考点11 阅读理解之写作意图-【核心全突破】2024年高考英语二轮复习核心考点&重难题型专项突破

考点11 阅读理解之写作意图 Part 1 题型详解： 推理判断写作目的和意图考点是高考中的必考点。一篇发表的文章总有其作者的写作目的和用意，做这类题时，要站在作者的角度上看问题。预测在2024高考中，目的和意图会继续在高考阅读理解中呈现。 Part 2 常见设问方式： 1. What is the main purpose of the author writing the text? 2. The purpose of the text is to _______. 3. The fact…is mentioned by the author to show________. 4. The author writers the ... paragraph to ________. Part 3 解题方法指导: 1.关注文章体裁，理解文章写作手法。 2. 理解作者的词句选择和语气。 Part 4 真题检测: 2023年北京卷英语真题 In recent years, researchers from diverse fields have agreed that short-termism is now a significant problem in industrialised societies. The inability to engage with longer-term causes and consequences leads to some of the world’s most serious problems: climate change, biodiversity collapse, and more. The historian Francis Cole argues that the West has entered a period where “only the present exists, a present characterised at once by the cruelty of the instant and by the boredom of an unending now”. It has been proved that people have a bias (偏向) towards the present, focusing on loud attractions in the moment at the expense of the health, well-being and financial stability of their future selves or community. In business, this bias surfaces as short-sighted decisions. And on slow-burning problems like climate change, it translates into the unwillingness to make small sacrifices (牺牲) today that could make a major difference tomorrow. Instead, all that matters is next quarter’s profit, or satisfying some other near-term desires. These biased perspectives cannot be blamed on one single cause. It is fair to say, though, that our psychological biases play a major role. People’s hesitancy to delay satisfaction is the most obvious example, but there are others. One of them is about how the most accessible information in the present affects decisions about the future. For instance, you might hear someone say: “It’s cold this winter, so I needn’t worry about global warming.”Another is that loud and urgent matters are given too much importance, making peop