北京新航道学校 李传伟
第十八天：中国式陷阱---阅读之视角混淆
考研阅读得分的提高，在很大程度上取决于错误选项的辨认，因为考研阅读的错误选项的干扰性很强，常使不善分辨的考生轻易掉入陷阱。干扰选项所体现的特征与中国人的思维有关，所以我称它们为中国式陷阱。关于阅读方面的中国式陷阱将从三个方面进行论述，今天讨论第一个方面： 视角混淆。所谓视角混淆，就是指问题涉及的是一个主体，而选项描述的是另一个主体的特征。例如，选项说到的主体是A，而一个选项描述的是B的特征，这一选项就是干扰选项。视角混淆这一陷阱常出现于作者的观点与文中其他人的观点之间，有时也出现于原文两种相对的人之间，需要加以注意。
例一，
Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, that’s God.” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor.”
The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are______.
[A] impolite to new arrivals
[B] very conscious of their godlike role
[C] entitled to some privileges
[D] very busy even during lunch hours
这是一道有名的难题，难点在于问题中提到doctors与nurses两个主体，不易判断问题针对的是哪一个。事实上，in the eyes of nurses告诉我们问题问的是护士们对医生怎么看。问题的意思是“关于医生的笑话暗示护士们认为医生如何。”这一笑话在二段，它的含义在二段末句：“噢，那是上帝，但有时候他认为自己是个医生。”笑话中的医生自认为是上帝时，举动很不礼貌：买饭时推人，拿了东西就吃，这样显得自己很重要。医生的这些举动代表他们平时的表现，这是护士们眼中的医生形象：没有礼貌、目中无人，B“医生把自己看得像上帝一样重要”符合此意，为正确答案。C“应该享有一些特权”与原文不符，因为问题是“护士眼中的医生如何”，虽然医生认为自己应该享有特权，但护士并不这样认为，所以C是干扰选项。
例二，
With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility.” says one expert.
For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept—what you think you want to do—then broaden it. “None of these programs do that,” says another expert. “There’s no career counseling implicit in all of this.” Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again. “I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a database that might interest me,” says the author of a job-searching guide.
Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents?
[A] Lack of counseling.[B] Limited number of visits.
[C] Lower efficiency.[D] Fewer successful matches.
