例证题的提问方式一般是作者用一个例子是为了证明什么，或者某个例子是为了证明什么。英语表达所涉及到的词汇和短语有case, story example study cite quote show present demonstrate illustrate等等。在考研英语当中，一个例子是用来干什么的呢?当然是用来证明论点的，所以我们找到相应的论点就可以解决这些题了，而论点就可以从我们的论据的前面去寻找了。下面我们用个试题来解释下这种题型该如何去做。
We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated. While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized. Their thinking often had a traditional superstitious quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope—all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father that the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “Come out from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in Puritan churches.
(2009年 text 4)39. The story of John Dane shows that less well-educated New Englanders were often ______.
[A] influenced by superstitions
[B] troubled with religious beliefs
[C] puzzled by church sermons
[D] frustrated with family earnings
这道题问的是John Dane的例子证明了受教育程度不高的新英格兰人怎么样。从题目当中我们可以判断出来这道题属于例证题。那么下一步我们可以去原文中找到相应的例子，不难发现原文中划线的句子就是相应的例子，也就是论据，那么论点我们就很容已找到，就是我们标红的部分。论点说的是“他们的想法总是有一种传统的迷信色彩”。根据这句话不难选出正确答案就是我们的A选项。A选项也给的比较直接，把原文中的superstitious替换成了superstition。
通过这道题相信大家就会很容易掌握例证题的解题思路。这种题型是我们考研中经常会出现的一种题型，属于必须拿分的题，所以大家务必掌握这种题型的解题思路。在例证题中还有一种特殊的情况，会问我们某个研究是用来干什么的，在找到相关的调查研究之后，往前面找会发现文中阐述的是对于调查研究的猜想，这个时候我们往往需要往调查研究的后面去找才能找到正确答案，所以对于实验调查论据大家要注意，我们大多数情况下是在实验调查论据的后面找到相关的论点的。那么这其实也给大家提出一个要求，就是我们要找准实验调查论据的起点和重点的位置。
