“代词”在雅思阅读中的地位

代词的指代意义在英语语言教学与实践当中不可忽视。其地位在雅思阅读当中更是体现的淋漓尽致。现在让我们通过剑桥复习资料来剖析其具体的实用价值。

以剑桥6的TEST1的passage2的一个判断题为例：

题目： “International trade is increasing at a great rate than the world economy.”

原文： “International trade is growing at a startling pace. While the global economy has been expanding at a bit over 3% a year, the volume of trade has been rising at a compound annual rate of about twice that .”

解析： 题目译文：际贸易比世界经济的增速要快。

原文译文： 际贸易正在以惊人的速度在增长。同时全球经济正在以每年3%多一点的速度在扩张，贸易量的年度增长率是世界经济的两倍。

本题目中 “twice that” 中的 “that” 明显代指“ global economy ”，本题目中对于“ that ”的正确理解与否直接影响到题目的答案判断。


以剑桥6的TEST4的passage2的一个选词填空为例：

题目： “As a result, factors such as family wealth and attitudes to children have been eliminated, and it has been shown that maternal literacy can in itself improve infant health and survival.

原文： “most literate women learnt to read in primary school, and the fact that a woman has had an education may simply indicate her family’s wealth or that it values its children more highly. Now a long-term study carried out in Nicaragua has eliminated these factors by showing that teaching reading to poor adult women, who would otherwise have remained illiterate, has a direct effect on their children’s health and survival.”

解析： 题目译文：结果，像庭的富裕程度和对孩子的态度这些因素已经被消除了，并且表明母亲的文化程度可以本质上改善孩子的健康和存活状态。

原文译文： 大多数有文化的女性都接受过小学教育，并且女人接受教育的事实明显可以暗示出她的庭富裕程度和父母对孩子的重视程度。现在由尼加拉瓜所做的一项长期研究已经消除了这些因素，让成人女性接受教育可以直接影响到孩子的健康和存活状态。

原文中的“ these ”明显代指题目中的“ factors such as family wealth and attitudes to children have been eliminated ”。

结合上述两个其典型的例子，我们可以得出结论，代词在阅读答题中也起到了关键性的作用，考生们务必重视代词的指代内容，从而做出合理推断，终得出正确答案。