第二类:间接比较
例4 剑3 Test 1 Q 32
According to the speaker, the main cause of back pain in women is
A pregnancy
B osteoporosis
C lack of exercise
思路透析:在审题中发现有main cause 这样的间接比较提示词,那此题很显然要列出几个造成女性背疼的原因,但是要进行对比得出谁是主要原因。
实际做题:听到women 就确定了做题位置。
原文:The majority of our patients at the clinic tend to be women. They are especially vulnerable because of pregnancy but also because of osteoprosis, which I personally believe to be the major cause of problems for women.
解题:在原文中我们不难发现pregnancy 和 osteoprosis 是并列出现的,但是后者紧跟着就是一个非限定性的定语从句,指出后者是major cause,也就是main cause的同义转换,故答案为B。
例5 剑2 Test 4 Q 32
The main research method was
A interviews
B questionnaires
C observation
思路透析:审题时发现有main 这样一个比较关系提示词,做好听到比较关系的准备。
实际做题:可以用research来进行定位。
原文:For our research we depend mainly on talking to individuals, asking them questions rather than using written questionnaires.
解题:此题中depend mainly on 与题目中的main形成呼应,从与个人谈话,问他们问题中不难看出是在进行interview,故答案为A。但值得注意的是rather than 这种表示对比的结构,它表达的意思是“而不是”的意思,通常是拿来排除某个选项的。