新题型有三种，其中7选5与5选5（排序题）这两种题型都涉及文章的衔接(cohesion)与连贯(coherence)，段落标题题涉及段落的主题。对于前两种题型，以7选5为例说明做题技巧。段落标题题在2007年考过，其做题技巧也总结于后。
一、7选5
一）做题步骤
1．阅读各个空的前后句，标记关键词
在阅读文章的开始部分、明确文章的基本话题以后，要阅读五个空各自的前后句，并将前后句中的解题线索，即关键词标记下来。关键词包括句中的核心名词或名词词组（如带有形容词的名词词组）、专有名词、时间数字、代词、连词等。
2．阅读各个选项，尤其是选项的首句，标记关键词
3．比较上述两类关键词，确定答案
4．将确定的答案代入原文，看读起来是否通顺。
二） 判断方法
在标记了原文与选项的关键词以后，可以按照下列原则判断原文的空与选项是否匹配：
1．词汇衔接
正确选项中的关键词一般重复前一句的关键词，也与下一句的关键词相呼应。
2．逻辑衔接
正确选项与原文空之前的句子在逻辑上是连贯的。例如，前一句使用although，那么正确选项的内容应该与之相反。
3．代词衔接
正确选项中代词之后的关键词一定在原文的前一句谈论过。例如，如果选项中说this reward，而且这一选项是正确答案，那么原文中的空之前的句中一定出现过reward这个词或它的同义词。
下面以2006年的真题为例说明上述做题步骤与技巧。
Directions:In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A- G to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
On the north bank of the Ohio river sits Evansville, Ind., home of David Williams, 52, and of a riverboat casino (a place where gambling games are played). During several years of gambling in that casino, Williams a state auditor earning $35,000 a year, last approximately $175,000. He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $20 worth of gambling.
He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left .On his second visit he lost $800. The casino issued to him, as a good customer, a “Fun Card”, which when used in the casino earns points for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the user’s gambling activities. For Williams, these activities become what he calls “electronic heroin”.
(41)_________________. In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days. In March 1997 he lost $72,186. He sometimes played two slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat locked at 5 a.m, then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a.m .Now he is suing the casino, charging that it should have refused his patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had a problem.
In March 1998, a friend of Williams’s got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions, and wrote to inform the casino of Williams’s gambling problem. The casino included a photo of Williams among those of banned gamblers, and wrote to him a “cease admissions” letter. Noting the “medical/psychological” nature of problem gambling behaviors, the letter said that before being readmitted to the casino he would have to present medical/psychological information demonstrating that patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety or well-being.
(42) _____________________________.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the casino has 20 signs warning, “Enjoy the fun… and always bet with your head, not over it.” Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from the Indiana Department of Mental Health. Nevertheless, Williams’s suit charges that the casino, knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambling,” intentionally worked to “lure” him to “engage in conduct against his will.” Well.
(43)_________________________.
The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says “pathological gambling ”involves president, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit less of money than of the thrill of taking risks in quest of a windfall.
(44)___________________. Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders skin to physical disabilities.
(45)____________________.
Forty-four states have lotteries, 29 have casinos, and most of these states are to varying degrees dependent on - you might say addicted to - revenues from wagering. And since the first Internet gambling site was created in 1995, competition for gambler’s dollars has become intense. The Oct.28 issue of Newsweek reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,800 virtual cosines every week, with $3.5 billion being lost on Internet wagers this year, gambling has ,passed pornography as the web’s webs most profitable business.
(A) Although no such evidence was preserved, the casino’s marketing department continued to pepper him with mailings. And he entered the casino ad used his Fun Card without being detected.
(B) It is unclear what luring was required, given his compulsive behavior. And in what sense was his will operative?
(C) By the time he had lost $5,000, he said to himself that if he could get back to even, he would quit, one night he won $5,500, but he did not quit.
(D) Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly considered a sin, or a social disease. Now it is a social policy, the most important and aggressive promoter of gambling in America is the government.
(E) David Williams suit should trouble this gambling nation. But don’t bet on it.
(F) It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems, often defining as addiction what earlier, sterner generations explained as weakness of will.
(G) The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially conductive to compulsive behavior. But even if the government knew how to more against Internet gambling, what would be its grounds for doing so?
一）标记空前后句中的关键词
本文以Williams为例，讨论赌博的危害性。各个空前后句的关键词标记如下：
41．空前：名词词组electronic morphine（电子吗啡，意思是上瘾）；数字20、800。空后：数字21，000等。说明空中要填入的选项可能包含数字，并且描述了赌博上瘾的情况。
42．名词letter等。说明空中要填入的选项可能包含letter或其同义词。
43．引号中的关键词：lure, conduct against his will。
44．关键词：diagnostic, mental disorder, pathological。说明空中要填入的选项可能涉及与医学有关的行为。
45．空后句中的关键词：forty-five states。说明空中要填入的选项可能涉及政府行为。而且forty-five states是具体说明，那么它前面的空应该是总论政府的行为。
二）标记选项中的关键词
(A)such evidence, mailings。Such evidence说明空的前一句可能提到过一种evidence（证据），选项中的continued to pepper him with mailings说明空的前一句提到过mailings（写信）一类的东西。
(B)luring，will。What luring说明luring 或其同义词在前一句出现过。His will说明will或其同义词在前一句出现过。
(C)数字5,000；赌博上瘾(did not quit)。说明前一句可能提到数字，而且涉及赌博上瘾的说明。
(D)common feature; social policy; government。
(E)David Williams’s suit；this gambling nation。
(F)medicalizing more and more behavioral problems。more and more说明空前已经以医疗方式（medicalizing）处理过类似问题。
(G) online gambling。
三）比较两类关键词
将7个选项的关键词与5个空的前后句中的关键词进行比较，发现匹配的是：
41与C、42与A、43与B、44与F、 45与D。
四）代入原文
将确定的选项代入原文，发现意义上与逻辑上都通顺，因此为正确答案。
二、段落标题题
段落标题题基本上是给段落找标题。做题步骤与技巧如下：
一）阅读5道题所对应的段落，主要是首末句，确定段落主题句或核心词（如反复出现的词）；
二）阅读给出的选项，划出其中的核心词；
三）将选项的核心词与段落核心词进行比较，相匹配的为答案。
四）有些选项为段落细节，不能做段落标题。
下面以2007年的考研英语真题为例进行说明。
1．第一题对应的段落（第二段）：第二段首句为段落主题句，其中的this process指代标题中的相应过程。观察段落，发现其中的review与identify所表示的过程都是帮助孩子定位。F中的figure out就是review与identify的意思。
2．第二题对应的段落（第三段）：第三段的主题不太明确，原因是出题人将该段前面的两个关键句删去了。所以，这道题做错也情有可原。不过，实际考试时除了看段落首句外，寻找反复出现的词也是一种方法。这一段反复出现的词是future，涉及这一关键词的是D。
3．第三题对应的段落（第四段）：第四段首句（主要是后半部分）也是段落主题句，即“父母应该负责教孩子如何工作”。B“培养孩子的工作技能”与此意思相同。
4．第四题对应的段落（第五段）：第五段末句为主题句，即“这些休闲活动阻碍了重要交流的发展”，言下之意是“应该对这些休闲活动加以限制”（注意全段所传达的“各类休闲活动都有不良后果”这一意思）。C说的正是这一意思。
5．第五题对应的段落（第六段）：段落中的deal with、solve指向E中的cope，因为它们是同义词；段落末句下了结论，其中的help也与E中的help重复。
综上所述，做段落标题题时既要注意段落首末句，也要注意段落中反复出现的词，有时候还需要总结段落大意。
今天的结束语是：Boldness stems from superb skills（艺高人胆大）。
Directions:
You are going to read a list of headings and a text about what parents are supposed to do to guide their children into adulthood. Choose a heading from the list A-G that best fits the meaning of each numbered. There are two extra headings that you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)
A. Set a Good Example for Your Kids
B. Build Your Kids’ Work Skills
C. Place Time Limits on Leisure Activities
D. Talk about the Future on a Regular Basis
E. Help Kids Develop Coping Strategies
F. Help Your Kids Figure Out Who They Are
G. Build Your Kids’ Sense of Responsibility
How can a Parent Help?
Mothers and fathers can do a lot to ensure a safe landing in early adulthood for their kids. Even if a job’s starting salary seems too small to satisfy an emerging adult’s need for rapid content, the transition from school to work can be less of a setback if the start-up adult is ready for the move. Here are a few measures, drawn from my book Ready or Not, Here Life Comes, that parents can take to prevent what I call “work-life unreadiness”:
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You can start this process when they are 11 or 12. Periodically review their emerging strengths and weaknesses with them and work together on any shortcomings, like difficulty in communicating well or collaborating. Also, identify the kinds of interests they keep coming back to, as these offer clues to the careers that will fit them best.
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Kids need a range of authentic role models-as opposed to members of their clique, pop stars and vaunted athletes. Have regular dinner-table discussions about people the family knows and how they got where they are. Discuss the joys and downsides of your own career and encourage your kids to form some ideas about their own future. When asked what they want to do they should be discouraged from saying “I have no idea” They can change their minds 200 times, but having only a foggy view of the future is of little good.
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Teachers are responsible for teaching kids how to learn; parents should be responsible for teaching them how to work. Assign responsibilities around the house and make sure homework deadlines are met. Encourage teenagers to take a part-time job. Kids need plenty of practice delaying gratification and deploying effective organizational skills, such as managing time and setting priorities.
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Playing video games encourages immediate content. And hours of watching TV shows with canned laughter only teaches kids to process information in a passive way. At the same time, listening through earphones to the same monotonous beats for long stretches encourages kids to stay inside their bubble instead of pursuing other endeavors. All these activities can prevent the growth of important communication and thinking skills and make it difficult for kids to develop the kind of sustained concentration they will need for most jobs.
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They should know how to deal with setbacks, stresses and feelings of inadequacy. They should also learn how to solve problems and resolve conflicts, ways to brainstorm and think critically. Discussions at home can help kids practice doing these things and help them apply these skills to everyday life situations.
What about the son or daughter who is grown but seems to be struggling and wandering aimlessly through early adulthood? Parents still have a major role to play, but now it is more delicate. They have to be careful not to come across as disappointed in their child. They should exhibit strong interest and respect for whatever currently interests their fledging adult(as naïve or ill conceived as it may seem) while becoming a partner in exploring options for the future. Most of all, these new adults must feel that they are respected and supported by a family that appreciates them.
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