We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated. While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized. Their thinking often had a traditional superstitious quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope—all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father that the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “Come out from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in Puritan churches.

39. The story of John Dane shows that less well-educated New Englanders were often ______.(2009年text 4)

[A] influenced by superstitions

[B] troubled with religious beliefs

[C] puzzled by church sermons

[D] frustrated with family earnings

上述題目大家有沒有覺得在閱讀中見的類似的很多呢?給大家揭曉一下答案，此乃我們考研閱讀中常見的例證題?？赡苡械耐瑢W會問：怎么就是例證題了?啥是例證題啊?莫慌，一一為大家揭曉。

1. 例證題的識別

例證題的識別可以通過一些關鍵詞，即題干當中出現“例”(story, example, quotation,study, case...)和“證”(show, illustrate,quote,present, demonstrate...)的關鍵詞，除此之外，在我們歷年的考題中還有一種考查形式：即題干當中沒有出現“例”的關鍵詞，但出現了例子具體的內容。如：The crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 is mentioned to ______. 此題也為例證題，直接把例子內容“The crash of EgyptAir Flight 804”引用放到題目中。

2. 例證題的解題

例證題本身解題技巧性很強，想得分的話對于我們考生來說也是很容易的。因為該題型的本質是考察論點與論據的關系，例證題無非可以拆分成用例子去證明什么觀點，那么可以理解為：例子=論據，觀點=論點，所以我們只需要找到例子所在的位置，往前對應找要證明的論點即可。

因為論點和論據的位置關系就是論點在前，論據在后，論據用來證明論點。所以例證題只要找到例子前面的那句話去解題即可。而對于英二的同學們來說，在例證題中，還涉及到有一個特殊的論據叫做實驗研究論據，如果例證題的論據是該論據，那么該題答案是去論據后面找答案，注意，是后面!后面!后面找答案!大家可以想一下，我們大部分的實驗，是不是先提出假設，然后通過實驗去驗證它，從而得出一個結論。而這個結論就是我們要找的論點，也就是答案。

所以上述39題，通過題干我們能得知，The story of John Dane為論據，可以定位到原文中“A tailor named John Dane, who…”而找這個題的答案還需要往前看一句，即最終定位句為“Their thinking often had a traditional superstitious quality. ”對比選項即可選出答案為A。