英语四级阅读之征服四级阅读（2）

第五步，主旨态度最后做。
所谓主旨态度最后做就是，如果在五个问题中，第一个问题就问你，文章的中心思想、作者的写作意图或者做这些这篇文 章的态度是什么。这时候考生可以先放过去。因为考生阅读第一遍文章的时候，只是掌握住文章粗枝大叶，这时候对文章还没有形成一个比较全面地了解。因此可以 先放过去先做其他四个问题，待做完其他四个问题的时候再去作主旨题或是态度题，这样准确率就比较高一些。千万不要小看这一变化。这类题目作对的正确与否有 可能直接决定着其他四个选项的正确率。
按照上述五步阅读法，我们来举例说明：
①Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(保护区)(ANWR)to help secure America’s energy future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR’s oil would help ease California’s electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country’s energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth. With the last government survey, conducted in 1998, protecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels.
②The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall (意外之材) in tax revenues, royalties(开采权使用费) and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say, damage to the environment would be insignificant. “We’ve never had a document case of oilrig chasing deer out onto the pack ice.” says Alaska State Representative Scott Ogan.
④Not so far, say environmentalists. ③Sticking to the low end of government estimate, the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America’s energy problems. And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after much bargaining over leases, environmental permits and regulatory review.⑤As for ANWR’s impact on the California power crisis, environmentalists point out that oil is responsible for only 1% of the Golden State’s electricity output and just 30% of the nation’s.