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37. We learn from Paragraph 2 that ______.
[A] celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip
[B] single mothers with babies deserve greater attention
[C] news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining
[D] having children is highly valued by the public
以上题为例，给同学们展示完整的解题过程。
首先，解题准备：
1. 题型识别：通过对于题干的解读，可知在提问同学们“从文章第二段可以推断出什么”，这属于段落推断题。
2. 考察本质：根据对于试题文章写作特点和命题特点的把握，我们总结出，段落推断题表面上似乎没有定位信息可用，实则考察同学们找到该段的段落论点进行解题;而对于考研英语常考的学术性议论文来说，段落论点常出现的位置有：段首句，段末句，转折句。
3. 解题：针对段落论点的位置特点，在解题时，同学们可优先考虑转折句，再依次考虑段首句和段末句。这是基本的解题思路，也是我们的定位原则，此为难点一;难点二在于我们如何理解定位句，通过本句理解还是上下句辅助理解，根据具体的情况可灵活操作。
回到上面的例题，我们一起来实操一下：
(Para. 2)①The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. ②There are also stories about newly adoptive—and newly single—mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.③ Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
(Para. 3)In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
找到第二段，浏览整段3句话，没有出现转折句。考虑段首句和段末句，通过观察：②句中出现also，表明和①句为并列关系，且这两句中出现多个专有名词 ——Madonna-and-child、mom Sandra Bullock、Jennifer Aniston，怀疑为论据;因此，可判断段末句，即③句为论点句。对于此句的理解成为解题的关键：“Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands”;光凭此句信息对比选项，同学们发现很难对应答案。此时，要找到辅助信息理解这个抽象的论点句。
根据论点论据间的关系，我们首先可以想到的可能是借助上面的论据来理解。读罢，发现依旧有难度。此时，同学们可以不用局限于第二段，把目光移到第三段。因为第三段开头并未出现明显的转折标志，代表着和第二段很可能是顺承关系。三段首句很可能是承上启下的作用:In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation(在如此一个赞扬生育的社会)......;经过和选项的观察对比发现：[D] having children is highly valued by the public(生孩子被公众高度重视)语义完全符合，为正确答案。
[A] 选项：celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip (明星妈妈永远是八卦的来源)，a permanent source for gossip在原文没有提及，属于过度推断;
[B] 选项：single mothers with babies deserve greater attention(有孩子的单亲妈妈值得更多的关注)，根据二段②句词汇single设置干扰，过度推断;
[C] 选项：news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining(关于怀孕名人的新闻很有趣)，entertaining属于过度推断。
因此[A]、[B]、[C]均可排除。
对于这种段落推断题，同学在今后的学习中，就可以运用以上示例的方法来灵活解题啦!
