三句开始的后面部分，搜寻作者对开头两句的支持句【supporting sentences】，并同时注意文章中间是否有转折词【transition】,因为这些词常常会把文章的思路逆转或加人其他重要的信息。

·后，当读到段落的后一句时，我们又要使用略读，这时必须再次放慢速度【slow down your pace】直到完全消化作者对段落的小结【conclusion】，因为该小结有可能与主题句截然相反或引导读者

Example

T: Tourism, holiday-making and travel are these days more significant social phenomena than most commentators have considered. On the face of it there could not be a more trivial subject for a book. And indeed since social scientists have had considerable difficulty explaining weightier topics, such as work or politics. it might be thought that they would have great difficulties in accounting for more trivial phenomena such as holiday-making. However, there are interesting parallels with the study of deviance. This involves the investigation of bizarre and idiosyncratic social practices, which happen to be defined as deviant in some societies but not necessarily in others. The assumption is that the investigation of deviance can reveal interesting and significant aspects of "normal" societies. It could be said that a similar analysis can be applied to tourism.

Q1: Which one of the following phrases can be the heading of the above paragraph?

I The politics of tourism vi Tourism versus leisure

ii The cost of tourism vii The artificiality of modern tourism

iii Justifying the study of tourism viii The role of modern tour guides

iv Tourism contrasted with travel

解析:在这篇谈旅游业的段落中，作者第一句和第二句都使用了比较级【more significant than...，there could not be a more trivial... 】，这时我们要充分理解作者的含义:表面上【【on the face of it】是说旅游业不是一个重要的话题，实际上暗示出旅游业的重要性，为下文的反驳打好铺垫.随后的支持句进行进一步的展开，讲探讨旅游业的困难性.似乎对于旅游业的论述是极其艰难的.然而，文章第六行中的However使思路陡然一转，随后把对旅游业的研究与对deviance的研究作了一个对比，后得出的结论是认为研究旅游业是同样有趣和重要的。通过这样的略读和扫描的结合，我们很容易地得出答案为iii Justifying the study of tourism.其中justify意为“为……辩护，证明……有理”