主旨題可分為文章主旨和段落主旨兩種。該類(lèi)題型在歷年題型中出現(xiàn)的頻率極高,每年必出。它考查了考生綜合、概括、歸納和分析問(wèn)題的能力,要求考生通過(guò)對(duì)文章的閱讀,迅速把握文章或段落的中心。命題模式如下:??
1. 文章主旨題??
(1) What is the main idea of this passage???
(2) This passage is mainly about ___________?
(3) What is the best title of this passage???
(4) What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?
(5) The passage was written to explain ___________.??
2. 段落主旨題??
(1) What does the first (second/third...) paragraph mainly discuss???
(2) From the first (2nd, 3rd, 4th,etc) paragraph, we can learn that ___________.
? ? 3. 主旨題的特點(diǎn)??
無(wú)論是在段落中還是在文章中,是明顯還是隱蔽,主旨的提出主要有四種情況:??
(1) 首段或首句開(kāi)門(mén)見(jiàn)山指出中心或討論的問(wèn)題。
(2) 文章中間或段落中間給出中心。??
(3) 文章末段或段落末句對(duì)全文或全段進(jìn)行總結(jié)歸納,得出中心思想。??
(4) 文章或段落中不明確給出中心,考生要根據(jù)各段中心或各句的內(nèi)容進(jìn)行總結(jié),自己推出主旨。