一．定位

二．阅读

三．判断

1．  正向判断

（1）意思一致，形式改变（关键词用同义词或词组替换；语态变化等）

One possible reason why women have better memories than me is that _____.

A)     they have a wider range of interests
B)      they are more reliant on the environment
C)     they have an unusual power of focusing their attention
D)     they are more interested in what’s happening around them .

(原文：…Women have slightly better memories than men possibly because they pay more attention to their environment and memory relies on just that …)

After the tragedy caused by Hurricane Hugo, new houses built along South Carolina’s shoreline are required _____.

A)     to look smarter in design
B)     to be designed in the shape of cubes
C)     to meet stricter building standards
D)     to be easily reinforced

(原文…In Hugo’s wake ,all new shoreline houses are required t meet stricter ,better-enforced codes…)

(2)如其中两个选项间存在如下关系：包含与被包含；目的与手段；本质与表现；

（3）主旨主要针对开头（含转折性开头）和结尾

（4）正面导向，对考生具有教育和引导意义的选项

（5）比较长，复杂，抽象，甚至看不懂的选项

2．  反向判断（排除）

（1） 局部排除法（主要适用细节题）

（2） 部分与原文相同，其余为拼凑或编造内容，与原文不符合，排除

What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that _____.

A)     50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfare.
B)      70 percent of the people there have been employed for two years .
C)     Greater efforts should be made to improve people  living standards.
D)     The living standards of most people are going down.

(原文…In the past four years ,welfare rolls in Athens County have cut in half .But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than 6 an hour .The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent----twice the national average .For advocates for the poor , that’s an indication much more needs to be done.)

(3) 并列排除法

(4) 绝对陈述排除法（all , only ,reach ,every ,always ,never ,absolutely ）,尤其是一个很绝对， 另外一个较委婉时

What is the author trying to tell us ?

A)     Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain .
B)      One must know how to attain happiness .
C)     It is important to make commitments .
D)     It is pain that leads to happiness.

(5) 词汇和指代题

The word “they “ in”…together they threaten to confuse .”refers to ______.

A)     engineering and the liberal arts
B)      reality and noble ideals
C)     flexibility and a value system
D)     practicality and rationality

(原文：The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and liberal arts simply don’t mix as easily as I assumed in high school .Individually they shape a person in different ways ; together they threaten to confuse .The struggle to reconcile the two field of study is difficult.)

(6) 指责作者的内容排除

Overenthusiastic , overestimate ,underestimate ,overstate ,arbitrary 等