四六級考前閱讀突破第三講：文章的標題

這一講我們來學習對文章標題的選擇
在四級考試中,我們有時會遇到要我們選擇標題的問題,例如:
1. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
2. The title of this passage would be ______.
3. The title that best expresses the main idea is ______.
4. What is the title of the passage?
5. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage?
6. The passage could be entitled ______.

在回答這類問題時,我們要明確,標題就好比一篇文章的 "路標", 它為文章限定了一個范圍,更指引了一個方向. 有一個很重要的技巧可以利用,那就是---標題總是和主題息息相關,找到了主題,也就明確了標題,所以我們可以分兩步走:一 先找主題句, 二 選句中的關鍵詞作為標題. 同時我們還要牢記,標題不僅表明主題,還要對全文有指向性的暗示.下面我們用這個技巧來看一篇文章.
IIIA.
Music is used in stores to encourage you to buy more. It is used in fast food eating places to make you eat faster and get out. In banks, music is piped in to give you a feeling of cheerfulness and confidence. Indeed,
 music is used in many ways to affect people's feelings and actions. It is used in factories to speed up the workers and increase the amount of work produced. It is used in hospitals to make the sick feel better. And,
 at sports events, music is used to make players try harder.
第一步,找出文章的主題句, 很顯然就是第一句話.
第二步, 仔細分析一下,用什么樣的標題合適呢?比如,我給出兩個選擇, 1.Music; 2.The Role of Music 哪一個更合適呢? 這里要注意,選擇標題時要選擇最貼切的,也就是表述的更準確的.第一個答案Music不是不可以,但太籠統(tǒng),沒有第二個準確.再看一篇文章
IIIB.
Honeybees cannot live alone. Their body structure and instincts equipt them for life in a colony or community, where they have a complex social organization and the various duties are divided among the individual
according to physical fitness and age. An individual worker bee cannot reproduce itself. while it may continue to live if forcibly isolated from its mates, it fails to care for itself adequately, and soon dies. Efficiency, if not necessity, demands that the work of the colony be divided, and such labor tends to enhance the need to maintain the colony. The physical structure or the honeybee is further suited for the defense of the entire colony rather than for its own defense. The bee's barbed sting is used only once and is made more effective by the fact that t is left behind in the victim. With the loss of the sting, however, the bee dies. This kind of defensive weapon is not of service to the individual, but to the community.

Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage?
A. The communal life of Bees
B. The Structure of the Bee
C. The Organization of Bee's Colonies
D. The Life of Bees

這篇文章的最大干擾項是答案B.蜜蜂的結構,因為在文章中也提到了,但仔細分析一下,文章主要講的還是蜜蜂的集群生活,所以應改選A.