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
上述题目大家有没有觉得在阅读中见的类似的很多呢?给大家揭晓一下答案，此乃我们考研阅读中常见的例证题。可能有的同学会问：怎么就是例证题了?啥是例证题啊?莫慌，一一为大家揭晓。
1. 例证题的识别
例证题的识别可以通过一些关键词，即题干当中出现“例”(story, example, quotation,study, case...)和“证”(show, illustrate,quote,present, demonstrate...)的关键词，除此之外，在我们历年的考题中还有一种考查形式：即题干当中没有出现“例”的关键词，但出现了例子具体的内容。如：The crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 is mentioned to ______. 此题也为例证题，直接把例子内容“The crash of EgyptAir Flight 804”引用放到题目中。
2. 例证题的解题
例证题本身解题技巧性很强，想得分的话对于我们考生来说也是很容易的。因为该题型的本质是考察论点与论据的关系，例证题无非可以拆分成用例子去证明什么观点，那么可以理解为：例子=论据，观点=论点，所以我们只需要找到例子所在的位置，往前对应找要证明的论点即可。
因为论点和论据的位置关系就是论点在前，论据在后，论据用来证明论点。所以例证题只要找到例子前面的那句话去解题即可。而对于英二的同学们来说，在例证题中，还涉及到有一个特殊的论据叫做实验研究论据，如果例证题的论据是该论据，那么该题答案是去论据后面找答案，注意，是后面!后面!后面找答案!大家可以想一下，我们大部分的实验，是不是先提出假设，然后通过实验去验证它，从而得出一个结论。而这个结论就是我们要找的论点，也就是答案。
所以上述39题，通过题干我们能得知，The story of John Dane为论据，可以定位到原文中“A tailor named John Dane, who…”而找这个题的答案还需要往前看一句，即最终定位句为“Their thinking often had a traditional superstitious quality. ”对比选项即可选出答案为A。
