1. 通用性的解题方法
综合填空的基本解题原则是从已知信息中寻找、定位出所有与未知填空相关联的信息线索，通过综合分析这些线索推测未知填空的答案。在这里总结一些具有普遍性的寻找定位相关已知线索的方法和规律，这些方法大多适用于动词、名词、形容词和副词。
1） 无关词排除法
完形文章一般都有非常明确的中心主线，且整个文章很紧凑，就是紧紧围绕着中心主线展开。因此，理论上正确的选项一定是紧扣文章的主题和中心主线的。故而，一些看上去明显和文章主题和中心主线毫无关系的选项基本上可以排除在正确答案之外。
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up peo-ple involved in prominent cases______the trial of Rosemary West
In a significant______of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancel-lor, will introduce a______bill that will propose making payments to witnesses______and will strictly control the amount of______that can be given to a case______a trial begins.
A. publicity B. penalty C. popularity D. peculiarity.
2）同现结构法
同现是一种词汇的衔接手段。完形文章由于常常有明确的中心主线，所以作者会使用一些重点词汇围绕着中心主线贯穿全文。同现实际上就是一组具有相同倾向性的词语，这些词语所表现的倾向性往往与中心主线中的导向一致，或者说这些同现词语的任务就是对文章的导向进行支持。因此，文章的整体导向可以成为解出这些同现词语的关键信息。
Sleep is divided into periods of so-called REM sleep, characterized by rapid eye move- ments and dreaming, and longer periods of non-REM sleep. ______ (Neither) kind of sleep is at all well-understood but REM sleep is ______to serve some restorative function of the brain. The purpose of non-REM sleep is even more ______.
A. subtle B. obvious C. mysterious D. doubtful
3）复现结构法
复现是完形文章中词汇的一种衔接手段，即表达相同意思的词汇在文章的不同地方出现。复现可以是相同的词重复出现，也可以是用不同的词表达相同的意思。复现的解题意义在于：如果判断出一个未知填空与上下文的一些已知词汇有复现关系，只要从选项中选出与那些词汇意义相同的即为正确答案。
Sleep is divided into periods of so-called REM sleep, characterized by rapid eye move-ments and dreaming, and longer periods of non-REM sleep. ______ kind of sleep is at all well-understood, but REM sleep is ______to serve some restorative function of the brain. The purpose of non-REM sleep is even more ______. The new experiments, such as these ______ for the first time at a recent meeting of the Society for Sleep Research in Minneapo- lis, suggest fascinating explanations ______of non-REM sleep.
