一、快速浏览，抓住短文主旨大意
阅读是短文改错的首要条件，拿到语篇快速浏览一遍，读懂句与句之间的逻辑关系，了解整篇文章的大意。短文改错在高考中是语篇难度不大、语法结构和词汇都较浅的一种题型，故抓住短文的大意并不难。例如1999年高考短文改错：
The Problem with Television
Now I can't watch much television but a few years ago
86.____
I used to watch it every night.I was often 87.____
a little tired after a day's work and watch TV 88.____
demands very little effort.Unfortunate,there are 89.____
too many people among my family.Some wanted 90.____
to see the programme while others preferred 91.____
another.I am happy with any programme but 92.____
the others spent a lot time arguing and there 93.____
was no way of settling the matter except by 94.____
selling the set.Now someone at home reads instead. 95.____
短文主旨一目了然，即"The Problem with Television"。尽管过去经常看电视，可现在由于种种原因彻底放弃电视，故第86题中much是多余的，去掉much才符合短文所表达的意思。第95题最后一行"someone"改成"everyone"或"everybody"，解决"problem"的唯一途径是卖掉电视机，从而导致一家人的习惯改变，每个人茶余饭后都只能靠看书来打发时光。这样文章前后呼应，一气呵成，紧紧围绕文章中的"The Problem。"
像这种短文改错，只要有一定的阅读能力，就能具备清晰地把握文字信息的能力，语篇改错得分随之提高。但平时的短文改错训练中，学生往往只拘泥于逐句逐词的语法、时态、意义改错。老师也往往侧重于细节错误的解释说明，忽略阅读在改错中的地位，大量的训练但“事倍功半”。所以平时要广泛涉猎形形色色的文章，实质性地提高判断、归纳、推理能力。那么，短文改错就能既快又准。
