在雅思閱讀考試中，選擇題可以說是一個讓考生倍感親切的題型，因為在國內的各種英語考試中選擇題占了相當大的比例。雅思閱讀中選擇題分為兩類：單選題，即四選一；多選題，即選項數為5個以上，選出的答案為2個及以上的題目。對于多選題，題目要求中有明確的說明要選的正確答案有幾個，并且每一個正確答案算一道題目。

一、出題特點
（1） 細節型題目。選擇題除了位于題目末尾的全篇主旨題和title題考查考生對全文大意的理解外，主要考查的是考生對細節信息的定位和理解，也就是說，考生根據題干信息在原文中找到相關信息，只要精讀該部分信息即可確定答案。
（2） 順序原則。選擇題的題目基本遵循順序原則，因此可以從最好定位的那道題入手，進而推出相鄰題目的位置。
（3） 多選題答案相對集中。綜觀雅思閱讀真題，不難發現絕大多數多選題的答案都是集中出現的，一般集中在幾段之內，考生只要定位到一道題的答案，剩下的題目一定就在附近。因此多選題其實比單選題簡單，基本上可以做到一次定位全部確定。
（4） 同義轉換仍是考點。在選擇題中，絕大多數選項和原文都存在著同義轉換的關系，如surprised對應be taken aback, torepresent movement對應toshow motion, domestic buildings對應dwellings,shape對應round/square等，這便增加了選擇的難度。
（5） 選項干擾性強。眾所周知，做選擇題的一個很重要的方法就是排除法，即排除干擾選項，但是這個排除的過程卻不容易，很多考生常常在排除剩下的兩個答案時，猶豫不決，很難做出正確的選擇。
二、做題方法
Step 1.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.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Test2Passage2 Alternativemedicine in Australia:
Question 14 and 15
Choose the correctletter, A, B, C or D.
Write your answersin boxes 14 and 15 on your answer sheet.
14.Traditionally,how have Australian doctors differed from doctors in many Western countries?
A. They have workedclosely with pharmaceutical companies.
B. They have oftenworked alongside other therapists.
C. They have beenreluctant to accept alternative therapists.
D. They haveregularly prescribed alternative remedies.
15. In 1990,Americans
A. were prescribedmore herbal medicines than in previous years.
B. consultedalternative therapists more often than doctors.
C. spent more onnatural therapies than orthodox medicines.
D. made morecomplaints about doctors than in previous years.
分析14題的題干，其定位詞應為Australian doctors, differfrom, 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。選項中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 herbalmedicines
B. consultedalternative therapists
C. spent more onnatural 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 wassurprised because the blind woman
A. drew a circle onher own initiative.
B. did notunderstand what a wheel look like.
C. included asymbol representing movement.
D. was the firstperson to use lines of motion.
定位原文為：
From a number ofrecent studies, it has become clear that blind people can appreciate the use ofoutlines and perspectives to describe the arrangement of objects and othersurfaces in space. But pictures are more than literal representations. Thisfact was drawn to my attention dramatically when a blind woman in one of myinvestigations decided on her own initiative to draw a wheel as it wasspinning. To show this motion, she traced a curve inside the circle (Fig. 1). Iwas taken aback. Lines of motion, such as the one she used, are a very recentinvention in the history of illustration. Indeed, as art scholar DavidKunzlenotes, Wilhelm Busch, a trend-setting nineteenth-century cartoonist, usedvirtually 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(toshow 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 followingstatements aretrue of Johnson’s Dictionary?
A.It avoided all scholarly words.
B.It was the only English dictionary in general usefor 200 years.
C.It was famous because of the large number ofpeople 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。