1）主旨大意题题干特征
What is the passage mainly about?
What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?
What is the message the author intends to covey?
What does the author think of green fashion?
2）主旨大意题解题思路
T.S. 句 =topic sentence
T.S. 句存在的位置
① 各段首句
② 各段尾句
③ 第 二 句（ 主 题 句 后 移）— 若 某 段 第 二 句 话 为 转 折 词（but，yet， however，while 等）或递进词（even especially，more）开头，则主题句移到第二句
3）主旨大意题出题形式
① 段落主旨题 — 直接找该段 T.S. 句
② 全篇主旨题 — 找到每段 T.S. 句，找各段 T.S. 句的共同点（如高频词）整合，选概括性选项 (细节少)
4）主旨大意题例题
段落主旨题例题一
It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are possessive and dominant that they do not trust their children to deal with crises; that they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humour, at least in parent-child relationships. I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young. Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives
them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste.
The first paragraph is mainly about______
A. the teenagers criticism of their parents
B. misunderstanding of teenagers and their parents
C. the dominance of parents over their children
D. the teenager’s ability to deal with cries
段落主旨题例题二
Kleptomania is an illness of the mind that gives a person the desire to steal. Such a person is not really a thief. They are sick and cannot help themselves. All small children act naturally and as they grow up they normally learn to control their actions. People with kleptomania for certain medical reasons have failed to develop control over their desire to take things that do not belong to them. With medical help they may become normal citizens again. The things that a kleptomania steals are seldom of great value.
Q : What is the topic of the text?
A. Young Thieves.
B. An Unusual Illness.
C. Reasons for Stealing
D. A Normal Child’s Actions
段落主旨题例题三
In America we have Halloween. While in Mexico they have Todos Santos, which means “All Saints”. This is the day in which people remember family and friends who have died. They visit the cemetery instead of going out to trick-or-treat. But they do have pictures of skeletons and ghosts hanging around. They also have many candy skulls to eat.
Q: What does the story mainly tell ?
A. What holidays are like
B. What Halloween is like in Mexico
C. What happens during Todos Santos
D. What we do on Halloween
全文主旨题例题
There are desert plants which survive the dry season in the form of inactive seeds. There are also desert insects which survive as inactive larvae ( 幼 虫 ). In addition, difficult as it is to believe, there are desert fish which can survive through years of drought ( 干旱 ) in the form of inactive eggs. These are the shrimps ( 小虾 ) that live in the Mojave Desert, an intensely dry region in the south-west of the United States where shade temperatures of over 50C are often recorded.
The eggs of the Mojave shrimps are the size of grains and have the appearance of sand. When sufficient spring rain falls to form a lake, once every two to five years, these eggs hatch ( 孵化 ). Then the water is soon filled with millions of tiny shrimps about a millimetre long which feed on tiny plant and animal organisms which also grow in the temporary desert lake. Within a week, the shrimps grow from their original 1 millimetre to a length of about 1.5 centimetres.
Throughout the time that the shrimps are rapidly maturing, the water in the lake equally rapidly evaporates. Therefore, for the shrimps it is a race against time. By the twelfth day, however, when they are about 3 centimetre long, hundreds of tiny eggs form on the underbodies of the females. Usually by this time, all that remains of the lake is a large, muddy patch of wet soil. On the thirteenth day and the next, during the final hours of their brief lives, the shrimps lay their eggs in the mud. Then, having ensured that their species will survive, the shrimps die as the last of the water evaporates.
If sufficient rain falls the next year to form another lake, the eggs hatch, and once again the shrimps pass rapidly through their cycle of growth, adulthood, egg-laying, and death. Some years there is insufficient rain to form a lake: in this case, the eggs will remain dormant for another years, or even longer if necessary. Very, very occasionally, perhaps twice in a hundred years, sufficient rain falls to form a deep lake that lasts a month or more. In this case, the species passes through two cycles of growth, egg-laying, and death. Thus, on such occasions, the species multiplies considerably, which further ensures its survival.
The passage mainly deals with______
A) the life span of the Mojave shrimps
B) the survival of desert shrimps
C) the importance of water to life
D) life in the Mojave Desert