在閱讀考試當中，選擇題可以說是讓我們非常親切的一種題型了，因為我們國內有很多考試當中選擇題也是占了大多數的，所以掌握選擇題的技巧非常關鍵。
雅思閱讀選擇題：
Step 1.
雅思閱讀題目要求，看是單選還是多選，如是多選，選幾項，還要注意多選題的每一個正確選項占用一個題號，在謄寫答題紙的時候要注意。
Step 2.
雅思閱讀題干，標出定位詞。對于定位詞而言，考生應當首選形式上較為特殊的一些詞，如專有名詞（人名、地名等），時間/數字，特殊標點符號（如引號，連字符等），貨幣符號，長難單詞，如果題干中并未出現以上特殊詞匯，則選擇題干中的名詞/名詞短語和動詞。
例如劍四 Test2 Passage2 Alternative medicine in Australia:
Question 14 and 15
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write your answers in boxes 14 and 15 on your answer sheet.
14.Traditionally, how have Australian doctors differed from doctors in many Western countries?
A. They have worked closely with pharmaceutical companies.
B. They have often worked alongside other therapists.
C. They have been reluctant to accept alternative therapists.
D. They have regularly prescribed alternative remedies.
15. In 1990, Americans
A. were prescribed more herbal medicines than in previous years.
B. consulted alternative therapists more often than doctors.
C. spent more on natural therapies than orthodox medicines.
D. made more complaints about doctors than in previous years.
分析14題的題干，其定位詞應為Australian doctors, differ from, doctors in many Western countries, 通過定位詞則很容易將這道題目定位到第一段第一句話。
15題的定位詞則更明顯，1990, Americans, 定位到文章第一段的最后一句話。
注：有時候題干中并沒有出現定位詞，則必須通過選項來定位。
如：According to the reading passage, which of the following is true? 像這樣的題目只能通過從選項中挑出關鍵詞然后去原文中定位。
Step 3.
閱讀選項，標出關鍵詞。在這里，雅思閱讀選擇題解題技巧的關鍵詞即為選項所描述信息的主題，多為名詞或名詞性短語或動賓短語。例如上面的第15題，對于每個選項可標出如下關鍵詞：
A. more herbal medicines
B. consulted alternative therapists
C. spent more on natural therapies
D. more complaints
Step 4.
回原文讀相關段落確定答案，正確答案常常是原文相關詞句的同義改寫。通過前兩步標定位詞和關鍵詞可大致確定題目出自哪個段落，接下來就需要讀原文某段或者某幾句話，通過對比關鍵詞和原文來確定答案。如上文中第14題，原文中的表達為…having a very conservative attitude to natural or alternative therapies, 通過conservativeattitude（保守的態度）一詞可推出正確答案為C,對應reluctant（不情愿的）。
在做選擇題時一個非常有效的解題方法就是排除法，即排除干擾選項來確定答案。那么排除干擾項的方法有哪些呢？
a. TWINS原則--與原文在用詞選擇上極為相近的選項通常是干擾項，一般可予以排除。
例如劍4Test1Passage3:
28. The writer was surprised because the blind woman
A. drew a circle on her own initiative.
B. did not understand what a wheel look like.
C. included a symbol representing movement.
D. was the first person to use lines of motion.
定位原文為：
From a number of recent studies, it has become clear that blind people can appreciate the use of outlines and perspectives to describe the arrangement of objects and other surfaces in space. But pictures are more than literal representations. This fact was drawn to my attention dramatically when a blind woman in one of my investigations decided on her own initiative to draw a wheel as it was spinning. To show this motion, she traced a curve inside the circle (Fig. 1). I was taken aback. Lines of motion, such as the one she used, are a very recent invention in the history of illustration. Indeed, as art scholar David Kunzle notes, Wilhelm Busch, a trend-setting nineteenth-century cartoonist, used virtually no motion lines in his popular figures until about 1877.
分析：A選項幾乎與原文一樣(…a blind woman….decided on her own initiative to draw a wheel), 但是往下讀會發現，作者吃驚的原因并不是因為盲人婦女自己畫了一個圈，而是因為為了顯示這種運動，她又在圈里面畫了一個曲線(to show this motion, she traced a curve inside the circle)。正確選項C與原文形成同義轉換：included—traced, representing—show, movement—motion. 此方法對于基礎較為薄弱，對原文意思較難理解的同學比較適合，可以通過排除，提高正確選項的概率。
b. 含有太過絕對詞語的選項通常是干擾項，一般可排除。
例如劍5Test 1Passage1:
WhichTHREE of the following statements are true of Johnson’s Dictionary?
A. It avoided all scholarly words.
B. It was the only English dictionary in general use for 200 years.
C. It was famous because of the large number of people involved.
D. It focused mainly on language from contemporary texts.
E. There was a time limit for its completion.
F. It ignored work done by previous dictionary writers.
G. It took into account subtleties of meaning.
H. Its definitions were famous for their originality.
分析：選項A和B中包含絕對詞(all, the only), 因此是干擾選項的概率比較大，考生去原文中尋找并未發現此類絕對的描述，所以可以排除掉。
