【编者按】为了帮助考生复习，精品学习网特别搜集整理了关于学位英语考试阅读理解的答题技巧。供广大考生参考复习，希望考生朋友们能考出好成绩!
主题思想题在考试中出现的频率较高，因为这类题可考查考生抓主要信息的能力，而能够抓住文章的主要信息又是阅读能力的一个极为重要的方面。这类题在设题时常会用到title, subject, main idea , topic, theme等词。常见的提问形式有以下几种：
What is the main idea of the passage?
Which of the following would be the best title?
What's the best title for the passage?
The main idea of the passage is that _____.
This passage tells us _____.
Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?
What does the passage mainly discuss?
做这类题时常用略读法，把注意力放在抓主要信息上，不去过分注意细节事实，否则会造成"只见树木,不见森林"的结果。通常的办法是，快速阅读文章时注意找出各段主题句。英文文章各段主题句常放在段首，有时也放在段尾或段落中间，有时不明确写出，通读文章后把各段主题句联系起来，一般就能得出文章主题。
就整篇文章来讲，首段和尾段一般对于解这类题更为重要。我们以97年统考试卷中阅读理解部分的第一篇文章为例：
How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved ,whatever he may do .It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return .In addition ,life is always presenting new things to the child——things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-know. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong.
When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.
文章后面第四个问题是:
The main idea of the passage is that _____.
A. life is not enjoyable since each age has some pains
B. young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard
C. childhood is the most enjoyable time in one's life
D. one is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life
文章的第一段讲的是人们常听说孩子们盼着长大成人，老年人则希望返老还童。人生的每个阶段总是欢乐伴着苦恼，而最幸福的人则是那些既享受人生每一阶段所带来的欢乐，又没有因虚度年华而终生后悔的人。第二段讲述了一个人儿童时代的欢乐与苦恼，第三段则告诉读者青年人的责任与义务，机遇和挑战。从以上三段文字来看，第一段中第二句即是主题句，所以我们应选D为正确答案。
阅读理解包括三篇短文，总阅读量不超过900个词。每篇短文后设5个问题，每题2分，共30分。所选短文内容包括人物传记、热门话题、社会、文化、日常知识、科普常识等。阅读理解题要求考生读后能掌握文章的主旨大意，了解说明主旨大意的事实和细节，并根据所读内容进行一定的判断和推论。
阅读理解题是一种综合性的技能测试，它不仅要求考生具有较强的理解能力，还要求考生要有一定的阅读速度。而通常影响阅读理解的主要有三大因素：词汇量、语法知识、背景知识。从前些年三级统考的实际情况看，考生们反映最困难是词汇量太小，其直接后果是感觉时间太紧，答不完试卷。至于后两项也是弱项的考生来说就更困难了。考生要在这一项上取得高分，除了要在词汇量、语法知识、背景知识三个方面多下功夫外，还必须学会掌握一些最基本的阅读技能，了解这部分试题的基本设题思路及解题方法和技巧。
阅读理解一共有15题，规定的考试时间是40分钟，三篇文章中两篇较容易，有一篇较难，三篇文章总词汇量不超过900个单词。阅读理解主要测试考生的四个能力：第一、掌握所读材料的主旨和大意。第二、了解说明主旨答疑的细节。第三、既理解字面的意思又能够根据所读材料进行一定的判断和推论。第四、既理解个别句子的意思又能在上下文上理解逻辑关系。这一部分题型主要考查学生通过阅读获取的能力，要求准确更要求速度。 词汇量少直接影响阅读理解，离考试30天，提高词汇量是短期之内突破阅读的瓶颈，获取阅读理解的高分的关键。短期突破的要点是从近3年来6次考试的18篇真题入手，至少能在1个月内掌握80%的大纲要求的词汇，掌握了重点的词汇，也就能提高阅读理解的分数。 挑错题是词汇语法的延伸，一共由10个句子组成，词汇语法掌握的好，挑错题也能拿到高分。如果考生语法基础不是很好，建议在考前练习时就注意避免精敲细推，因为考生的能力还远没有达到进行仔细推敲的程度，考试时间也不允许。挑错题本身的干扰性就比较大，往往考生做对了检查时又改错。所以考前一个月多练、快练是策略，不要花费过多精力研究。 完型填空是整个五个题型当中最难的一个，从近年看是考生得分率最低的一个题型。这个题型的备考建议考生不要投入过多的时间，而且在考试的时候，对这个题型的时间运用最好不要超过15分钟。 翻译是整个试卷当中最容易的一个题型。如果阅读理解能掌握得熟练的话，英译汉写出大意就非常不错了，能得到高分。汉译英的复习建议考生不要盲目地背句子，要掌握以下几个技巧：一个句子如果有四个单词写正确，整个句子也符合逻辑，不出现重大的语法错误，每个句子两分，一般都能得到，考生可以尝试做这种训练。
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