7. Andrew Heidrich now visits websites that discuss online gaming addiction to __________.
A) improve his online gaming skills
B) curb his desire for online gaming
C) show how good he is at online gaming
D) exchange online gaming experience
这道题和上述第六题颇有些相像。它对应的段落,也就是出现了Heidrich这个人物的段落,同样也是两段:
Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college. He cut back only after a full-scale family intervention (干预), in which relatives told him he'd gained weight.
"There's this whole culture of competition that sucks people in" with online gaming, said Heidrich, now a father of two. "People do it at the expense of everything that was a constant in their lives." Heidrich now visits websites that discuss gaming addiction regularly "to remind myself to keep my love for online games in check."
如果读者朋友掌握了我们刚才所讲的方法自然就会觉得这题就比较轻松了。同样是抓住两个段落的四个重点句,然后根据题干进行判断。分析过程这里就不再赘述。很明显第二段最后一句是符合要求的。Heidrich now visits websites that discuss gaming addiction regularly "to remind myself to keep my love for online games in check."(Heidirch现在经常浏览那些探讨网友成瘾问题的网站,不时提醒自己克制对网游的喜爱。)所以答案选择B.
通过上面三个例子的分析,我们不难看出四级快速阅读略读相对而言是比较容易掌握的。在确定出对应段落后直接分析它的首末句就可以了。只不过个别难题还要求结合题干逐一对照比较分析,在若干个首末句当中挑选出最合适的。还有一点不知道读者朋友有没有发现,实际上,在首句和末句当中最后能够充当答案的往往还是最后一句。记住这个小规律了对于提高解题速度也大有帮助。
Scanning——跳读
跳读其实对大家来说就比较熟悉了。首先是找准题干关键词,然后带入原文定位寻找答案。段落中与关键词无关部分可以一概略去不看。每次快速阅读考试都有几个直接定关键词就能得答案的送分题。比如2009年6月份第三题:
3. What is becoming essential in the course of economic globalization according to the author?
A) Hiring qualified technical and management personnel.
B) Increasing understanding of people of other cultures.
C) Constantly updating knowledge and equipment.
D) Expanding domestic and international markets.
题目问在经济全球经济一体化的进程中什么变得非常重要(essential)。本题的关键词为essential,带入到文章中很快发现它出现在全文第五段:Many of us have had similar encounters with behaviors we perceive as different. As the world becomes smaller and our workplaces more diverse, it is becoming essential to expand our under-standing of others and to reexamine some of our false assumptions. 题目简单就简单在essential之后的部分便是我们要找的内容——expand our under-standing of others and to reexamine some of our false assumptions(加深对异域文化的了解,重新审视自己那些不实的假想),答案选择B.
快速阅读中的填空题更也几乎全部依靠跳读来定位。比如2010年6月第十题:
10. Now that she's got a boyfriend, Toebe is no longer crazy about __________.
题目的关键词当然是Toebe,再加上这又是最后一题,所以很快判断出应该到最后一段答案。
Since then, Toebe said, she has kept her promise to herself to cut back on her Internet use. "I have a boyfriend now, and I'm not interested in online dating," she said by phone last week. "It's a lot better now."
题目横线之前最后几个词是crazy about(痴迷于)。这个词组没有在原文出现,不过却出现了近义词组interested in,所以在其后的短语online dating就成为了本题的答案。
结合刚才两道题大家应该看到,跳读的基础是要找准关键词。一般说来,专有名词、时间数字、特殊名词短语这三类词汇是最容易被选中作为关键词的,因为它们标记明显,非常易于辨认。
不过近几年也出现了不少有一定挑战性的题目。例如2008年6月第二题: