標(biāo)題配對(duì)題在雅思考試中一直以來(lái)都占據(jù)重要地位，對(duì)于初涉雅思的學(xué)生來(lái)說(shuō)尤其困難。雖然該題型在最近的考試中比重有所降低，但是由于其每個(gè)選項(xiàng)只能被選一次導(dǎo)致大片連環(huán)錯(cuò)的可能性，考生仍不能對(duì)其輕視。

標(biāo)題配對(duì)題本身的做題步驟并不復(fù)雜，比較容易掌握。難點(diǎn)在于步驟中要求能夠通過(guò)略讀段落（skimming）得到該段主旨大意，即最多讀過(guò)一二末三句話后就需要總結(jié)出大意，這樣skimming的質(zhì)量也就決定了正確率。而skimming的質(zhì)量不僅依賴于對(duì)段落句子的理解，更為重要的是其中思考的過(guò)程。那么如何去思考就是最重要的問(wèn)題了。

雅思文章是將原版報(bào)刊雜志上的原文進(jìn)行過(guò)省略編輯過(guò)才可以拿來(lái)用作考題，真正考試時(shí)的閱讀文章里每句話對(duì)于整個(gè)篇章都有自己不可或缺的作用，絕不會(huì)有一句話是無(wú)關(guān)緊要的。因此，skimming的過(guò)程除了要理解每句話的意思，更需要去聯(lián)系前后句思考作者欲通過(guò)該句向讀者傳遞什么信息。

但是，對(duì)于一個(gè)初學(xué)雅思的學(xué)生來(lái)講，思考每句話的作用聽來(lái)容易，但是真正實(shí)際操作起來(lái)卻有很大的難度，因?yàn)檫@里需要的是在理解的基礎(chǔ)上去主動(dòng)歸納而不是客觀選擇。建議此類學(xué)生可以采用有效話題法去思考。所謂話題法就是讀完第一句話就去思考它所談?wù)摰脑掝}是什么，得到結(jié)論后再去看第二句話，倘若發(fā)現(xiàn)兩句話談?wù)撛掝}沒(méi)有變化，那么該句便可以跳過(guò)不看。讀完最后一句話，如果話題仍然一樣便可十分確定該段話題，如若不同便可聯(lián)系上下文和整篇文章主題做出判斷。

以下就以劍橋雅思1 Practice Test 4中的Reading Passage 1(Glass: Capturing the dance of light）為例解釋上述有效話題方法如何進(jìn)行：

該篇閱讀文章A段主題已給出，以下從B段開始分析每段的一二以及末句

B. On the horizon are optical computers. These could store programs and process information by means of light - pulses from tiny lasers - rather than electrons…….... It is the surge in fibre optic use and in liquid crystal displays that has set the U.S. glass industry (a 16 billion dollar business employing some 150,000 workers) to building new plants to meet demand.

在這里發(fā)現(xiàn)一二兩句話題一樣，無(wú)需討論，末句話題發(fā)生變化，而且在意義上包含了一二句的話題，因?yàn)閛ptical computers是fibre optic use的一種用法，分總類型。所以最后該段的主旨定義為fibre optic use方面的發(fā)展。

C. But it is not only in technology and commerce that glass has widened its horizons. The use of glass as art, a tradition spins back at least to Roman times, is also booming.…………He now has a new commission - a glass sculpture for the headquarters building of a pizza company - for which his fee is half a million dollars

本段只在第二句話中出現(xiàn)有效話題，那么本段的主題就是本句中的art

D. But not all the glass technology that touches our lives is ultra-modern. Consider the simple light bulb; at the turn of the century most light bulbs were hand blown, and the cost of one was equivalent to half a day’s pay for the average worker…………In this way, the envelope of a light bulb is made by a single machine at the rate of 66,000 an hour, as compared with 1,200 a day produced by a team of four glassblowers.

本段一二句話題出現(xiàn)為由大到小，由泛指到具體，本段主旨可以是泛泛而談的非ultra-modern科技，也可以是具體的light bulb，通過(guò)最后一句沒(méi)有提到此類科技，所以確定主題為后者。

E. The secret of the versatility of glass lies in its interior structure. Although it is rigid, and thus like a solid, the atoms are arranged in a random disordered fashion, characteristic of a liquid………….. This looseness in molecular structure gives the material what engineers call tremendous “formability” which allows technicians to tailor glass to whatever they need.

本段一二末三句話的話題一直保持一致，那么本段主旨極為interior structure導(dǎo)致多樣性。

F. Today, scientists continue to experiment with new glass mixtures and building designers test their imaginations with applications of special types of glass. A London architect, Mike Davies, sees even more dramatic buildings using molecular chemistry…………Mike Davies’s vision may indeed be on the way to fulfillment.

首句提出兩個(gè)話題，但是后文只說(shuō)了一個(gè)，有效話題只是后者。因此本段的話題也就是architect.

當(dāng)然，到此標(biāo)題配對(duì)題只做了一半，后面還需要將歸納出的主題與選項(xiàng)配對(duì)，這其中還涉及到關(guān)鍵詞和出題者的陷阱問(wèn)題，考生還需要多加注意。