35. All cultures have been able to express large numbers clearly.
36. The word ‘thousand’ has Anglo-Saxon origins.
37. In general, people in seventh-century Europe had poor counting ability.
38. In the Tsimshian language, the number for long objects and canoes is expressed with the same word.
39. The Tsimshian language contains both older and newer systems of counting.
40. Early peoples found it easier to count by using their fingers than a group of pebbles.
其中的 33 、 36 、 37 、 38 以及 39 由于题干中有大写字母或年代这些相对容易原文定位的关键词,则审题后可以带着这些定位词在原文中寻读相关部分后先解这几题,例如 33 题在文中对应的部分为第三小节开头,则根据顺序原则 32 题在文中的对应部分最后可能出现在开头两个小节中,这样寻读 32 题的范围就缩小了,剩余题目也可以效仿这个方法。
再者,以 “ 关系 ” 的视角来解题,那么 32 题可以被看成是 the concept of sufficiency 与 the concept of quantity 之间的比较关系,以这两项回原文寻读,对应点为 “Our ancestors had little use for actual numbers; Instead their considerations would have been more of the kind Is this enough? rather than How many? when they were engaged in food gathering, for example.” 此句以 Is this enough 和 How many 两个短句来同义替代题干中的两个 concept, 而句中提到的我们的祖先考虑较多的是够不够而不是有多少则来同义转换题干中的 more important, 因此由于比项均出现且二者的 “ 关系 ” 在文中也有同义表达,此题答案即为 TRUE.
此外 40 题也可以看作是有 “ 关系 ” 的题目,即 fingers 与 groups of pebbles 之间的关系,用哪一个数数更容易,文中对应点为 “Counting is not directly related to the formation of a number concept because it is possible to count by matching the items being counted against a group of pebbles, grains of corn, or the counter’s fingers.”, 虽然产生 “ 关系 ” 的手指与鹅卵石均有重现,但二者并无任何比较关系,因此答案为 NOT GIVEN.’
这里列举的只是判断题解题方法中很小的一部分,却是比较容易被忽略的两个方法,当然它们也和大多数方法一样并不是放诸四海而皆准的,应结合具体考题和其他的方法灵活运用。
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