代词除了替代前面(大多)或后面(有时)的人、物或事之外,在语义上起着衔接作用。因此,代词的使用,既避免了表达上的重复,又使上下文衔接得更加紧密。 高考阅读理解题中,常要求考生根据语境判断代词(this,that,it,they,them,one等),或代动词(do, does,did,do that等)究竟指代什么。题干中通常含有refer to。 根据语义衔接判断指代内容 一般说来,代词的指代内容大多在这一句的前、后句中(有时),但也可能在前几个句子中,甚至指代前一段话中的某个内容。找到指代的内容后把它放在那个代词的位置上,看一看这句话是否合理,前后的语义是否连贯,然后再判定它是否为正确答案。 阅读下列文段, 选择正确答案。 1、替代内容在上句 [例1](2017广东) Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. 经典例题 Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not. What does the underlined word “they” refer to? A. The attacks |