二、括号

括号在英文中可以用来表示其中插入的或附加的解释成分，这个插入成分可以是单词、词组或句子。例如在剑五TEST1第 一篇文章Johnson’s Dictionary中，题号为5的summary即考察的就是文中括号内的内容。该题为：

Johnson did not have a ……..available to him, but eventually produced definitions of in excess of 40,000 words written down in 80 large notebooks. 根据题中的定位词80 large notebooks, 考生可找到文章第六段句” The work was immense; filling about eighty large notebooks (and without a library to hand), Johnson wrote the definitions of over 40,000 words, and……..”考生根据所填题目前的did not have体现的否定关系以及不定冠词a, 可预判答 案选词为可数名词单数，并且体现为否定关系。通过阅读，可确定答 案为文章中括号内的单词library.

三、问号

雅思阅读中的问号，多数情况下用在设问句之后。设问句，即没有疑问而故意自问自答，作者的目的在于引起读者的注意和思考，能够引起文章的跌宕起伏。因此，多数情况下， 如果在段 位置出现了问号，该句即为该段的主旨句。如剑六TEST1第 一篇文章“Australia’s Sporting Success”的段：

They play hard, they play often, and they play to win. Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease. How do they do it? A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine. 前两句为描述性语句，第三句问句How do they do it?后的自问自答引出了本段甚至本文的中心内容。

四、破折号

雅思阅读中的破折号后的内容，通常是对主句中的某个单词或短语的修饰或解释说明。破折号写法上共有两种，一种为两个破折号搭配使用，两破折号中间部分为细节即—……—，而第二种情况为—…….的情况。如剑四TEST3第二篇文章：

Volcanoes-earth-shattering news”中Section C第二段句：Sometimes it is slow: vast bubbles of magma-molten rock from the mantle-inch towards the surface…… 两个破折号中的molten rock from the mantle是在解释破折号之前的名词magma.

破折号中的部分正好对应19题的题干：What is the name given to molten rock from the mantle? 因此答 案为magma。依旧在Section C第四段中， 第四行and you can see the rough outlines of what are called tectonic plates-the plates which make up the earth’s crust and mantle.破折号后的the plates which make up the earth’s crust and mantle是在解释破折号前的tectonic plates. 此句与18题题干What are the sections of the earth’s crust, often associated with volcanic activity, called?相对应。（本文内容来源互联网，如有侵权请联系删除。