ACT考试策略技巧大全(7)

at your kitchen table. So, when faced with identifying the main idea of a difficult passage, make it easier on yourself by backing away from the passage and thinking about it in terms of using easy “kitchen logic”.

Strategy 5: Getting into the Author’s Mind

A number of questions become much easier when you place yourself into the mind of the author of the passage. Ask yourself a few

different questions:

“Why did the author write this passage?”

“What was the author trying to say?”

What angle is the author taking?”

“What is the single most important point the author is trying to

make?”

Put yourself in the shoes of the author and imagine that you wrote the passage and try to identify what you were trying to describe and how you were trying to describe it. If you take on the opinions and ideas expressed by the author as your own, then it becomes easier to

answer questions that would be easy for the author to answer.

Strategy 6: Emotional Words

Each question will be about a different angle of the passage. For questions asking about the author’s emotions, find words in the

passage that are adjectives describing emotions.