A. huge、great、monumental等表示“伟大”意义的词汇出现在说明文中，该句极有可能成为主题句。中口文章往往来自报刊文献或专业杂志，作者的用词往往比较中立客观，如果用了这类“强”词，下文势必会花笔墨进行一番细细分析。
例如：(2000年3月中口阅读第一篇)
A Japanese constitution company plans to build a huge independent city-state, akin to the legendary Atlantis, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The city, dubbed “Marinnation”, would have about one million inhabitant, two airports, and possibly even a spaceport. Marinnation, if built, would be a separate country but could serve as a home for international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank.
Perhaps the most notable block in the vicinity was Queen Anne’s Mansions. Partly designed by E. R. Robinson in 1884 and recently demolished. For many years, this was a London’s loftiest building and had strong claims to be the ugliest. The block was begun as a wild speculation modeled on the American skyscraper, and was nearly 200 feet high. The cliff-like walls of dingy brick completely overshaded the modest thoroughfare nearby……
Most people picture sharks as huge, powerful, frightened predators, ready at any moment to use their sharp teeth to attack unwary swimmers without provocation. There are numerous fallacies, however, in this conception of shark.
First……
A second fallacy concerns……
Finally……
(3)“强”调结构：段落中出现not only A, but also B和not A but B时用来强调后者，而出现A as well as B、A rather/other than B、 A instead of B或A more than B的结构时则与之相反，强调前者。这些结构有助于确定话题（topic），考生务必把此类结构背得烂熟于胸。(请参见“必杀技”之三的例题)
Some children do not like school. So what is new? But in Japan that familiar aversion has reached alarming proportions. About 50,000 unhappy youngsters a year (out of a total school-age population of 20 million) suffer what Japanese behavior experts call school phobia……
The strange fact is that the last hundred years have seen not only the dehumanizing of manual work with the introduction of mass-production method and scientific management and a consequent reduction in the satisfaction which an individual can derive from the performance of a skilled craft, but also universal acceptance of the idea that everyone ought to work，even though they may have no absolute economic necessity to do so……
评析：此句是中口历年考题中较长的一句话，考生若逐字翻译咀嚼，则生词恐怕马上会成为妨碍理解的拦路虎。可是，只要结合“强”字诀中的“强”调结构，我们不难找到主题。首先strange预示着这个问题的本质值得探讨，而当not only A，but also B结构映入眼帘的时候则眼前顿时豁然开朗，主题已昭然若揭：人人应该工作的观念为什么会那么深入人心？这就是作者在后文要探究的“奇”事
One of the most difficult questions to answer is how much a job is worth……
Another factor we must take into account is now socially useful a man’s work is……
Indeed, this whole question of just reward can be turned in its head. You can argue that a man who does a job which brings him personal satisfaction is already receiving part of his reward in the form of a so-called “psychic wage”……
There must be few questions on which responsible opinion is so utterly divided as on that of how much sleep we ought to have. There are some who think we can leave the body to regulate these matters for itself……
Other people feel sure that the present trend is toward too little sleep……
Then, to complete the picture, there are those who believe that most people are prepared to sleep too much……
评析：首句提出人们对于睡眠时间长短问题众说纷纭，后面的三段分别描述some、other people 和there are those who believe that most people are prepared to sleep too much三种人三种不同的观点。依照“并”字诀，只需读懂这四句话，就可轻易的拿下主题题，而细节题的定位也会十分明确。
