考研英語(yǔ)閱讀文章中常出現(xiàn)一些特殊標(biāo)點(diǎn)符號(hào)，像冒號(hào)，破折號(hào)，分號(hào)等，他們都有著特殊含義，充分理解其意義并掌握好其用法，會(huì)有助于我們快速解題，

1. 冒號(hào)

冒號(hào)表示解釋說(shuō)明，通常解釋的是冒號(hào)前面的某個(gè)名詞，需要根據(jù)冒號(hào)后面的內(nèi)容去判斷解釋的是前面的哪個(gè)名詞。例如：The NT Rights of Terminally III law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. 冒號(hào)后面通過其意義“來(lái)自呼吸系統(tǒng)的令人恐懼的死亡”可以看出表示的是消極的含義，那么所解釋的名詞也應(yīng)該是消極的意義，所以鎖定在fear和suffering之間，再進(jìn)一步分析，發(fā)現(xiàn)強(qiáng)調(diào)的是“恐懼的死亡”，因此解釋的名詞是fear.

2. 破折號(hào)

它跟冒號(hào)一樣，也是表示解釋說(shuō)明，即可以解釋的是前面的名詞也可以解釋前面的一句話。例如He dismisses a lot of the work of re-engineering consultants as mere rubbish — “the worst sort of ambulance cashing.破折號(hào)后“典型的勞而無(wú)獲”解釋的是前面的句子“他把許多重組顧問的工作視為垃圾”這件事。 而在Its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen bellow most estimates of the natural rate of unemployment — the rate below which inflation has taken off in the past.例句中，破折號(hào)后面the rate below which inflation has taken off in the past(低于這個(gè)比率在過去通貨膨脹已經(jīng)上升了)解釋的是前面的名詞the natural rate of unemployment。

3. 括號(hào)

括號(hào)也表示解釋說(shuō)明，跟破折號(hào)一樣既可以解釋前面的名詞也可以解釋前面的句子，需要根據(jù)括號(hào)的位置去判斷。例如：Urban Japanese have long endured lengthy commutes (travels to and from work) and crowded living conditions.像這樣括號(hào)在句號(hào)的里面，解釋的就是離其最近的名詞。像Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.)這個(gè)例句中，括號(hào)在句號(hào)的外面，解釋的就是前面的一句話。

4. 分號(hào)

分號(hào)在考研英語(yǔ)中表示并列的含義，即前后語(yǔ)義是一致的。例如：This is no flash in the pan; over the past couple of years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America.這里由分號(hào)連接兩句話，這里面出現(xiàn)抽象表達(dá)This is no flash in the pan，由于分號(hào)表示并列，那么在閱讀的過程中可以忽略不計(jì)，直接理解分號(hào)后面的句子即可，因?yàn)榍昂笳Z(yǔ)義是一致的。