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阅读理解突破(五) 阅读理解突破(五) ——把握作者态度及写作意图题 1．常见把握作者态度及写作意图题的设题方式 (1)How does the author feel about his childhood? (2)Why does the author write this passage? (3)What is the purpose of the text? (4)The writer’s attitude toward...is________. (5)The author implied (suggested) that________. (6)With which of the following does the author agree? (7)How does the author seem to feel about...? 2．解题策略 作者态度及写作意图推断类试题主要考查考生根据文章内容推测作者的写作意图和情感倾向的能力。考生要想推断作者的写作意图,就应当关注主题句,全面理解文章的内容及中心思想,同时注意把握文章的体裁。作者的情感倾向往往隐含在文章的字里行间,或流露于修饰性的词语之中,因此,考生在推断过程中,应特别注意文中作者的措辞和描写环境气氛的语言以及表达作者情感、态度或观点的词语。做题时,考生可以结合相关背景知识进行推理。 1 Cyberspace,data superhighway,multimedia,for those who have seen the future,and the linking of computers,televisions and telephones will change our lives for ever.Yet for all the talks of a forthcoming technological utopia,little attention has been given to the implications of these developments for the poor.As for all the new high technology,the West concerns itself with the “how”,while the question of “for whom” is put aside once again. Economists are only now realizing the full extent to which the communication revolution has affected the world economy.Information technology allows the extension of trade across geographical and industrial boundaries,and transnational corporations take full advantage of it.Terms of trade and exchange,interest rates and money movements are more important than the production of goods.The electronic economy made by information technology allows the haves to increase their control on global markets—with a destructive impact on the have-nots. For them the result is unstable.Developing countries which rely on the production of a small range of goods for export are made to feel like small parts in the international economic machine.As “futures” are traded on computer screens,developing countries simply have less and less control of their destinies. So what are the options of regaining control？One alternative for developing countries is to buy in the latest co