本周我们看一道阅读理解高考真题：2017年全国Ⅱ卷阅读理解D篇，也就是号称在高考阅读题中，最难的一篇。
原文如下：
When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn’t sit quietly. Back in 1983, twoscientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple treesgetting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plantscan get. These chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem tobe an alarm. What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, VOCs for short.
Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being attacked. It’s a plant’s way of crying out. Butis anyone listening? Apparently. Because we can watch the neighbors react.
Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away. But others do double duty. They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers. Once they arrive, the tables are turned .The attacker who are natural enemies to the attackers. Once they arrive, the tables are turned. The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch.
In study after study, it appears that these chemical conversations help theneighbors. The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but theneighbors, relatively speaking, stay safer because they heard the alarm andknew what to do.
Does this mean that plants talk to each other? Scientists don’t know. Maybe thefirst plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its ownbranches, and so, in effect, was talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors justhappened to “overhear” the cry. So information was exchanged, but it wasn’t atrue, intentional back and forth.
Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate(亲密的) than the world we can see and hear. Our senses are weak. There’s a whole lot going on.
32.What does a plant do when it is under attack?
A.It makes noises.B.It gets help from other plants.
C.It stands quietlyD. It sends out certainchemicals.
33.What does the author mean by “the tables are turned” in paragraph 3?
A.The attackers get attacked.
B.The insects gather under the table.
C.The plants get ready to fight back.
D.The perfumes attract natural enemies.
34.Scientists find from their studies that plants can.
A.predict natural disasters B. protect themselves against insects
C.talk to one another intentionally D.help their neighbors when necessary
35.what can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.The word is changing faster than ever.
B.People have stronger senses than before
C.The world is more complex than it seems
D.People in Darwin’s time were imaginative.
上过我课的同学们都知道，我讲阅读题型是不按常理出牌的，因为常理在操作层面并不给力，很多时候甚至会因为方法不对，浪费学生宝贵的考试时间。
具体思路，可以参考我之前写过的相关文章，这里不再废话：
抓重点，开搞。
第一段第一句：When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn’t sit quietly. 当植物被攻击时，它不会安静坐着。啥意思？遭受攻击时，植物是会回击的。
要学会看懂句子背后的逻辑！
有的同学整天嚷嚷词汇量不够，阅读D篇看不懂，多数时候在考试时都会直接放弃D篇，或者瞎蒙一气，这就太可惜啦。这句话中估计有的同学会不认识leafy这个词，plant植物总该认识吧，leafy这玩意儿在plant前面，作定语修饰plant这个词，直接忽略就行了。
背单词，要有策略，更要懂得侧重点！
第一段读到这里就够了，后面的内容，都是就这句话展开的详细论述。
第二段第一句：Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being attacked. 宾从出现啦，引导词that后面才是重点：植物在被攻击时会发出VOCs. 这就是植物被攻击时的回击方式。
第三段，直接抓重点：Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away. But others do double duty. They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers. Once they arrive, the tables are turned .The attacker who are natural enemies to theattackers. Once they arrive, the tables are turned. The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch.
本段重点在哪里？加粗部分就是啦：一些植物发出化学物质让昆虫远离，但其他植物do double duty. 有的同学拿不准do double duty啥意思，那就多看一句喽：They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers，这句是就do double duty的详细说明。
They pump out perfumes to...这句重点该看哪里？
to后面的目的状语！
本句可以简单译为：他们out出perfumes去吸引袭击者的天敌。再结合最后一句：The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch. 本段大意一目了然了：一些植物发出化学物质让昆虫远离，其他植物让昆虫天敌去干掉袭击自己的昆虫。
第四段第一句：In study after study, it appears that these chemical conversations help the neighbors. 重点在宾从：化学沟通帮助邻居。
这里需要注意谓语动词appear，这个词译为仿佛 / 貌似…但，实际上不是…本质上是转折。也就是说：化学沟通没有帮助邻居！
再重复一遍：要学会看懂句子背后的逻辑！
第五段段首，问答体：Does this mean that plants talk to each other? Scientists don’t know. 这句正是在验证第四段，植物之间没有沟通，因为连科学家都不知道。
最后一段，注意加粗部分：Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate(亲密的) than the world we can see and hear. 世界远比我们看到和听到的世界要繁忙嘈杂亲密得多。
抓住了文章重点，就算把这篇文章看懂了。现在我们把各段连起来，撸一遍大意：植物被攻击时会通过发出发出VOCs去回击，一些植物发出化学物质让昆虫远离，其他植物让昆虫天敌去干掉袭击自己的昆虫。化学沟通貌似会帮助邻居（实际上不会），达尔文认为世界远比我们看到和听到的世界要繁忙嘈杂亲密得多。
再回过头看下题，让人哑然失笑，想必认真读到这里的同学们，心里已经有答案了。
所谓的D篇阅读，除了第34题，需要深刻理解appear这个词所暗指的句子背后的逻辑之外，其他题，接近于送分题！
这道阅读理解题，我并没有全文翻译，也没有按照常规套路，先看题再回归原文找重点，更没有给出部分词汇短语的翻译。
高英语阅读出题很简单，真正看懂文章即可。而看不懂文章，绝不是因为有些同学说的词汇量不够，而是因为你抓不住重点！
以上，是就这篇阅读理解题，我的做题方法，有心的同学们可以对比参考答案上的解析，体会下哪种方式做题速度更快，正确率更高。
