Come on—Everybody’s doing it. That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure. It usually leads to no good—drinking, drugs and casual sex. But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.
21. According to the first paragraph, peer pressure often emerges as
[A] a supplement to the social cure.
[B] a stimulus to group dynamics.
[C] an obstacle to social progress.
[D] a cause of undesirable behaviors.
題干中的關鍵詞peer pressure在文中出現了三次,對于定位造成了一定干擾,這個時候究竟定位到哪句話,就要根據題干中出現的另一個詞often來輔助定位了。雖然文章中沒有出現often這個詞,不過在第二個peer pressure(此處用it代替了)中出現了usually這個詞,因此我們定位到It usually leads to no good—drinking, drugs and casual sex.這句話,最終確定答案為D。
三、選項中信息關鍵詞定位
“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide’, just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider’.” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”