【正文】 ore books than Jefferson ever owned, but my access to public libraries, bookstores and, of course, the Web, gives my family information resources beyond the imagination of worldclass scholars a short time ago. 不要留戀細節(jié)內(nèi)容，要看上下文比較抽象和概括的內(nèi)容 I39。s free is the Britannica, whose hardcopy sales are down some 80 percent since 1990, is forced to pete with Microsofts dominant Encarta Encyclopedia. 本句比較細節(jié)，因此不太可能是主題句。 spiel 喋喋不休 “ easy” terms：優(yōu)惠條款 Owning an encyclopedia— or “ a set of encyclopedias” , as we used to say— was a pretty big deal for families of modest means, an unaffordable luxury for many of the folk in my hometown. And now it39。s or World Book. 本句也是細節(jié)描寫，可以略讀。 As for ordinary people, I remember how the encyclopedia salesmen would e around with their sample volumes, their memorized spiels and their offers of “ easy” terms if you39。若在文章出現(xiàn)例子，則看其上下文 相關(guān)題目解析： 6. The author cites the example of Encyclopedia Britannica at the beginning of the passage mainly to show that ________. (A) its Web site is the target of millions of hackers (B) the Web site can be repaired soon (C) it is one of the major signs of knowledge explosion (D) it is the symbol of the arrival of encyclopedic age Example 題分兩種：考 example 的 function 或者 content， section 2 考前者較 多，遇到這種題目不要留戀細節(jié)內(nèi)容，要看上下文比較抽象和概括的內(nèi)容。t say: What an extraordinary thing it is that people around the world suddenly have access— free access— to knowledge that would have been the envy of a university professor earlier in my own lifetime. 考點： although, though, even though, in spite of， despite, albeit 后面的內(nèi)容鄙視 What an extraordinary：感嘆句，這種奇怪的事情非常值得報道。 of promises to get the thing up and running, perhaps as early as this week. 考點： 分號引出并列（細節(jié)） 三個細節(jié)用 。s highly advertised free Web site was jammed into nonfunctioning. Encyclopedia Britannica：大英百科全書 jam：堵塞，擁擠 nonfunctioning.：癱瘓 句子的主體： the stories of the embarrassment The stories were of some 10 million hits a day clogging the site, . britannica. 。 本段只需特別關(guān)注關(guān)鍵句 insisted it was not making excessive profits. 第三段 The supermarket has also benefited from the lackluster performance of some of its rivals, especially Sainsbury. Also：引出另外一個關(guān)鍵原因 Lackluster：缺乏光澤 Unitl 1995 Sainsbury was bigger than Tesco,but it last reported profits were barely half Tesoco’ s ￡ 1bn. Safeway, which made ￡ 236m last year, is turning itself into a new breed of smallscale hypermarket while Asda, with ￡ 330m profit last year, appears to have lost some of its momentum since its takeover by the American WalMart discount chain. Tesco’ s ￡ profit, which was generated in the year to the end of February, is 12% up on last year. Sales were up %. 本句用數(shù)字證明和對手進行比較。 The 700strong chain, once regarded as a downmarket pileithighandsellitcheap business, is raking in sales of nearly ￡ 23bn a year and producing a profit of ￡ 3m a day. Downmarket：底端市場 pileithighandsellitcheap 薄利多銷 rake in 賺取、獲得 Only one UK retailerMarks Spencerhas ever breached the ￡ 1bn barrier before and M S has since suffered an abouttturn in its fortunes. In made only ￡ 430m last year. abouttturn：大逆轉(zhuǎn) 第二段 Despite criticism from consumer groups and some farmers’ representatives, Tesco, which now accounts for ￡ 25 of every ￡ 100 spent on groceries in UK, insisted it was not making excessive profits. Despite：盡管 類似的詞 although、 though、 in spite, in spite of, ，重點部分在于主句。 本篇文章的閱讀關(guān)鍵在于抓住主題。 2. The word row in the sentence there was a lengthy e mail row between the two sides(Para. 4) can be replaced by ________. (A) negotiation (B) argument (C) munication (D) dialogue 3. It can be found from the passages that the contract between Beasley and Wheeler and Berman_____. (A) was unfair to the surrogate mother (B) was quite prehensive and accepted by both parties (C) did not include clauses related to multiple pregnancy (D) specified the reduction of payment in case of multiple pregnancy (B) Comprehensive與第三段關(guān)鍵詞 extensive形成呼應(yīng) 注意：類似這樣的題目一定優(yōu)先選擇主題相符的答案，這是非常的主題原則。 第七段 This very pubic debacle has surrogacy supporters pretty steamed too. The only victims I see in this case are those babies and surrogate parenting itself, says Shirley Zager, director of the Illinoisbased Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy, herself a surrogate mother. Shirley Zager, director of the Illinoisbased Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy, herself a surrogate mother. 從語者的經(jīng)歷和頭銜可以推測出語者的支持傾向 According to law professor Rhode, changes of heart happen in only 4 out of every 10, 000 legal surrogate arrangements。 分隔：兩個破折號一定是分隔作用，第一個破折號總結(jié)、解釋前面的內(nèi)容，后面的破折號就是一個插入的作用。 She says both sides offered candidates but fought over whatif anythingthe newers would pay Wheeler and Berman for their invitro fertilization and donoregg expenses. if anything 破折號的作用： 解釋：用淺顯的語言說明復(fù)雜的內(nèi)容。 第五段 At that stage, Beasley felt that terminating a fetus was wrong. Plus, the late date increased the risk that both fetuses would be lost in the procedure. Her high blood pressure was already plicating the pregnancy. At that stage：在那個階段 以上三句話，是在并列說明一個主題，內(nèi)容很具體，可以略看 Beasley claims that Wheeler and Berman’ s lawyer, who declined to ment, presented her with two options: to terminate one fetus as requested or terminate both and still get paid. 本句也是并列說明，可以略看。 The contract required Beasley to honor the couple’ s decision about whether to have a selective reduction, the termination of one or more fetuses in a multiple pregnancy. Fetuses：胚胎 Still, Beasley says, I didn’ t realize they would go so ballistic over the idea of twins. Ballistic：勃然大怒 第三段的主題在于 What’ s more引出的句子中，關(guān)鍵詞 extensive 特別記錄，第三段的很多內(nèi)容與合同、官司有關(guān)。 The fate of the twins she’ s carrying but does not wan