今天我們來談一談英語考試中的重頭戲：閱讀。眾所周知，閱讀共四篇20道題，題型不盡相同，側重點和考查點自然也有區別，而細節題則在這其中占了相當大的比重（由2014年真題可知），下面我們就就細節題的答題方法加以闡述并例舉，希望對大家有幫助。

【真題例舉】

All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession——with the possible exception of journalism. But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America。

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation. The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools. But most law graduates never get a big-firm job. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare。

There are many reasons for this. One is the excessive costs of a legal education. There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam. This leaves today's average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts. Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard。

Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers. Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them. One idea is to allow people to study law as an undergraduate degree. Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school. If the bar exam is truly a stern enough test for a would-be lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so. Students who do not need the extra training could cut their debt mountain by a third。

The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business. Except in the District of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm. This keeps fees high and innovation slow. There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically。

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms' efficiency. After all, other countries, such as Australia and Britain, have started liberalizing their legal professions. America should follow。

【問題】

Which of the following adds to the costs of legal education in most American states？

[A]Higher tuition fees for undergraduate studies。

[B]Admissions approval from the bar association。

[C]Pursuing a bachelor's degree in another major。

[D]Receiving training by professional associations。

【解析】

題干和選項譯文：

以下哪一點增加了美國大多數州的法律教育費用？

A.   本科教育的高昂學費

B.   接受專業協會的培訓

C.   律師協會的入行許可

D.   獲取非相關專業的本科學歷

答案：D

文中并沒有比較過本科教育的學費高低，所以A選項這個比較是不存在的，況且美國沒有法律本科的設置，學的都是其他學科，所以不存在更高的學費；第三段有這樣的表述：a four-year undergraduate degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam，請同學們注意：這里接受的教育依然是學校的而不是協會提供的，只是協會授權的（authorized），還有就是后面所說的準備律師考試的過程很貴，所以B選項不正確；在同樣的定位處，并沒有談論到來自律師協會的批準需要費用的問題，所以C選項錯誤；四年的其他專業+三年的法學專業，這是造成法學專業學費昂貴的原因。而且在第四段中作者也明確提出了可以不學其他專業，這樣可以減少學費，所以選D。

【方法總結】

細節題，顧名思義就是考查你對細節信息的把握，而準確定位自然是能夠準確把握的前提，可以學會找出選項中的關鍵詞并定位到原文，比如，本題的關鍵詞就是“cost”，所以要把主要目標放在三、四兩段上，但由于三、四兩段都在談論費用的問題所以必須結合選項定位，本題在同樣的定位處基本都能找到相關信息。做細節題還要注意一點，選項是否“無中生有”，很多考生經常會吃這個虧，比如說某一選項根據文章的意思覺得應該是這樣，但其實文中卻并沒有找到相對應的說明，也就是說文中并沒有提到這一點，這樣的選項其實往往是錯誤的，一定要盡可能找到由明確信息對應的選項，本題可以說是這一問題的典型。

不同的題型有不同的應對方法，但對于英語閱讀的復習卻是應對不同題型的通用法寶，不管是詞匯、長難句的積累，還是語感的把握，都能為不同解題方法的實施更好地奠定基礎，大家一定要雙管齊下，才能在考場上出奇制勝。