除了帮助更快速的定位和解答普通题型,在阅读时把握好并列型结构也可以帮助同学们轻松搞定一些非常规的“奇葩”题型。下面我们来举个例子。
剑4 Test 1 Passage 1 文后的9-13题:
Questions 9 – 13
The box below gives a list of responses A-P to the questionnaire discussed in Reading Passage 1.
Answer the following questions by choosing the correct responses A-P.
Write your answers in boxes 9-13 on your answer sheet.
9. What was the children’s most frequent response when asked where the rainforests were?
10. What was the most common response to the question about the importance of the rainforests?
11. What did most children give as the reason for the loss of rainforests?
12. Why did most children think it important for the rainforest to be protected?
13. Which of the response is cited as unexpectedly uncommon, given the amount of time spent on the issue by the newspapers and television?
A There is a complicated combination of reasons for the loss of the rainforests.
B The rainforests are being destroyed by the same things that are destroying
the forests of Western Europe.
C Rainforests are located near the Equator.
D Brazil is home to the rainforests.
E Without rainforests some animals would have nowhere to live.
F Rainforests are important habitats for a lot of plants.
G People are responsible for the loss of the rainforest.
H The rainforests are a source of oxygen.
I Rainforests are of consequence for a number of different reasons.
J As the rainforests are destroyed, the world gets warmer.
K Without rainforests there would not be enough oxygen in the air.
L There are people for whom the rainforests are home.
M Rainforests are found in Africa.
N Rainforests are not really important to human life.
O The destruction of the rainforests is the direct result of logging activity.
P Humans depend on the rainforests for their continuing existence.
该题目题干为简答题形式,但题后给出了备选项,又看似匹配题题型。但若要将其作为匹配题解答,会陷入一个两难境地:用题干定位则信息太长,用选项定位则信息过多。这个题目让很多同学感觉无从下手。