辽宁高考:英语抓基础 单选从“语境结构”入手
 来源:辽沈晚报 发布时间:2007-4-17

主讲人:王淑
    沈阳市十佳英语教师、沈阳市英语“学科带头人”,国家级骨干教师,辽宁省特级教师,沈阳市优秀教师。

  英语知识运用能力通常是通过单项选择考查。其命题特点基本是:知识点覆盖全面,突出语篇,重点考查语法和词汇的运用能力,试题体现综合化、语境化的特征。

  复习方向:

  重视短语辨析句型应用;侧重上下语境关联;透析题干渗透线索;不断温故错题;大量阅读增进语感;强化语言的综合运用能力。

  语法考查

  词类/名词/代词/数词/介词/连词/形容词/副词/冠词/动词(时态、语态、非谓语、情态动词)/句子(从句)/构词法

  强化中级语法,包括

  1.时态的灵活运用;

  2.非谓语动词的理解运用;

  3.从句的灵活运用。

  答题技巧:

  做到两满足:(1)满足语境;(2)满足结构

  常见方法:

  1.排除法:

  指根据选项的特点,利用所掌握的语法知识,通过查出选择项本身存在的错误而排除该项或直接找到答案使解题简化。

  例题:Although it is raining hard, _____.

  A. I am still going out B. and I am still going out C. that I am still going out D. but I am still going out

  本题测试的是句子结构:简单句、并列句和复合句。题中although 引导的是一个状语从句,只能与一个简单句构成复合句结构。B,D两项为并列句,A为简单句,A为答案。

2.关注关键信息词:

  某些题中一个关键词或词组提供的信息,可能是解题的关键。

  例题:I don't mind _____ the deci-sion as long as it is not too late.

  A.you to delay making B. your delaying making C. your delaying to make D. you delay to make

  本题抓住关键词mind和delay就可准确地得出答案。据语法mind和delay都要求动名词作宾语故排除A,C,D,答案为B.

  3.固定句型分析法:

  在平时学习中,对于英语固定句型的掌握就如对数学公式的掌握。

  例题:Most doctors recognize that medicine is _____.

  A. an art as much it is a science B. as much an art as it is a science C. as an art as much it is a science D. much an art as it is a science

  认真分析不难发现该题是在测试as much as句型。A,D项句子不完整,同时词序不对。C 项词序不对,故排除A,C,D,答案为B。

  常见题型:

  注意,有时出题人还会改变句型,通过简单句式复杂化来设置干扰选项。这是命题者较常用的一种手段。

  1.用疑问结构、被动结构、倒装结构、强调结构和复合结构等考生较为生疏,容易出错的句式使得句子复杂化。

  例题:Mrs. Brown was much dis-appointed to see the washing ma-chine she had had _____ went wrong again.

  A. it B. it repaired C. repaired D. to be repaired

  答案为C。 本题可以简化为:“Mrs. Brown was much disappointed. She had had the washing machine re-paired, but it went wrong again. ”命题者首先用动词不定式作原因状语使得句子复杂化,然后又套上定语从句,让句子难以捉摸,而使役动词用法又是考生不好辨认的,所以考生须过几道障碍。

  2.有时,还通过将简单的结构拆分,以增加其复杂性。

  例题:I'm looking forward with keen enthusiasm _____with you and your colleagues.

  A. on work B. to work C. to working D. on working 答案为C

  3.增加冗余信息。通过增加限定词、同位语、插入语、定语从句等,增加句子的复杂程度,造成学生的视觉差异,从而干扰思维。

  例题:The manager decided to give the job to _____ he believed had a strong sense of duty.

  A. whoever B. whomever C. who D. those  答案为A

4.充分利用标点符号及句子的平行结构:尤其要关注逗号和分号。逗号表句子之间的停顿,不表并列关系,因此逗号前后不能同是简单句;分号前后是两个并列句子。

  例题:All flights _____ because of the storm, they decided to take the train. 

  A. having canceled B. having been canceled C. were canceled D. have been canceled

  本题逗号后是一个完整的句子,其前的部分无连词引导,因此逗号前不可能是一个句子,只能是分词的独立结构,C,D两项可排除。又因分词的逻辑主语是 All flights 需用被动语态,故答案为B.

  5.分析语言现象,避免母语的负迁移干扰。

  例题:I read about it in some book or other, does it matter _____ it was?

  A. where B. what C. how D. which

  由于受母语的影响,很容易误选where,但通过语境可知,有范围,强调“哪本”,答案为D.    6.认真审题,克服思维定势。

  例题:--- Is ______here?

  --- No, Bob and Tom have asked for leave.

  A. anybody B. everybody C. somebody D. nobody

  通常考生对some用于肯定句中,any用于否定句及疑问句记得很熟,受思维定势的影响,会选,但根据情景,答案应为B。


  7.注重分析语境中的省略现象,完整理解句义。

  例题:---He was nearly drowned once.

  ---When was _____?

  ---_____was in 1998 when he was in middle school.

  A. that; It B. this; That C. this; It D. that; This

  在第三句话中,原句应为It was in 1998 when he was in middle school that he was nearly drowned. 省去了强调句That he was nearly drowned 而when he was in middle school 是修饰先行词1998的。故答案为A.

  注意:在语境试题中命题人常根据上下文的含义省略一些成分,因此,解题时,一定要弄清题意,仔细分析句子结构,补出省略部分。

  8.利用相似句式干扰选项。

  例题:What have we said _____ her so unhappy?

  A. makes B. made C. to make D. had made

  易误选C。易误以为 what引导的主语从句,此处选made用作谓语。但横线前是what have we said,为疑问语序。句末为问号,而非句号。若选C,使横线前成为主语从句,那么该从句就应该是what we have said。且句末为句号,答案为B。to make her so unhappy为结果状语从句。

 

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