2、大意类

解答该题型最关键的是找出主题句，把握文章主旨。

通常情况下主题句在文中的位置:

概括主旨的方法是：先看首尾或各段开头再看全文找主题句，若无明显主题句，就通过关键词句来概括(如议论文中寻找表达作者观点态度的词句，记叙文寻找概括情节和中心的动词或反映人物特点的形容词。) 。文中出现两种或两种以上的不同观点时，务必牢记作者的观点才是体现全文中心的。此时，要注意一些转折词，如but, yet, however, although, in spite of, by contrast, on the contrary等。当文章中表示相反的观点时，往往用到这些词。答题时要弄清哪个是作者的观点，排除迷惑性信息，准确归纳主旨大意。

[考例]

(2009北京卷，D篇) 71. What is the main idea of the passage?　

A. Music education deserves more attention.

　 B. Music should be of top education priority.

　 C. Music is an effective communication tool.

　 D. Music education makes students more imaginative.

[解析]A。文章第一段引出话题：When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority(优先). This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students. 表明人们对音乐不重视，然后作者从不同方面来论证自己的观点：音乐应该得到人们更多的关注。　

(2009湖北卷，E篇) 70. What is the main idea of the passage?

　　　 　 A. Our life is governed by the law of time.

　　　　　　 B. How to organize time is not worth debating.

　　　　　　 C. New ways of using time change our society.

D. Our time schedule is decided by social customs.

[解析]A。文章通过论述现代社会人们对工作与休息时间的界限比较模糊，旨在说明我们的生活受到时间法则的约束，法律约束着我们对学习、工作与休息时间的安排，因此选择A“我们的生活由时间规律掌控”符合文章主题。B“怎样安排时间不值得讨论”，C“利用时间的新方法改变了我们社会”，D“我们的时间日程由社会习惯决定”都不合文章主题或表达不正确。

　(2009山东卷，D篇) 75. What’s the main idea of the text?

A. Universities have received more applications.

B. Economics is attracting an increasing number of students

C. College students benefit a lot from economic uncertainty

D. Parents are concerned with children’s subject selection.

[解析]B。通读全文可知，由于全球金融危机的蔓延，不仅选择经济学专业的学生数量增加了，还有很多非经济学专业的学生也参加经济学方面的讲座，并且有多达三分之二的父母也要求学校教授学生经济学方面的知识。因此，整篇文章主要讲的是经济学对学生的吸引力。

(2009四川卷，E篇) 60. What does the author mainly discuss in the text?

　　　 A. Technology　　 　　　　　　　 B. Sustainability　

C. Ethanol energy 　　　 D. Environmental protection

　 [解析]B。文章从玉米制造乙醇的行为入手，说这样的“可持续发展”会引起其他方面的问题，是不实际的。因此文章的话题是Sustainability“可持续性发展”。

巩固练习：

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　　 When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get good scores in certain kinds of tests or even the ability to do well in school. By intelligence we mean a way of living and behaving, especially in a new or anxious situation. If we want to test intelligence, we need to find out how a person acts instead of how much he knows what to do.

For example, when in a new situation, an intelligent person thinks about the situation, not about himself or what might happen to him. He tries to find out all he can, and then he acts immediately and tries to do something about it. He probably isn’t sure how it will all work out, but at least he tries. And, if he can’t make things work out right, he doesn’t feel ashamed that he fails; he just tries to learn from his mistakes. An intelligent person, even if he is very young, has a special outlook(人生观) on life, special feeling about life, and knows how he fits into it.

If you look at children, you’ll see great difference between what we call “bright” children and “not bright” children. They are actually two different kinds of people, not just the same kind with different amounts of intelligence. For example, the bright child really wants to find out more about life - he tries to get in touch with everything around him. But the unintelligent child keeps more to himself and his own dream–world; he seems to have a wall between him and life in general.

1、标题类常见的标题型题干：

1) The best title / headline for this passage might be_____________.

2) The text (passage) could be entitled ______________.

3) What is the best title for the passage?

4) Which of the following would be suitable as a title for the passage?

3、概括人物特点。

[设问形式]

2、选出最佳题目(标题)；

[设题类型]

1、概括文章大意；