高考英语阅读理解mainidea解题策略指导

1、 Questions of details 细节理解题细节理解题 Questions of guessing words词义猜测题词义猜测题 Questions of main idea主旨归纳题主旨归纳题 Questions of inference推理判断题推理判断题A. Whats the main subject of the article?B. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?C. The best title for the passage is _.D. All the fol

2、lowing statements are true except _.E. Whats the authors attitude towards ?F. This passage mainly shows _.G. We may infer from the passage thatH. From the context, the phrase mainly refer to _.I. Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?J. Whats the writers purpo

3、se of writing the article?ACFIJAlfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature, an industrialist who managed to remain an idealist. He made a fortune but lived a sim

4、ple life, and although cheerful in company he was often sad in private. A lover of mankind, he never had a wife or family to love him; a patriotic son of his native land, he died alone on foreign soil. He invented a new explosive, dynamite, to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road buil

5、ding, but saw it used as a weapon of war to kill and injure his fellow men. During his useful life he often felt he was useless: Alfred Nobel, he once wrote of himself, ought to have been put to death by a kind doctor as soon as, with a cry, he entered life. World-famous for his life he avoided publ

6、icity. I do not see, he once said, that I have deserved any fame and I have no taste for it, but since his death, his name has brought fame and glory to others. Americans might be embarrassed because their Japanese friends are so formal with them. Japanese might feel insulted because American acquai

7、ntances greet them casually. Still, the forms of greeting in both countries only show respect for others. It just happens that Americans and Japanese have a different way of looking at human relationships and thus have a different way of showing respect. When we say that Cambridge is a university to

8、wn, we do not mean just that it is a town with a university in it. London and Liverpool have universities, but we do not call them university towns. A university town is one where there is no clear separation between the university buildings and the rest of the city. The university is not just one p

9、art of the town. It is all over the town. The heart of Cambridge has its shops, market-places and so on, but most of it is university-colleges, libraries, clubs and other places for university staff and students. Students fill the shops, cafes, banks, and churches, making these as well part of the u

10、niversity. Waves are beautiful to look at, but they can destroy ships at sea, as well as houses and buildings near the shore. What causes waves? Most waves are caused by winds blowing over the surface of the water. The sun heats the earth, causing the air to rise and the winds to blow. The winds blo

11、w across the sea, pushing little waves into bigger and bigger ones. The size of a wave depends on how strong the wind is, how long it blows, and how large the body of water is. In a small bay big waves will never build up. But at sea the wind can build up giant, powerful waves. A rule says that the

12、height of a wave (in meters) will usually be no more than one-tenth of the winds speed (in kilometers). In other words, when the wind is blowing at 120 kilometers per hour, most waves will be about twelve meters. Of course, some waves may combine to form giant waves that are much higher. In 1933 the

13、 United States Navy reported the largest measured wave in history. It rose in the Pacific Ocean to a height of thirty-four meters. Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. Americans and Japanese have a different way of showing respect. A university tow

14、n is one where there is no clear separation between the university buildings and the rest of the city. Waves at the beginning of the passage at the end of the passage in the middle of the passage at the beginning or the end of the passage, then summarize them.What will help you get the main idea whe

15、n you deal with argumentation（议论文）（议论文）or exposition（说明文）（说明文）? 1. general idea - details - summary 2. details - general idea/summary 3. introduction- general idea- details details = supporting sentences/examples, etc. How about narration（记叙文）（记叙文）?clue（线索）（线索） What steps shall we follow to work out

16、 the main idea of a passage? Skimming Genre/type Structure/clue Topic sentences/summarizeWhat problems/tricks shall we be careful of while we are trying to find the main idea? 1.（以偏概全）（以偏概全）The interference items take one-sided view of the passage, seeing one point in the passage as the main idea. 2

17、. ( 放大或缩小文章的主题放大或缩小文章的主题) Zooming in or out the main idea 3. (偷换概念偷换概念) The main idea of the passage is replaced by some other relative but different ideas.Often no one looks more guilty than theinnocent. On the other hand, nobody may look more innocent than a professional criminal. And the man who

18、knows “everything” may really only be trying to hide his own weakness. So, it is foolish to try to judge a person only by his appearance. What is the main idea of the passage? A. A professional criminal looks more innocent than others. B. Don judge others by appearance. Smoking cigarettes is harmful to your