難點(二)　容易“顧此失彼”的“main idea”型主旨大意題 如果考生缺乏對文章整體理解的能力，就不能正確把握文章的主旨大意，不能排除干擾項，便會造成誤選。 What does the passage mainly discuss? A．The present and past times. B．Machinery and human beings. C．Imaginations and inventions.　 D．Modern technology and its influence. (2010·江西卷，D) Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly.Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour，aircraft cross the world inside a day，while computers operate at lightning speed.Indeed，this love of speed seems never-ending.Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹噓) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks. All this saves time，but at a price.When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane，our bodies tell us so.We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag；our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone.Again spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers.Mobile phones also have their danger，according to some scientists；too mcuh use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains，a consequence we do not like to think about.

　　However，what do we do with the time we have saved？Certainly not relax，or so it seems.We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing，or even just one thing at a time.Perhaps the_days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio，letting imagination take us into another world. There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle.No multi-tasking there；their lives went on at a much gentler pace，and in a familiar pattern.There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this.Yet before we do so，we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced：they farmed with bare hands，often lived close to hunger，and had to fashion tools from wood and stone.Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence. [語篇解讀]　本文為議論文，作者討論了現代科技對我們生活的影響。 1．The new products become more and more time-saving because________. A．our love of speed seems never-ending B．time is limited C．the prices are increasingly high D．the manufacturers boast a lot 解析：　事實細節題。根據第一段第三句“確實，這種對速度的愛似乎永無止境”。 答案：　A

　　2．What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A．Imaginary life.B．Simple life in the past. C．Times of inventions.D．Time for constant activity. 解析：　猜測詞義題。答案在畫線詞的后半句“那時候我們可以安靜地聽著廣播里的故事，讓想象帶我們到另一個世界去遨游”。所以那些天指的是過去簡單的生活。 答案：　B 3．What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology? A．Critical.　

　　B．Objective. C．Optimistic.D．Negative. 解析：　推理判斷題。從全文最后兩句可得知作者的觀點“然而這樣做之前，我們必須想想我們的祖先所面臨的艱難工作：他們徒手耕作，經常生活在饑餓的邊緣，不得不把木頭和石頭當做工具。現代機器已經把人們從原始的生存狀態中解放出來了”。 答案：　B 4．What does the passage mainly discuss? A．The present and past times. B．Machinery and human beings. C．Imaginations and inventions. D．Modern technology and its influence. 解析：　主旨大意題。本文主題應包含現代科技和它造成的影響，故選D。A、C不相關；B.機械與人類，內容范圍太廣。 答案：　D 【長難句】　Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio，letting imagination take us into another world.也許那些日子已離我們遠去了，那時候我們可以安靜地聽著廣播里的故事，讓想象帶我們到另一個世界去遨游。 此句是定語從句，先行詞為the days，從句為when引導的句子。從句中又包含了非謂語作狀語。

　　[化難為易]　“main idea”型主旨大意題也屬于閱讀理解中的深層理解題。這種題型中的干擾項通常和文章某一細節有關，許多考生往往只根據文中的某一信息盲目確定答案，比如文中介紹了現代科技對我們生活的影響，只有D項可以概括文章的主題思想。

　　主旨大意題要求考生要善于抓取文章的主題句，主題句通常表達了文章的中心思想(main idea)，找到了主題句，也就抓住了文章的主旨大意。因此，“主題句定位法”是解答主旨大意題的一種行之有效的方法。主題句通常在文章的開頭或結尾出現，但是也有一些文章的中心思想貫穿全文，并沒有用一句話明確表達出來，這就要求考生抓住文章中的關鍵詞進行歸納概括。

　　難點(二)　容易“顧此失彼”的“main idea”型主旨大意題 如果考生缺乏對文章整體理解的能力，就不能正確把握文章的主旨大意，不能排除干擾項，便會造成誤選。 What does the passage mainly discuss? A．The present and past times. B．Machinery and human beings. C．Imaginations and inventions.　 D．Modern technology and its influence. (2010·江西卷，D) Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly.Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour，aircraft cross the world inside a day，while computers operate at lightning speed.Indeed，this love of speed seems never-ending.Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹噓) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks. All this saves time，but at a price.When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane，our bodies tell us so.We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag；our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone.Again spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers.Mobile phones also have their danger，according to some scientists；too mcuh use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains，a consequence we do not like to think about.

　　However，what do we do with the time we have saved？Certainly not relax，or so it seems.We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing，or even just one thing at a time.Perhaps the_days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio，letting imagination take us into another world. There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle.No multi-tasking there；their lives went on at a much gentler pace，and in a familiar pattern.There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this.Yet before we do so，we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced：they farmed with bare hands，often lived close to hunger，and had to fashion tools from wood and stone.Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence. [語篇解讀]　本文為議論文，作者討論了現代科技對我們生活的影響。 1．The new products become more and more time-saving because________. A．our love of speed seems never-ending B．time is limited C．the prices are increasingly high D．the manufacturers boast a lot 解析：　事實細節題。根據第一段第三句“確實，這種對速度的愛似乎永無止境”。 答案：　A

　　2．What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A．Imaginary life.B．Simple life in the past. C．Times of inventions.D．Time for constant activity. 解析：　猜測詞義題。答案在畫線詞的后半句“那時候我們可以安靜地聽著廣播里的故事，讓想象帶我們到另一個世界去遨游”。所以那些天指的是過去簡單的生活。 答案：　B 3．What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology? A．Critical.　

　　B．Objective. C．Optimistic.D．Negative. 解析：　推理判斷題。從全文最后兩句可得知作者的觀點“然而這樣做之前，我們必須想想我們的祖先所面臨的艱難工作：他們徒手耕作，經常生活在饑餓的邊緣，不得不把木頭和石頭當做工具。現代機器已經把人們從原始的生存狀態中解放出來了”。 答案：　B 4．What does the passage mainly discuss? A．The present and past times. B．Machinery and human beings. C．Imaginations and inventions. D．Modern technology and its influence. 解析：　主旨大意題。本文主題應包含現代科技和它造成的影響，故選D。A、C不相關；B.機械與人類，內容范圍太廣。 答案：　D 【長難句】　Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio，letting imagination take us into another world.也許那些日子已離我們遠去了，那時候我們可以安靜地聽著廣播里的故事，讓想象帶我們到另一個世界去遨游。 此句是定語從句，先行詞為the days，從句為when引導的句子。從句中又包含了非謂語作狀語。

　　[化難為易]　“main idea”型主旨大意題也屬于閱讀理解中的深層理解題。這種題型中的干擾項通常和文章某一細節有關，許多考生往往只根據文中的某一信息盲目確定答案，比如文中介紹了現代科技對我們生活的影響，只有D項可以概括文章的主題思想。

　　主旨大意題要求考生要善于抓取文章的主題句，主題句通常表達了文章的中心思想(main idea)，找到了主題句，也就抓住了文章的主旨大意。因此，“主題句定位法”是解答主旨大意題的一種行之有效的方法。主題句通常在文章的開頭或結尾出現，但是也有一些文章的中心思想貫穿全文，并沒有用一句話明確表達出來，這就要求考生抓住文章中的關鍵詞進行歸納概括。