摘要:狡猾的雅思考官把各种代词塞到雅思真题的各个角落,让我们掉入陷阱,下面就让我们跟着朗阁专家揭开指代词考点的庐山真面目。
在上一篇中,我们已经为大家分析了一部分雅思阅读中指代词的考察点,下面我们将继续为大家分析,希望对大家有所帮助~
4)代词考察形式四:连环指代
以剑桥9的TEST4的Passage1完成句子为例:
题干:Marie and Pierre Curie’s research into the radioactivity of the mineral known as……led to the discovery of two new elements.
原文:Turing her attention to minerals, she found her interest drawn to pitchblende, a mineral whose radioactivity superior to that of pure uranium, could be explained only by the presence in the ore of small quantities of an unknown substance of very high activity. Pierre Curie joined her in the work that she had undertaken to resolve this problem, and that led to the discovery of the new elements, polonium and radiations.
解析:题干two new elements →找到原文new elements, polonium and radiations→往前看发现that指代词→向前寻找指代词的含义时又找到了另一个指代词this problem→继续往前发现了答案要的mineral就是pitchblende。
本题考查了双重指代,用指代词将句子和句子穿针引线连在一起,体现了英文句子逻辑连贯性,出题非常有水平,在雅思阅读考试中也经常考察。
5)代词的考察形式五:“多样的指代词”
同学们要知道代词的形式不只有单数指代this 、that、复数指代词these,those,还有such + n.,以及对应原文内容的名词等。
以剑桥7的TEST1的passage3的一个判断题为例:
题目:In the follow-up class, the teaching activities are similar to those used in conventional classes.
原文:Some hours after the two-part session, there is a follow-up class at which the students are stimulated to recall the material presented. Once again the approach is indirect. The students do not focus their attention on trying to remember the vocabulary, but focus on using the language to communicate (e.g. through games or improvised dramatizations). Such methods are not unusual in language teaching.
解析:我们通过题干follow-up定位原文内容:两个部分结束后几个小时,有一个后续课程,学生被刺激要回想这些材料,又一次,方法是间接的,学生并不把注意力集中到努力记单词上,而是聚焦于使用语言交流(通过游戏还有即兴小品),这些方法在语言学习中很普遍。
其中Such methods要指代名词复数,前面只有games or improvised dramatizations是复数,而这两个都是a follow-up class中的教学活动,对应的是判断题题干的a follow-up class中的teaching activities,similar对应的是题干的not unusual,本题考察指代和双重否定,出题水平很高,同学们在雅思备考中要注意。
另外以剑桥7的TEST2的Passage1判断为例:
题干:Only two Japanese pagodas have collapsed in 1400 years.
原文:In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes ,how have Japan’s tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings -500 or so wooden pagodas-remained standing for centuries? Records show that only two have collapsed during the past 1400 years.
解析:本题看似简单其实考察的是two指代的对象,题干和原文几乎没有什么变化,其实仔细检查发现,定位原文two所在的句子少了pagodas这个词,而返回上文发现two指代的就是日本宝塔,本题看似简单,实则考察指代。
三、“阅写一家人”
雅思阅读和写作有很多相同的地方,因为都是考察学生的Literacy,即文字功底能力。阅读是看别人写的文章,而写作是写文章给别人阅读,所以雅思阅读中的代词也正好呼应了写作评分标准的coherence和cohesion(C&C)即句子和句子之间的逻辑连贯性,同学们可以通过阅读代词的练习提升雅思写作方面的分数。
结合以上例子,我们可以得出结论,代词在雅思阅读答题中起到了重要的作用,考察题型多样化判断、填空、段落配都可以出题。同学们要重视代词的指代内容,做出合理推断,最终得出正确答案。预祝大家都能在雅思考试中取得一个好成绩~