考研復習階段已經進入了最后的沖刺階段，考研倒計時已經開始了，很多同學們現在也開始時數著指頭算著還剩多少天了。那么，同學們，你們的考研英語的復習這時候也應該是進入到最后的沖刺階段了。同學們都知道我們的考研英語這門課程分為英語一和英語二，英語二相對來說要簡單些。但是英語二真題中也有不少同學們無法理解的難點問題，今天我們中公考研老師就根據很多同學們在英語二中都遇到的一些難點問題做深入的分析和總結，以期幫助大家沖破阻礙，化繭成蝶，爭取更大的進步!
英語二的閱讀每年都會考的一種題型是主旨題，除了2010年第二篇之外，其余的都是位于最后一道題的位置。雖然在20道題的閱讀里面所占的分量并沒有像細節題那樣比重很大，但也是每年基本必考的一種題型，對于這種題型的解析也是有一定的技巧和規律的。
【真題】
(2010年Text 2 Para.1&2)I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women's group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands don't talk to them. This man quickly nodded in agreement. He gestured toward his wife and said, "She's the talker in our family." The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. "It's true," he explained. "When I come home from work, I have nothing to say. If she didn't keep the conversation going, we'd spend the whole evening in silence."
This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home. And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.
29. Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text?
A. The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists.
B. Marriage break-up stems from sex inequalities.
C. Husband and wife have different expectations from their marriage.
D. Conversational patterns between man and wife are different.
【解析】
首先識別出這道題是主旨題。那么如何識別主旨題呢?主要有下面幾種識別方法：
1. 一般主旨題是位于每篇文章最后一道題的位置。
2. 主旨題的常見提問方法是題干中會出現 “title，subject，main idea, mainly about, conclude”等詞，也就是說題干中會問你“這篇文章的標題，主題，中心思想等是什么?”
學會了識別方法之后，下面我們來看這道主旨題的解題思路，主旨題，顧名思義，答案是讓同學們去找這篇文章的主旨是什么，主旨句在哪兒�？佳杏⒄Z真題中的閱讀文章大都是選自西方核心期刊的議論文。議論文一般會包括論點和論據。中西方思維的差異決定著，大多數的英語人寫議論文首先會在文章前幾段亮明其觀點。而這篇文章我們看其手段是描述的意見過去發生的事情，這是一種慣常的議論文寫作手法，即用過去的事情引出現在的情況，這個被引出的現在情況一般就是這篇議論文的論點所在。所以我們再看這篇文章的二段首句就是緊跟著前面過去的事情被引出的現在的情況。這句話的意思主要是說：美國的男性在公共場合談論的比女性更多，而在家里卻比女性談論的更少。因此，這篇文章的主旨應該是指男女說話模式的在不同的場合不一樣。答案應該選D。