托福阅读听课笔记:列举题解题法
Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus， an irreverent reminder that they lived in a world of platitudinous thinking， cheap moralizing， and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see， hear， and read in popular media is sanctimonious， sentimental， and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them， nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.
The various purposes of satire include all of the following EXCEPT（A） introducing readers to unfamiliar situations（B） brushing away illusions（C） reminding readers of the truth（D） exposing false values.
这道列举题的选项分布于文中各处，是一道分散列举题。其中选项（B）对应第一段倒数第二句…they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions，选项（C）对应第二段第三句：Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth though rarely to any action on behalf of truth，（D）对应第一段第五句：Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.（A）与原文第一段的意思“satire并无新意，只是表达独特”相矛盾，符合题意，为正确答案。