阅读“完成句子题”要点分析

　　4. 答案绝大部分是名词短语。所填答案绝大部分是名词短语，对应原文相应句子的宾语。也有少数题目的答案是形容词短语或副词短语。

　　我们可以通过对一篇雅思考试的题目的分析来掌握解考点和对策。

　　文章内容: This argument, of course, ignores the true nature of publiccommunication and the nature of the occasions in which it occurs. When we engagewith people we do not know well to solve problems, share understanding andperspectives, advocate viewpoints, or seek stimulation, we are engaged in publicspeaking. Public communication is a familiar, daily activity that occurs in thestreets, in restaurants, in board rooms, courtrooms, parks, factories andmeeting. Public communication is usually situation-specific and ephemeral. Mostaudiences do well if they remember as much as 40 per cent of what a speaker saysimmediately after the speaker concludes; even less is retained as time goes by.This fact is both reassuring and challenging to the public communicator. On theone hand, it suggests that there is room for human error in making publicpronouncements; on the other hand, it challenges the public speaker to be asinformed as possible and to strive to defeat the poor listening habits of mostpublic audiences.

　　问题: Use information from the above paragraph to complete the followingstatements. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER.

　　S1 The writer defines public speaking as any activity where people jointlyexplore problems, knowledge, attitudes and opinions, or look for_____________.

　　S2 At the end of most public speeches, most audiences immediately forgetabout _____________ of what they have just heard.

　　S3 Because most public speeches are short-lived, the speaker should work tocounteract the _____________ of the listeners.

　　试题解析：在S1中空格的前面出现一连串的排比：explore problems, knowledge, attitudes and opinions,or look for...，文章中相应的出现如此的排比的地方第二到第三行：solve problems, share understanding andperspectives, advocate viewpoints, or seek stimulation,其中solve与explore同义，understanding与knowledge同义， viewpoints与opinions同义，而seek又与lookfor同义，因此答案是stimulation;

　　S2中的关键词为most audiences和forget，而在第二小段的第一到第三行有：Most audiences do well if theyremember as much as 40 per cent of what a speaker says immediately after thespeaker concludes，其中有关键词mostaudiences，以及forget的反义词remember，因此这里应填入60%;在S3中，关键词为work，counteract和listeners，此处的work有“努力、奋力”的意思，counteract表示“反抗、反对、与...作斗争”，而listeners和audiences是同义词，根据第二小段的最后两行：tostrive to defeat the poor listening habits of most publicaudiences，我们可以得出正确答案为poor listeninghabits，其中strive和work同义，defeat和counteract同义。

　　由此可见，技巧和语言能力的结合才能提高雅思阅读完成句子题的准确性。