雅思考試的閱讀部分，對於很多人來說，在很短的時間裡完成800-1200詞彙的閱讀和解答是有一定難度的。若想快速的、高效率的完成題目解答也是有一定技巧的。下面小編為大家做了詳細介紹，希望對大家備考雅思閱讀有幫助。
英語的基本句式結構其實很簡單：主謂賓和主系表。主謂賓是「誰-做-什麼」，例如：比如「羊吃草」;「潔白可愛的小綿羊蹦蹦跳跳歡快活潑地在一望無垠的廣闊草原上幸福愉快地吃著鮮嫩碧綠的青草」一樣也是主謂賓，只不過多了一些修飾的詞，句子的核心意思還是「羊吃草」。主系表是「誰-是-什麼」，同主謂賓一樣。在閱讀中我們要很快的找出核心句子，不用每句話的意思都懂，但要知道這句話要表達的核心意思，即找到主謂賓或主系表的主體。
針對這兩種句式結構抓主幹，即把複雜的長難句轉化成簡單的句子。
主謂賓結構：尋找謂語動詞
主系表結構：尋找系動詞
也就是說，無論哪種句式，我們都要在心裡默念尋找動詞這個原則，以模糊匹配的方式來對應最有意義的那個動詞，進而確認動詞之前的主語和動詞之後的賓語或表語。
一個句子之所以能夠拉長，除了在一個簡單句中加上許多修飾成分之外，還有可能是長出了枝幹—也就是加了從句，或者是由連詞和平衡結構把若干簡單句合併在了一起。雅思長難句最頻繁出現的情況包括如下幾種：
定語從句：that, which(介詞+which), who,…
狀語從句：v+ing
尋找平衡結構：三大連詞 and/or/but，
not only…but also…
not…but…
no more/longer/less …than
as…as
not so …as… . . .
還有一種特殊主系表值得單獨說一說：
There be句型：尋找中心詞
這個句型之所以特殊，是因為系動詞和表語都已經以倒裝的形式給出來了，欠缺的只是一個主語中心詞而已，因此我們看到了there be開頭的句子，一定先集中精力尋找到那個中心點。此外，這個句子是一些同學在雅思作文考場上易犯錯誤的地方。在時間緊迫的壓力下，可能會有同學不自覺地受到了中文思維的影響，寫出諸如「There are many people do something.」此類的句子，如果在模擬考試的時候發現自己曾經犯過這類筆誤，建議大家在考場上給自己留出1、2分鐘的檢查時間來。檢查方法也很簡單，把there be兩個詞遮住，如果剩下的部分還能讀出一個完整的句子來，則原本的句子必定是有問題的，可以迅速把there be這兩個詞擦掉。
除了be動詞外，還有一些there be形式的變體：
There come/comes/came
There appear/appears/appeared
There emerge/emerges/emerged
There may/might be
There can/could be
There happen to be
There used to be
There is/are going to be
其中後兩個句子中說到的情況一定是不存於當下的，在判斷題(TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN)中容易被揪出來做文章，出題思路是細節不一致的類型，答案多為FALSE。
結合講解的部分，有時間的同學可以練習一下快速理解以下這些來自劍橋考題當中的長難句，試著找出句子的主幹：
1. There are examples of languages that have survived in written form and then been revived by later generations. (4A0201)
2. In New Zealand, classes for children have slowed the erosion of Maori and rekindled interest in the language. (4A0201)
3. The former US policy of running Indian reservations schools in English, for example, effectively put languages such as Navajo on the danger list. (4A0201)
4. It is not necessarily these small languages that are about to disappear. (4A0201)
5. However, it wasn’t until the discovery of the reaction principle, which was the key to space travel and so represents one of the great milestones in the history of scientific thought, that rocket technology was able to develop. (3A0101)
6. What makes a language endangered is not just the number of speakers, but how old they are. (4A0201)
7. In the Native American Navajo nation, which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying.(4A0201)
8. The problem of how health-care resources should be allocated or apportioned, so that they are distributed in both the most just and most efficient way, is not a new one. (4A0403)
9. Every health system in an economically developed society is faced with the need to decide (either formally or informally) what proportion of the community’s total resources should be spent on health-care; how resources are to be apportioned; what diseases and diabilities and which forms of treatment are to be given priority; which members of the community are to be given special consideration in respect of their health needs; and which forms of treatment are the most cost-effective. (4A0403)
10. People are not in a position to exercise personal liberty and to be self-determining if they are poverty-stricken, or deprived of basic education, or do not live within a context of law and order. (4A0403)
11. The spread of monoculture and use of high-yielding varieties of crops have been accompanied by the disappearance of old varieties of food plants which might have provided some insurance against pests or diseases in future. (3A0202)
12. Animals at play often use unique signs—tail-wagging in dogs, for example—to indicate that activity superficially resembling adult behaviour is not really in earnest. (4A0203)
13. A few years ago, in one of the most fascinating and disturbing experiments in behavioural psychology, Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects from all walks of life for their willingness to obey instructions given by a 「leader」 in a situation in which the subjects might feel a personal distaste for the actions they were called upon to perform. (5A0102)
14. How can we possily account for this vast discrepancy between what calm, rational, knowledgeable people predict in the comfort of their study and what pressured, flustered, but cooperative 「teachers」 actually do in the laboratory of real life? (5A0102)
15. A modern hard-core sociobiologist might even go so far as to claim that this aggressive instinct evolved as an advantageous trait, having been of survival value to our ancestors in their struggle against the hardships of life on the plains and in the caves, ultimately finding its way into our genetic make-up as a remnant of our ancient animal ways. (5A0102)
16. Breeding seasons in animals such as birds have evolved to occupy the part of the year in which offspring have the greatest chances of survival. (5A0403)
17. This is the process by which plants use energy from the sun to convert carbon from soil or water into organic material for growth.(5A0403)
18. Recently, however, it has been experiencing something of a renaissance, with renewed demand for original Bakelite objects in the collectors』 marketplace, and museums, societies and dedicated individuals once again appreciating the style and originality of this innovative material. (5A0201)
19. The fact that children’s ideas about science form part of a larger framework of ideas means that it is easier to change them. (4A0101)
20. These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted, but organised, conceptual framework, making it and the component ideas, some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification. (4A0101)
21. Never before has the planet's linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. (4A0201)
22. Not only did it solve a problem that had intrigued man for ages, but, more importantly, it literally opened the door to exploration of the universe. (3A0101)
23. Life itself was a perpetual and punishing search for food: some families grew manioc and other starchy crops in small garden plots cleared from the forest, while other members of the tribe scoured the country for small game and promising fish holes. (3A0302)
24. There is clear-cut evidence that, for a period of at least one year, supervision which increases the direct pressure for productivity can achieve significant increases in production. However, such short-term increases are obtained only at a substantial and serious cost to the organisation. (3A0403)
25. Of growing interest is the way in which much of what we might see as diaposable is, elsewhere, recycled and reused. (3A0301)
26. These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted, but organised, conceptual framework, making it and the component ideas, some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification. (4A0101)
27. The explosion in demand for accommodation in the inner suburbs of Melbourne suggests a recent change in many people’s preferences as to where they live.
28. Take the exercise theory. (4A0203)
(編輯：羅偉)