如何掌握英文文章的主旨

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　　语文和英语两门学科都是关于语言学习的，在掌握文章主旨的方法上有许多相同和相通之处。但尽管如此，不是每个学生都能顺利地进行知识迁移，用我们的母语经验去帮助掌握英文文章的主旨。本文将列举五个典型案例来探究如何掌握英文文章的主旨常用的方法。关键词：知识迁移 ，母语经验， 英文文章的主旨， 常用方法 在阅读任何一篇英文短文时，第一件要思考的事就是了解文章大意。英文短文有明显的特点，那就是每一自然段的开头或结尾句就是该段的主题句。可以说，绝大多数学生都知道这一特点，却依旧无法准确的理解文章主旨。为什么？因为了解这一特点仅仅是掌握文章主旨的初始阶段，如何能将主题句有机地联系在一起才是知识迁移的关键阶段——即用语文学科中掌握主旨的知识去指导掌握英文文章主旨。 方法1：重视第一自然段的作用。第一自然段主要有两个作用：第一：抛砖引玉，引出下文；第二：总括全文，即文章主旨段落。 例题一、2006年高考题重庆卷阅读C篇When a Swedish ship that sank in 1628 was recovered from the port of Stockholm, historians and scientists were overjoyed with the chance to examine the remains of the past. The ship construction showed how ships were built and operated during the seventeenth century. In this way, artifacts ,objects made by human beings, provided a picture of daily life almost 400 years ago.
　　Underwaterarchaeology-the study of ships, aircraft and human settlements that have sunk under large bodies of water-is really a product of the last 50 years. The rapid growth of this new area of study has occurred because of the invention of better diving equipment .Besides the Swedish ship wreck(残骸），underwater archaeologists have made more exciting discoveries such as the 5000-year-old boats in the Mediterranean Sea.
　　Underwater archaeology can provide facts abut the past. In ancient ports all over the world are ships sunken in the past 6,000 years. There are also sunken settlements in seas and lakes telling of peoples way of life and their systems of trade in ancient times. Underwater archaeologists want to study these objects to add to the world's knowledge of history, but they have to fight two enemies. One enemy is treasure hunters who dive for ancient artifacts that they can sell to collectors. Once sold, these objects are lost to experts. The second enemy is dredging machines(挖掘机）often used to repair ports. These machines destroy wrecks and artifacts or bury them deeper under sand and mud. By teaching the public about the importance of underwater “museums” of the past, archaeologists are hoping to get support for laws to protect underwater treasures. 全文共三段，第一自然段讲了发现了一艘1628的沉船，历史学家和科学家们欢呼雀跃有机会了解过去的遗迹；第二自然段讲了水下考古学的的定义；第三自然段讲了水下考古学的作用。如果，学生非常清楚第一自然段的主要作用，就很容易发现第一自然段是抛砖引玉引起下文而不是总括全文，全文主要讲的是水下考古学。 63. What purpose does Paragraph 1 serve in the passage?
　　A. To provide background information of the topic
　　B. To attract readers' attention to the topic
　　C. To use an example to support the topic
　　D. To offer basic knowledge of the topic 所以该考题答案应选择B。
　　例题二、2011年高考题福建卷阅读理解D篇 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did nowhere else.After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate Aristotie Onassis laqueline’s close friend and former White House social secretary Letitis Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing. After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life .She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday ,pursuing（追求）a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book ,The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-seller. She dealt too. with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传)，Moonwalk.Jaequeline may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth.. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself. In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote, Her role as First lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much. 全文共三段。第一自然段的主旨是肯尼迪夫人Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 在生命的最后二十多年作为一名编辑，在工作中表现比她以前做的任何事情都出色；第二自然段的主旨是在她第二任丈夫去世后，她接受了进入出版业的建议；第三自然段的主旨是她被雇佣也许是因为她的名声和社会关系，但很快她就证明了她的价值。很明显，第一自然段是总括段落。 The passage is mainly A. an introduction of Jacqueline’s life both as Fist Lady and as editor. B. a brief description of Jacqueline’s lifelong experiences. C. a brief account of Jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years. D. an analysis of Jacqueline’s social relations in publishing 所以该考题答案是C. 方法2：利用分段理顺主题句之间的关系。这种方法很适用于篇幅较长，段落较多的传记、议论文和说明文。 例题一、2011年高考题浙江卷阅读理解C篇 ① In the more and more competitive service industry , it is no longer enough to promise customer satisfaction. Today , customer “delight” is what companies are trying to achieve in order to keep and increase market share.②It is accepted in the marketing industry , and confirmed by a number of researches, that customers receiving good service will promote business by telling up to 12 other people : those treated badly will tell their tales of woe to up to 20 people, 80 percent of people who feel their complaints are handled fairly will stay loyal ③ New challenges for customer care have come when people can obtain goods and services through telephone call centers and the Internet. For example , many companies now have to invest(投资)a lot of money in information technology and staff training in order to cope with the “phone rage”—caused by delays in answering calls ,being cut off in mid-conversation or left waiting for long periods.④“Many people do not like talking to machines ,”says Dr . Storey Senior Lecturer in Marketng at City University Business School.“Banks, for example, encourage staff at call centers to use customer data to establish instant and good relationship with them .The aim is to make the customer feel they know you and that you can trust— the sort of comfortable feelings people have during face-to-face chats with their local branch manager.” ⑤ Recommended ways of creating customer delight include: under-promising and over-delivering (saying that a repair will be calmed out within five hours ,but getting it done within two );replacing a faulty product immediately : throwing in a gift voucher(购物礼卷)as an unexpected “thank you” to rental customers ;and always returning calls ,even when they are complaints. ⑥ Aiming for customer delight is all very well , but if services do not reach the high level promised , disappointment or worse will be the result . This can be eased by offering an apology and an explanation of why the service did not meet usual standards with empathy (for example,“ I know how you must feel”) , and possible solutions (replacement , compensation or whatever fames suggests best meets the case). ⑦Airlines face some of the toughest challenges over customer care . Fierce competition has convinced them that delighting passengers is an important marketing tool, while there is great potential for customer anger over delays caused by weather ,unclaimed luggage and technical problems . ⑧For British Airways staff , a winning telephone style is considered vital in handling the large volume of calls about bookings and flight times . They are trained to answer quickly ,with their name , job title and a “we are here to help” attitude. The company has invested heavily in information technology to make sure that information is available instantly on screen. ⑨ British Airways also says its customer care policies are applied within the company and staff are taught to regard each other as customers requiring the highest standards of service. ⑩Customer care is obviously here to stay and it would be a foolish company that used slogans such as "we do as we please”. On the other hand , the more customers are promised, the greater the risk of disappointment. 这是一篇议论文，一共有十个自然段。十个主题句如果不加以进一步的整理，很难在短时间里看出全文的主旨。分段是整理多段落文章的一个很实用的方法。议论文分段要考虑论点、论据和论证，文章主要由提出问题（what）、分析问题(why)、和解决问题(how)几个部分构成这些因素。这篇文章根据提出问题（what）、分析问题(why)、和解决问题(how)等三个因素大体可以分成三大段，第一段包括①②自然段，提出问题，即尽力取悦顾客是很多公司保住或增加市场份额的方法，并讲述了原因；第二大段包括③④自然段，分析问题，即照顾好客人在出现电话和网络等购物方式时面临的新挑战；第三大段包括⑤-⑩自然段，解决问题，即在取悦顾客的多种方法中，特别要注意一项原则“许诺越多，失望的几率就越大，不要轻易许诺”。文章用了六个自然段放在解决问题这一块，用意非常明显。文章的主题应该是：现在，面临新的挑战，取悦顾客依然是好的经营策略，但具体使用不同方法时一定要注意一项原则“许诺越多，失望的几率就就越大，不要轻易许诺”，这样，才能真正实现取悦顾客的经营策略。 55. Which of the following is conveyed in this article? A. Face-to-face service creates comfortable feelings among customers. B. Companies that promise more will naturally attract more customers. C. A company should promise less but do more in a competitive market. D. Customer delight is more important for airlines than for banks. 所以，该考题答案应选择C。