1. 代詞
英語(yǔ)表達(dá)中的代詞出現(xiàn)的頻率極高，代詞的作用是指代前面提及的名詞或形容詞概念，巧妙利用這樣的指代關(guān)系和根據(jù)代詞的單復(fù)數(shù)差異可以準(zhǔn)確而快速地解題。
例題：...The new design was well received by the reception staff of the hotel chain._________
正確選項(xiàng)句子為：They all believe that its introduction has led to a modern , more professional corporate image and greater confidence among them.
例題分析：選項(xiàng)中的they是一個(gè)復(fù)數(shù)人數(shù)主格代詞，對(duì)應(yīng)空格前句中的staff。staff是一個(gè)集合名詞（全體員工），是個(gè)復(fù)數(shù)概念。代詞中有一類叫不定代詞，常見的有：one, everyone, everybody, each, both, all, many, these, this等，特別要注意它們所指代的名詞概念的單復(fù)數(shù)性質(zhì)，考生如果對(duì)此比較敏感，對(duì)解題有很大的幫助。
例題：It is important, therefore, that we should know what people using our stores want of us.__________ During the past two years, we have been working hard to improve the standard of our products in both these areas.
正確選項(xiàng)句子為：Research commissioned by the company shows that, above all else, customers expect fashion and value.
例題分析：空格后的句末in both these areas中both這個(gè)不定代詞提示考生空格中一定出現(xiàn)兩個(gè)并列的名詞概念，即fashion and value。當(dāng)然該題也可通過同義詞對(duì)應(yīng)解題：選項(xiàng)中的expect對(duì)應(yīng)空格前的want,表"需求"。
2. 同義詞/近義詞
英語(yǔ)前言后語(yǔ)之間往往有同義詞、近義詞、近義表達(dá)語(yǔ)甚至相同詞匯的重復(fù)使用，這是我們解題的一個(gè)很好的判斷線索。其實(shí)就其本質(zhì)而言，上文講的代詞和下文將涉及的上下義詞和同一范疇詞都是特殊的同義/近義詞。
例題：Laura Ashley made a fortune by looking back to past centuries, searching for old designs to decorate a variety of clothes and household furnishings. _____.
正確的選項(xiàng)是：These traditional products created a huge wave of demand from the States and elsewhere.
例題分析：空格前句中的old和選項(xiàng)中的traditional是近義詞，是很明顯的同義對(duì)應(yīng)關(guān)系。
例題：A Norwegian company, Cortex, has patented a cork, made from man-made materials which it claims is superior to the real thing. ________.
正確的選項(xiàng)是：I hope to be making 200million of its synthetic corks a year by the end of the decade.
例題分析：選項(xiàng)中的synthetic，是"人工合成的、人造的"，是前句中man-made的同義詞。筆者特別查閱了高等教育出版社出的《大學(xué)英語(yǔ)教學(xué)大綱詞匯表》，synthetic是個(gè)四級(jí)詞匯，但在新東方的BEC和考研閱讀課上，筆者竟驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)很多大學(xué)生朋友是不認(rèn)識(shí)這個(gè)低層詞匯的。在此，不得不提醒廣大考生：對(duì)大綱詞匯全面而熟練的掌握是高效解答這種題型的根本保證。
有的時(shí)候，如果選項(xiàng)中出現(xiàn)空格前后句里相同的詞匯，尤其是實(shí)詞（特別是名詞），這往往是很好的提示。這就是所謂的同詞重復(fù)現(xiàn)象。
例題：These days, Dan Baird runs Front Line Developments, his own computer games business, and has just sold his latest game to the American software giant. _______."The computer game is now a totally accepted means of entertainment", she says.
正確的選項(xiàng)是：She thinks that a lot of people feel that computer games are just a passing fad, but her view is that they are not.
例題分析：空格前后句都出現(xiàn)了computer game，在讀選項(xiàng)的時(shí)候很容易注意到這個(gè)同詞重復(fù)的解題線索。
3. 上下義詞/同一范疇詞
什么是上下義詞和同一范疇詞？舉個(gè)例子讀者就明白了。Fruit和apple之間就是上下義詞，因?yàn)榍罢甙撕笳�，或可以說后者是前者的一個(gè)子集。Apple和orange之間則是同一范疇的關(guān)系，都屬于fruit。利用前后句中這樣的特殊的同義關(guān)系常常可以很輕松地解題。
例題：A recently study by American management institute shows that the processing of documents takes up 60% of office works'time, 40% of labor costs and up to 10% of business income. ______.
正確的選項(xiàng)是：These figures are hardly surprising since documents convey nine-tenths of all information.
例題分析：選項(xiàng)中的these figures 提示我們前句一定出現(xiàn)了大于等于三個(gè)數(shù)字，figure/number/ data等都是表示"數(shù)字、數(shù)據(jù)"的意思，空格前面出現(xiàn)了三個(gè)百分?jǐn)?shù)，屬于數(shù)字的一種，是上下義詞的關(guān)系。
例題：Certain key products have been subject to a thorough review, most notably menswear, where significant advances have been made in product design and manufacture. ____________.All of these have reported an increase in market share.
正確的選項(xiàng)是：Other areas where product innovation has been particularly effective are in lingerie, gifts and homeware.
例題分析：空格后句開頭的all of these 提示我們空格里面肯定出現(xiàn)大于等于三個(gè)并列的名詞概念，正是選項(xiàng)中的lingerie（女士?jī)?nèi)衣）, gifts（禮品）and homeware（家居用品），這三個(gè)名詞與前句中的menswear(男士服裝)屬于同一范疇類的事物，都是百貨商店中的常見商品類別。從這道例題我們還能得出這樣一個(gè)有用的結(jié)論：很多題目的銜接可能不止一個(gè)，我們可以從不同的角度來(lái)解題或?qū)Υ鸢高M(jìn)行驗(yàn)證。
