考研英语阅读理解之观点态度题

　　该题型常见的提问形式有：

　　1) The tone of the passage can best be described as ____

　　2) The tone of the passage would be _____

　　3) Which of the following best describes the tone of thepassage____

　　4) What is the attitude of the author towards____

　　5) How does the writer feel about______

　　6) The writer is of the opinion that_____

　　7) The author seems to be _____

　　情感和态度在考研中大致可分为三类：happy/unhappy;security/insecurity; satisfaction/

　　dissatisfaction， 它们作为标记语反映出作者对某个现象采取的姿态，并从情感的角度评价该现象。因此，考生既要依靠文章的中心思想作为前提，又要注意作者的措辞，尤其是作为修饰语的形容词。

　　Yet there are limits to what a society can spend in this pursuit.As a physician， I know the most costly and dramatic measures may be ineffectiveand painful. I also know that people in Japanand Sweden，countries that spend far less on medical care， have achieved longer， healthierlives than we have. As a nation， we may be overfunding the quest for unlikelycures while underfunding research on humbler therapies that could improvepeoples lives.

　　59. In contras to the U.S.，Japan and Sweden are funding their medicalcare .

　　[A] more flexibly

　　[B] more extravagantly

　　[C] more cautiously

　　[D] more reasonably

　　作者用limits，ineffective， painful这些消极的词语暗示了美国医疗卫生系统的缺憾，通过把握这些词语，我们就能得出D为正确选项。所以我们对语言的理解是有一定差异的，又如尼克松签订1972年公报时，对一个中国原则，他手下的修辞专家用了acknowledge 而不用recognize.因为后者是正式的，外交的，打心底里的承认，而前者是一种模糊，对某种既成事实的有限度接受，但在中文里出现的就是我们理解的承认。