2009年12月英语四级阅读考试训练(八)

　　5个方向考查对观点态度的领会
　　这类题目的题干中一般有the author argues, according to the author,Professor Linton Believes that,the passage decribes…in a tone of等明显标志。
　　1 作者对某人/事物的观点
　　解题技巧：
　　这种题目一般考查的是对文章主人公或主题事物的观点。以第一人称行文的文章，作者的观点往往出现在带有第一人称标志词(I,we,my)的句子中。多数的文章则是以一种客观论述的手法行文，作者的观点会在段落的首尾或者文章的首尾出现。
　　Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be unusual territory ofr economists, but enhancing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economics as a social issue. And economics, with its emphasis on incentives, porvides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of an education…..
　　Q The author argues that educating girls in developing countries is _________.
　　A. rewarding
　　B. expensive
　　C. troublesome
　　D. labor-saving
　　【解析】
　　选A。文章的第一句话就说，在发展中国家让女性接受教育所能带来的回报比其他任何投资带来的回报都要高(quite possibly yields a higher rate of return)所以选A有回报的。