雅思阅读选择题是高频题型之一,但是没有其他的题型那么难。虽然看起来简单,但是强大的干扰项常常让考生迷失其中,导致失分。所以,今天小编给大家分享雅思阅读选择题到底考什么,希望对大家备考有帮助。
一、雅思阅读选择题出题特点:
雅思,全称是:International English Language Testing System, 是指Test in English, 也就是说雅思考试仅仅考查语言。这对于广大烤鸭们意味着什么呢?这表明,雅思考试并不考查你的推理能力,出题者不会给你提供信息然后让你基于这些信息得出结论,相反,他们给你提供信息并问你这些信息。基本上,他们都是让你重复刚刚给你的信息,其实答案就在你的眼前。
这一规律如何应用呢?今天我们以雅思阅读考试中的选择题为例来进行讲解。选择题目前在每周一次的考试趋势中,还是相当重要的。如此高频的题目,却又被认为是“特别好定位,总是做不对”,继四大主流题型之后的又一“让人会呼吸的疼”。
下面来为广大的考试逐一分析选择题的考试特点以及题型技巧。
虽然5%的选择题是问一篇文章的主题或为这篇文章选一个合适的标题,但95%的选择题都会关注文章中给出的细节信息。你要做的仅是把他提供的信息再重复给他。你不会被要求基于这些信息得出结论。
其实选择题并不难,但不幸的是,大多数烤鸭选择题的正确率都不高,原因不是定位不准确,而是更多的夹杂了自己的主观意愿,抑或是对作者的句子产生臆想、联想甚至是幻想。
下面来分析一道剑桥雅思六Test 4 Reading Passage 3的第32题:
Until recently, not much was known about the topic, and little help was available to teachers to deal with bullying. Perhaps as a consequence, schools would often deny the problem. “There is no bullying at this school” has been a common refrain, almost certainly untrue. Fortunately more schools are now saying,” there is not much bully here, but when it occurs we have a clear policy for dealing with it.”
The writer thinks that the declaration “There is no bullying at this school”
A. is no longer true in many schools
B. was not in fact made by many schools
C. reflected the school’s lack of concern
D. reflected a lack of knowledge and resources
首先,明确一点,选择题是顺序原则的题。通常来说,一个段落定位一道题,最多一个段落会出现两道选择题的定位点。
第二,先读题干,通过题干到文中定位,题干中的话加上了引号,说明是引用,发现在文中显而易见,在该段的第三行,很多学生习惯性的看该句的后面,很快遇到了生词refrain,然后再往下看,看到了untrue, 发现和第一个选项很相像,所以毫不犹豫选A。
其实选择题里最具有干扰的、最具有迷惑性的就是选项和文中的句子长得相似,多半是错误答案。还有一部分学生是往前看了,看到了schools deny the problem, 学校否认问题,立马产生联想,学校一定是缺乏关心,才否认问题,所以立刻选C, 这样的学生犯了最大的错,就是过度推断,雅思阅读只考察字面意义上的同义转换。
其实deny the problems的前面,出现了很重要的逻辑关系词as a consequence, 这一词组后面接的是结果,前面是原因,题干定位在as a consequence的后面,说明这道题是想考察产生这件事的原因,所以答案是这段第一句话的同义改写。
第三,定位到确切的句子,找同义改写not much was known about the topic, and little help was available to teachers to deal with bullying. 这句话中出现了两个否定,一是对欺负不了解,二是得到老师的帮助来处理欺负很少,符合D选项中的否定词lack, knowledge and resources.
二、雅思阅读选择题如何排除干扰项:
1、 重要干扰项
重要干扰项就是指,这种选项虽然不是正确答案,却与原文不冲突(或者很难判断是否与原文冲突),它们与正确答案看起来比较相似,只不过不如正确答案更准确、更完整或更严谨。我们和小编一起来看下面的例子:
In Tarkovsky’s opinion, the attraction of the cinema is that it
A aims to impress its audience.
B tells stories better than books.
C illustrates the passing of time.
D describes familiar events.
我们可以定位到原文的C段和D段,C段提到:The frightened audience could not accept that they were watching a mere picture. Pictures were still, only reality moved; this must, therefore, be reality. In their confusion, they feared that a real train was about to crush them. 这一段文字表达了观众当时的反应,观众们很难接受自己看到的是图画而不是事实。
D段提到:The key to that magic was the way in which cinema created a dynamic image of the real flow of events. A still picture could only imply the existence of time, while time in a novel passed at the whim of the reader. But in cinema, the real, objective flow of time was captured. 这段文字描述了电影创造了事件随时间的发展演变,并且用picture和novel进行类比,强调电影的魔力是让人清楚地看到事情流畅地随时间演变。
根据这两段文字所表达的意思,很多学生会选择A或B选项,因为原文提及了观众、小说(书)的内容。A和B两个选项与原文所讲的内容并不是矛盾或完全不符合的。因此,这两个选项就干扰了我们正确的选择。当我们把这两段文字仔细推敲之后,发现描述观众的反应和对比书和电影的区别,都是为了表达电影的魔力在于表达事件随时间的发展这一主题含义。C项的含义比AB要更准确,因此答案选择C项。
2、 错误干扰项
相比之下,多选题目的错误干扰项就较容易识别出来了。我们可以看到,有些题目中,某个选项与原文是直接矛盾的,那么肯定不会选择它为正确的答案。比如:
A recent survey found that in British secondary schools,
A there was more bullying than had previously been the case.
B there was less bullying than in primary schools.
C cases of persistent bullying were very common.
D indirect forms of bullying were particularly difficult to deal with.
我们看到原文,其中有一句话是:There was less bullying in secondary schools, with about one in twenty-five suffering persistent bullying. 通过这句话,我们可以明显地判断出,C项的含义与原文是矛盾的。very common和one in twenty-five的比例是明显不符的。因此,C选项就是一个错误的干扰项,我们可以确定地排除答案是C项的可能性。
其实,雅思阅读选择题只要能通过题干正确定位,在原文中找到出处,不要被相似的干扰项迷惑,不要过度推断,做起来也不会很难。最后,预祝大家考出满意的雅思成绩。
您还可能关注:

