先来一题，就是如下题型：
Directions：The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions41—45， you are required toreorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A—E to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphshave been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. （10 points）
　　[A] “I just don*t know how to motivate themto do a better job. We*re in a budget crunch and I have absolutely no financialrewards at my disposal. In fact， we*ll probably have tolay some people off in the near future. It*s hard for me to make the job interestingand challenging because it isn*t — it*s boring， routine paperwork， and there isn*t much youcan do about it.
　　[B] “Finally， Ican*t say to them that their promotions will hinge on the excellence of theirpaperwork. First of all， they know it*s not true. Iftheir performance is adequate， most are more likely toget promoted just by staying on the force a certain number of years than forsome specific outstanding act. Second， they weretrained to do the job they do out in the streets， notto fill out forms. All through their career it is the arrests and interventionsthat get noticed.
　　[C] “I*ve got a real problem with myofficers. They come on the force as young，inexperienced men， and we send them out on the street， either in cars or on a beat. They seem to like the contact theyhave with the public， the action involved in crimeprevention， and the apprehension of criminals. Theyalso like helping people out at fires， accidents， and other emergencies.
　　[D] “Some people have suggested a number ofthings like using conviction records as a performance criterion. However， we know that*s not fair — too many otherthings are involved. Bad paperwork increases the chance that you lose in court， but good paperwork doesn*t necessarily mean you*ll win. We triedsetting up team competitions based on the excellence of the reports， but the guys caught on to that pretty quickly. No one was gettingany type of reward for winning the competition， andthey figured why should they labor when there was no payoff.
　　[E] “The problem occurs when they get backto the station. They hate to do the paperwork， andbecause they dislike it， the job is frequently put offor done inadequately. This lack of attention hurts us later on when we get tocourt. We need clear， factual reports. They must behighly detailed and unambiguous. As soon as one part of a report is shown to beinadequate or incorrect， the rest of the report issuspect. Poor reporting probably causes us to lose more cases than any otherfactor.
　　[F] “So I just don*t know what to do. I*vebeen groping in the dark in a number of years. And I hope that this seminarwill shed some light on this problem of mine and help me out in my future work.”
　　[G] A large metropolitan city government was putting on a number ofseminars for administrators， managers and/or executivesof various departments throughout the city. At one of these sessions the topicto be discussed was motivation － how we can get publicservants motivated to do a good job. The difficulty of a police captain becamethe central focus of the discussion.
　　Order：
G－41____－42____－43____－44____－45____－F

这种题型并不罕见，在我的印象中，大学英语、工程硕士英语（在职研究生）、职称英语乃至全日制的正式考研英语中，都有上述题型。
这种题型的得分率一向不高，并且很多考生觉得非常花费时间，换句话来说就是得分投入产出性价比很低。
恰好，这题型却是本菜在英语类考试中最擅长的，没有之一。那么，下面就让不学无术的我，说一说如何通过WS的方法，尽量快速准确地解决短文排序。

首先我们细读两个已知项，分别是位于首尾两段的G和F，找出其关键词。对于G来说，关键词为government, motivation, job, difficulty；对于F来说，关键词为problem, dark, help, future work。据此，我们可以初步判断，文章大概是说现在的人工作动力不足，长此以往国将不国，作者在本文将探讨并希望解决这个问题。
接下来我们略读备选选项，找出它们的关键词：
A． motivate，do a better job，paper work
B． finally，excellence of their paperwork，
C． problem，officer，helping
D． suggested，however，excellence of the reports
E． problem，paper work，poor reporting
找关键词看似悬乎，实际上并不难，大概有两个原则，一是与已知项关键词相同或同义替换的（如C项的officer）；二是这些选项里多次出现，或存在转折、因果关系的（如ABE共同出现的paper work）。
找好关键词后，是时候观察它们之间的逻辑关系了。首先注意C项中的officer与已知项G的government高度匹配，略读之发现problem与difficulty也互相呼应，C项紧接G。然后我们看4个都含有paper work(report)的选项，注意D中的suggested代表的是解决方案，而ABE都是阐述问题，D应在它们中的最后。另外注意到E-A-BD之间存在poor-do better-excellence的因果逻辑关系，那么整个顺序应该是C-E-A-B-D。
综上，对于此类题目，我们不需要细细品读，不需要字字斟酌。比如这一篇，我们甚至不需要知道在做paper work时出现了什么问题、有什么不良现象，也不需要知道suggestion是什么，就能快速准确地拿到这宝贵的10分。

下面我们来看另一篇
Directions：
Thefollowing paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you arerequired to reorganize into a coherent text by choosing from the list A-G andfilling them into the numbered boxes .Paragraphs A and E have been correctlyplaced. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.（10points）
[A]Some archaeological sites have always been easily observable—for example, theParthenon in Athens, Greece; the pyramids of Giza in Egypt; and the megalithsof Stonehenge in southern England. But these sites are exceptions to the norm.Most archaeological sites have been located by means of careful searching,while many others have been discovered by accident. Olduvai Gorge, fell intoits deep valley in 1911.Thousands of Aztec artifacts came to light during thedigging of the Mexico City subway in the 1970s.
[B]In another case, American archaeologists Rene million and George Cowgill spentyears systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the valley ofMexico near what is now Mexico City .at its peak around AD 600, this city wasone of the largest human settlements in the word. The researchers mapped notonly the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simplerapartment complexes where common people lived.
[C]How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when thereis nothing visible on the surface of the ground? Typically, they survey andsample (make test excavations on) large areas of terrain to determine whereexcavation will yield useful information. Surveys and test samples have alsobecome important for understanding the larger landscapes that containarchaeological sites.
[D]Surveys can cover a single large settlement or entire landscapes.in one case,many researchers working around the ancient Maya city of Copán, Honduras, havelocated hundreds of small rural village and individual dwellings by usingaerial photographs and by making surveys on foot. The resulting settlement mapsshow how the distribution and density of the rural population around the citychanged dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copán collapsed.
[E]To find their sites, archaeologists today rely heavily on systematic surveymethods and a variety of high-technology tools and techniques. Airbonetechnologies, such as different types of radar and photographic equipmentcarried by airplanes or spacecraft, allow archaeologists to learn about whatlies beneath the ground without digging. Aerial surveys locate general areas ofinterest or larger buried features, such as ancient buildings or fields.
[F]Most archaeological sites, however, are discovered by archaeologists who haveset out to look for them. Such searches can take years. British archaeologistHoward Carter knew that the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamum existed frominformation found in other sites. Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley ofthe King for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922. In the late 1800sBritish archaeologist Sir Arthur Eyan combed antique dealers’ stores in Athens,Greece. He was searching for thing engraved seals attributed to the ancientMycenaean culture that dominated Greece from the 1400s to 1200s BC. Evas’sinterpretations of those engravings eventually led them to find the Minoanpalace at Knossos on the island of Crete, in 1900.
[G]Ground surveys allow archaeologists to pinpoint the places where digs will besuccessful. Most ground surveys involve a lot of walking, looking for surfaceclues such as small fragments of pottery. They often include a certain amountsof digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.Archaeologists also may locate buried remains by using such technologies asground radar, magnetic-field recording, and metal detector. Archaeologistscommonly use computers to map sites and the landscapes around sites. Two andthree-dimensional maps are helpful tools in planning excavations, illustratinghow sites look, and presenting the results of archaeological research.
41 - A - 42 -E - 43 - 44 - 45

这一篇由于空格所在的位置不同，本菜解题的具体方法也与上一篇略有不同，唯一不变的，就是WS的思路。
第一步依然是细读两个已知项并找出关键词：
A. archaeological sites, careful searching, accident
E. their sites, archaeologists, survey, Aerial surveys
据此，我们可以初步判断，本文的主题紧扣考古，而“archaeological”将是贯穿全文的关键词。

第二步与上一篇文章略有不同，由于第41空是文章的首段，及早确定该空有助于后面的答题，另一方面，对于首段及尾段，通常有着更多的规律以方便我们使用WS的方法确定答案。于是，我们先来看41。
由首段可知，从B项的another，E项的their以及F项的however将它们排除（至于为什么排除，相信各位心里面都有答案了），只在C、D、G之间选。对于C、D、G，值得注意的是它们共同拥有关键词survey，但本菜认为更重要的关键词在于C项中的“archaeologists”，A项紧随第一段分述并以“Some archaeological sites”开头，恰好与C项中的archaeologists相对应，本空选出答案C。
另外值得注意的是，英文文章（特别是说明文）很喜欢以设问的形式开头，从“感觉”看，C就是选项中最像一个开头的（不过这种方法比较玄乎，实在无迹可循的时候才使用这种“感觉”吧）。

正所谓万事开头难，确定了第一个空，后面就相对简单了。
42空紧跟着A项，那么依然紧扣A中的关键词archaeological sites，F中首句即有most archaeological sites，继续略读，注意到F中的however、discovered恰与A中while、located、discovered对应，因此选出答案F。
43空紧随E项之后，如前文分析，E项同时拥有本文的两大关键词archaeologists和survey，E项起着承上启下的作用，若说archaeologists是贯穿全文的关键词，那么从E之后开始，重点开始分术survey。继续浏览剩下的选项，注意到G项中Ground survey与E项Aerial surveys高度匹配，也符合[分述survey]的原则，此空选出答案G。
最后剩下B和D，注意B项的in another case与D项的in one case（这个也是高度匹配点，也可在更早确定DB紧随），明显D在B前，因此44、45依次选出答案D和B。注意B这里出现了archaeologists，根据本菜前面提到的思路有可能会被干扰而放在E之前的空。但in another case是更明显的标志，可据此（或细读B项）破除干扰定位准确的位置。

第二篇也做完了，与第一篇相比，我们需要知道的更少了，只知道通篇主题是考古而其中分述了勘测，我们甚至连考古发现了啥、勘测有哪几种方法要注意点什么都不需要知道，就将这10分收入囊中。
最后容本菜来总结一下此类题型的套路，对于英语水平足够高的朋友来说这只是雕虫小技，但对于菜笔如我，却是一种拼命争取原本不属于我的分数的有效方法：
1、细读已知项，找出已知项中的关键词。
2、根据空格位置，略读选项并在选项中找关键词以排除（错误）、定位（正确）答案。如第二篇文章41、44的做法，你甚至不需要知道文章在说什么就能排除大量错误答案。
3、结合已知项的关键词，先做已知项附近的空。如第一篇已知首尾，我们最先定位的是首2的C和尾2的D。
4、最后补充定位剩下的答案。

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