概括大意类题型的答题方法
概括大意与完成句子这一题型在过去的职称英语等级考试中是分开考的，这次则把这两种题型放到一篇文章中去考。这两种题型均属于阅读理解简答题(Short Answer Questions)，与传统阅读理解简答题不同的是，它不需要考生写出问题的答案，而是给出了几个选项，让考生从中选择搭配。
概括大意题主要考查考生归纳段落主题思想的能力，完成句子主要考查考生掌握短文细节内容的能力。这两种题型，基本能够考核各种阅读技能。解答这类题目时，既要学会抓住文章的中心大意，找出关键词，又要能够运用多种阅读技巧，从句子、语篇的层次把握文章的重要事实和细节。请看例题。
The Price of idleness Household devices waste a lot of energy doing nothing.
1 Electrical devices such as CD players， videos and burglar alarms are consuming more energy in stand-by mode than when they are actually being used.
2 Maria Sanchez and her colleagues from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley， California， tested more than 50 small electrical appliances， from computers to doorbells， electric movers， VCRs， and pool pumps. In the current issue of Energy Policy， they report that about half of all consumer electronics energy is used in stand-by mode. This costs American consumers $1 billion a year in wasted energy.
3 The researchers say that while electronic devices are lying dormant (休眠状态)， running their clocks， maintaining internal memories or displaying their settings， they consume around 40 terawatt hours of electricity in the US every year -- enough to power a city such as Chicago or London. Many machines use almost as much power on stand-by as when working. For example， it takes 15 watts to play a typical CD， but an average of 11 watts to keep it on stand-by. Satellite TV systems use 14 watts when active and 14 watts on stand-by. Given the long hours these systems spend idling， each uses far more power in stand-by mode than when actually working.
4 Bad design is largely to blame， says Sanchez. In a separate survey of CD players last year， her colleague Wolfgang Huber found that two machines with similar features used 28 watts and 2 watts respectively on stand-by. "For most products， we believe that stand-by power can be reduced to one watt or less，" says Sanchez.
5 She backs proposals to set up a national labeling system to promote machines that meet this standard. Such a system could reduce stand-by power consumption in the US by 50 per cent， says co-author Alan Meier -- more than 20 terawatt hours per year. Last month， electronics company Philips announced the launch of a device that can dramatically reduce the power used in stand-by mode.
A Factor Leading to Energy Waste
B Home Appliances
C Proposals to Cut Energy Consumption
D Energy Consumption Test
E Terawatt Hours
F Nonessential Electricity Use
1 Paragraph 2 ____________
2 Paragraph 3 ____________
3 Paragraph 4 ____________
4 Paragraph 5 ____________
A Factor Leading to Energy Waste
B Home Appliances
C Proposals to Cut Energy Consumption
D Energy Consumption Test
E Terawatt Hours
F Nonessential Electricity Use
5 In the US the home appliances use _____________
6 The energy wasted by the electronic devices in the US is sufficient to ___________。
7 It is found that power waste is mainly caused by _____________