考研英语要想考得好，阅读起着很大的作用。我们都说得阅读者得天下，是的，阅读在整个英语试卷中，甚至整个考研中都起着非常重要的作用。我们要想取得较好的分数，那么，我们怎么进行备考阅读呢?首先得清楚命题人的出题规律。新东方在线考研英语老师来学习一下考研英语阅读方法之时间对比相关内容吧~
考研英语大纲规定：考生要理解主旨大意(中心主旨题)、理解文章的具体信息(细节题)、进行有关的判断推理和引申(推理题)、根据上下文推测生词的词义(词义题)、作者的意图观点或态度等(态度题)。我们将大纲中对考生的要求进行了归类，进行了总结。
我们先从整体上说一下阅读的做题方法。我们提倡先题后文的做题顺序。拿到一篇阅读时，先看题干，注意一定要读懂题干，然后串联题干，这样你会预判出文章主要讲的内容，甚至可以做出一道主旨题。如：2011年text3 31.Consumers may create earned media when they are
32. According to Paragraph 2，sold media feature
33. The author indicates in Paragraph 3 that earned media
34. Toyota Motor’s experience is cited as an example of
35. Which of the following is the text mainly about
[A] Alternatives to conventional paid media.
[B] Conflict between hijacked and earned media.
[C] Dominance of hijacked media.
[D] Popularity of owned media.
当我们串完题干以后，我们发现这篇文章讲的是media，但我们发现35题四个选项中都有media，然后我们发现文章中讲的是多中media，所以我们可以排除两个选项CD。因为CD选项讲的都是一种media。所以做对题的几率达到了50%。
我们来重点讲一下，时间对比的做题方法。当我们看到“used to”、“no longer”、“while”、“today”、“now”的时候要特别注意!特别注意!特别注意!主要的事情说三遍。“used to”表示过去常常，过去怎么样，“no longer”是现在不在这样了;“while”这个单词在考研英语阅读中考的几乎都是尽管的意思，其逗号后面是重点。 尽管怎么怎样，“today”今天怎么样;“today”、“now”出现前方高能，这有可能就是中心思想答案出处。如：2011text3
The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for. No longer. While traditional “paid” media such as television commercials and print advertisements still play a major role，companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media. Consumers passionate about a product may create “owned” media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site. The way consumers now approach the broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.
还是刚才那道主旨题，我们排除CD以后，下面我们可以用时间对比的方法做一下。文章第一段出现了一些时间标志词，“used to”、“no longer”、The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for. No longer.文章的大致意思是这种guide过去常常是你付出什么你就会得到什么，后面重点“no longer”出现，现在不这样了。While traditional “paid” media such as television commercials and print advertisements still play a major role，companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media.这句话的意思是尽管传统的媒体起着重要的作用，today 公司可以开发出很多其他的媒体形式。所以我们再看下35题
35.Which of the following is the text mainly about
[A] Alternatives to conventional paid media.
[B] Conflict between hijacked and earned media.
[C] Dominance of hijacked media.
[D] Popularity of owned media.
利用我们刚才总结的方法，“today”、“now”出现前方高能，这有可能就是中心思想答案出处。today 公司可以开发出很多其他的媒体形式，所以这道题答案为A.
我们再来看一篇考研英语二2011年text 4.40题
40. Regarding the future of EU, the author seems feel
A. Pessimistic
B. Desperate
C. Conceited
D. Hopeful
这是一道态度题。文章第一段Will the European Union make it? The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a “Bermuda triangle” of debt, population decline and lower growth我们.根据时间对比的方法进行做题，出现了标志词 “Now”，所以答案很有可能出现在此处，文章大致意思是现在现在欧盟面临着债务、人口减少等问题。做到这我们按理说很快就出答案了，选A，悲观的。但是在末段出现了It is too soon to write off the EU. It remains the world’s largest trading block. At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area. It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.绿色背景的句子是太快了来给欧盟下结论，欧盟还是很开明的，这句话否定了第一段话，冒号后面是对前面作者观点的解释，“It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.”这句话的大致意思是欧盟是一个雄心壮志的尝试而且使得资本主义开始。可以看出作者对欧盟的态度是看好的，是充满希望的，所以这道题最终答案是D。通过做这一道题，我们要特别注意命题人给大家挖的坑，螳螂捕蝉黄雀在后。
总结一下，当出现“used to”、“no longer”、“while”、“today”、“now”的时候要特别注意，“used to”、“no longer”、“while”这些都不重要，重要的是“today”、“now”。