提问方式：
*Which of the following statements is implied暗示 but NOT stated? 下面哪一句话是文章暗示的，而不是直接表达出来的意思？ *It can be inferred推测 from the passage that___. 可以从文章中推测出_____.
*It can be concluded from the passage that___.（答案可在原文中直接出现） 可以从文章中得出____.
*What can we learn from the passage? （答案可在原文中直接出现） 我们从文中可以得知什么？
先看四个选项，对每一个选项进行中心词定位
It looks like a mobile phone, but the service is much cheaper. It acts like a mobile phone, but only in your own city. Beyond the city walls, it is useless. “Little Smart”, also called “Xiaolingtong”, has always been compared to mobile phones. But actually it is more like one of those cordless phones used around the home. The only difference is that this one reaches much further. It can travel across an entire city.
Cheap costs are the main reason for the success of Little Smart. It costs 25 yuan a month for the line and about 0.1 yuan per minute to use. What’s more, unlike mobile phones, there is no fee for incoming calls.
But Little Smart is not really that smart. Users often complain about its bad service quality. “I couldn’t receive a phone call if I was on a bus,” said Li, a user in Beijing. “It worked fine when I stood still, but there were breaks in signal when I was moving.”
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Scientists are trying to make Little Smart more user-friendly. Messaging and Internet access have been added to the service. And the latest Little Smart handset even has color screen. 5. What can we learn from the passage? A. It is wrong to say that Little Smart is smart. B. Scientists are trying to make Little Smart smaller.
C. Scientists are trying to make Little Smart more user-friendly. D. People will change Little Smart into a mobile phone.
[5]C.推断题。本题问“我们从课文中可以得知什么？”我们先要浏览一下选项。A的意思是“说小灵通很灵是错误的。”B的意思是“科学家正在努力使小灵通变得更小。”C的意思是“科学家正在试图使小灵通更加宜用。”D的意思是“人们将会用手机替代小灵通。”A的中心词是“Little smart is smart”，答案在倒数第二段的第一句话，该句大意是“但是小灵通并非那么的灵”。这句话的意思和A并非一致，所以暂时我们还不能非常有把握地判断A是正确与否。B的中心词是“scientists”，答案在最后一段的第一句话，该句大意是“科学家正在试图使小灵通更加宜用”。这和B是截然不同的，而和C是完全一致的。据此我们已经可以肯定地知道C就是我们的答案了。至于D，文中并没有这样的说法。
4.词汇题：考查的是文章中出现的某些生词的含义。提问方式： *The word “**” in line 5 refers to___. 第五行的“**”词语指的是___. *By “**”, the author means___.
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作者用“**”指的是____. 解答方案：
*利用文章中对该词语的定义来猜测。 例：
Such experiences are not unusual for the amateur conchologists, people who collect shells.
这个单词的意思可以根据该词语后面的同位语people who collect shells出来:贝壳收藏家。 例2：
Jack is now a florist, who keeps a shop for selling flowers. Florist的含义其实可以从它后面的那个定语从句中推测出来：花店的店主。
*利用文章中对该词语的举例来猜测。 例：
Today, young couples who are just starting their households often spend lots of their money on appliances, for instance, washing machine, refrigerators and color TVs.
Appliance的意思可以从其后面的例子：washing machine和color TV从猜测出来：家电。 例：
Finally the enemy surrendered. They threw down their weapons and walked out of home with their hands over heads.
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Surrender的意思可以从后面的解释当中推测出来：投降。
*根据对比关系来猜测词语的意思。 例：
Andrew is one of the most supercilious men I know. His brother, in contrast(相反) is quite humble（卑微的/谦虚的and modest（谦虚的） 划线单词可以根据后面的对比得知含义：傲慢的，目空一切。 *根据词语的同义词来猜测。 例：
Although he often had the opportunity, Mr. White was never able to steal money from a customer. This would have endangered his position at the bank, and he did not want to jeopardize his future. 根据前面的endanger,我们可以推测该词语和endanger相近：危害。
*利用构词法来猜测词语的含义 例：
They overestimate the interviewee’s ability and asked him many difficult questions.
Overestimate可以根据over + estimate来猜测出：高估 例：
We were told that ours was the most spacious room in the hotel. That was why we had to pay so much for it.
既然我们知道space（空间）的含义，在这里我们可以推测这个词和space
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有关。在根据前后文，我们可以猜测出其含义应该是：宽敞的。 A．small B. large
*关于作者的意图、态度、目的的题目。 常见的提问有： *The author seems ___. 作者似乎____.
*The author’s tone in this passage is_______.
在本文中，作者的基调是________.(是赞成还是反对？) *The writer probably feels that_______. 作者很可能感觉________.
在这些提问中，选择项里经常出现下面这些形容词： Sympathetic同情的 Critical 批评的 Doubtful怀疑的 Objective客观的 Enthusiastic热情的 Matter-of-fact实事求是地 Hostile敌对的 Indifferent冷淡的 Subjective主观的 Optimistic乐观的
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