戏说英语新题型——“新”之所向，万法皆空

　　盗亦有道

　　有的同学可能对新题型一头雾水。这里就要不得不说一下，如果蒙的话，我们怎么来蒙。首先明确一点，连续选五一样的选项是给分的。如AAAAA也是给分的，对几个给几个分。有的同学说了那就全蒙最长的吧。那我就多问一句，为什么蒙最长的呢？这种口口相传的说法是否站得住脚呢？我当年也问过我的师兄师姐，他们也是说，如果你新题型不会，那就全选最长的，拿两分。如果头脑稍微灵活的同学会说，最长的所含的信息量大。但是这不是最主要的原因。如果你的新题型一道都选不出来，那么蒙含有“连接装置”词的选项中最长的。因为一篇文章必须要有“连接装置”，挖去的空所缺的就是“连接装置”词，我们不选他们选什么呢？所以逻辑连词和代词是必须有的，如果选最长的，必定是最长的里边有逻辑连词和代词，而不是因为它是最长的所以选它。

　　说了这么多，拿一篇例子来说吧。2008年的新题型

　　【第一段】The time for sharpening pencils, arranging your desk, and doing almost anything else instead of writing has ended. The first draft will appear on the page only if you stop avoiding the inevitable and sit, stand up, or lie down to write. (41)
　　【第二段】Be flexible. Your outline should smoothly conduct you from one point to the next, but do not permit it to railroad you. If a relevant and important idea occurs to you now, work it into the draft. (42) Grammar, punctuation, and spelling can wait until you revise. Concentrate on what you are saying. Good writing most often occurs when you are in hot pursuit of an idea rather than in a nervous search for errors.
　　【第三段】 (43) .Your pages will be easier to keep track of that way, and, if you have to clip a paragraph to place it elsewhere, you will not lose any writing on the other side.
　　【第四段】If you are working on a word processor, you can take advantage of its capacity to make additions and deletions as well as move entire paragraphs by making just a few simple keyboard commands. Some software programs can also check spelling and certain grammatical elements in your writing. (44) .These printouts are also easier to read than the screen when you work on revisions.
　　【第五段】Once you have a first draft on paper, you can delete material that is unrelated to your thesis and add material necessary to illustrate your points and make your paper convincing. The student who wrote “The A & P as a State of Mind” wisely dropped a paragraph that questioned whether Sammy displays chauvinistic attitudes toward women. (45)
　　【第六段】Remember that your initial draft is only that. You should go through the paper many times – and then again – working to substantiate and clarify your ideas. You may even end up with several entire versions of the paper. Rewrite. The sentences within each paragraph should be related to a single topic. Transitions should connect one paragraph to the next so that there are no abrupt or confusing shifts. Awkward or wordy phrasing or unclear sentences and paragraphs should be mercilessly poked and prodded into shape.
　　[A] To make revising easier, leave wide margins and extra space between lines so that you can easily add words, sentences, and corrections. Write on only one side of the paper.
　　[B] After you have clearly and adequately developed the body of your paper, pay particular attention to the introductory and concluding paragraphs. It’s probably best to write the introduction last, after you know precisely what you are introducing. Concluding paragraphs demand equal attention because they leave the reader with a final impression.
　　[C] It’s worth remembering, however, that though a clean copy fresh off a printer may look terrific, it will read only as well as the thinking and writing that have gone into it. Many writers prudently store their data on disks and print their pages each time they finish a draft to avoid losing any material because of power failures or other problems.
　　[D] It makes no difference how you write, just so you do. Now that you have developed a topic into a tentative thesis, you can assemble your notes and begin to flesh out whatever outline you have made.
　　[E] Although this is an interesting issue, it has nothing to do with the thesis, which explains how the setting influences Sammy’s decision to quit his job. Instead of including that paragraph, she added one that described Lengel’s crabbed response to the girls so that she could lead up to the A & P “policy” he enforces.
　　[F] In the final paragraph about the significance of the setting in “A & P,” the student brings together the reasons Sammy quit his job by referring to his refusal to accept Lengel’s store policies.
　　[G] By using the first draft as a means of thinking about what you want to say, you will very likely discover more than your notes originally suggested. Plenty of good writers don’t use outlines at all but discover ordering principles as they write. Do not attempt to compose a perfectly correct draft the first time around.
　　这个是一道七选五的考题，没有给出标题。那么我们就要从第一段来中找出一些蛛丝马迹，上来先看第一段。停止做削铅笔、整理桌子这些代替写作的事情吧。只有怎么怎么样，初稿才能出现在纸上。通过这两句话我们得到一个信息或者一个新的词，那就是first draft（第一遍的草稿，也可以叫初稿）。我们大概扫一下下边的文字，多次出现paper和first draft。我们猜测这篇文章与写初稿有关。那么我们就要进行第二步工作，划“连接装置”词。我这就用红字表示了。

　　41：其实新题型的第一个空是最好做的，如果某一个选项中出现了前文没有出现过的文字，那一定不是正确答案。比如：
　　A中：To make revising easier，前文根本没提到revising谈何To make revising easier.
　　B中：After you have clearly and adequately developed the body of your paper，前文也没有交待developed the body of your paper
　　C：though a clean copy，前文也未有提及。
　　E、F中的A&P
　　DG没有明显的错误，而且看似链接的都很通顺，先作为备选答案。
　　44：空后有一个我们很喜欢的词“These printouts”these一出，表明前文已经出现过和printouts相关的文字。纵观第四段没有出现过printouts相关的内容，那必定是在44空中有相关的文字。浏览几个选项，只有C中多次出现print，那么这个C就毫无疑问的是正确答案了，然后你对照一下内容，上下文严丝合缝。因为篇幅关系就不一句句的翻译了。
　　45：空之前出现两个专有名词A & P和Sammy，从7个选项中只有E、F中有出现。这就锁定了两个备选。第五段说删除与主题无关的内容，并举了一个例子，这个同学删除了了sammy有关的某一段。看E中说Although this is an interesting issue，正好与前文他删的那一段内容相对应，而且用两个连接装置显得文章逻辑性很严密。反过来看F，本段的主题就是说删除与主题无关的内容。而F中丝毫没有体现这一点，只是说最后一段他是怎样写的。相比起来E要比F好得多。