考研英语阅读之新题型解析

选择搭配题是考研英语在2005年改革以后出现的一种新题型，主要考查学生理解文章结构、以及文章连贯性的能力。通常有三种考查方式，其中有一种是从500-600词的文章中留出5个空白，再从题后的6-7个备选答案中分别选出能填入文章的5个。

解题步骤：

1. 速读文章，弄清文章主旨和大体意思

2. 读被插入的句子，找出句首或句尾的关键词或关键意思

2. 阅读可以插入空格前后的信息，寻找与插入句相关的意思

3. 选择与插入句最相关的空格

注意：如果出现以下情况，答案都可能是错误的：

★ 打乱了相邻句子之间的逻辑性

★ 影响了转折语的正确使用

★ 打乱了代词与其指代对象之间的逻辑关系

★ 隔开了本是相邻的两句话

解题技巧：

1.快速通读整篇文章，大致理解文章意思，可以看出文章主要是在讲加拿大的药物价格问题。

Canadas premiers (the leaders of provincial governments), if they have any breath left after complaining about Ottawa at their late July annual meeting, might spare a moment to do something, to reduce health-care costs.

Theyre all groaning about soaring health budgets, the fastest-growing component of which are pharmaceutical costs.

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What to do? Both the Romanow commission and the Kirby committee on health care-to say nothing of reports from other experts recommended the creation of a national drug agency. Instead of each province having its own list of approved drugs , bureaucracy, procedures and limited bargaining power, all would pool resources , work with Ottawa, and create a national institution.

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But national doesnt have to mean that. National could mean inter-provincial combining efforts to create one body.

Either way, one benefit of a national organization would be to negotiate better prices, if possible, with drug manufacturers. Instead of having one province-or a series of hospitals within a province-negotiate a price for a given drug on the provincial list, the national agency would negotiate on behalf of all provinces.

Rather than, say, Quebec, negotiating on behalf of seven million people, the national agency would negotiate on behalf 31 million people. Basic economics suggests the greater the potential consumers, the higher the likelihood of a better price.

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A small step has been taken in the direction of a national agency with the creation of the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment, funded by Ottawa and the provinces. Under it, a Common Drug Review recommends to provincial lists which new drugs should be included, predictably and regrettably Quebec refused to join.

A few premiers are suspicious of any federal-provincial deal-making. They (particularly Quebec and Alberta) just want Ottawa to fork over additional billions with few, if any, strings attached. Thats one reason why the idea of a nationalist hasnt gone anywhere while drug costs keep rising fast.

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Premiers love to quote Mr. Romanows report selectively, especially the parts about more federal money perhaps they should read what he had to say a bout drugs.

A national drug agency would provide governments more influence on pharmaceutical companies in order to constrain the ever-increasing cost of drugs.

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So when the premiers gather in Niagara Falls to assemble their usual complaint list, they should also get cracking about something in their jurisdiction that would help their budgets and patients.

2. 通读选项，做到心中有数。

A. Quebecs resistance to a national agency is provincialist ideology. One of thrst advocates for national list was a researcher at Laval University. Quebecs Drug Insurance Fund has seen its costs skyrocket with annual increases from 14.3 per cent to 26.8 per cent!

B. Or they could read Mr. Kirbys report：the substantial buying power of such an agency would strengthen the public prescription-drug insurance plans to negotiate the lowest possible purchase prices from drug companies

C. What does national mean? Roy Romanow and Senator Michael Kirby recommended a federal-provincial body much like the recently created National Health Council.

D. The problem is simple and stark： health-care costs have been, are, and will continue to increase faster than government revenues.

E. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. prescription drug costs have risen since 1997 at twice the rate of overall health-care spending. Part of the increase comes from drugs being used to replace other kinds of treatments part of it arises from new drugs costing more than older kinds.

Part of it is higher prices.

F. So, if the provinces want to run the health-care show, they should prove they can run it, starting with an inter-provincial health list that would end duplication, save administrative costs, prevent one province from being played off against another, and bargain for better drug prices.

G. Of course the pharmaceutical companies will scream. They like divided buyers, they can lobby better that way. They can use the threat of removing jobs from one province to another. They can hope that, if one province includes a drug on its, list the pressure will cause others to include it on theirs. They wouldnt like a national agency, but self-interest would lead them to deal with it.

3.再次阅读空白前后，主要从以下几个方面进行思考。

(1)考查逻辑关系、利用同义反复:

41题前一段是在讲官员对药品价格的抱怨，后一段是对此现象的措施，从逻辑方面考虑，之间就应该是对此现象的解释，也就是通常的是什么-为什么-怎么做逻辑;此外，考虑到E选项中的risen, increase和higher cost都是对fastest growing的解释，所以是典型的因果逻辑。

43题是比较隐晦的总-分结构。前两段讲的是国家组织、药品公司和消费者之间的关系，即国家组织通过与药品公司谈判，降低药品价格使消费者受益。而接下来一段就在讲魁北克国家机构与消费者，从逻辑上来讲，行文应该就药品公司的反应作出阐释了，也就是G选项。

(2)利用逻辑连接词和指代关系：

42题后一段中出现But nationaldoesnt have to mean that.如果之前没有出现过national意义的描述，是不能对其进行转折的，因而只能选择C选项;此外，指代词that指代不明，进一步证明了C选项的正确性。

(3)抓住暗示

在我们之前阅读B选项时，可以看到是以 or开头的一段引言，这就说明在此前一定也是一段引言，以此为线索就可以轻而易举解决45题。为了进一步确认，可以将意思代入原文，发现两段话都是在描述与医院谈判，因而就可以确定答案了。

以上就是一些选择搭配题的技巧了，同学们在平时的模拟和实践中可以进一步的摸索和总结，还有一些其他的实用技巧，会在稍后呈献给大家。