[图文]阅读理解测试题型分析（8）

6语篇型

该题型是对语篇理会、感悟水平的测验，要求甚高。试题常围绕考查预测技能进行，要求在读完原文后，确定某些与文章有关的信息，例如：短文的出处、文章的体裁或文体、篇章前后叙述的内容，作者的态度或倾向性等。诸如“前篇后篇可能讲什么内容”、“属于何种文体”，“是歌颂还是讽刺，是同情还是冷漠”等问题，涉及到能否进行正确推理的各个方面。该类题目难度大，出错者甚多。例：

A grade report is mailed to the students at the end of each semester． This cumulative record，known as a“student copy”，is not valid for transfer or certification purposes．Additional student copies may be obtained at a cost ＄3．00 each．

Q：Where would this paragraph most probably be found？

A）In a test booklet．B）In a letter from a student．

C）In college catalog．D）In a class schedule．

答案：C）

7附加图表型

在英语竞赛中，阅读理解测试常包括短文附加图表的测试形式。这类测试形式所提供的信息不仅体现在短文中，也隐含在图表中，这就要求考生在面对这类题型时，视野要开阔，不仅要根据阅读理解技巧，找出短文中题目要求的答案，还要仔细观察图表所提供的信息。

有些测试题目，如：数字、年代、地点等类似内容，其答案往往隐含在图表中，所以当发现在文字材料中确定正确答案有困难时，则一定不要一味拘泥于文字材料，而应该参阅图表，找出相关信息，从而快而准地解出这类题目，收到事半功倍的效果。例如，2000年全国大学生英语竞赛初赛试卷中的一附加图表类型的试题，就给了我们深刻的启示。

La Nia redraws weather patterns

Phenomenon likely to control climate for another winter

By Blake Morrison

USA TODAY

Spring-like twisters tear through western Kentucky

A spring-like storm sent a tornado through Owensboro，Ky．，damaging hundreds of homes but causing no deaths．Some people dashed to safety inside a bank vault．

The tornado cut a wide path of destruction through residential and business districts near Kentucky Wesleyan University．

Officials estimated as many as 750homes and 35 businesses were damaged in the city of about 54，000．

Thirteen people required hospital treatment，mostly for minor injuries．

In Crittenden County，as many as 100 homes were damaged．

The Associated Press

In Arkansas on Monday，streets flooded．In New York，no one needed a coat．In Illinois，high winds took the roof off a city building． Just a few days before，in San Diego County，Calif．，5 inches of snow topped Mount Laguna．

Welcome to a LaNia winter，where on any given day（Monday， for instance），Philadelphia can be just as balmy as Los Angeles．

Strange as the weather may seem ，it comes as little surprise to meteorologists．Since fall，just as they did last year，they've been talking about milder-than-normal conditions in the mid-Atlantic states，an increased risk of severe weather in the Ohio Valley and below-normal temperatures on the California coast．

“You get warm spells，cold spells，”says Jim Laver，deputy director of the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center．“We expect those swings．”

By winter's end，he says，everything should even out．“If you look at last year's results，we don't expect it to be too much different this year．”

La Nia is created by cooler-than-normal waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean．The cooler waters alter the strength and location of jet streams，which steer weather systems．For the second winter in a row，meteorologists predict，La Nia will run the show．

Although it hasn't brought as much snow to regions such as the Pacific Northwest this year，it has delivered warmer weather to areas east of the Appalachians．

“I think it was probably the warmest November on record for the United States，and December has probably continued that pattern，”says Kevin Trenberth，an atmospheric scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research．

In Philadelphia，the high was a record 63 deGREes．In New York City，the temperature topped at 64．At Boston's Logan Airport，the 64-degree high broke the record of 62 set in 1913．Records also were broken in Concord，N．H．；Portland，Maine；Providence；and Burlington，Vt．

Temperatures in the region were supposed to remain unseasonably warm Tuesday and today．

However，Trenberth warned，“It's going to be a lot cooler over most of the country in the next week or so，and some wintry weather looks to be in store for us in at least the next couple of weeks．”

In the upper Midwest，that wintry weather could have come Tuesday．Although overnight lows in Cleveland were expected to stay about 50 deGREes Monday night，the city was in line with Chicago，where a moderate Monday edged toward a windy and snowy night．

Trenberth says LaNia weather patterns could linger through March，“but it could well fade when it comes to the spring．”

By then，folks might no longer need jackets in New York anyway． The trees downed by heavy thunder storms in Arkansas will have been removed．And the roof that blew off a garage at the municipal complex in Cambria，Ill．，will have been replaced．

As for the snow in San Diego County？It's probably already gone．

1．What does the word“balmy”in paragraph 2 mean？

A．Warm．B．Cold．C．Hot．D．Cool．

2．According to the passage，this winter the temperature of which place is not likely to be higher than the past temperature record？

A．New York City．B．Concord．

C．Los Angeles．D．Logan Airport．

3．How many people，injured by the tornado through Owensboro，needed medical care？

A．35．B．100．C．750．D．13．

4．What is La Nia according to the passage？

A．The name of a meteorologist．

B．The name of a kind of meteorological phenomenon．

C．The name of a place．

D．The name of a weather pattern．

5．What can we learn from this passage about the weather of the United States this winter？

A．It may be about the same as last year．

B．It's colder than before．

C．It has less rain than last year．

D．It has more snow than ever before．

答案：ACDBA