《2025年课时提优计划作业本九年级英语上册译林版》

五、任务型阅读
Reading is fun! You can also analyze texts to learn more from and about them. One way you can do this with fiction books, passages, or poems is by exploring their themes.
A theme is a central idea running throughout a text, connecting the characters and events. The writer may express his or her thoughts about humanity or a world view through a theme. Themes can be ideas like friendship, bravery, love, honesty or family. Make sure you know what the writer is saying.
Sometimes, themes are hard to find out. First, the theme of a text cannot always be summarized in just one word like the examples above. There may also be more than one theme in a text. What's more, some themes are not presented in words directly. You have to use clues in the texts to find them.
To start exploring the theme, first you need to make sure you've read the whole text. Since themes develop over time, you may not fully understand the underlying themes until the end of the text. Then, ask yourself to sum up(概括) the text and try to work out a "big idea". For example, did many characters resolve problems with their families? If there is only one small problem with a character's family, then "family" may not be the theme of the text. Finally, after finding out a "big idea", go through the text to find examples that support this idea. You needn't repeat every detail of the story—a few key examples will be fine.
Now you are ready to explore the theme of a text!


1. theme 2. What 3. central 4. writer's 5. hard/difficult
6. summarize 7. direct 8. end 9. support 10. necessary

答案： 1. theme 2. What 3. central 4. writer's 5. hard/difficult 6. summarize 7. direct 8. end 9. support 10. necessary