25. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
[A] Who Are to Blame for the Strikes?
[B] Constant Complaining Doesn't Work
[C] Can Nationalization Bring Hope?
[D] Ever-rising Fares Aren't Sustainable
30. What is the text centred on?
[A] The effects of a program.
[B] The debates over a program.
[C] The process of a study.
35. Which of the following questions does the text answer?
A. Why did most Victorians look stem in photographs?
B. When did the Victorians start to view photograph differently?
C. What made photograph develop slowly in the Victorian period?
D. How did smiling in photograph become a post-Victorian norm?
第25題考察全文主旨。需要考慮各段中都有所涉及的中心話題。本文第一段首句是個問句How can the train operators possibly justify yet another increase to rail passenger fares? 大意是“列車營運商如何能為鐵路客運票價的再次上漲辯解?”屬于開篇引出話題;二段首句提到“ such increases...再次復現主題詞“票價上漲”,后面兩段雖在開頭講到strikes,但還是主要圍繞“費用上漲,旅客卻沒有得到應有服務” 以及“如果鐵路繼續漲價,將會導致國有化”,故正確答案D是原文的正確總結。選項A的strikes只在后兩段提到,不能概括文章主旨。 選項B 中的Constant Complaining Doesn’t Work“不斷抱怨沒有用”,屬于反向干擾。選項C的Nationalization“國有化”,也只是來自最后一段的內容,故排除。
第30題是更直白的主旨題,做題更明顯。文章主旨往往在文章開頭去找,第一段最后一句一開始就提到了the country 's antipoverty program國家的脫貧計劃,后面提到了這個計劃對環境的影響,比如說第三段第一句But the CCT programs don't generally consider effects on the environment.所以是選A 一個項目的影響。
第35題也是主旨題,也可以用技巧。根據全文脈絡,B. When did the Victorians start to view photograph differently?什么時候維多利亞人開始對照片有不同的看法?屬于細節信息;C. What made photograph develop slowly in the Victorian period? 什么使得照片在維多利亞時期發展緩慢?屬于無中生有;A. Why did most Victorians look stem in photographs?為什么大多數維多利亞人在照片上看起來很嚴肅?及D. How did smiling in photograph become a post-Victorian norm?照片中的微笑怎么會成為,后維多利亞時代的標準?當中不難看出文中并沒有說“如何”,而是在解釋“原因”。因此正確選項A。二段提出問題我們如何解釋大部分維多利亞人在照片中在背景畫面前僵硬地擺著姿勢,或者茫然地望著中間的距離?所以接下來說明原因。