同又到一年一度考研倒计时了，这也意味着考研复习已经进入最后的冲刺阶段了。同学们，对于考研英语这门课程的复习你们都准备好了吗?下面我们新祥旭考研就为大家揭底一些关于考研英语争分的技巧，希望能帮助同学们更好的进行后期的复习!

　　【真题】

　　(2006年Text2)Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry -- William Shakespeare -- but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.

　　The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise-making.

　　The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus -- and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side -- don’t usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing. It is the playgoers, the ESC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.

　　The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.

　　Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.

　　It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over) -- lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.

　　30. From the text we can conclude that the author ________.

　　[A] is supportive of both sides

　　[B] favors the townsfolk’s view

　　[C] takes a detached attitude(D)

　　[D] is sympathetic to RSC

　　【解析】

　　首先识别出30题为情感态度题，而且是全文情感态度题，即问作者对全文中心的态度。首先我们找到文章中心及主旨句的地方，通常多数在前两段出现。本文的中心句出现在首段首句，即“埃文河畔的斯特福特小镇上有两个截然不同，日益对立的分支”。这时候我们再去找文章中心附近有没有情感态度词，紧跟着后面，作者在介绍RSC这个分支时，用了一个情感态度词“superb”这个词，意为“极好的，华丽的”，而在第一段介绍另一个分支时没有用到任何情感态度词。从这个对比来看，作者应该是支持RSC这一边的，因此答案选D。另外值得注意的是，sympathetic这个词在情感态度题通常意味着支持的态度。

　　最后，同学们，考研不是你一个人在战斗，在漫漫考研路上，新祥旭考研的老师会一直陪伴着同学们的左右，为你们解答考研路上的各种疑惑，祝同学们考研成功!