*2005年1月 I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. (21),(22)One January, I had to officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both (Both指two elderly women )had died "full of years, " as the Bible would say; both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. (关键词 full of years, normal, a long and full life说明这两个老妇人是正常,自然死亡的。请同学们注意形容词在语篇中的关键作用，经常表示作者对某个事物的观点或评价) Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon. (作者用自己的经历引出话题，注意用I开头的句子在六级考试中大多是在叙事。)
22. The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because ________. [定位与替换] 本题问作者的可能身份。由题干定位到第一段。 题干中conduct(主持) 替换officiate。那么在西方主持葬礼的人的身份可能是什么呢？而且是必须(had to)去主持。根据as the Bible would say 推断,作者身份可能是牧师。 西方社会牧师的职责之一就是主持所属教区的葬礼所以选D) he was priest of the local church. 他是当地教会的牧师。 另外，第三段第二句Priests know that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty.也暗示了本题答案。这句话似乎显得突兀，似乎与本文前面涉及到的两位死者、家属和作者本人毫无关系，但请同学们记住一句话：存在就是合理的。阅读理解文章的中的每句话在文章中的存在都有其特定的功能，或观点，或细节，或举例，或承接上文等等，所以同学们在超精读分析任何文章的时候，对每个句子在文章中的地位，所起的作用等都要做到心中有数，如此做到庖丁解牛，对文章的理解能力必有提高！其实，同学们仔细想一下，文章中这句话正是作者从自己的职业的角度出发，对自己所经历的事情所作的评论。
[干扰项分析] A) he wanted to console the two families 他想安慰两个家庭，这个理由不充分，比较牵强。B) he was an official from the community 他是当地社区的官员。 这是本题最具有迷惑性的干扰项，很多同学选这个答案。实际上official 在这里构成了强烈的词形干扰，这是六级和考研阅读中一个非常重要，但是容易被忽视的一个干扰项特征。原文中officiate 虽然在词形上和 official相近，但意思截然不同。有趣的是，根据 google 上搜索出来 的内容。About this author: He is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts. 作者的身份确实是牧师，更确切地说是犹太教的拉比。C) he had great sympathy for the deceased 他很同情死者， 文章中也没提到这一点。三个干扰项文章中均没有充分证据支持。
【重点单词】 blame vt.责备，谴责，把…归咎于(on, onto) n. (过错、失败等的)责任，责备 [真题]The mother didn’t know who ______ for the broken glass. A) blamed B) be blamed C) to blame D) would blame [C][CET-4:2002,1] A) will blame B) to blame C) blamed D) blames [B][CET-6:1990,1] [译文]母亲不知道责备谁打碎了玻璃。 successive a.接连的，连续的 yield vi.①屈服，顺从(to)②倒塌，垮掉 vt.①出产，生产②让出，放弃 n.产量，收益 [真题]We love peace, yet we are not the kind of people to yield _______ any military threat. A) up B) to C) in D) at [B][CET-4:1998,1]
