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SAT阅读之询证题的有效解法
询证题是SAT阅读中很常见,也是必考的一类题型,一般长这样:
1. The passage most strongly suggests that which of the following is true of Holmes?
A. He tried, but failed, to become a doctor.
B. He was an excellent student at the university.
C. He studies things he is passionate about.
D. He is considered an expert in philosophy.
2. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
A. Line 12-17 (“His hands were… instruments”)
B. Line 18-20 (“He was not… that point”)
C. Line 24-28 (“Yet his… astounded me”)
D. Line 28-30 (“Surely no man… in view”)
顾名思义,询证题考察的是学生在文中寻求证据证明推断的一种题型,因此这是一个组合型的题目,包含了一道推断题和一道例证题。询证题的难点在于阅读量稍大,并且对学生的理解和逻辑推断能力要求较高。
处理询证题最有效的方法是先把推断题(比如上面的第1题)的ABCD先看一遍,明白大概的意思,然后在文中找到例证题(比如上面的第2题)中的4句话,然后看哪句话能证明上一题的推断。
按以上题目举例,第1题中的:
A选项是指“他努力尝试过,但是并没有成功得成为一名医生”;
B选项是指“他在大学里是一个优秀的学生”;
C选项是指“他学习让他感兴趣的东西”;
D选项是指“他是一个哲学方面的专家”。
大致明白4个选项意思之后,第二步就是阅读第2题的4个选项在文中所对应的句子:
A. His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments...
这句话大致意思是“他的手总是被墨水和化学试剂弄得脏兮兮的,但是他却有异于常人的触感,在我有好几次观察到他摆弄那些精巧的科学仪器的时候”。
这句话显然与上一题的ABCD都没有直接关系,可排除。
B. He was not studying medicine. He had himself, in reply to a question, confirmed Stamford’s opinion upon that point.
这句话大致意思是指Holmes并不是学习医学的,正如Stamford所说的一样。
这句话不能直接证明上一题的ABCD,可排除。
C. Yet his zeal for certain studies was remarkable, and within eccentric limits his knowledge was so extraordinarily ample and minute that his observation have fairly astounded me.
这句话大致意思是“他对于一些学科有着极大的热忱和丰富而又精准的认识,以至于他的观察总是会使我惊讶”。
这句话能反映Holmes的知识面很广,对于某些学科的知识储备很丰富也很准确,说明他的知识涉猎较广泛。这一点比较能推断出第一题的C选项。
D. Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.
这句话大致意思是“当然没有人会这么努力或是获得这么精确的信息,除非他能明确预见到这些信息的指向。
这句话显然与上一题的ABCD并无逻辑推断关系,可排除。
--by Vivian Feng
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