对于例证题，首先要了解该题型的识别方式。在考研英语中，例证题经常以这样的方式提问：The author uses the example/story/case of ...to show/illustrate/demonstrate...。由于考研英语阅读的文章通常都是学术性议论文，所以“例子”在议论文中指的就是论据，论据使用的目的便是证明论点，所以该题型解题的关键就在于：根据题干中给出的例子信息，寻找该例子证明的论点。根据议论文的写作方式，一般情况下，文章会先抛出论点，再举例例证——论点在前，论据在后。所以该题型的解题方法可总结为：第一步，根据题干定位论据;第二步，论据前找论点。
了解了该题型的识别方式和解题技巧后，接下来结合试题一起来练习一下。
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 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 ____.
[A] influenced by superstitions. [B] troubled with religious beliefs.
[C] puzzled by church sermons. [D] frustrated with family earnings.
解该题目时，大家先根据题干的问法识别出题型为例证题，然后定位例子“John Dane”,在原文中定位出例子之后，去例子前一句找答案，便是“Their thinking often had a traditional superstitious quality.”根据这一句，便可以得出答案A。
