通常在解答雅思阅读中段落标题配对这种题型时,很多考生习惯于机械地通过阅读各个段落的首句,第二句或者最后一句来寻找各个段落的主题句( topic sentence)，即该段中归纳概括段落大意或中心思想的句子。

　　绝大部分此类题的正确答案确实可以通过确定主题句获得，但有些段落安排以及正确选项的归纳并没有考生期待得那么简单。粗略归纳一下，大致有以下几个特殊性。本文将从这些特殊段落的特点出发，举实例来具体分析其应对策略。

　　特点1：段落内容均为举例

　　策略：略读举例内容，大致了解举例目的(即论据部分所支持的观点)，并将其与选项进行对照，与举例目的表达相同观点的选项即为正解。

　　例： The Dutch are not the only would-be moles. Growing numbers of Europeans are burrowing below ground to create houses, offices, discos and shopping malls…; in winter months in Montreal, Canada, for instance, citizens can escape the cold in an underground complex compete with shops and even health clinics. In Tokyo builders are planning a massive underground city to be begun in the next decade, and underground shopping malls are already common in Japan…

　　分析：很明显，此段没有所谓的主题句，而是以Europe, Canada 以及Tokyo为例.在快速看完举例部分后，我们不难总结出，举例的目的是要说明世界各地正着手开发包括地下城市，地下诊所，地下舞厅和地下购物中心在内的多样化地下服务设施.而这一观点正好跟选项Developing underground services around the world 相吻合。

　　特点2：段落本身有主题句，但正确选项并未根据主题句归纳

　　策略：继续读主题句后面部分的内容，即扩展句(supporting sentences, 对主题句起支持或进一步解释说明的句子)部分，正确选项往往就是对扩展句具体涉及内容的概括。

　　例： There are big advantages, too, when it comes to private homes. A development of 194 houses which would take up 14 hectares of land above ground would occupy 2.7 hectares below it, while the number of roads would be halved… An underground dweller himself, Carpenter has never paid a heating bill …