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判断题就是给出若干个考题（陈述句），要求考生根据文章所给的信息对每个考题作出判断。如果考题内容与文章内容一致，则选TRUE/YES；如果考题内容与文章内容相抵触，则选FALSE/NO；如果考题内容在文章中没有提及，则选NOT GIVEN。
在 Cambridge IELTS 9 的160道A类阅读题目中，有48道是判断题，在 Cambridge IELTS 10 的160道A类阅读题目中，有51道是判断题。这种题型在每次考试中都会出现，是考生应该重点掌握的题型。
这种题型有三个明显特征：
（1）遵循“顺序原则”。也就是说考题顺序和答案信息在原文中出现的顺序一致，了解这一点对于快速定位答案非常关键。
（2）容易定位。即绝大部分考题的答案可以分别根据文章中的一句或者连续两句话作出判断，而无需根据不同段落的内容作出复杂推断。
（3）有两种出题形式。
第一种 针对事实，要求考生判断考题陈述的事实与原文信息间的关系。
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts with the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
第二种 针对观点，要求考生判断考题表述的意思与原文作者观点间的关系。
YES if the statement reflects the opinion of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the opinion of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
由于有两种不同出题形式，因此大家答题时要注意严格按照考题所要求的形式来作答。同是判断题，有的要求考生回答TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN，有的要求考生回答YES/NO/NOT GIVEN，必须按照要求填写。如果判断正确，但书写与考题要求不符，同样得不到分数。
（1）将考题关键词与主题句关键词比对，判断定位句出自哪个段落。 前面讲了考生如何在1分钟内快速浏览主题句并画出关键词，在做判断题时，考生通过比对考题和文章各段主题句中的关键词，即可快速判断出答案信息来自哪个段落，这样就可以大大缩小搜索范围，从而节约大量时间。
（2）根据考题关键词定位到原文。即根据考题中的关键词在某个段落内定位答案所在的句子。
（3）根据定位句确定答案。即判断题确定答案的唯一根据就是原文，而不是常识或主观推理。
（1）答案是TRUE/YES。即考题与文章中的信息一致，但考题与原文相对应部分所用的词汇不一定相同，即原文对考题的某些关键词做了同义替换。
Example 1 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 2 READING PASSAGE 2 Question 24 )
考题： The shape of Venus appears distorted when it starts to pass in front of the Sun .
原文： When Venus begins to cross the Sun’s disc, it looks smeared not circular .
解析： 原文定位句中的begins to，cross the Sun’s disc，looks smeared not circular分别和题干中的starts to，pass in front of the Sun，appears distorted是同义替换，答案就是TRUE。
Example 2 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 2 READING PASSAGE 2 Question 26 )
考题： The parallax principle allows astronomers to work out how far away distant stars are from the Earth.
原文： The parallax principle can be extended to measure the distances to the stars.
解析： 题干中的关键词parallax principle在定位句中重现，定位句中的measure the distances和题干中的work out how far away是同义替换，答案就是TRUE。
（2）答案是FALSE/NO。即考题与原文信息相冲突，主要有下面几种情况：
第一种 考题与原文直接相反。即原文中通常使用了和考题中意思相反的词或not，no加同义词或too…to（太……而不能）结构。
Example 1 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 2 READING PASSAGE 2 Question 23 )
考题： Le Gentil managed to observe a second Venus transit.
原文： Ironically after travelling nearly 50,000 kilometres, his view was clouded out at the last moment, a very dispiriting experience.
解析： 定位句中的view was clouded out和题干中的managed to observe 意思相反，答案就是FALSE。
Example 2 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 1 READING PASSAGE 2 Question 24 )
考题： So far SETI scientists have picked up radio signals from several stars .
原文： Until now there have not been any detections from the few hundred stars which have been searched.
解析： 定位句中的Until now，the few hundred stars分别和题干中的So far，several stars是同义替换，定位句中的have not been any detections和题干中的have picked up意思相反，答案就是NO。
Example 3 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 2 READING PASSAGE 3 Question 37 )
考题： Fear of public speaking is a psychological illnes s.
原文： But fear of public speaking , which everyone must do from time to time, afflicts one-third of the population. This makes it too common to be considered a mental disorder .
解析： 题干中的关键词fear of public speaking在定位句中重现，定位句中的too common to be considered a mental disorder意思是“太普遍，不能被看作精神疾病”，它和
题干中的is a psychological illness（是一种心理/精神疾病）意思相反，答案就是NO。
第二种 原文和考题中使用了表示不同范围、频率、可能性和时间方面的副词或介词。如：
Example 1 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 1 READING PASSAGE 3 Question 32 )
考题： It is always difficult to determine where an animal lived when its fossilised remains are incomplete .
原文： You might wonder how we can tell whether fossil animals lived on land or in water,especially if only fragments are found. Sometimes it’s obvious .
解析： 定位句中的fossil，fragments和分别题干中的fossilised remains，incomplete是同义替换，定位句中的Sometimes…obvious（有时……明显的）和题干中的always difficult （一直很难……）意思相反，答案就是FALSE。
Example 2 ( Cambridge IELTS 8 Test 1 READING PASSAGE 2 Question 21 )
考题： Air Traffic Control started after the Grand Canyon crash in 1956.
原文： Rudimentary air traffic control (ATC) existed well before the Grand Canyon disaster .
解析： 题干中的关键词Air Traffic Control在定位句中重现，后面说的是before the Grand Canyon disaster，而考题说的是after the Grand Canyon crash，考题和定位句所说的时间相反，答案就是FALSE。
第三种 原文和考题中使用了表示不同级别（原级、比较级、最高级）的词汇。如：
Example 1 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 3 READING PASSAGE 3 Question 40 )
考题： Products have now been developed which can convey more information than Shannon had anticipated as possible.
原文： … which come very close to Shannon’s ultimate limit for the maximum rate that data can be transmitted reliably, and now play a key role in the mobile videophone revolution.
解析： 定位句中的very close to和题干中的more ... than表示的级别不同，答案就是FALSE。
Example 2 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 4 READING PASSAGE 3 Question 39 )
考题： The boundaries of Leyden have changed little since the seventeenth century.
原文： In a town like Leyden in Holland, which in the seventeenth century was occupied by approximately the same number of inhabitants as today, people lived within the walled town, an area more than five times smaller than modern Leyden.
解析： 题干中的关键词Leyden在定位句中重现，定位句中的area和题干中的boundaries对应，定位句中的more than five times smaller和题干中的changed little表示的级别程度不同，答案就是FALSE。
Example 3 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 3 READING PASSAGE 1 Question 2 )
考题： People feel more strongly about language education than about small differences in language usage .
原文： Arguments can start as easily over minor points of usage as over major policies of linguistic education .
解析： 定位句中的minor points of usage，linguistic education分别和考题中的small differences in language usage，language education是同义替换，定位句中的as easily ...as和题干中的more strongly … than表达的级别不相符，答案就是NO。
（3）答案是NOT GIVEN。主要有下面几种情况：
第一种 考题中的某些内容在原文中没有提及，或者在原文中找不到依据。
Example 1 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 2 READING PASSAGE 3 Question 36 )
考题： When concern about embarrassment matters less, other fears become irrelevant .
原文：无
解析： 文中没有提及embarrassment或与之意义相近的词，答案就是NOT GIVEN。
Example 2 ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 1 READING PASSAGE 2 Question 23 )
考题： The Americans and Australians have co-operated on joint research projects.
原文： So far there have been a number of searches by various groups around the world，including Australian searches using the radio telescope at Parkes, New South Wales．Until now there have not been any detections from the few hundred stars which have been searched．The scale of the searches has been increased dramatically since 1992, when the US Congress voted NASA $10 million per year for ten years to conduct a thorough search for extra-terrestrial life. Much of the money in this project is being spent on developing the special hardware needed to search many frequencies at once．The project has two parts．One part is a targeted search using the world’s largest radio telescopes，the American -operated telescope in Arecibo．Puerto Rico and the French telescope in Nancy in France．
解析： 定位句分别提到了Australian和American，但并没有说两国人是不是在研究项目中进行合作，答案就是NOT GIVEN。
第二种 考题涉及的范围小于原文涉及的范围。
Example ( Cambridge IELTS 9 Test 1 READING PASSAGE 1 Question 5 )
考题： The trees from which quinine is derived grow only in South America .
原文： At the time, quinine was the only viable medical treatment for malaria. The drug is derived from the bark of the cinchona tree, native to South America .
解析： 考题说grow only in South America（只生长在南美洲），这一范围小于原文中native to South America（产于南美洲）所表达的范围，即原文说用来提炼奎宁的树木生长在南美洲，但并没有说它只（only）生长在南美洲，答案就是NOT GIVEN。
第三种 题目出现了比较级，而原文中没有比较。
Example ( Cambridge IELTS 8 Test 4 READING PASSAGE 1 Question 8 )
题目： Private schools in Japan are more modern and spacious than state-run lower secondary schools.
原文： Virtually all pupils at this stage attend state schools: only 3 per cent are in the private sector . Schools are usually modern in design, set well back from the road and spacious inside.
解析： 定位句中的private sector和题干中的Private schools对应，题干中的关键词modern，spacious在定位句中重现，但是定位句并没有对私立学校和公立学校进行比较，答案是NOT GIVEN。
You should spend about 9 minutes on Questions 1-6 , which are based on Reading Passage 1 on the following pages.
The life and work of Marie Curie
Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity,and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. With her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel, she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, and was then sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
From childhood , Marie was remarkable for her prodigious memory , and at the age of 16 won a gold medal on completion of her secondary education. Because her father lost his savings through bad investment, she then had to take work as a teacher. From her earnings she was able to finance her sister Bronia’s medical studies in Paris, on the understanding that Bronia would, in turn, later help her to get an education.
In 1891 this promise was fulfilled and Marie went to Paris and began to study at the Sorbonne (the University of Paris). She often worked far into the night and lived on little more than bread and butter and tea. She came first in the examination in the physical sciences in 1893, and in 1894 was placed second in the examination in mathematical sciences. It was not until the spring of that year that she was introduced to Pierre Curie.
Their marriage in 1895 marked the start of a partnership that was soon to achieve results of world significance . Following Henri Becquerel’s discovery in 1896 of a new phenomenon, which Marie later called ‘radioactivity’. Marie Curie decided to find out if the radioactivity discovered in uranium was to be found in other elements. She discovered that this was true for thorium.
Turning her attention to minerals , she found her interest drawn to pitchblende , a mineral whose radioactivity, superior to that of pure uranium, could be explained only by the presence in the ore of small quantities of an unknown substance of very high activity. Pierre Curie joined her in the work that she had undertaken to resolve this problem, and that led to the discovery of the new elements, polonium and radium. While Pierre Curie devoted himself chiefly to the physical study of the new radiations, Marie Curie struggled to obtain pure radium in the metallic state. This was achieved with the help of the chemist Andre-Louis Debierne, one of Pierre Curie’s pupils. Based on the results of this research, Marie Curie received her Doctorate of Science, and in 1903 Marie and Pierre shared with Becquerel the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.
The births of Marie’s two daughters , Irene and Eve , in 1897 and 1904 failed to interrupt her scientific work . She was appointed lecturer in physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure for girls in Sevres, France (1900), and introduced a method of teaching based on experimental demonstrations. In December 1904 she was appointed chief assistant in the laboratory directed by Pierre Curie.
The sudden death of her husband in 1906 was a bitter blow to Marie Curie, but was also a turning point in her career : henceforth she was to devote all her energy to completing alone the scientific work that they had undertaken. On May 13, 1906, she was appointed to the professorship that had been left vacant on her husband’s death, becoming the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the isolation of a pure form of radium.
During World War I , Marie Curie, with the help of her daughter Irene , devoted herself to the development of the use of X-radiography , including the mobile units which came to be known as ‘Little Curies’ , used for the treatment of wounded soldiers. In 1918 the Radium Institute, whose staff Irene had joined, began to operate in earnest, and became a centre for nuclear physics and chemistry. Marie Curie, now at the highest point of her fame and, from 1922, a member of the Academy of Medicine, researched the chemistry of radioactive substances and their medical applications.
In 1921 , accompanied by her two daughters, Marie Curie made a triumphant journey to the United States to raise funds for research on radium . Women there presented her with a gram of radium for her campaign. Marie also gave lectures in Belgium, Brazil, Spain and Czechoslovakia and, in addition, had the satisfaction of seeing the development of the Curie Foundation in Paris, and the inauguration in 1932 in Warsaw of the Radium Institute, where her sister Bronia became director.
One of Marie Curie’s outstanding achievements was to have understood the need to accumulate intense radioactive sources , not only to treat illness but also to maintain an abundant supply for research . The existence in Paris at the Radium Institute of a stock of 1.5 grams of radium made a decisive contribution to the success of the experiments undertaken in the years around 1930. This work prepared the way for the discovery of the neutron by Sir James Chadwick and, above all, for the discovery in 1934 by Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie of artificial radioactivity. A few months after this discovery,Marie Curie died as a result of leukaemia caused by exposure to radiation. She had often carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket, remarking on the pretty blue-green light they gave off.
Her contribution to physics had been immense , not only in her own work, the importance of which had been demonstrated by her two Nobel Prizes, but because of her influence on subsequent generations of nuclear physicists and chemists.
以上画出的主题句关键词共75个，下面我们根据各个题目和这些主题句关键词来定位答案。
Questions 1-6
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
1 Marie Curie’s husband was a joint winner of both Marie’s Nobel Prizes .
答案：FALSE
定位： 根据题干中的特殊关键词husband…Nobel Prizes定位到第一段第三行：…and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize . With her husband , Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel,she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, and was then sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
解析： 题干中的关键词husband，Nobel Prizes在定位句中重现，题干中的joint winner of both和定位句中的sole winner和意思不相符，答案就是FALSE。
2 Marie became interested in science when she was a child .
答案：NOT GIVEN
定位： 题干中的关键词child和第二段主题句中的关键词childhood对应，主题句就是定位句：From childhood , Marie was remarkable for her prodigious memory, and at the age of 16 won a gold medal on completion of her secondary education.
解析： 定位句和文章其他地方没有说她儿时是否对科学感兴趣，答案就是NOT GIVEN。
3 Marie was able to attend the Sorbonne because of her sister’s financial contribution .
答案：TRUE
定位： 题干中的关键词attend…Sorbonne和第三段主题句中的关键词study at…Sorbonne对应，主题句就是定位句：In 1891 this promise was fulfilled and Marie went to Paris and began to study at the Sorbonne.
再根据题干中的关键词sister’s financial contribution定位到第二段尾句：From her earnings she was able to finance her sister Bronia’s medical studies in Paris, on the understanding that Bronia would, in turn, later help her to get an education .
解析： 定位句中的promise…fulfilled指的就是Bronia would, in turn, later help her to get an education，它和题干中的sister’s financial contribution意思相符，答案就是TRUE。
4 Marie stopped doing research for several years when her children were born .
答案：FALSE
定位： 题干中的关键词children…born和第六段主题句中的关键词births…daughters对应，主题句就是定位句：The births of Marie’s two daughters , Irene and Eve, in 1897 and 1904 failed to interrupt her scientific work .
解析： 题干中的stopped doing research和定位句中的failed to interrupt…work意思相反，答案就是FALSE。
5 Marie took over the teaching position her husband had held .
答案：TRUE
定位： 根据判断题的顺序原则和题干中的关键词husband以及teaching position定位到第七段第三行：On May 13, 1906, she was appointed to the professorship that had been left vacant on her husband’s death , becoming the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne.
解析： 题干中的teaching position、husband had held分别和定位句中的professorship、had been left vacant on her husband’s death对应，答案就是TRUE。
6 Marie’s sister Bronia studied the medical uses of radioactivity .
答案：NOT GIVEN
定位： 根据判断题的顺序原则和题干中的特殊关键词Bronia定位到第九段第五行：...and the inauguration in 1932 in Warsaw of the Radium Institute, where her sister Bronia became director.
解析： 题干中的关键词Bronia在定位句中重现，但定位句和文章其他地方并没有说她是否研究了放射性在医学方面的应用，答案就是NOT GIVEN。
上面的6道考题，定位答案的方法统计如下：
