“推理判断”在阅读理解中属于深层次题，而且在高考中占很大比重。
“推理判断”题要求在理解整个语篇的基础上，从文章所提供信息的各个方面着手，抓住关键语句，运用逻辑思维，并借助常识，透过表层，理解文章的深层含义或寓意。尽管这项技能难以掌握，但在历届高考考试中，甚至一切考试中，它都倍受出题者的青睐。
一、出题模式
考查考生对整个语篇进行判断推理的能力时，通常是以下列方式提出问题的：
1. We can conclude that... 2. We may infer that...
3. The writer suggests that... 4. The story implies that...
5. What the writer really means is... 6. It can be inferred from the passage that...
7. According to the passage, you can see... 8. It can be seen from the passage that...
考查考生对作者观点、态度及语气、语调的理解时，常见的设问有：
1. What does the author think of...? 2. How does the author feel about...?
3. What's the tone of this passage? 4. The tone of this passage is...
考查考生文章的来源或该文的出处做出判断时， 通常提问的方式有：
1. This selection might be some parts of a book concerned with...
2. This passage might be taken out of a book dealing with...
3. Where did this passage most probably appear?
4. These extracts are probably taken from...
二、技巧解疑
要进行正确的推理，首先应对文章的写作特点或推理特点有所了解。推理是揭示事态的原因或结果，这类文章通常是以三种方式展开的。
第一种是从结果到原因，重点在原因。其推理方式往往是首先提出一个问题或叙述一个事实，然后给予答案或说明原因。
第二种推理方式是从原因到结果，重点在结果。其推理方式是首先在导言中提出问题，然后指出或列举这个问题可能引起或已经引起的后果。
第三种推理方式是因果连锁反应，即前一个矛盾统一体中的结果又连为后一个矛盾统一体中的原因。掌握文章的推理方式，在进行推理时是大有帮助的。
其次是要看清题意和题型要求，还要在阅读时注意收集各种线索，捕捉与之有关的信息。另
外，在选择答案时，因其大同小异，模棱两可，应根据题意要求，选择最切合原文内容的一个。但往往很多文章并不严格依照这三种模式来展开，所以，做题时就得靠考生保持清醒的头脑，从文章给出的事实和逻辑两个方面去判断推理了。 当考生遇到问及作者的态度，观点的考题时，首先要通读全文，对文章的写作风格有所了解，尤其要仔细领会文章的主题思想，因为它通常能规定作者的写作笔调。其次，要注意作者在描述事物，表达观点时遣词造句的方式。因为在表达个人看法时，作者往往用一些带有个人感情色彩或褒贬分明的词汇，阅读时多加注意就能做出正确的判断。
下面，我们一起来看看一篇阅读理解题的片段，试试能否选出正确答案。
(1) …
(2) …
(3) Social psychologist Carrol Dweck, PhD, tested the effects of overpraise on 400 fifth graders while she was at Columbia University. She found that kids praised for “trying hard” did better on tests and were more likely to take on difficult assignments than those praised for being “smart”.
(4) “Praising attributes(品质) or abilities makes a false promise that success will come to you because you have that quality, and it devalues effort, so children are afraid to take on challenges, ” says Dweck, now at Stanford University, “They figure they’s better quit while they’re ahead.”
62. The author quoted(引用) Dr. Dweck’s words in the last paragraph in order to make the article
_____.
A. better-known B. better-organized C. more percussive D. more interesting
63. We can infer from the passage that _____.
A. praise for efforts should be more encouraged
B. praise for results works better than praise for efforts
C. praising a child’s achievements benefits his or her success in life
D. praising a child’s abilities encourage him or her to take on challenges
以上两小题均为推理判断题，答案没有直接表达在短文里，但62题从第四段引用Dr. Dweck’s 的话，让人看到这种表扬会导致孩子们退缩，害怕挑战，从而使文章更具震撼力。所以答案为C。63从第三段She found that kids praised for “trying hard” did better on tests and were more likely to take on difficult assignments than those praised for being “smart”.可以得知答案是A。
从上面例题我们可以看出，推断的内容在文章中虽没有明确的叙述，但却暗含在文字之中。因此在进行推断时，必须要靠有关的文字部分作为推理的前提和依据，千万不能想当
三、高考实战
请做08年天津高考卷阅读理解题的D篇。本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了被动获得知识所存在的一个严重的问题--被告知的可能是谣言。并用现实生活中简单的事例加以说明。
We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively（被动地）. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.
We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.
Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言).
Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.
That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping（打上标记）it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.
This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.
48. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _______.
A. doing a medical experiment B. solving a math problem
C. visiting an exhibition D. doing scientific reasoning
49. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.
A. active learning B. knowledge C. communication D. passive learning
50. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _____.
A. a message may be changed when being passed on
B. a message should be delivered in different ways
C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing
D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor
51. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Active learning is less important. B. Passive learning may not be reliable.
C. Active learning occurs more frequently. D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.
请做08年高考全国卷Ⅰ阅读理解E篇。本文介绍了美国著名的生物学家Edward Wilson 的著作The Future of Life中的一些有关如何开发、利用和保护自然资源的情况。
Edward Wilson is America’s, if not the world’s, leading naturalist. In The Future of Life, he takes us on a tour of the world’s natural resources(资源). How are they used? What has been lost? What remains and is it able to continue with the present speed of use? Wilson also points out the need to understand fully the biodiversity(生物多样性)of our earth.
Wilson begins with an open letter to the pioneer in environment (环境) protection, Henry David Thoreau. He compares today’s Walden Pond with that of Thoreau’s day. Wilson will use such comparisons for the rest of the book. The problem is clear: man has done great damage to his home over the years. Van the earth, with human help, be made to return to biodiversity levels that will be able to support us in the future?
Biodiversity, Wilson argues, is the key to settling many problems the earth faces today. Even our agricultural crops can gain advantages from it. A mere hundred species(物种) are the basis of our food supply, of which but twenty carry the load. Wilson suggests changing this situation by looking into ten thousand species that could be made use of, which will be a way to reduce the clearing of the natural homes of plants and animals to enlarge farming areas.
At the end of the book, Wilson discusses the importance of human values in considering the environment. If you are to continue to live on the earth, you may well read and act on the ideas in this book.
72. We learn from the text that Wilson cares most about ______
A. the environment for plants B. the biodiversity of our earth
C. the wastes of natural resources D. the importance of human values
75. We can infer that the text is _______
A. a description of natural resources B. a research report
C. a book review D. an introduction to a scientist.
总之，“推理判断”只是英语阅读能力中的一部分，而该能力的培养是一个渐进的复杂过程，要养成每天阅读英语的习惯，循序渐进，持之以恒，精泛结合，广泛猎奇。在潜移默化中你会感觉到你的阅读能力又有了长足的提高。
答案：
48. 推理判断题。由文章第二段前两句we achieve knowledge passively by being told by some else,……in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV of read newspaper or magazines is passive可知被动学习是指由别人告知所获得的知识。故选C. A、B、D 都是主动学习。
49. 推理判断题。根据it 所在句可知这个代词指代的是前句所提的被动学习，句意：在日常生活中依靠被动学习并不奇怪。D为正确答案.。
50. 推理判断题。通过第四段最后一句可知，原始的含义改变了，例证了第三段提出的论点“被动学习使我们接受被告知的事物，甚至有时是谣言。”因此A项为正确项。
51. 推理判断题。此题可用排除法。A、C两项未提，而由最后一段第一句可知D项不正确。由文章第三段加后几段的例证可推知B 项正确。
72. 推理判断题。文章第一段Edward Wilson的书The Future of Life不仅让我们对资源的来龙去脉有一个很好地了解,而且指出“我们有必要对地球的生物多样性有一个充分的了解。”第三段的语句Biodiversity, Wilson argues, is the key to settling many problems the earth faces today.也说明了Biodiversity是解决地球面临许多问题的关键。故选B项。
75. 推理判断题。从文章开头的In The Future of Life, he takes us on a tour of the world’s natural resources(资源).到结尾处的At the end of the book, Wilson discusses the importance of human values…可知该文是介绍一本书的内容。故选C项。