目前复习英语是为了考研应试，其实眼光应该要放得更久远一些，读了研，要进行学术研究，需要阅读国外期刊书目。因此如何从整体上阅读文章是一个必备的技能，这一系列文章是有关四个不同文章结构的分析，今天爱语吧考研英语老师就2010年text2教授大家如何进行主题的把握。

第一段：Over the past decade,thousands of patents have seen granted for what are called business methods.Amazon. com received one for its "one-click" online payment system. Merrill Lynch got legal protection for an asset allocation strategy. One inventor patented a technique for lifting a box.该段是总分结构，第一句引领全段，后三句是三个小例子支撑第一句。看完第一句，千万别觉得是文章主题。从这要明白，不是所有文章都是在首段出现主题，一二段交接处很关键。

第二段首句：Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale hack on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.要注意时态的变化，首段是现在完成时，这段笔尖一转，用了一般现在时态，并且内容是就首段的现象采取措施，关键的词语是scale back，下边的定语从句就不是那么重要了。这一句话同样也是文章的主题。

中间各段落(浏览)三：Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face because......关键词curb on对应的是scale back，即对于这些专利的减少和限制。原因是细节，我们暂且不看。四：The Bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market.看到case，这是一个例子，我们做到心里有数就可以。

末段：The Federal Circuit's action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the supreme. Count that has nurrowed the scope of protections for patent holders. Last April, for example the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for "inventions" that are obvious. The judges on the Federal circuit are "reaction to the anti_patent trend at the supreme court"says Harole C.wegner, a patent attorney and professor at aeorge Washington University Law School.该段首句并没有实质性的内容，而第二句又在重申话题---narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders,narrow沿袭上边的scale back和curb on。往下看，是涉及到例子的不用看。

因此，总结来看，这篇文章这样进行的构架：1、现象的现状：over the past decades,.....2、要发生的变化：scale back/curb on/例子/narrow down。要注意主题从二段开始，并且注意时态是个转变的信号。这样在做主题题目时，就会易如反掌。30. Which of the following would be the subject of the text? [A] A looming threat to business--method patents [B] Protection for business--method patent holders [C] A legal case regarding business--method patents [D] A prevailing trend against business-method patents.围绕着business--method patents来说，从关键词scale back/curb on/例子/narrow down可以非常迅速排除B这一相反选项--protection;而C是个例子不能够概括文章主题;剩下AD,方向是对的，错在细节把握上，一个是looming(隐约出现的)，一个是prevailing(盛行的)，所以单词的记忆还是很关键的，这一趋势刚刚开始，并未大范围开展。

阅读文章要注意从整体上把握，这样才能避免读起考研英语文章来一头雾水，抓主题可能比较困难，慢慢来，欲速则不达。祝大家复习顺利，考研顺利。