阅读七选五——考查段末句
[典题示例]
You run into the grocery store to pick up one bottle of water. You get what you need, head to the front, and choose the line that looks fastest.
You chose wrong. People who you swear got in other lines long after you have already checked out and gone to the parking lot. 31()
It turns out it's just math working against you. Chances are, the other line really is faster.
A. Why does this always seem to happen to you?
B. So why don't most places encourage serpentine lines?
C. Some of them may have stood in a queue for almost an hour.
D. The chances of your line being the fastest are only one in three.
E. How high is the probability that you are in the fastest waiting line?
F. With three registers, this method is much faster than the traditional approach.
G. But sometimes, as on a Sunday afternoon, the system gets particularly busy.
[技法分解]
第一步:结合设空处上一句内容以及段首句,判断设空处应涉及内容。本段提出你可能站错队这一现象,一般来讲下文设空处要解释原因。
第二步:结合下一段内容,确定所推测内容与下文不冲突。下文解释了你做错的原因,所以空处应为对该现象提出的疑问。
第三步:结合选项看,只有A项的内容与下文解释的原因相匹配,起到了衔接上下文的过渡作用。

31.A 结合设空处上一句内容以及段首句,判断设空处应涉及内容。本段提出你可能站错队这一现象,一般来讲下文设空处要解释原因。结合下一段内容,确定所推测内容与下文不冲突。下文解释了你做错的原因,所以空处应为对该现象提出的疑问。结合选项看,只有A项的内容与下文解释的原因相匹配,起到了衔接上下文的过渡作用。