主旨大意题(一)

阅读理解专题—主旨大意题(一)

--How to find the main idea of the paragraph

例题分析：

1

Smoking cigarettes is harmful to your Experiments show that cigarette smoking can cause cancer. Besides the most serious and terrible disease(illness), cancer, cigarette smoking also can cause other health problems. For example, it can give one a “smoker’s cough”. Finally, studies have shown it is easy for cigarette smokers to catch colds. Whether you get an unimportant cold or terrible killer, cancer, smoking is harmful. Is it worth it? （1.5分钟）

A.Smoking can cause cancer.

B.Smoking is a terrible killer

C.Smoking is harmful to our health.

D.An experiment on smoking.

2

Often no one looks more guilty than the innocent. On the other hand, nobody may look more innocent than a professi- -onal criminal. And the man who knows “everything” may really only be trying tohide his own weakness. So, it is foolish to try to judge a person only by his appearance. （1分钟）

What is the main idea of the passage?

A. A professional criminal looks more innocent than others.

B.Don’t judge others by appearance.

3

If you were planning to buy a television set, the following advertisement would certainly draw your attention: “Color TV. Only ＄79. Two days sale. Hu--rry.”However, when you go to the store ready to buy. You may discover that they are sold out. But the shop assistant is quick to tell you that he has another model. A much better set which is “just right for you”It costs ＄395. This sales method is called “bait and switch”. Buyers are baited with a sales advertisement, and then they are switched to another more expensive one. (2.5分钟)

The paragraph could be entitled _________.

A. Buying A TV Set

B. A Selling Method

C. Buyer Beware

D. TV On Sale

4

Tom studied four years at the University of Paris and decided to leave before his graduation. He transferred to the University of Berlin and graduated with honors. Harvard Law School and, later, Boston College provided him with an excellent legal background. He is presently a corporation lawyer in Miami, Florida.（2分钟）

The main idea of this paragraph is that ______.

A. Tom, who had studied at Paris Universities for four years, moved to another university.

B. Tom became a lawyer since his graduation from Harvard Law School and later from Boston

College.

C. Tom was an excellent student when he studied at Berlin university.

D. Tom received an excellent education.

5

A couple of years ago I took the family on a winter vacation to New York city to experience the holiday atmosphere. The longest lines that week weren’t in the hall of the empire state building, at the Statue of Liberty ferry or any of New York's other landmarks, but in the square at Fifth avenue and 58 Street, where the crowd to get into FAO Schwarz (a toy store )snaked around the block. The author wants to tell us ____ in this Para.

A. the distribution of people.

B. the poor traffic conditions.

C. the popularity of a toy store

D. the nice holiday atmosphere.

总结：

练习：

练习1. Unfortunately, getting into the Amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult. To study past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen, kept in lake muds. Going back to the last ice age means drilling deep down into the lake sediments( 沉淀物), which requires specialized equipment and heavry machinery. There are very few roads and paths, or places to land hejicopters and areoplanes. Rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest, but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled( 未取样). So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.

66. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. It’s improtant to drill deep down into the lake sediments to collect information.

B. It’s impossible to prove how climate changes in the Amazon rainforest.

C. It’s hard to collect information for studies of the past climate in the Amazon rainforest.

D. It’s necessary to have specialized equipment and machinery to study the past climate.

练习2. As you move around your home, take a good look at the things you have. It’s likely that

your living room will have a television set and video, and your kitchen a washing machine and a microwave oven. Your bedroom drawers will be filled with almost three times as many clothes as you need. You almost certainly own a car and possibly a home computer, holiday abroad at least once a year and eat out at least once a week.

Now, perhaps, more than ever before, people are wondering what life is all about, and what it is for. Seeking material success is beginning to trouble a large number of people around the world. They felt that the long-hour work culture to make money to buy more things is eating up their lives, leaving them very little time or energy for family or pastimes, many are turning to other ways of living and downshifting is one of them.

60. What do the first two paragraph tell us?

A. People seldom work long hours to make money.

B. People hardly buy more things than necessary.

C. People are sure everything they own in the right place.

D. people realize that there is more to life than just making money .

练习3. To many of the nature’s animals, the greastest disaster is not a natural disaster such as a flood or an earthquake, but the arrival of a large number of humans. When settlers came from the East to American’s great weastern plains, they killed millions of bison, poisoned prairie dogs, and shot the coyotes, all this upset the area’s balance of nature. For these animals, the arrival of the white men was wrse than a flood or an earthquake.

56. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Nature Balance Itself

B. Flood and Earthquake

C. American Settlers

D. Humans-A disaster to Nature

练习4. In spite of the fact that cars from Germany and Japan are fiooding the American market, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler are employing even more workers than before. The flood of cheaper foreign cars has not made American auto workers lose their jobs as some experts predicted. Ford operates as far as Asian and General Motors is considered one of Austrialia’s biggest employers. Yet General Motors has its huge American work force and employs hundreds of people every day to meet the needs of an insatiable(无法满足的) society.

72. Which of the following statements best expressed the main idea of the paragraph?

A. General Motor is one of the largest car producers.

B. Ford operates not only in the USA but also in Asia.

C. The flood of the cheaper foreign cans is terrible for American auto workers.

D. The foreign cars have not taken away the jobs of American auto workers.

练习5. People used to sit a whole lot. You would walk down the steet or drive down the road, and there they would be, out on the doorsteps, sitting. You could go down to the store and sit on the bench out front in the summer or around the fire in the winter. There were sitting benched out in the town square. At the garage, there were straight backed chairs. There among the oilcans and tires and spare parts, you could kick back and sit.

64. This paragraph is mainly talk about_______.

A. people lived a more restful life in the past.

B. town were built to make living convenient

C. small town garages had a lot to offer

D. people enjoyed going out for a drive