抓住考点ddd

以 C5-Test 3-reading 39 题为例，

In Dr Leake's opinion, the reputation of AI suffered as a result of

A changing perceptions.

B premature implementation.

C poorly planned projects.

D commercial pressures.

在这道题中，学生的错误率非常高，大部分都可以学生根据 reputation of AI 定位到文章中的 D 段。

D Ironically, in some ways Al was a victim of its own success. Whenever an apparently mundane problem was solved, such as building a system that could land an aircraft unattended, the problem was deemed not to have been Al in the first place. ‘If it works, it can't be Al,’ as Dr Leake characterises it. The effect of repeatedly moving the goal-posts in this way was that AI came to refer to ‘blue-sky’ research that was still years away from commercialisation. Researchers joked that Al stood for ‘almost implemented’. Meanwhile, the technologies that made it onto the market, such as speech recognition, language translation and decision-support software, were no longer regarded as Al. Yet all three once fell well within the umbrella of Al research.

但是在选择具体选项时，基本上每一个选项都有人选，尤其是在文章中有部分单词对应的选项，如 D commercial pressures 和 原 文 中 的 commercialization，B premature implementation 和 原 文 中 的‘almost implemented’，都有学生会选择。如果我们仔细抠题，我们会发现这道题的题干中的考点设置在 the reputation of AI suffered as a result of 中的因果关系上，具体来说就是选择出 as a result of 后面的原因部分。用这样的思路来审题，我们会发现在原文中大家会对因果的表达加倍的敏感，能够找出考点句：The effect of repeatedly moving the goal-posts in this way was that AI came to refer to ‘blue-sky’ research that was still years away from commercialization.

这个句子在学生看来依然会很长，难度较大，但是如果牢牢记住只需要抓出原因部分，找到 effect of repeatedly moving the goal-posts，同义替换为 A changing perceptions 。