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押全国卷3第28—31题
阅读理解C篇议论文
议论文是英语中的重要文体,在阅读理解中占有一定的比例。相对于其它文体,议论文阅读要难一些,因此要多加重视。
议论文就是说理性的文章,一般由论点、论据和论证过程组成。议论文都要提出论题、观点、提供充分的证据,使用一定的逻辑方法证明观点或得出结论。
议论文涉及的论题具有生活化的特征,与社会生活密切相关。从命题上看,议论文阅读理解以考查细节理解和推理判断为主,偶尔考查文章的主旨大意和作者的情感态度。考生在平时的阅读训练中要阅读一定数量的议论文,以了解和掌握议论文的结构和行文特征。
1. 抓论点、找论据。
阅读议论文我们要抓住论题,即作者提出的观点、给出的例证及最后得出的结论。抓住了论题,我们就把握了中心。
注重文章结构,理清文章脉络。
把握文章结构,有利于对文章大意的理解。从论证方法上讲,常见的议论文结构有以下两类:
(1)Put forward a question→Analyze the question→Solve the question 这就是“提出问题、分析问题、解决问题”的过程。
(2) Argument/ Idea→Evidence→Conclusion/ Restating the idea 这就是“由论点到论据到结论或者强调论点”的过程。
3. 体会文章语言特点,把握作者写作态度,准确进行推理判断。
能否正确把握作者的观点和态度是体现阅读能力的重要方面。一般来说,对作者的总的态度和倾向,必须在通读全文,掌握了论点和论据后,方能做出判断。在判断作者观点态度时,我们应注意,有时候作者的观点和态度并不是明确地表达出来的,需要我们认真体察。做推理判断时,一定要遵循逻辑规律,以事实为依据进行合理的推理。
Passage 1(2020 •天津卷D篇)
After years of observing human nature, I have decided that two qualities make the difference between men of great achievement and men of average performance curiosity and discontent. I have never known an outstanding man who lacked either. And I have never known an average man who had both. The two belong together.
Together, these deep human urges (驱策力) count for much more that ambition. Galileo was not merely ambitious when he dropped objects of varying weights from the Leaning Tower at Pisa and timed their fall to the ground. Like Galileo, all the great names in history were curious and asked in discontent, “Why? Why? Why?”
Fortunately, curiosity and discontent don’t have to be learned. We are born with them and need only recapture them.
“The great man,” said Mencius (孟子), “is he who does not lose his child’s heart.” Yet most of us do lose it. We stop asking questions. We stop challenging custom. We just follow the crowd. And the crowd desires restful average. It encourages us to occupy our own little corner, to avoid foolish leaps into the dark, to be satisfied.
Most of us meet new people, and new ideas, with hesitation. But once having met and liked them, we think how terrible it would have been