很多同学都觉得选词填空是非常难的题目,因为单词不认识,文章读不懂,就没办法拿到分数,但是其实选词填空一共占比5%,所以我们只需要在短时间之内答对3~4个左右的分数就ok了。
好,那我们来看一下,怎么才能在短时间之内作对3~ 4道题呢?
首先,我们要注意做题顺序。记住10字黄金法则:先单词后文章低频优先。
选词填空拿到题目不是先看文章而是先看选词填空后面的15个备选词,以2016年12月的一篇选词填空为例。我们先来看一下备选词。
A. absorb
B. combined
C. contribute
D. depth
E. emissions
F. excursion
G. explore
H. floor
I. heights
J. indifferent
K. levels
L. mixed
M. picture
N. unsure
O. voyage
拿到备选词,先找出来出现频次比较低的的词或者考查比较相近的词。
通过筛查,大家可以发现,名词复数heights只考了一处,而同样可以表示这种测量单位的还有depth和level, 那么这之中必然会产生正确答案。再看其中还有combined和mixed这两个有动词ed变形的,一般出现这种词,文章中会出现插人语结构来填入。
我们不妨来试着找一下这篇文章有没有可以填的空。
The ocean is heating up. That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now 26 heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago. Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.
Warming waters are known to 27 to coral bleaching(珊瑚白化)and they take up more space than cooler waters, raising sea 28 . While the top of the ocean is studied, its depths are more difficult to 29 . The researchers gathered 150 years of ocean temperature data in order to get better 30 of heat absorption from surface to seabed. They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century 31 of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes. The extensive data sources, 32 with computer simulations(计算机模拟), created a timeline of ocean temperature changes, including cooling from volcanic outbreaks and warming from fossil fuel 33 .
About 35 percent of the heat taken in by the oceans during the industrial era now residents at a 34 of more than 700 meters, the researchers found. They say they're 35 whether the deep-sea warming canceled out warming at the sea's surface.
通过读文章,大家可以看出来,第28个空 raising sea , 此处可以填一个名词与sea相搭配,我们可以选择是heights高度,level平面,或者depth。但是我们仔细观察这个空格前是raise提升,那么可以搭配的是提升海平面,因此填人level。
然后再顺着往下读,会发现第32个空, with computer simulations( 计算机模拟),插入语结构,考虑填人两个ed形式的动词之一,combine表示结合,mix表示混合,很显然文章想说结合计算机模拟,因此填人combined。
接下来我们会看到第34个空,a __ of, 这是常见的of结构,此处肯定填入名词单数,而后面是 700 meters,那应该填一个表示高度的名词,通过筛选,heights是复数不合适,因此填depth。
当当当当!这样我们就可以不用读完全文章,只看空格的结构,只考虑低频单词的选择,就可以分分钟搞定这几个得分点啦!
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