淺談考研英語閱讀精讀與略讀
我們都知道，考研英語閱讀的文章多為議論文，多來源于西方的報刊雜志，比如《衛(wèi)報》，《自然》，《新科學家》等。這類文章通常是關于社會生活，科教文衛(wèi)，政治經濟方面的，比較科學，嚴謹的文章。這種文章論述的展開通常要圍繞著一個中心觀點或核心事物。所以我們要真正讀懂一篇文章勢必要抓住其中心主旨，也就是要找到主旨句。從重要性上來說，主旨句的的重要性遠遠大于其他解釋內容或例證內容。所以對于我們讀文章來說，顯然主旨句是最重要的，是需要重點精讀的。
那怎樣去判斷哪些主旨句呢?首先，從位置上來說，主題句常常在文章開頭的第一段或第二段提出，且常是段首句或轉折句。其次，從句子長度來說通常主題句比較簡短。所以說，文章中需要重點精讀的內容為：段首句，轉折句，以及定位句。
相對而言，文章中舉例或引用的東西就可以略讀，這些內容中往往包含一些時間、數據、人名、地名、機構名稱之類的信息。在比如一些有關職務、頭銜、社會地位等補充性說明信息(通常這些信息是出現在人名，機構名詞之后的定語或同位語)。以1999年text5為例，如果把精讀的內容用下劃線標示出來，那么結果如下：
Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness ofthe minds of the men who watch the experiments.(精讀) Sir Isaac Newton supposedly discoveredgravity through the fall of an apple. Apples had been falling in many places for centuries andthousands of people had seen them fall. But Newton for years had been curious about the causeof the orbital motion of the moon and planets. What kept them in place? Why didn't they fall outof the sky? The fact that the apple fell down toward the earth and not up into the tree answeredthe question he had been asking himself about those larger fruits of the heavens, the moon andthe planets.(略讀)
How many men would have considered the possibility of an apple falling up into the tree? Newtondid because he was not trying to predict anything.(精讀) He was just wondering. His mind wasready for the unpredictable. Unpredictability is part of the essential nature of research. If you don'thave unpredictable things, you don't have research. Scientists tend to forget this when writingtheir cut and dried reports for the technical journals, but history is filled with examples of it.
掌握了精讀和略讀的方法，就可以大大減少閱讀量，從而把更多的時間放在解讀關鍵內容上。而考研英語閱讀文章在出題時也往往和這些需要精讀的內容有關，而極少涉及略讀部分的內容，所以精讀如果做到位，很多答案都可以毫不費力的做出來了，同學們不妨一試。
