1.When a paragraph starts with detail information
当段落以细节信息开头时,即首句出现细节性时间、地点、事件等概念时,作者通常是要以细节信息来说明一个问题、观点、或者引出一个判断。所以该段落的重点信息往往会在段落的末尾出现。
在阅读一个段落时,如果发现首句中出现了和文章标题中的概念相比非常细分的时间、地点和事件等词汇时,可以略过细节,直奔尾句寻找该段落的主题。下面以几个例子来说明。
例1:On 2nd August 1999, a particularly hot day in the town of Cirencester in the UK, a large pane of toughened glass in the roof of a shopping centre at Bishops Walk shattered without warning and fell from its frame. When fragments were analysed by experts at the giant glass manufacturer Pilkington. which had made the pane, they found that minute crystals of nickel sulphide trapped inside the glass had almost certainly caused the failure.
以上例子中,下划线的语汇是细节信息的标记词,和文章标题 The problem with toughened glass 相比是很细节化的。段落尾句中的黑体字是该段落的核心,是作者通过一个具体的事件引出的主题。
雅思考题经常围绕重点信息而出。就该段重点信息而出的考题是T/F/NG判断题: