燕園教育學院: 十年級英文省考應試技巧之:多項選擇題

A few points about the multiple-choice section（關於多項選擇題）:

1. If you do well on the multiple choice, you set yourself up for doing well on the exam as a whole, so give the multiple choice the time that it deserves (that will be indicated right on your exam booklet). Don’t rush to get to the writing section just because you are afraid that you will need a lot of time for the writing. While doing the multiple-choice, put a little mark beside the multiple-choice questions that you have trouble with or are unsure of, so that you can go back to them if you have time at the end.

如果你擅長做多項選擇題，那基本上對整個考試就算盡在掌握了。所以留給多項選擇題足夠的時間，（這一點在考試說明書上也有明確提示）。不要因為擔心寫作時間不夠而急於跳到寫作部分。在做多項選擇題的時候，如果遇到難題或者不敢確定的題目，可以在旁邊標注一下，留待所有題目都完成之後再回過頭重新思考這些題目。

2. When you have a passage or poem to read, which is the basis of the multiple-choice questions, make your first read-through fairly quick, just so that you get the general idea of the passage or poem. If you feel you don’t quite understand something, read that part once more but then go on to the end of the passage or poem. Don’t keep reading and re-reading a part you feel you don’t understand. The time to go back for careful reading is when you actually have the multiple-choice questions in front of you. That is the time to try to understand the material enough to answer the questions; you don’t need to completely understand the poem or passage.

多項選擇題中常常會要求考生閱讀一段文章或詩歌。這時候，首先應快速地通讀一遍文章，了解段落大意。如果遇到難以理解的段落，可以重讀一遍該段落，然後繼續閱讀下面的部分直到讀完全部文章。不要一直重復不停地讀你不懂的部分。真正需要精讀文章的時候，應該是在做題的過程中：你不需要完全讀懂整篇文章或詩歌的內容，而是集中精力找出題目所對應的文章段落，並鎖定答案。

3. If you feel that you really don’t know the answer, put off guessing until you can eliminate one or two of the four possible multiple-choice answers. Once you’ve crossed off one or two of the answers that seem very unlikely to be right, that’s the time to guess between the ones that are left.

如果你無法確定答案，可以采用排除法。在題目的四個選項裡，排除掉一到兩個明顯不貼合文章的選項，然後在剩下的兩個選項裡猜測答案——二選一的准確率顯然要比四選一的准確率高很多。

--English Provincial Test Teacher: Austin Rand

---翻譯：Merlin