之前我們了解了，大學英語四六級考試大綱規(guī)定：四六級考試命題的語料均選自英文原版材料，包括日常生活中的對話、講座、廣播電視節(jié)目、報刊、雜志、書籍、學術(shù)期刊等。但是對于地道的英語語料，我們也無須懼怕。我們給大家介紹了四六級命題語料選材四原則，就是為了讓大家了解四六級閱讀基本沒有想象中的那么難，或者只要明白了出題的原則，大家可以更沉著冷靜的應(yīng)對考試。

下面我們再介紹一個四六級閱讀的解題真理。

四六級閱讀的正確選項包含一條亙古不變的，卻往往被許多考生忽略甚至誤解的道理，那就是：所有正確選項都是原文的同義改寫。沿著這條邏輯，只要我們考生找到每一個正確選項在文中出現(xiàn)的位置以及出現(xiàn)的特征，加以總結(jié)就會得出四六級正確選項同一的命制套路，在考場上自如運用。

我們以下面一篇文章作為例文，來說明這個正確選項定位原文的真理。

Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

(為方便說明，此處我們把提干放在文章前面。)

47. By saying “it might as well begin with the words ‘Once upon a time.’”(Line 3, Para. 10），the author suggests that the American myth is divorced from reality.

48. What is the American Dream of the well-to-do built upon? The bowed backs of the working poor.

49.Some Americans try to make themselves feel less guilty by attributing the poverty of the working people to(their) low skilled.

50. We learn from the passage that the difference in pay between the lowest paid and the average worker in American is? much greater ?than that in other industrialized countries.

51. According to the author, how would an American family with a car and a house in the suburbs probably feel about themselves today? Poor

America is a country that now sits atop the cherished myth that work provides rewards, that working people can support their families. It’s a myth that has become [47] so divorced from reality that it might as well begin with the words “Once upon a time.” Today 1.6 million New Yorkers suffer from “food insecurity,” which is a fancy way of saying they don’t have enough to eat. Some are the people who come in at night and clean the skyscrapers that glitter along the river. Some pour coffee and take care of the aged parents of the people who live in those buildings.[48]The American Dream for the well-to-do grows from the bowed backs of the working poor, who too often have to choose between groceries and rent.

In a new book called The Betrayal of Work, Beth Shulman says that even in the booming 1990s one out of every four American workers made less than $8.70 an hour, an income equal to the government’s poverty level for a family of four. Many, if not most, of these workers had no health care, sick pay or retirement provisions.

[49] We ease our consciences, Shulman writes,by describing these people as “l(fā)ow skilled,” as though they’re not important or intelligent enough to deserve more. But low-skilled workers today are better educated than ever before, and they constitute the linchpin(關(guān)鍵)of American industry. When politicians crow(得意洋洋地說)that happy days are here again because jobs are on the rise, it’s these jobs they’re really talking about. Five of the 10 occupations expected to grow big in the next decade are in the lowest-paying job groups. And before we sit back and decide that’s just the way it is, it’s instructive to consider the rest of the world. [50]While the bottom 10 percent of American workers earn just 37 percent of our average wage, their counterparts in other industrialized countries earn upwards of 60 percent. And those are countries that provide health care and child care, which eases the economic pinch considerably.

Almost 40 years ago, when Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, a family with a car and a house in the suburbs felt prosperous.[51]Today that same family may well feel poor, overwhelmed by credit-card debt, a second mortgage and the cost of the stuff that has become the backbone of American life. When the middle class feels poor, the poor have little chance for change, or even recognition.?