2008年英語四級英語巔峰閲讀培訓（第十二講）

4 文中人物的觀點或態度
　　解題技巧：
　　文章中涉及的個人或組織的態度也是一個常考點。解答這類題目時，應該用這些個人的姓名或組織的名稱作爲線索詞急性定位，找到原文中相應的段落或句子，再根據文中的用詞和句式進行判斷
　　 練習:
　　…Ofen, older parents hear the ticking of another kind of biological clock. Therapists who work with middle-aged and aged parents say fears about aging are nothing to laugh at. “ They worry they’ll be mistaken for grandparents, or that they’ll need help getting up out of those little chairs in nursery school,” says Joann Galst, a New York psychologist. But at the core of those little fears there is often a muchi bigger one: “that they won’t be alive enough to support and protect their child,” she says….
　　Q: What’s the biggest fear of older parents according to New York psychologist Joann Galst?
　　A . Being laughed at by other people.
　　B. Slowing down of their paces of life.
　　C. Being mistaken for grandparents.
　　D. Approaching of death
　　【解析】
　　選D。根據題乾中New York psychologist Joann Galst廻到原文迅速定位，題乾中的biggest對應原文中的core和muchi bigger one。答案應在冒號後麪的引文部分：“擔心不能活到足夠大的年嵗一直撫養和保護孩子”。所以選D，death對應原文中的won’t be alive.