根据2016考研英语的考试要求，我们可知，第二段是意义阐释段，但题目并没有明确的指令说明第二段到底该怎么写，这就给了广大考生发挥的余地，下面我们就来学习一下在确定主题之后，如何根据主题进行展开。
根据2016考研英语的考试要求，我们可知，第二段是意义阐释段，但题目并没有明确的指令说明第二段到底该怎么写，这就给了广大考生发挥的余地，下面我们就来学习一下在确定主题之后，如何根据主题进行展开。
平行展开法是第二段中最为实用的展开方法，也是消除模板作文的最好利器。在观点明确后，从下面给出的万能角度中找到需要的角度，用句子进行罗列就可以了。平行展开法中可以用到的11个方面的万能角度如下：
角度一：物质回报
【例】It can improve one’s living standards and make an easy and comfortable life.
角度二：时间角度
节约时间【例】saves time/takes up little time/occupies little time.
浪费时间【例】As we all know, the days of youth should not be frittered/idled away and time should be cherished, but wastes hours, lavishes days and even squanders years which leads us to say it kills and even murders youngster’s prime time.
角度三：效率角度
【例】makes people weary of other important things, discourages them to learn more, and they finally lose their interest to learn, which leads to their low grades/low efficiency/underachievement.
角度四：方便和快捷
【例】provides people with up-to-date, concrete and accurate and vivid information.
角度五：安全角度
【例】can secure his food and shelter.
角度六：身心健康
【例】By doing people stay healthy, and therefore prevent heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes or fattiness.
角度七：生活娱乐
【例】People go to amusement parks to relax themselves; they go to the seaside to enjoy sunshine or fresh air; they try sea food and taste local flavors; they visit places of interests in order to contact different custom; they go to museums to broaden their views on…
角度八：有助成长和成功(自己和他人)
【例】The spirit of exploration, innovation, adventure and creation shall not be perished from a successful person.
角度九：文化价值观
【例】It cannot help people treat the world with benevolence, confidence and tolerance.
角度十：环保部分
【例】If we make environmental protection pay, people will invent all kinds of ways to make it happen. Unfortunately, even the outburst of so-called alternative energy cannot provide adequate financial incentives to alleviate the nasty pollution of fossil fuels.
角度十一：社会宏观
【例】It means that the authorities can allocate more funds to the construction of infrastructure ranging from kindergartens, hospitals, medical centers, museums, school libraries, trains to highways and express ways.
考研短文的文体是议论文，而议论文最为重要的就是论点。短文第一段在整个文章中起引入作用，而第二段开头要做的就是提出论点以及整个文章的中心句了。在表明了中心论点之后，就要进一步表达人们对于这件事情的态度。对于主题而言，人们的态度无非就是重视或者不重视。通常重要的事都是重视的，而对于危害的事情人们可能就没有足够的重视了。
关于平行展开法的相关叙述就到这里，其他的方法我们会陆续讲到，祝大家复习顺利。