今天要讲的内容是关于阅读的灵魂-中心思想之中心词法。
Part Two
找中心词--最快最直观
如果某一单词反复多次在文中出现，那么这就是全文的“中心词”。通过中心词，我们能最快速最直观地找到一篇文章的中心思想。
但中心词通常不会一成不变地出现，在阅读过程中要多留意同义改写后的中心词。寻找中心词并非漫无目标，重点应放在各段的重要位置(首尾句及转折处)。
真题案例
2010英语二Text 1
Ⅰ ①The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008. ...... ④As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.
Ⅱ ①The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003. ......
Ⅲ ①In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. ②In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. ③Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. ......
Ⅳ ①The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989. ②This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant. ③But Edward Dolman, Christie’s chief executive, says: “I’m pretty confident we’re at the bottom.”
Ⅴ ①What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market. ....... ③The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market. ......
题目 The most appropriate title for this text could be _______.
[A] Fluctuation of Art Prices
[B] Up-to-date Art Auctions
[C] Art Market in Decline
[D] Shifted Interest in Arts
解析
这篇文章的中心词很突出,中心词我已经在原文中加粗标出。
第一个中心词是“艺术”，或者说“艺术品市场”。
比如第一段中的art-market，第二段中的the world art market，第三段中的in the art world和contemporary art，第四段中art market，第五段中的works of art。
第二个是“下滑”，也就是一种不景气的表现。
比如第一段中的ended和bankruptcy，第二段中的losing momentum，第三段中的deeply unfashionable、fell by two-thirds和down by nearly 90%，第四段中“current downturn … is the worst”、40% down和at the bottom，以及第五段中的slump (骤降，猛跌，不景气)。
根据这两个关键词，C选项“衰退中的艺术品市场”就是完美的答案。其他选项尽管都含有art这个字眼，但核心信息均发生了偏差，A是价格，B是拍卖，D是兴趣，都可以迅速排除。
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