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2. 举例作用题

此类题目就文中的例子进行提问，需要回答此例子在文中所起的作用

原文： “Government is sotechnical that even career civil servants cannot explain

what is happening. In1978 I attended a seminar on federal estate and gift tax, where

the Internal Revenue Service lawyers responsible for this area frankly confessed that

they did not understand the Tax Reform Act of 1976.”

题目：The author uses the description of the tax seminar in 1978 to make thepoint that some governmental issues are:

A. so technical thatnot even career civil servants can understand them.

B. so technical thatonly career civil servants can understand them.

C. more technicalthan they used to be before the passage of the Tax Reform Act.

D. too technical foranyone other than an Internal Revenue Service tax lawyer to understand.

答案：A

分析：作者在文中描述一个例子的作用就是为了证明一个结论，所以，举例作用题的答案为例子之前或之后的结论句。一般，由for example开头的例子，结论句在之前。如果例子结束后出现therefore，则therefore之后为结论句。本题结论句在例子之前，即Government is so technical that even career civil servants cannotexplain what is happening. 通过同义改写，得到A选项。B选项错误原因依然是故意丢失not。

注意：举例作用题常见错误选项为选项中重现例证中原文，比如此题的C, D选项中出现的Tax Reform Act和Internal Revenue Service。

3. 推论题

此类题目与直接事实题不同，不是就文中的信息进行直接的提问，而是考查作者所写的某处内容实际暗示了什么。

原文：“The remarkable thing about dinosaurs is not that they became extinct, but that they dominated theearth for so long…”“People, on thiscriterion, are scarcely worth mentioning—5 million years perhaps since Australopithecus, a mere 50, 000 for our own species, Homo sapiens…”

题目：In the context of the passage, what does the author mean when he states that “people … are scarcely worth mentioning” (lines 81-82)?

A. Compared to the complex social behavior of dinosaurs, human behavior seems simple.

B. Compared to the longevity of dinosaurs, humans have been on earth a very short time.

C. Compared to the size of dinosaurs, human seem incredibly small.

答案：B

分析：解答推论题时方法如下：1)如果定位句位于段首，或定位句后有冒号，破折号时，往后找答案。2)如果定位句中有this等代词时，则往前找答案。3)如果定位句既位于段首，句中又有代词，则同时读句前和句后，并作比较，得出答案。

此题属于第三种情况，读上文，知“恐龙占据地球的时间如此之长”;读下文，得“人类，在这种标准下，不值得一提”。两者相比，人类在地球上的生存时间比恐龙短，所以正确答案选B。

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