三、方法：

　　考研英语长期以来被视为国内考试中最具杀伤力的考试，其难度从近年来考研英语的平均分——2005年49分、2006年47分、2007年也仅在50分左右徘徊的事实亦可见一斑。而2005年新增加的新题型部分(近年来平均分一直徘徊在4分)，更是令众多考生望而生畏。

　　但是，任何一门考试都有其规律性，考研英语也不例外。广大考生必须深刻理解教师在课堂上对考试规律和考点的剖析和总结，只有做到对这门考试本身的特点和规律非常了解，并从实力和技巧两方面去准备，才能取得理想成绩。而不是盲目地题海战术，舍本逐末。

　　在此，谨以考研新题型为例，简要介绍如何利用传统阅读即PART A中的方法去破解貌似新颖的PART B“新题型”？

　　考研英语阅读部分增设的“新题型”，旨在“考查考生对诸如连贯性、一致性等语段特征及文章结构的理解”，题量设置为5道题目，总分值为10分。根据《大纲》，考研新题型共有三种备选形式。在这里，仅就2005年、2006年连续出现的“七选五”或称之为“完形填段”，也是众多考生公认最难的一种进行解析。

　　实际上，“七选五”题型是把一篇完整的文章中的五个段落“挖”出来，要求考生将其合理“归位”，为了提高难度，额外增加了两个混淆选择加以迷惑。考生怎样才能把看似七零八落的段落重新合理归位呢？总的来讲，必须从上下文内容的连贯性、逻辑的一致性两方面入手，大胆假设、小心求证，以期一一破解。

　　就以下面的这篇大纲样题为例：

　　Long before Man lived on the Earth, there were fishes, reptiles, birds, insects, and some mammals. Although some of these animals were ancestors of kinds living today, others are now extinct, that is, they have no descendants alive now. 41)_ ____.

　　Very occasionally the rocks show impression of skin, so that, apart from color, we can build up a reasonably accurate picture of an animal that died millions of years ago. The kind of rock in which the remains are found tells us much about the nature of the original land, often of the plants that grew on it, and even of its climate.

　　42)____ _. Nearly all of the fossils that we know were preserved in rocks formed by water action, and most of these are of animals that lived in or near water. Thus it follows that there must be many kinds of mammals, birds, and insects of which we know nothing.

　　43)____ _. There are also crab-like creatures, whose bodies were covered with a horny substance. The body segments each had two pairs of legs, one pair for walking on the sandy bottom, the other for swimming. The head was a kind of shield with a pair of compound eyes, often with thousands of lenses. They were usually an inch or two long but some were 2 feet.

　　44)__ ___. Of these, the ammonites are very interesting and important. They have a shell composed of many chambers, each representing a temporary home of the animal. As the young grew larger it grew a new chamber and sealed off the previous one. Thousands of these can be seen in the rocks on the Dorset Coast.

　　45)_ ____. About 75 million years ago the Age of Reptiles was over and most of the groups died out. The mammals quickly developed, and we can trace the evolution of many familiar animals such as the elephant and horse. Many of the later mammals, though now extinct, were known to primitive man and were featured by him in cave paintings and on bone carvings.

　　[A] The shellfish have a long history in the rock and many different kinds are known.

　　[B] Nevertheless, we know a great deal about many of them because their bones and shells have been preserved in the rocks as fossils. From them we can tell their size and shape, how they walked, the kind of food they ate.

　　[C] The first animals with true backbones were the fishes, first known in the rocks of 375 million years ago. About 300 million years ago the amphibians, the animals able to live both on land and in water, appeared. They were giant, sometimes 8 feet long, and many of them lived in the swampy pools in which our coal seam, or layer, or formed. The amphibians gave rise to the reptiles and for nearly 150 million years these were the principal forms of life on land, in the sea, and in the air.

　　[D] The best index fossils tend to be marine creatures. These animals evolved rapidly and spread over large areas of the world.

　　[E] The earliest animals whose remains have been found were all very simple kinds and lived in the sea. Later forms are more complex, and among these are the sea-lilies, relations of the starfishes, which had long arms and were attached by a long stalk to the sea bed, or to rocks.

　　[F] When an animal dies, the body, its bones, or shell, may often be carried away by streams into lakes or the sea and there get covered up by mud. If the animal lived in the sea its body would probably sink and be covered with mud. More and more mud would fall upon it until the bones or shell become embedded and preserved.

　　[G] Many factors can influence how fossils are preserved in rocks. Remains of an organism may be replaced by minerals, dissolved by an acidic solution to leave only their impression, or simply reduced to a more stable form.

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