我们先来看几个例子。
题目:The territory of Nunavut consists of little more than ice, rock and a few…………(C6T1P3) summary
原文:Nunavut is 1.9 million square kilometers of rock and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole.
一看到and并列关系,所以这道题就很明显用ice, rock来定到位,然后就很明显和这两个词保持并列关系的是islands。
题目:For thousands of years they have had to rely on catching…………and…………as a means of sustenance. (C6T1P3) summary
原文:Human first settled in the Arctic a mere 4,5000 years ago, surviving by exploiting sea mammals and fish.
这道题也是非常的简单,要填的两个空是并列结构,而且有个很好的定位词thousands可以很快定到位,然后抄两个保持并列结构的名词。因此,答案应该是sea mammals, fish.
题目:In Britain, moreover, scientists worried that English has neither the…………nor the ……….to express their ideas. (C5T2P3) summary
原文:First, it lacked the necessary technical vocabulary. Second, it lacked the grammatical resources required to represent the word in an objective and impersonal way...
这一题的并列结构就有点略难了,因为这种并列结构是分布在两个句子里。所以基本上雅思中的丙类结构分两种,一种是直接用and, or, as well as,一种就是分布在两个连着的句子。
题目:Language problems may come to the attention of the public when they have………., such as fatal accidents or social problems. (C2T2P2) sentence completion
原文:Publicity comes only when a failure to communicate has major consequences, such as strikes, lost orders, legal problems, or fatal accidents- even , at times, war.
这里要强调的是这里要填的词和fatal accidents or social problems保持的是包含关系,和并列关系相区别下。只要注意一下,就可以知道答案就是major consequences。此外,表示包含关系的词还有for example, like, including.
题目:A genetic problem cannot be treated with drugs because strictly speaking it is not a ……….. (C2T4P3) sentence completion
原文:None of the single-gene disorders is a disease in the conventional sense, for which it would be possible to administer a curative drug….
有一点一定要记住,THE常有,A不常有。所以一旦用DRUG定到位后,可以非常迅速得找出A后面紧跟的名词。所以这道题的答案就是DISEASE.
题目:Johnson did not have a……. available to him, but eventually produced definitions of in excess of 40,000 words written down in 80 large notebooks. (C5T1P1) summary
原文:Filling about eighty large notebooks (and without a library to hand), Johnson wrote the definitions of over 40,000 words, and illustrated their many meanings with some 114,000 quotations draw from English writing on every subject, from the Elizabethans to his own time.
题目:As a reward for his hard work, he was granted a ………..by the king. (C5T1P1) summary
原文:The Dictionary, together with his other writing, made Johnson famous and so well esteemed that his friends were able to prevail upon King George III to offer him a pension.
这些例题的共同点就是所填的空之前有一个a,这里考生只要知道一点,你抄的单词基本上就定位到的地方的a的后面的词就对了。所以特别在指出的是一篇文章中的a是有限的,所以这也是一个特殊点。