ACT阅读及题型介绍分享

　　今天小编为大家分享的是ACT阅读要求35分钟内读4篇文章，做40道题目。接下来小编来讲讲ACT阅读题型。希望通过这篇文章的学习对你们有所帮助，下面跟随小编一起学习吧。
　　试卷中4篇文章按顺序出现: 小说 （Prose Fiction），基本上出现的小说是学生所不熟悉的，不是名篇；社会科学(Social Science)，人文科学 (Humanities)，包括人类学、考古学、传记、教育、地理、历史，以及学生比较陌生的美国政治及经济自然科学 (Natural Science)，包含了天文、地理、物理、生物、化学等各方面。对考生而言，容易入手的为科学类，尤其是自然科学，文章结构典型，题目设置标准。所以强烈推荐考生先做自然科学，再做社会科学，后做小说和人文科学。而且做题的时候比较推荐快速浏览题目，这样可以容易定位，快速做题。通过做题研究不难发现阅读题的一些特征，比如在文章中会出现很多比较生僻的生词，但是并不影响阅读和做题所以在考试中可以不用理会这些词；有些选项可以用常识明确判断出来是错误的；有时候文章好像没怎么读明白，但是题也能做对，这是因为定位正确了；有些题目文中有着非常明确的答案，不用推理，也不用猜测，四类文章里都会出现这类题。
　　1. 直接事实题
　　此类题目一般是就文中所提供的信息进行直接提问，需要考生找到正确的对应处，并作同义转换。
　　原文：“The revisionistinterpretation, which I support, does not enshrine dinosaurs as paragons ofintellect, but it does maintain that they were not small brained after all. Theyhad the “right-sized” brains for reptiles of their body size.”
　　题目：According to the passage, what is the revisionist interpretationconcerning the relationship between intelligence and physical size?
　　A. Dinosaurs actually had relatively large brains.
　　B. Dinosaurs were paragons of intellect.
　　C. Dinosaurs were relatively small brained.
　　D. Dinosaurs’ brains were appropriately sized.
　　答案：D
　　分析：直接事实题根据文章内容，做直接的同义转换，此处将right-sized改写为appropriately sized，属于正确改写。而A选项将其改写为relatively large，不正确。
　　注意：直接事实题常见错误选项的特点为故意丢失not，如B选项中的paragons of intellect与文章相同，但是丢失了not，因此具有一定迷惑性。同样，C选项中的small brained也与文章完全相同，但也故意丢失了not。
　　2. 举例作用题
　　此类题目就文中的例子进行提问，需要考生回答此例子在文中所起的作用。
　　原文：“Government is sotechnical that even career civil servants cannot explain what is happening. In1978 I attended a seminar on federal estate and gift tax, where the InternalRevenue Service lawyers responsible for this area frankly confessed that theydid not understand the Tax Reform Act of 1976.”
　　题目：The author uses the description of the tax seminar in 1978 to makethe point that some governmental issues are:
　　A. so technical that not even career civilservants can understand them.
　　B. so technical that only career civil servantscan understand them.
　　C. more technical than they used to be beforethe passage of the Tax Reform Act.
　　D. too technical for anyone other than anInternal Revenue Service tax lawyer to understand.
　　答案：A
　　分析：作者在文中描述一个例子的作用就是为了证明一个结论，所以，举例作用题的答案为例子之前或之后的结论句。一般，由for example开头的例子，结论句在之前。如果例子结束后出现therefore，则therefore之后为结论句。本题结论句在例子之前，即Government is sotechnical that even career civil servants cannot explain what is happening. 通过同义改写，得到A选项。B选项错误原因依然是故意丢失not。
　　注意：举例作用题常见错误选项为选项中重现例证中原文，比如此题的C, D选项中出现的Tax Reform Act和Internal Revenue Service。
　　3. 推论题
　　此类题目与直接事实题不同，不是就文中的信息进行直接的提问，而是考查作者所写的某处内容实际暗示了什么。
　　原文：“The remarkable thing about dinosaurs is not that they becameextinct, but that they dominated the earth for so long…”
　　“People, on this criterion, are scarcely worthmentioning—5 million years perhaps since Australopithecus, a mere 50, 000 forour own species, Homo sapiens…”
　　题目：In the context of thepassage, what does the author mean when he states that “people … are scarcelyworth mentioning” (lines 81-82)?
　　A. Compared to the complex social behavior ofdinosaurs, human behavior seems simple.
　　B. Compared to the longevity of dinosaurs,humans have been on earth a very short time.
　　C. Compared to the size of dinosaurs, human seemincredibly small.

　　D. Compared to the amount of study done ondinosaurs, study of human behavior is severely lacking
　　答案：B
　　分析：解答推论题时方法如下：
　　1）如果定位句位于段首，或定位句后有冒号，破折号时，往后找答案。
　　2）如果定位句中有this等代词时，则往前找答案。
　　3）如果定位句既位于段首，句中又有代词，则同时读句前和句后，并作比较，得出答案。
　　此题属于第三种情况，读上文，知“恐龙占据地球的时间如此之长”；读下文，得“人类，在这种标准下，不值得一提”。两者相比，人类在地球上的生存时间比恐龙短，所以正确答案选B。