因为所有的文章都是来自现实生活,因此,作者的文章必定围绕着一个主题biomedical researchvs. animal rights advocates；
作者通常会以引言或事例引出要议论的话题To paraphrase 18th -century statesman Edmund Burke, all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing.；
然后作者必定要提出自己的观点Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care.
接下来作者会用举例等方法来论证自己的观点：
1.For example, a grandmotherly woman…
2.Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way———in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology；
一篇文章所包含的内容很多,而试题往往只考查其主要思想观点和部分细节内容,因此我们读了文章后面的阅读试题以后,一定确立这样一个意识,即,只关注和查找和试题有关的内容,只要能够回答问题,不必弄懂每一个细节。这种阅读方法的依据是,考研阅读当中的试题60%以上题型为细节题,解答这些试题,只要找到其在原文中的出处,就能够确定答案,不需要联系文章的其他内容。阅读文章当中常常有一些举例的地方,其所设涉及的人物往往有很长的定语,比如,Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that…George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that…对于这些细节,我们一般不用对人名后的限制说明部分太注意,重点是看这个人他／她有什么观点。
三、分清文章中的观点和事实细节
区分事实和观点是阅读理解能力最为重要的一环。表明作者观点的句子一般为判断句,如,There are reasons to be optimistic. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low level findings about factual errors…. I believe that the most important forces behind the massiveM＆A wave are the same that underlie the globalization process…All these are beneficial, not detrimental, to customers.文章中事实细节往往带有更加明显的标志,如, F or example, For instance, In America,还有一些数据等都是事实细节的标志。 http://www.56.com/u89/v_NzIwNjUzOTA.html
