搞定词义题，一招就够了

反陷阱法

32. The phrase “flagged up” (Para. 2) is the closest in meaning to
[A] found.　　
[B] marked.　　
[C] revised.   
[D] stored.

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　　The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today. The policy follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that basic mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the irreproducibility of many published research findings.
　　“Readers must have confidence in the conclusions published in our journal,” writes McNutt in an editorial. Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors(SBoRE). Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal’s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers. The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to review these manuscripts.
　　Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.”
　　Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group. He says he expects the board to “play primarily an advisory role.” He agreed to join because he “found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact. This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.”
　　John Ioannidis, a physician who studies research methodology, says that the policy is “a most welcome step forward” and “long overdue.” “Most journals are weak in statistical review, and this damages the quality of what they publish. I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,” he says. But he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet pay strong attention to statistical review.
　　Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux, a cell biologist. Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in 2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, “engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process”. Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny’ in the first place”.

32．【词义题】第二段中的flagged up是指_______。
词义题解答的关键是在上下文找与陌生词汇对应或者起提示作用的句子（或者词组、单词），从这些线索中找到答案。
首先定位到对应句子第二段第三句，然后快速阅读、大致理解上下文意思，随后句群分析，寻找答案线索。从第四句的“then”不难发现第三、第四句存在递进关系。（ “then”就是本题解答的关键，也是寻找答案的重要线索）。为了让这种句群关系更加明朗化，我们把第三、第四两个句子简化：“Manuscript will be flagged up……。The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to review these manuscripts.”意思是“稿件首先是被flagged up，然后请外面的统计学家对稿件进行再审”。根据这个意境，选项B“标记”最贴近原文意思，是正确答案。（同时，在解答31题时我们已经知道：研究成果由于存在数据分析的错误，才在同行评审程序中增加了统计数据核查。所以第四句中统计学家对稿件的review（核查）应该是针对数据分析中的错误，由此反推，第一步稿件审查中就应该把这些数据分析给标记出来）。
选项A“发现”，不是最佳，为了方便review，仅仅发现还不行，所以A不能选。选项C“修正”，核查的时候才是修正，选项错误。选项D“存储”，因为后面还有核查的程序，还不能进入存储的环节，选项错误。
如果说“then”线索，那么“review”就是与陌生词汇flagged up存在对应关系或者能起提示作用的关键词汇。第一步，flagged up（标记），then（然后，第二步）review（核查）。