三、 推断题
考题考查阅读者利用文章提供的信息进行分析、推断的能力。这类题要求在理解字面意义的基础上，根据所读材料进行一定的判断和推论，进而理解文章的隐含意义和深层意义。但要注意的是，推断不应当脱离文章本身，如果推断结论离文章主题太远，其结果往往不是正确答案。其两种推断情行的解题法：
1. 选项中包含细节信息，就应当将该题对应到出现细节信息的语句，并进行适当推理。如：
Priscilla Ouchida’s “energy-efficient” house turned out to be a horrible dream. When she and her engineer husband married a few years ago, they built a $100,000, three-bedroom home in California . Tightly sealed to prevent air leaks, the house was equipped with small double-paned(双层玻璃的) windows and several other energy-saving features. Problems began as soon as the couple moved in, however. Priscilla’s eyes burned. Her throat was constantly dry. She suffered from headaches and could hardly sleep. It was as though she had suddenly developed a strange illness.
It can be learned from the passage that the Ouchidas’ house________.
[A] failed to meet energy conservation standards
[B] was designed and constructed in a scientific way
[C] is well worth the money spent on its construction
[D] is almost faultless from the point of energy conservation
题干中出现了 “Ouchidas’ house” 这样的细节信息，可以选择该名词词组作为关键词，定位到文章第一段前三句话，从文章的细节中寻找答案。根据这三句话可以推断，Ouchidas’ house 的房子最显著的特点是讲究节能。因此本题中，D 选项是正确答案。
2. 选项中没有包含任何细节信息，就应当根据文章或段落的主旨大意进行推理。如：
Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are officially classified as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.
Farmers can also call on the services of their local hunt to control the fox population. Hunting consists of pursuing a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs eventually catch the fox they kill it or a hunter shoots it.
People who take part in hunting think of as a sport; they wear a special uniform of red coats and white trousers, and follow strict codes of behavior. But owning a horse and hunting regularly is expensive, so most hunters are wealthy.
It is estimated that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox hunting. But over the last couple of decades the number of people opposed to fox hunting, because they think it is brutal (残酷的), has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of confrontation (冲突) between hunters and hunt saboteurs (阻拦者). Sometimes these incidents lead to violence, but mostly saboteurs interfere with the hunt by misleading riders and disturbing the trail of the fox‟s smell, which the dogs follow.
Noisy confrontations between hunters and saboteurs have become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But this year supporters of fox hunting face a much bigger threat to their sport. A Labour Party Member of the Parliament, Mike Foster, is trying to get Parliament to approve a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal. If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain.
It can be inferred from the passage that ___________.
A) killing foxes with poison is illegal
B) limiting the fox population is unnecessary
C) hunting foxes with dogs is considered cruel and violent
D) fox-hunting often leads to confrontation between the poor and the rich