1. 依据文章的感情色彩解题

    考生在第一遍通读时，应在把握文章大意，澄清作者思路的基础上，侧重寻觅反映语境褒贬性的标志性词汇或语句，这些标志性词汇或语句往往对文章的语境褒贬性起着决定性的效果。如： 

    I was so surprised that I was ___47___(speechless). My cousin must have made an effort to get himself into shape. ___48___(As a result), at the point in our game when I’d have predicted the score to be about 9 to 1 in my favor, it was ___49___(instead) 7 to 9 and Ed was 50 (leading).

    【解析】surprised 一词道出了情况的转机，咱们可以看到这时作者用词的改变。made an effort，get into shape 等这些褒义词的运用对这些空的挑选起到了很好的引导效果。speechless, instead 都是由惊讶得出的。

    2. 综合利用各种头绪解题

    完形填空题首要考查短文阅览了解的才能。因此考生必须阅览全文，澄清语句与语句之间的关系，精确了解全文。为了答好题，考生必须从言外之意寻觅可以利用的头绪。如书写和形状变化头绪(graphic and morphological clues)、词汇头绪(lexical clues)、句法头绪(syntactical clues)、社会文化头绪(socio-cultural clues)，并依据有关的头绪进行猜测，作出合理的判断。如： 

    And the clerk confirmed that his plane was leaving at nine o’clock three days from that day… Since he was ___44___ in three days, Andy didn’t lose any time.

    A. moving

    B. returning

    C. staying

    D. leaving

    【解析】单从这句来看，考生实难判断出正确答案，但如果结合前文，就可以找到设空部分的解题头绪——上文中呈现的词汇leaving。故本题答案为D。