Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry-William Shakespeare-but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.
開篇第一句就是:Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry-William Shakespeare-but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. 這是首段的主題句,也是引出了全文的主題。把握了這個主題,也就了解全文的中心:這個小鎮上只有一個產業,卻有兩個明顯敵對的分支。轉折處一般是文章強調的重點,所以下文必定會圍繞著兩個分支展開,There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC),.... And there are the townsfolk ....所以,考生完全可以循著"主題"這個線索走下去,如果討論該主題的幾個段落都已確定,再考慮其他主題。當然,句際關系和段際關系也會發生改變,這時就需要有段落之間及上下句之間的邏輯關系詞。段際關系可能是順接關系、轉折關系、例證關系或對比與對照關系等。