2014考研英语：阅读理解之观点态度题解题秘籍

　　另外，判断作者情感态度除了关注作者的措辞，还要可以通过关注作者的举例角度和讲解角度，来判断文章作者的态度倾向：如果作者的一直论述某事物的积极地向上的方面，其态度基本上是积极乐观的；如果作者举例论证某观点时，给的例子是正面的，那么我们同样可以判断作者的态度是积极乐观的；如果作者的论述有好有坏，举例有正面有反面，我基本上可以判断作者的态度是客观的。同样，我们通过具体的真题案例进一步解释这一点。

　　再例1997年第54题：

　　It was 3：45 in the morning when the vote was finallytaken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentarydebates， Australia‘s Northern Territorybecame the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the livesof incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincingvote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and waspicked up， half a world away， by John Hofsess， executive director of the Rightto Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group’s on-line service， DeathNET. Says Hofsess： “We posted bulletins all day long， because of course thisisn‘t just something that happened in Australia. It’s world history.”

　　The full import may take awhile to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally IIIlaw has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral andpractical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief， others， includingchurches， right to life groups and the Australian Medical Association， bitterlyattacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely toturn back. In Australia—— where an aging population， life extending technology and changing communityattitudes have all played their part —— other states are going to considermaking a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the USand Canada，where the right to die movement is gathering strength， observers are waitingfor the dominoes to start falling.

　　Under the new Northern Territory law，an adult patient can request death —— probably by a deadly injection or pill ——to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill bytwo doctors. After a “cooling off” period of seven days， the patient can sign acertificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For LloydNickson， a 54 year old Darwinresident suffering from lung cancer， the NT Rights of Terminally III law meanshe can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering： aterrifying death from his breathing condition. “I‘m not afraid of dying from aspiritual point of view， but what I was afraid of was how I’d go， because I‘vewatched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at theirmasks，” he says.

　　54.The author‘s attitude towards euthanasiaseems to be that of ________.

　　[A]opposition

　　[B]suspicion

　　[C]approval

　　[D]indifference

　　我们通过阅读该文，不难发现文章首段记述了安乐死法案通过以及当时在全球引起的反响，首段作者使用“it is world history”，来表达他对该事件的态度，认为它意义重大；紧接着在第二段，作者首先讨论世人对此态度不一，但是作者通过转折，指出这个潮流不太可能被逆转了。第三段，作者用一个肺癌病人为例，该病人认为安乐死法案的通过意味着自己可以平静地度过最后的时光，不用担心临死前要遭受的折磨。很明显这个事例是认识安乐死法案的通过是一件好事。那么文章就作者的态度命题，答案肯定是approval.

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