三、利用引号解题

1. 注意带引号的单词、短语或句子处的前后文衔接。

以2005年真题（P7~9）为例，紧接42题的段落第一句说：But “national” doesn't have to mean that. 由此可知，42题所选段落应提到了national，并给出了national的定义。各选项中只有选项[C]提到了带双引号的national，所以42题选[C]。

2. 如果整篇文章都是用第二或第三人称来叙述，而选项中却出现了表第一人称的人称代词I或we，则表明该选项往往放在文章中的直接引语内。

以P3~4举例文章为例：

选项[A]、[B]、[C]、[F]、[G]的主语分别是they、He、Farritor、These robotic cones and barrels和They，都是第三人称；选项[E]的主语是We，是第一人称。整篇文章基本上都是用第三人称来叙述，故选项[E]很可能是某人说的一句话，即位于直接引语中。纵观各题目，只有44题在直接引语中，因此选项[E]为其正确答案。

3. 题目若设置在直接引语中，其答案选项中的文字不应有双引号。

上面这篇文章中，选项[C]中有双引号，所以不可能是44题的答案。

4. 如果原文某段的直接引语句以逗号结尾，表明说话的人还没有把话说完，题目若紧随其后，答案也应是带双引号的直接引语句。

例如：

An earth scientist has reigned the periodic table to make chemistry simpler to teach to students. 41. ___________But Bruce Railsback from the University of Georgia says he is the first to create a table that breaks with tradition and shows the ions of each element rather than just the elements themselves.

“I got tired of breaking my arms trying to explain the periodic table to earth students,” he says, criss-crossing his hands in the air and pointing to different bits of a traditional table. 42. ___________But he has added contour lines to charge density, helping to explain which ions react with which.

“Geochemists just want an intuitive sense of what's going on with the elements,” says Albert Galy from the University of Cambridge. 43. ___________

44. ___________He explains that sulphur, for example, shows up in three different spots—one for sulphide, which is found in minerals, one for sulphite, and one for sulphate, which is found in sea slat, for instance.

He has also included symbols to show which ions are nutrients, and which are common in soil or water. 45. ___________

[A]There have been many attempts to redesign the periodic table since Dmitri Mendeleev drew it up in 1871.

[B]Railsback has still ordered the elements according to the number of protons they have.

[C]“I imagine this would be good for undergraduates.”

[D]Railsback has listed some elements more than once.

[E]And the size of element's symbol reflects how much of it is found in the Earth's crust.

[F]The traditional periodic table was well drawn.

42题前面有“I got tired of breaking my arms trying to explain the periodic table to earth students,”；43题前面有“Geochemists just want an intuitive sense of what's going on with the elements,”。这两处直接引语都以逗号结尾，所以42题和43题的答案选项很可能也是带双引号的直接引语，选项[C]满足这一条件。[C]项的意思是“我认为这对本科生来说有好处”，其中的good一词确定了此句表达的褒义概念，而42题前面的直接引语中有got tired of，意为“厌烦”，表示贬义，所以选项[C]应为43题答案。