语境句意 行文逻辑

闫玉芹

在做单项选择题时，弄清语境句意是前提，同时要考虑句子的行文逻辑、结构安排，符合英文句式的要求。请就下面的例子认真体会做题思路。

一、 语境句意

（一）比较级的选择

—The weather isnt good enough for an outing, is it?

—Not in the least. We cant have _____ at this time of the year.

A. a worse day B. a nicer day

C. such a bad day D. so fine a day

解析：句意为“ 天气不适合郊游，是吗？

根本不适合，天气糟得不能再糟了。”答案为A。

（二）时态的选择

—Is your brother a soldier?

—No, but he _____ in the army for three years.

A.has servedB.was servingC.servedD.had served

解析：句意为“ 你哥哥是军人吗？ 不是，但他当过三年兵。”是过去的事，所以选C。

（三）连接词的选择

Up to Tuesdays attack, the worst school shooting in the U.S. was in March 1998 in Jorehoro,_____two boys shot and killed a teacher and eight students.

He went to Beijing in 1993, ______ two years later, he became a writer.

A. where B. when C. thatD. how

解析：第一句句意为“到星期二的枪击案为止，在美国发生的一起最严重的校园枪杀案是在1998年3月，在Jerohoro，当时两个男孩开枪杀死了一位教师和八名学生。”答案为B。第二句为：1993年他去了北京，两年后（在那儿）成了一名作家。所以答案为A。

二、行文逻辑

（一）省略句中的还原

One of the sides should be painted yellow, and _____.

A. the other is white B. another white

C. the other whiteD. another is white

解析：选项A似乎符合句意，但不符合行文逻辑，前面的谓语动词是should be painted, and连接的应是一致的结构。完整的句子应为the other side should be painted white, 为了简洁使用了省略，所以选C。

（二）替代词的选择

The aging of America has made us a very different society, in which people have quite a different opinion about what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.

A. thatB. one C. the one D. there

解析：根据句意，此处需要一个代词，指代前面的society。形式上a very different society 是泛指，用one 来替代。选B。

（三）连接词的选择

Beijing was attacked by such a terrible sandstorm _____ few citizens had ever experienced before.

A. asB. and C. that D. which

解析：此题易和such...that 结果状语从句混淆。此题选A，为as引导的定语从句。因为从句中experienced 后还缺少宾语成分，先行词前有such修饰，定语从句应用as来引导，逻辑上作experienced的宾语。而结果状语从句中that不作任何成分。

（四）谓语和非谓语的选择

She dressed quickly and, _____ her handbag, went to work.

A. to carry B. carrying

C. carriedD. to be carried

解析：根据行文逻辑，and连接的是dressed和went两个谓语动词。中间的carry是伴随状语。选B。