基于此，考研英语阅读理解题目被划分为六大题型。今天我们就来看一下主旨题的解题方法。

 

       The best title for this passage might be ________.

 

       [A] Inventive Mind [B] Effective Schooling

 

       [C] Ways of Thinking [D] Outpouring of Inventions

 

       这是1996年第四篇阅读的一道主旨题，答案来源就在文章的前两段内容，如下：

 

       What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America — breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the weaving machine?

 

       Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country’s excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, “spatial” thinking about things technological.

 

       文章开篇提出了问题，而第二段则是对问题的回答，我们重点去看第二段回答的内容，便可以由此找出文章的主旨。第二段通过三个分号给出了四个原因。所以答案中涉及这四者之一的都属于片面选项，不予考虑，故排除[B]、[C];[D]选项是对第一段问题的重复，也直接排除。所以正确选项就是[A]。