This reading lesson is about Author's Voice Questions. So these are the questions on the test. They're going to ask you, what's the tone of the passage? How does an author feel about something? What would they think about something, potentially? So let's take a look at some examples.

提交人最有可能做以下哪项陈述？现在这是与作者对主题的看法有关的那些 then we have to apply that to some hypothetical statement. So this is one of those questions that could potentially be a bit tougher in this 类别。更常见的是，你会看到这样的问题。

作者或叙述者如何，如果我们处理小说段落的感觉？ Or the tone of the passage could best be characterized as. So once again, Author's Voice Questions. 我们正在寻找作者如何对某事或叙述者感到意味着它。

What do they think about the topic? So our strategy for dealing with these questions is first, to determine the main idea. You'll hear me talk about this again and again on lots of different question types in these lots of videos and that's because the test again and again and the questions, just comes back to the main idea.

如果你不理解的主要思想,然后基于“增大化现实”技术e going to be struggling, with some of the questions. And definitely, more tempted by some wrong answer choices. So we always want to stick very closely to the main idea. We need to know what the main idea is and then we need to apply it. We need to determine how the author feels about it or what's their opinion towards that main idea.

What's the tone they take towards it? So the way that we can do this is to look for purposeful word choices as you read and as you are actively reading, you want to underline those. Now, what do I mean by purposeful word choices? Well, these are the words that were used for a reason when the author was writing this.

所以让我们说，例如，作者对主题至关重要。好吧，也许你会看到言语， 如提案的影响是灾难性的。灾难性可能是我强调的词或 there is nothing to justify the reasons for this proposal. So nothing to justify, I would underline.

So those are phrases and words that help us to determine that this author is being critical of it and because you're often going to see tone or attitude or 语音问题，您想确保您在阅读段落时总是在寻找它们。 并且，当您正在查看这些作者语音问题的答案选择时，您希望非常小心极端答案选择。

他们经常会有一些话语，一些答案的选择非常极端，也许是嘲笑。 That's pretty extreme. And if a passage was mocking a topic, you'd probably know it. It's gonna have some very strong words choices. A safer, more blander version of that would be critical.

The author is critical of the topic. It's very unlikely that you're going to have an extreme answer choice be correct, 因为这不是这倾向于段落的性质。他们往往有点平淡无奇，有点比之更为希望。 So when in doubt, pick one of those answers. And if you pick an extreme or really strong answer choice, make sure you have the justification and the passage to back it up.

So let's go ahead and take a look at a test example. So here's a tone question. The tone of the passage could best be characterized as admiring, objective, satirical or questioning. Now we are referring the example passage that you see below the video, it's also in the example passage video lesson.

所以先检查一下，让我们继续前进并返回通道。我只是要去开始和 to the end to illustrate this process of looking for tone. So the first paragraph we have some illustration of what the opening scene 好像。它告诉我们Marie Antoinette看起来如何，因为她正在穿衣服。

I don't see anything that specifically tells us what the author's opinion of this is, then we move on to basically, get into the theme of this piece. 在整个电影Marie Antoinette的追求展开场景的敷料和纠正的主题，即展开场景， establishing costume as a significant feature for reading the movie. Costumes help in the construction of cinematic identities, blah, blah, blah, more about that.

Let's go ahead and go to the end. More on the color palette here. The costumes are thus understood as being designed in order to communicate the inner experiences of the characters. Costume design allows us to quickly grasp what the characters are all about and work with the other features to generate a symbolic network for telling a story through dress.

Now, I'm honestly not getting any really, strong impression of how the author feels about this. It seems like she's just relaying information. So if we go back to the question, admiring, no evidence for that. I mean, it may seem like she likes the film a little bit. You could probably justify it, since she's not saying anything back about it, but be careful of picking something that doesn't have justification.

We're looking for the bland answer choice here. Objective. She does seem pretty objective. Satirical. Satirical, she's not using irony here. She's not making fun of anything, so we can eliminate that.

That would be a very strong answer choice and questioning. Well, she's not questioning motives in the film. 她只是中继信息。所以客观是我们最好的答案。 Okay. So let's go ahead and recap, these Author's Voice Questions.

First of all, we want to determine the main idea and then add the layer of determining the tone or the opinion of the author or narrator and make sure you're looking for purposeful word choices as you read and underline them. And finally, be very careful of extreme answer choices. Don't pick one of those, unless you can absolutely back it up with text.