英语四级六级阅读常见考点解析（8）：细节题

(1) 态度题表现形式

态度题提问方式有：

The author’s attitude towards … is _____.

What is the author’s attitude towards...?

What's the writer's attitude to…? 

What's the tone of the passage? 

The author's view is _______.

The writer's attitude of .this passage is apparently _________.

The author suggests that _________.
According to author __________.

(2) 表态度的形容词

褒义词：

admiring：令人羡慕的        admire sb：羡慕某人            concerned：关心的，关切的

enthusiastic：热情的         humorous：幽默的              interesting：有趣的

optimistic：乐观的            positive：积极地                  pleasant：愉快的

polite：礼貌的                  praising：赞扬的                  supportive / supporting： 支持的

appreciative：欣赏的         grateful：感恩的，感激的       sympathetic：富有同情心的

approval：同意的

态度中立词：

neutral：中立的                  impartial：不偏袒的          indifferent：冷漠的     

impersonal：不带个人感情的 objective：客观的            informative：提供信息的

贬义词：

embarrassed：窘的，尴尬的       skeptical：怀疑的             critical：批评的

frustrated：沮丧的，受挫的        inflexible：不够灵活的，僵硬的

impractical：不够实际的，难以操作的                          sarcastic：讽刺的

ironic：讽刺的                    biased：有偏见的                cynical：悲观的，挖苦的

depressed： 沮丧的             disappointed：失望的          negative： 否定的，反对的

pessimistic： 悲观的           sensitive：敏感的                worried：担忧的

(3)真题示例

原文首句：It’s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. (2003.6, cet4)

The author’s attitude towards the judge’s ruling could be described as______.

A. doubtful      B. critical    C. cautious            D. supportive

【答案】D

【解析】全文首句可以体现文章讨论的中心话题，它明确道出了作者的观点：有时小孩与养父母在一起比与亲生父母在一起更好。而原文中judge’s ruling（法官的裁决）结果就是把小孩判给了养父，所以作者一定是持支持态度。

做题时间！

I am not so naive ,however ,as to believe that sex is responsible for this unfortunate situation of the American woman. I am not a feminist, but I am an individualist. I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women，certainly not as much as there may be between one woman and another or one man and an-other. There are plenty of women and men, for that matter who would be completely fulfilled in being allowed to be as lazy as possible. If someone will ensconce them in a pleasant home and pay their bills, they ask no more of life. It is quite all right for these men and women to live thus so long as fools can be found who will pay so much for nothing much in return. Gigolos, male and female, are to be found in every class and in the best of homes. But when a man does not want to be a gigolo, he has the freedom to go out and work and create as well as he can. But a woman has not. Even if her individual husband lets her, tradition in society is against her.

In this passage the author looks on the situation of women with an attitude of __________.

A. approval     B. indifference         C. disapproval            D. biased　　

【答案】D

【解析】

此篇文章中，作者对待这一问题的态度十分明确、强硬（如用语I am not…等等），因此只可能在选项C和D中选择。而从文章中的"gigolos", fools等词可看出作者不仅不赞成而且态度更甚。所以，选项C disapproval（不赞成）程度还不够，这一题的正确答案是D biased“有偏见的”。A选项approval“同意的”，B选项indifference“漠不关心的”。