MAP测试｜阅读中的事实区分和情感态度题解析

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真题一：

Which of the following sentences from the text is an opinion?

A. Vincent van Gogh was one of the greatest painters of all time.

B. His works include Sunflowers and The Starry Night, both created in the nineteenth century.

C. Van Gogh was born and raised in the Netherlands, but when he grew up, he moved to France.

D. He was poor and his work was not successful while he was still alive.

正确答案：A

答案解析：此问考察学生对情感态度（opinion）的区分。区分情感态度的关键是判断作者是否用了“负载词”，在此题中我们甚至不用看文章内容，只需找到负载词便可以快速选出答案。从选项A中我们可以轻易地定位出情感负载词是“greatest”（最伟大的），作者认为梵高不论在何时都是最伟大的画家之一，并尝试用负载词来说服读者。当然这只是作者的个人观点，并不是所有人都如此认为，因此，A是正确选项。其他的三个选项均为不可变的事实（作品及经历），故排除。

真题二：

There is a forest near the city of Kaliningrad in Russia called the Dancing Forest. The name was given to the forest because of its trees, which are unusually twisted and look like they are dancing. It is possible to find twisted trees in forests located in areas with very strong wind, but the trees in those areas are usually all bent to the same direction. In the Dancing Forest, the trees are twisted in different ways and directions. There is no explanation why the trees in this forest look like they do. If wind were the explanation, one would expect to find broken trees in the forest, but there are none.

What is the purpose of the text?

A. to entertain       

B. to persuade       

C. to inform        

D. to instruct

正确答案：C

答案解析：本题考察学生对文章目的的把握。遇到该种题型，只需判断文章类型即可。通读文章，我们可以发现作者只是在陈述有关Russia（俄罗斯）的Dancing Forest（舞动森林）的事实，并未使用任何负载词来动摇读者的观点。其所援引的地点是真实存在、可以去证实的，具有可信度。因此我们可以判断本篇短文应该为信息类文本，作者的目的在于向我们提供有关该森林的相关信息。所以，C是正确选项。