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例证题是考研英语中常见的题型，重点考察区分论点和论据的能力。要判断例证题，就要了解常见的题干信息词，包括example（例子）、case(例子）、demonstrate（证明）、illustrate（阐释）、show（表明）、cite（引用）、quote（引用）、mention/refer（提及）等，其中cite、quote、mention常用作被动语态。通常，例证题会问作者举例的目的，而作者举例通常都是为了证明自己的观点。
下面我们来看几个例证题的例子：
the author uses the example of cancer patients to show that ________.（2003年tect4）
the author quotes the example of our ancestors to show that education emerged ____.
（2009年tect3）
the quotation in paragraph 4 explains that ______.（2013年tect2）
alfred marshall is quoted to indicate __________.（2019年tect1）
例证题解题思路是例子支撑观点，找到了观点才能找到正确答案。例证题的观点在例子前后找即可。通常按照西方人的开门见山的写作习惯，观点一般都出现在例子的前面。值得注意的是，例子证明的观点很多时候也是全文的主旨，所以找到了全文主旨也能很好找到例证题的答案。另外，也可以关注转折后，情态动词，重复，感情色彩。而且例证题干扰选项有明显的特征，比如讨论例子本身。只要掌握了这一点，在面对例证题时，我们就可以快速排除那些利用例子细节信息来设干扰的选项，从而缩小选择范围。下面我们以英语一2009年text4为例来进行说明。
该篇真题39题为例证题：
39. the story of john dane shows that less well-educated new englanders were often .
[a] influenced by superstitions
[b] troubled with religious beliefs
[c] puzzled by church sermons
[d] frustrated with family earnings
题干中的the story of john dane很明显是一个具体的例子，shows后面的less well-educated new englanders were often都属于观点的内容。按照例证题的解题思路，我们应先回到文章找到john dane这个例子所出现的位置，再去它的前后寻找观点。
①we should not forget, however, that most new englanders were less well educated. ②while few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized. ③their thinking often had a traditional superstitions 
quality. ④a tailor named john dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving england that is filled with signs. ⑤sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope — all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the bible, told his father that the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “come out from among them, touch no unclean thing, and i will be your god and you shall be my people.” ⑥one wonders what dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the bible that he heard in puritan churches.
句④：出现了题干中定位信息john dane。句①：出现了题干中的第二个定位信息less well-educated new englanders。句③：出现了题干中的第三个定位信息often。
通过定位我们发现，句③中的their指代的正是句①中的less well-educated new englanders，符合题干信息，且句③后紧跟着就出现了题干提到的john dane的例子，因此句③为例子要证明的观点。对比观点和选项：句③提到“their thinking often had a traditional superstitious quality”（他们的思想中往往带有传统的迷信色彩）。对比该句和四个选项，不难发现a选项influenced by superstitions（受到迷信的影响）正确。b、c、d三个错误选项刚好都利用例子本身的信息设置干扰，b选项对应例子中的religious hope，c选项对应例子中的“careful sermons.…. in puritanchurches”，d选项对应例子中的economic frustrations。
例证题最常见的干扰选项就是讨论例子本身的内容，对于例证题题，我们还学会区分论点和论据寻找关键信息，往往可以事半功倍，极大提高做题效率和正确率，所以同学们要积极利用这种解题技巧取得高分。
