成人英语三级阅读理解解题技巧1.docx

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( 一) 篇章定义
与主题有关的篇章定义，理解它有助于做主旨题。
例 1 Oceanography has been defined
as "The application
of all
sciences
to the study of the sea".
Before the
nineteenth
century,
scientists
with
an interest
in
the sea
were few and far between. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical
aspects of it in his writ-ings, but he was reluctant(
不愿意 )to go to sea
to further his work.
For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early
interconti-
nental
travellers
or others who earned
a living
from
the
sea,
there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask
what lay beneath the surface. The first time that the question "What is
at the bottom of the oceans?" had to be answered with any commercial
consequence was when the laying
of a telegraph
cable from Europe to America
was proposed.
The engineers
had to
know the depth profile(
起伏形状 )of
the
route to estimate the length of cable that had to be manufactured.
It was to Maury of the US Navy that the Atlantic Telegraph Company
turned, in 1853, for information on this matter. In the 1840s, Maury had
been responsible
for encouraging
voyages during which soundings( 测深 )were
ta