为了让大家进一步体会这个“三步走”战略，这里以Test Practice Online中的一道题为例实践一下我们的解法：
Paragraph 1 : The United States dancer Loie Fuller (1862-1928) found theatrical dance in the late nineteenth century artistically unfulfilling. She considered herself an artist rather than a mere entertainer, and she, in turn, attracted the notice of other artists.
Paragraph 5 : As her technological expertise grew more sophisticated, so did the other aspects of her dances. Although she gave little thought to music in her earliest dances, she later used scores by Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Wagner, eventually graduating to Stravinsky, Fauré, Debussy, and Mussorgsky, composers who were then considered progressive. She began to address more ambitious themes in her dances such as The Sea, in which her dances invisibly agitated a huge expanse of silk, played upon by colored lights. Always open to scientific and technological innovations, she befriended the scientists Marie and Pierre Curie upon their discovery of radium and created a Radium Dance, which simulated the phosphorescence of that element. She both appeared in films-then in an early stage of development-and made them herself; the hero of her fairytale film Le Lys de la Vie (1919) was played by René Clair, later a leading French film director。
9. Why does the author mention Fuller's The Sea?
A. To point out a dance of Fuller's in which music did not play an important role
B. To explain why Fuller sometimes used music by progressive composers
C. To illustrate a particular way in which Fuller developed as an artist
D. To illustrate how Fuller's interest in science was reflected in her work
这是一道修辞目的题中问举例目的的题，这道题得答案如果没有“三步走”的解法指导一时间很难看出来。但根据“三步走”解法，大家便能在比较短的时间内找到答案。首先发现The Sea所在段落的中心句应该是第一句：As her technological expertise grew more sophisticated, so did the other aspects of her dances. 也就是说她除了舞蹈中的技术水平提高以外，其它方面也提高了。那这一段应该将具体介绍哪几个方面有了提高。由此这一段又可以分成四个部分，也就是分论点之后的四句话，每句话讲了她一个方面的提高。可以发现The Sea是出现在这一段除分论点之外的第2句话中，而这句话前半部分给出了一个具体论点， 即She began to address more ambitious themes in her dances。此时如果选项中有意思相同的就可以选出正确答案了，和可惜这道题的答案并不那么明显，所以我们继续走第二步，找段落分论点。这一段的分论点是这一段的第一句，即As her technological expertise grew more sophisticated, so did the other aspects of her dances. 发现题目中也没有明显与之对应的选项。那只剩下第三步，找文章的论点。这篇文章的论点比较明显，在第一段的后半部分（事实上第一段本身就很短，可以将一个整体看作论点）。大家可以看出第一段是说Loie Fuller这个人不满足于19世纪晚期的戏剧性舞蹈，她认为自己是一位艺术家而不仅仅是位舞者。由此我们可以看出全文的中心应该是论证她为成为艺术家而努力，这和选项C的意思是吻合的。因而此题根据三步法，答案在第三个层面，即全文的论点， C 是正确选项。
综上所述，修辞目的题考查的大家角色转换的能力，即体会作者写作意图的能力。通过厘清文章整体结构我们为大家总结出了“三步走”解题战略，即从段落内具体论点到段落分论点再到文章总论点层层推寻。相信有了这种方法，大家一定能攻克这种类型的题目。最后，预祝大家都能在新托福阅读中取得好成绩！