英语阅读理解与赏析-社会生活类文章阅读与赏析

社会生活阅读与理解（上）导入社会生活类的阅读理解，涉及人们衣、食、住、行等方面的社会万象、生活经历、饮食与健康、休闲与娱乐、生态旅游、服务住房等内容。这类文章同学们读起来比较得心应手。导入

社会生活类的阅读理解，以议论文和记叙文为主。既注重主旨把握，又重特定细节、推理判断。阅读内容的社会实用性越来越强，更注重语言与文化的关系，阅读材料会更多地涉及社会化背景知识。因此，要通过阅读更多地涉及社会文化背景知识，更多地了解丰富自己的知识。阅读技巧读这类文章要特别注意做好事实细节题。对于细节试题，同学们要先从题干中找到关键性词语，然后采用略读和跳读，快速在稳重中寻找相关细节，找到后再把这一部分内容仔细阅读一遍，细心比较所给选项与文中细节的区别。例文解读阅读阅读文章Moresurprising,perhaps,thanthecurrentdifficultiesoftraditionalmarriageisthefactthatmarriageitselfisaliveandthriving.AsSkolnicknotes,Americansareamarryingpeople:relativetoEuropeans,moreofusmarryandwemarryatayoungerage.Moreover,afteradeclineintheearly1970s,therateofmarriageintheUnitedStatesisnowincreasing.Eventhedivorcerateneedstobetakeninthispro-marriagecontext:some80percentofdivorcedindividualsremarry.Thus,marriageremainsbyfar,thepreferredwayoflifeforthevastmajorityofpeopleinoursociety.阅读阅读文章Whathaschangedmorethanmarriageisthenuclearfaamily.Twenty-fiveyearsago,thetypicalAmericanfamilyconsistedofahusband,awife,andtwoorthreechildren.Now,therearemanymarriagesinwhichcoupleshavedecidednottohaveanychildren.Andtherearemanymarriageswhereatleastsomeofthechildrenarefromthewife’spreviousmarriage,orthehusband’s,orboth.Sometimesthesechildrenspendalloftheirtimewithoneparentfromtheformermarriage;sometimestheyaresharedbetweenthetwoformerspouses.阅读阅读文章Thus,onecanfindtheverytypeoffamilyarrangement.Therearemarriageswithoutchildren;marriageswithchildrenfromonlythepresentmarriage;marriageswith“full-time”childrenfromthepresentmarriageand“part-time”childrenfromformermarriages.Thesearestep-fathers,step-mothers,half-brothers,andhalf-sisters.Itisnotallthatunusualforachildtohavefourparentsandeightgrandparents!Theseareenormouschangesfromthetraditionalnuclearfamily.Butevenso,eveninthemidstofallthis,thereremainsoneconstant:mostAmericansspendmostoftheiradultlivesmarried.阅读完这篇文章，请你认真思考一下，本文的主旨大意是什么？本文的文章结构是什么？社会生活类阅读与理解（下）导入文章的主旨大意是什么？文章结构

1.文章第一段指出：Moresurprising,perhaps,thanthecurrentdifficuliesoftraditionalmarriageisthefactthatmarriageitselfisaliveandthriving.提出文章主题。2.第二段指出：Whathaschangedmorethanmarriageisthenuclearfamily.提出婚姻发生的一些变化。3.第三段提出：Butevenso,eveninthemidstofallthis,thereremainsoneconstant:mostAmericansspendmostoftheiradultlivesmarried.总结全文。因此，本文的主要内容是美国人的婚姻不仅没有消亡，而且还日益昌盛。总-分-总

核心词汇Thrivevi.兴旺pro-marriagea.赞成婚姻的

Contextn.背景，环境本文的核心词汇nuclearfamily核心家庭，小家庭

Enormousa.巨大的，极大的midstn.中间，当中例句分析例句Moresurprising,perhaps,thanthecurrentdifficultiesoftraditionalmarriageisthefactthatmarriageitselfisaliveandthriving.（para.1）分析本句是将比较结果提前的比较结构，正常语序为thefactismoresurprisingthanthecurrentdifficulties.‘······现实比当前的困难更令人惊讶’。句末that引导的从句作fact的同位语，说明更让人惊讶的事实是什么。因此，这句话的意思是：也许比传统婚姻目前所面临的困难更让人吃惊的是，婚姻本身不仅没有消亡，而且还日益昌盛。例句分析例句Now,therearemanymarriagesinwhichcoupleshavedecidednottohaveanychildren.Andtherearemanymarriageswhereatleastsomeofthechildrenarefromthewife’spreviousmarriage,orthehusband’s,orboth.分析这两句用了一个句型“thereare···”表示很多···。”atleast“表示‘至少’。因此，这句话的意思是，很多已婚夫妇决定不要孩子，还有很多家庭里至少有一个或几个孩子来自于妻子以前的婚姻，或丈夫以前的婚姻，或者双方以前的婚姻。例句分析例句Thus,onecanfindtheverytypeoffamilyarrangement.Therearemarriageswithoutchildren;marriageswithchildrenfromonlythepresentmarriage;marriageswith“full-time”childrenfromthepresentmarriageand“part-time”childrenfromformermarriages.分析“full-time”children指目前婚姻所生育的“全职”孩子，“part-time”children指以前婚姻所生的“兼职”孩子的家庭。因此，这两句话的意思是，因此，你可以发现构