翻开考研英语的试题卷，大家可以发现传统阅读的篇幅占了试题册的一半多。从篇幅我们能推断出传统阅读在考研英语中的“分量”应该很大，事实也如此，传统阅读在考研英语总分100分当中占了40分，即将近一半的分数，鉴于此，同学们可以根据阅读的得分大概推测出自己英语单科的分数，因此江湖也有传言称：得阅读者得天下。

　　阅读纵然分值高，难度大，但我们可以通过揣摩命题人的出题思维及意图并结合学术性议论文的文章结构以及历年的考题考查情况来总结出一些非常实用的解题技巧进而提高做题的准确率。在上一期的文章当中，我们给各位考生分享了细节题的做题思路和一些较为实用的解题技巧，这一期我们将给大家捋一捋例证题的做题思路。

　　考研英语的大纲中规定考生需要具备区分论点与论据的能力，并实际地通过例证题进行考查，这就是例证题的考查本质。理解例证题的考查本质对于例证题的解题有指导性的作用。由于其考查本质的特殊性，很多同学会找错答案的位置，这也是例证题得分普遍不高的原因。对于例证题，最通俗的理解是这是一道问“例子证明了什么”的题目，例子即对应学术性议论文中两大核心要素当中的“论据”，根据常识，“论据”证明的东西即是“论点”，而根据常用的写作手法，论点的位置往往在论据前。换句话来说，例证题的答案并不是像我们之前做阅读题一样直接看通过题干中例子的信息(论据)定位到的句子解题，而是往定位句的前一句话去找答案。下面咱们通过一道例题来进行练习。

　　We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated. While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized. Their thinking often had a traditional superstitious quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope—all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “come out from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churches.

　　39. The story of John Dane shows that less well-educated New Englanders were often

　　[A] influenced by superstitions. [B] troubled with religious beliefs.

　　[C] puzzled by church sermons. [D] frustrated with family earnings.

　　这道题通过关键词story以及show我们可以判断出这是一道例证题。通过题干的信息我们可以定位到上面段落的第四句，实际上从第四句开始到段落最后都是论据，所以这一部分都不是我们解题需要的信息，我们解题所需的论据在第四句的前一句话，superstitious对应A选项中的superstition，从而快速选出正确答案。原文提到他们(New Englanders)的思想有传统的迷信本质，A选项提到New Englanders通常被迷信所影响，与原文表述为同义替换，故正确选项为A。BCD选项皆为通过论据部分的内容命制的干扰选项，同时这也是例证题干扰项的命制特点。

　　通过上面的学习我们对例证题该如何去做有了深刻的了解，以后在阅读中再碰到此类题型就不要再做错啦。现在同学们赶紧找几道例证题来练练手吧。