剑桥雅思5：T2P3第32题

在涉及具体题目前，先大致了解下剑5T2P3这篇文章的内容，这篇文章标题为The Birth of Scientific English, 主要讲述了英语在现代科学中的崛起及各种原因。
　　其中的第32题是一道比较难的无选项summary题，字数限制为2个。

In Britain, moreover, scientists worried that English had neither the 30 ........................... nor the 31 ........................... to express their ideas. This situation only changed after 1660 when scientists associated with the 32 ........................... set about developing English. An early scientific journal fostered a new kind of writing based on short descriptions of specific experiments.
　　按照summary题的做题步骤，根据the这个冠词可以预判出之后的空格需要填写的是一个名词。之后划出定位词：situation, after1660, scientists和English。由于这里有特殊定位词1660，一般学生很容易忽略表示时间的after从而定位到错误的in 1660处，但根据解题顺序也可以迅速排除。当意识到after的作用后配合其余几个定位词以及顺序原则可以定位到：

Fortunately, several members of the Royal Society possessed an interest in language and became engaged in various linguistic projects. Although a proposal in 1664 to establish a committee for improving the English language came to little, the society's members did a great deal to foster the publication of science in English and to encourage the development of a suitable writing style. Many members of the Royal Society also published monographs in English. One of the first was by Robert Hooke, the society's first curator of experiments, who described his experiments with microscopes in Micrographia (1665). This work is largely narrative in style, based on a transcript of oral demonstrations and lectures.

定位到本段后，大部分同学会填写society，对比预判似乎非常相符，然而答案却是Royal Society.那么如何排除前者呢？其实根据the定冠词的作用就可以了。在英语文章中，如果出现the+N，一般后面的名词如果前文中没有出现过就不可以省略N前表示身份或者属性的修饰词。而summary题也属于一篇完整的文章，因此也符合这种行文逻辑。根据这种冠词的作用，我们就可以很快的排除society这个答案了。

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