推測文章標(biāo)題題目的問題比較簡單，如Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

The best title for this passage would be.

做這種題和做文章主旨大意題是一樣的，只要抓住文章中心思想，就不難對上答案。所不同的是推測文章大意題的選項是一個句子，或較長的詞組，因而較易理解，較易和文章的中心思想對上；而推測文章標(biāo)題的選項只有幾個詞，是對文章中心思想的高度概括，因而較難理解。一般說來，一篇閱讀理解文章要么出現(xiàn)推測文章標(biāo)題的問題，要么出現(xiàn)推測文章大意題，不可能兩種問題同時出現(xiàn)，因此，可放在最后，等做完這篇閱讀理解的所有問題后再做，這樣可以依靠前幾題提供的線索來判斷。

1.文章標(biāo)題題目相當(dāng)于文章主旨題

問標(biāo)題的題也是一種主旨題，與主旨題的做題方法和技巧完全一樣。二者的差別主要體現(xiàn)于選項的形式：主旨題的答案通常以一句話表示，而問標(biāo)題的答案大多為一個名詞詞組。

例1 The origin of America's colour problem today lies in a great crime against humani-ty,committed long ago. The black population is a little over twenty million, or one-tenth of the whole. Nine tenths of the black people are the offsprings of Africans brought to American as slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nearly all their offsprings were kept in legal slavery in the south until 1865. The background of complaints cannot easily be wiped out,and it has been kept alive by unpleasant memo-ries from a more recent period. During the last hundred years of British rule steady and increasing flow of Africans were carried across the Atlantic to the West Indies and the American mainland, there to be sold as slaves. The ships were designed so as to provide space for the greatest possible number of human beings on the westward journey,and

to carry freight on the return. The colonies protested constantly against this immoral activity but their attempts to stop it were in vain. The census of 1790 reported a total of about 700,000 slaves in the United States, of whom 300,000 were in Virginia, 200,000 in the Carolines 100,000 in Maryland. Before 1800 every state had prohibited the traffic,though it continued illegally. In 1763--1767 a line had been drawn by two English surveyors, Mason and Dixon, dividing the commercial or farming states to the north from the plantation states to the south. The main part of the line followed the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, though Delaware was included in the northern region. In the states north of the Mason-Dixon line slavery had been effective-ly abolished by 1800 ,but it continued in the southern states.

The best title for this passage might be

A. Slavery in the Southern States of America by 1800

B. A Great Crime against Humanity

C. Descendents of Black People in America

D. The Background of the Colour Problem in America

顯然文章第一句The origin of America’s colour problem today lies in a great crime against humanity, committed long ago.（美國種族問題的根源是很久以前他對人類犯下的極大罪行。）是全文中心思想旬。對照選項，D.The Background of the Colour Prob-lern in America這一標(biāo)題概括了這一中心思想。

2.歸納各段落大意

例2 A rapid means of long-distance transportation became a necessity for the United States as settlement（新拓居地）spread ever farther westward. The early trains were impractical curiosities, and for a long time the railroad companies met with trouble- some mechanical problems. The most serious ones were the construction of rails able to bear the load, and the development of a safe, effective stopping system. Once these were solved, the railroad was established as the best means of land transportation. By 1860 there were thousands of miles of railroads crossing the eastern mountain ranges and reaching westward to the Mississippi. There were also regional southern and west-ern lines.

The high point in railroad building came with the construction of the first trans-continental system. In 1862 Congress authorized two western railroad companies to build lines from Nebraska westward and from California eastward to a meeting point, so as to complete a transcontinental crossing linking the Atlantic seaboard with the Pa-cific. The Government helped the railroads generously with money and land. Actual work on this project began four years later. The Central Pacific Company, starting from California, used Chinese labor, while the Union Pacific employed crews of Irish labourers, The two groups worked at remarkable speed, each trying to cover a greater distance than the other. In 1869 they met at a place called Promontory in what is now the state of Utah. Many visitors came there for the great occasion. There were joyous celebrations all over the country, with parades and the ringing of church bells to honor the great achievement.