雅思阅读单项选择题目的难度高除了考查考生们对于句子的理解能力之外，选项之间的混淆项是对考生设置的另一个障碍。在雅思阅读的选择题目中，混淆项的陷阱通常可以分为两大类：“答非所问”类陷阱，“雷同相似”类陷阱：
 

　　1、“答非所问”类陷阱。此类陷阱指的是雅思阅读的某些选项与文中对应处的句子完全或几乎完全相同，但是与题干主题毫无关系。

　　例1 剑6 test 4 passage 3

　　32 Children who are bullied

　　A. are twice as likely to commit suicide as the average person.

　　B. find it more difficult to relate to adults.

　　C. are less likely to be violent in later life.

　　D. may have difficulty forming relationships in later life.

　　正确答案：D
 

　　文中对应处：Victimised pupils are more likely to experience difficulties with interpersonal relationships as adults, while children who persistently bully are more likely to grow up to be physically violent, and convicted of anti-social offences.

　　文中指出受到欺凌的孩童成年后会经历人际关系方面的困难，所以答案为D。混淆项C选项与雅思阅读文中children who persistently bully are more likely to grow up to be physically violent词汇几乎相同，但是题干考查的是受到校园暴力的学生会怎样，文中句意为持续欺凌他人的孩子会更暴力，因此跟题干毫无关系，不需要绕弯去考虑C选项。
 

　　例2 剑7 test 1 passage 1

　　27 The book Educating Psyche is mainly concerned with

　　A. the power of suggestion in learning

　　B. a particular technique for leaning based on emotions.

　　C. the effects of emotion on the imagination and the unconscious.

　　D. ways of learning which are not traditional.

　　正确答案：D
 

　　文中对应点：Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville is a book which looks at radical new approaches to learning, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and the unconscious on learning. One the theory discussed in the book is that proposed by George Lozanov, which focuses on the power of suggestion.

　　文中为教育心理学主要探讨完全崭新的学习方法，描述情感，想象以及下意识对于学习的影响，因此答案为D. 与传统不同的教学方法。混淆项A选项与文中focuses on the power of suggestion完全相同，但是题干考查的是书涉及的内容，但是focuses on the power of suggestion在文中的主语为One the theory discussed in the book书中讨论的一个理论，因此A选项与题干毫无关系，属于答非所问。
 

　　2、“雷同相似”类陷阱。此类陷阱指的是某些雅思阅读选项中的词汇与题目涉及的对应句相似，但是此类选项属于偷换概念，即词汇相似但逻辑等关系与文中不符。

　　例1 剑6 test 4 passage 3

　　32 Children who are bullied

　　A. are twice as likely to commit suicide as the average person.

　　B. find it more difficult to relate to adults.

　　C. are less likely to be violent in later life.

　　D. may have difficulty forming relationships in later life.

　　正确答案：D
 

　　文中对应处：Victimised pupils are more likely to experience difficulties with interpersonal relationships as adults, while children who persistently bully are more likely to grow up to be physically violent, and convicted of anti-social offences.

　　文中指出受到欺凌的孩童成年后会经历人际关系方面的困难，所以答案为D。混淆项B选项为受欺凌的孩子很难与成年人相处，与Victimised pupils are more likely to experience difficulties with interpersonal relationships as adults词汇相似度很高，但是文中句意为受欺凌的孩子成年后人际关系处理有困难，B选项与文中句子无法正确对应。
 

　　例2 剑7 teat 4 passage 3 Effects of noise

　　28 In noise experiments, Glass and Singer found that

　　A. problem-solving is much easier under quiet conditions.

　　B. physiological arousal prevents the ability to work.

　　C. bursts of noise do not seriously disrupt problem-solving in the long term.

　　D. the physiological arousal of control subjects declined quickly.

　　正确答案：C
 

　　文中对应处：For example, Glass and Singer (1972) exposed people to short bursts of very loud noise and then measured their ability to work out problems and their physiological reactions to the noise. The noise was quite disruptive at first, but after about four minutes the subjects were doing just as well on their tasks as control subjects who were not exposed to noise. Their physiological arousal also declined quickly to the same levels as those of the control subjects.

　　文中指出试验测试人们听到噪音后解决问题的能力以及噪音引起的生理反应。结果表明噪音最初具有扰乱性，但是4分钟之后听到噪音的实验人表现得与参照组的人一样好。听到噪音的实验人的生理反应很快下降到参照组人们的水平。

　　混淆项D选项与Their physiological arousal also declined quickly to the same levels as those of the control subjects词汇完全重合，但是D选项偷换了概念，文中意为噪音对于实验人的影响只是最初的，四分钟之后表现得跟参照组(即未听到噪音的人)一样，听到噪音的实验人的生理反应很快下降到跟参照组的相同。但是D选项为参照组的生理反应下降很快。

　　雅思阅读中这样的混淆项非常常见，希望同学们在即将到来的考试中，可以利用以上介绍的几种方法，巧妙应对、取得胜利。

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