新托福阅读如何练习

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下面是小编整理的新托福阅读如何练习,本文共5篇,欢迎您阅读,希望对您有所帮助。本文原稿由网友“军旎晶”提供。

篇1:新托福阅读如何练习

新托福阅读如何练习

1.增加背景知识

一些学生说很难投入到托福阅读题中,原因是他们不熟悉托福阅读文章中的内容。如果知道一点点,相信大家就会有所不同。例如,TPO有一篇文章谈到了高中生非常熟悉的化学元素周期表,阅读时半读半猜,估计很容易理解文章内容。

如果备考时间足够,可以多看一些文章,扩大知识背景。如果时间紧迫,需要做TPO的一系列阅读题。根据文章记忆单词,并不是文章中的每个“陌生面孔”都需要熟悉,例如,一些复杂的专有名词可以跳过。当然,主要记忆一些动词、名词和形容词,尤其是出现在主要句子中与解题相关的单词。

除了词汇,我们还应该学会分析题干及题目,例如,例如题干出现effect、conclusio之类的词,就可以确定了正在寻找的范围——段落后面的部分,以及观点性和总结性的句子永远是考查的焦点。做题时,学会分析原文和选项,并进行比较。例如句子简化题,大家需要看五个长句子。这似乎要花很多时间,但不需要仔细看每一句话。相反,应该先弄清楚原句的逻辑和主要部分,并掌握选项与原句比较的要点。

2.注意解题方法

托福阅读考试有10种题型,除了最后的小结题之外,大部分都是考查文章细节的题目,根据题目中的关键词,定位是至关重要的一步,然后是理解。如果词汇量太少怎么办?事实上,我们在阅读时应该始终牢记找的是句子的主干,所考查的信息基本上反映在主干上。

当你遇到一个句子时,先抓住主干,遇到整段记得扫描段落有无显眼的信息,如信号词,并浏览每段的主题句。让我们再谈谈这个小结题,这是大多数考生的痛苦之处。首先,没有多少时间来完成最后一道题;其次,最后一道题是对全文主要内容的总结,比较复杂。在课堂上,我一再向学生强调掌握全文结构和总体思路的重要性,以及如何掌握它。

一是在做题之前浏览文章的题目和每一段的第一句话。作为学术性阅读文章,第一句基本上是文章的主题句,尤其是总分结构的文章,如TPO6中的婴儿健忘症,虽然文章难以理解,但文章明确提出了三个观点:第一、第二、第三……那么在这样的文章中,小结题的选项就很明显了;二是文章的每一段对应2-3道题,因此问题的相应部分基本上是该段的核心。从这两点上,我们可以很快理解文章的主要内容。因此,在做TPO练习时,做练习是不可或缺的,但更应该注意快速阅读托福文章的能力。

托福词汇备考 环境类(一)

conservation 保护,保存 ( conserve)v.s. conversation

environmentalist = conservationist

acid 酸 酸的 (alkali)acid rain

carbon 碳 (C) v.s. charcoal (炭)carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide

fume exhaust fumes v.s. smoke, fog, smog

petroleum 石油à petrol (BE) = gasoline/gas (AE)à unleaded petrol/gas

ozone 臭氧 (o + zone)ozone layer

ooze 渗出 渗出物

radiation 辐射ultraviolet(UV) radiation~ radioactive

greenhouse 温室greenhouse effect/gases

solar 太阳的 (solar energy)^ lunar (lunar calendar)

phenomenon 现象

catastrophe = disaster, cataclysm

deterioration 恶化 ( deteriorate)

extinction 灭绝 ( extinct)

species endangered species

drought 干旱 >>>famine v.s. flooding

recurrent 反复发生的re + (oc)cur + rent v.s. concurrent

inundate 淹没

托福词汇备考 环境类(二)

embankment 筑堤 (em + bank + ment)

sediment 沉积(物)= deposit

delta 三角洲the Pearl River Delta

alluvial 冲积的

desertification desert (v.s. dessert)

dust-storm 沙尘暴^ thunderstorm, brainstorm

barren 贫瘠的,不育的,无效的

dune sand dunethe game “DUNE”!

attributable 归因于be attributable to…

deforestation 滥砍滥伐(森林)de + forest + ation afforestation/reforestation

log 原木,日志 伐木v.s. logo

vegetation 植物,植被v.s. vegetable, vegetarian

habitat 栖息地 habit (Habit is the second nature.)

ecosystem 生态系统 (eco + system)~ ecology

viability viable “vi”: life养育能力One tool for assessing the impact of forestry on the ecosystem is population viability analysis.

demographic 人口统计的 demo(people) + graph(write) + ic

interdependence inter + dependence

counterbalance 使平衡,弥补 (=offset)counter(against) + balance

mechanism 机理,机制

precipitation 陡降,降水 ( precipice) evaporation

托福词汇备考 环境类(三)

circulation 流通,循环

tide à tidal wave (海啸) ebb earthquake

typhoon ~ tornado, hurricane

meteorology 气象(学)

volcano 火山

eruption 喷发 ( erupt)volcanic eruption >>>lava

granite 花岗岩

imminent = impending v.s. eminent

Celsius 摄氏的 37OCv.s. centigrade

Fahrenheit 华氏的

latitude 纬度(另) longitude, altitude

tropical (the) tropicstropical/torrid zone, temperate zone, frigid zone

glacier 冰川

dump 倾倒,倾销à anti-dumping

contaminate 弄脏 (à contaminant)

recycle 回收再利用

irreversible 不可逆的 (= irrevocable)

reclaim 开垦,改造 à reclamation

contentious 有争议的 ( contend)Many environmental issues today are highly contentious.

opt 选择(+ for) à option

prioritize 优先考虑 ( prior, priority)

篇2:托福阅读练习

A gentle breeze blew through Jennifer's hair. The golden red sun was setting. She was on the beach, looking up at the fiery ball. She was amazed by its color, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.

一阵微风吹过詹妮弗的头发,金红色的太阳即将落山。海滩上的詹妮弗望着那火红的圆球,不禁惊异于它的颜色:中间是红彤彤的,向外柔柔地变成黄色。她只能听到海浪的声音,还有在天空中高高飞翔的海鸥。

The atmosphere relaxed her. After all she had been through, this is what she needed. “It's getting late,” she thought, “I must go home, my parents will be wondering where I am.”

眼前的景象使她放松下来,出走几天的经历,让她感受到这才是她所需要的。她想:“天晚了,我该回家了,父母会惦记我在哪里。”

She wondered how her parents would react, when she got home after the three days she was missing. She kept on walking, directing herself to bungalow 163, where she spent every summer holiday. The road was deserted. She walked slowly and silently. Just in a few hundred meters she would have been safe in her house.

她在猜想自己离家三天才回来,父母会做出什么反应。她一直走着,径直走向163号平房,每年暑假,她都是在那儿度过的。一路上空寂无人,她慢慢地、静静地走着,再有几百米就能安全到家了。

It was really getting dark now, the sun had set a few minutes before and it was getting cold too. She wished she had her favorite jumper on: it kept her really warm. She imagined having it with her. This thought dissipated when she finally saw her front door. It seemed different. Nobody had taken care of the outside garden for a few days. She was shocked: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy, and now... It all seemed deserted. She couldn't understand what was going on.

天色完全黑暗下来,太阳几分钟前就落山了,外面越来越冷。她真希望自己穿着最喜欢的那件套头衫,那该多暖和啊!她想象着自己正穿着它呢。可是一看见她家的前门,这种想法就烟消云散了。眼前的一切有些异样。外面的花园好几天没人照料了,这让她非常吃惊——她父亲平时处事严谨,每样东西都要求干净整洁,而现在呢……花园好像一片荒芜。她不理解发生了什么事情。

She entered the house. First, she went into the kitchen where she saw a note written by her father. It said: “Dear Ellen, there is some coffee ready, I went looking.” Ellen was her mother but - where was she? On the right side of the hallway was her parents room. She went in. Then she saw her. Her mother, lying on the bed, sleeping. Her face looked so tired, as if she hadn't slept for days. She was really pale. Jenny would have wanted to wake her up but she looked too tired to force her. So Jenny just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer woke up something was different...she wasn't in her mother's room and she wasn't wearing the old clothes she ran away in. She was in her cozy bed in her pajamas.

她进了屋,首先到了厨房,看见父亲留的一张字条,写着:“亲爱的埃伦,这是煮好的咖啡,我出去找找。”艾伦就是她的母亲,但是——母亲在哪儿?走廊的右边是她父母的卧室,她走进去就看见了母亲,躺在床上睡着了。母亲的面色异常苍白,看起来是那样的疲惫,好像多日未眠。詹妮真想把她叫醒,但是母亲看起来太累了,真不忍心叫醒她。于是詹妮也躺在她身旁睡了。詹妮弗醒来时发现有些异样:她不在母亲的房间里了,穿的也不是离家出走时的旧衣服了。她是穿着睡衣躺在自己惬意的床上。

It felt so good being back home. Suddenly she heard a voice. “Are you feeling better now, dear? You know you got us very, very scared.”

回家的感觉真好啊。忽然她听见一个声音:“亲爱的,你现在感觉好点了吧?知道吗,你让我们多担心、多害怕啊!

篇3:托福阅读练习

Research in Motion will lay off some 5,000 employees as it restructuresitself this year.

The announcement comes as the tech giant reports an adjusted loss per share of $0.37 for the quarter ended May 31, missing analyst expectations for a loss of $0.07.

The news sent shares down nearly 20 percent in after hours trade, falling to nine-year lows.

Net sales tumbledmore than 42 percent year-on-year, falling to $2.81 billion.

“I am not satisfied with these results and continue to work aggressively with all areas of the organization and the Board to implementmeaningful changes to address the challenges, including a thoughtful realignmentof resources and honingfocus within the Company on areas that have the greatest opportunities,” RIM's CEO Thorsten Heins said.

During the quarter, RIM shipped 7.8 million Blackberry devices, below the 8.74 million units Wall Street had projected. Playbook sales beat expectations slightly, as the firm sold 260,000 units, but were far lower than the 500,000 shipped in the year ago period.

Sales continue face pressure from the consumer shift to Apple and Android powered devices, which together account for more than three-quarters of the smartphone market.

The Blackberry manufacturer said it would delay its new operating system, Blackberry 10, until the first quarter of .

“The integrationof these features and the associated large volume of codeinto the platform has proven to be more time consuming than anticipated,” RIM said in a statement.

托福阅读文章练习:电视相亲

Eye-gazing party is a dating trend based on the practice of speed-dating in which participants do not speak to each other but instead, gaze at each other for a set amount of time before moving on.

Eye-gazing party(对眼相亲会)是在速配相亲基础上发展起来的一种相亲形式。参与对眼相亲会的男女彼此之间不用开口说话,而是在限定的时间内盯着对方看,时间一到就换个人继续看。

Someone describes the experience as “having a conversation with another person's face”, while others believe eye contact can reveal one’s attraction faster than anything else.

有人将这种相亲会描述为“跟另一个人的脸对话”,也有人认为眼神交流比任何行为都能更快散发一个人的魅力。

篇4:托福阅读练习

说起window shopping,大家应该都不陌生吧?它说的是人们逛街的时候只会浏览橱窗里的商品,但不会花钱消费的行为,多译为“只逛不买”。在网络购物大行其道的今天,window shopping也有“电子版”了,就是monitor shopping。

Monitor shopping is another form of window shopping, except that instead of wandering in stores, all you have to do is to log onto a shopping website. You’re online only browsing, not looking for anything in particular because you can’t afford it or you don’t need any of them, but you enjoy looking anyway. Maybe you’ll save something in your favorites or shopping cart for when you do have money.

Monitor shopping(字面意思为“浏览器购物”)是“只逛不买”(window shopping)的另一种形式,只不过你闲逛的地方不再是实体商店,而是购物网站,即“只浏览不购物”。你登陆各类购物网站只是为了过过眼瘾,而不一定要买什么东西,因为你可能买不起或者根本不需要那些东西。不过单纯的浏览过程已经让你很享受了。或许你会把看中的一些东西放入收藏夹或购物车等着以后有钱了再买。

For example:

I have been monitor shopping the whole afternoon, my neck is killing me now.

我一下午都在购物网站闲逛,现在脖子疼得要命。

托福阅读练习:考试助于学习

Tests aren't just a way for teachers to torture their students, according to a new study that finds the brain encodes better mental hints during test-taking than during studying alone.

考试不仅仅是老师用来折磨学生的手段,因为最新研究表明,考试时大脑消化吸收学习材料的效果要比只是学习看书时产生的效果好一些。

Although many people view tests as a way to mark and grade students' progress, research has found that the act of retrieving information from memory actually makes remembering it easier. In other words, tests improve learning.

人们把考试视作给学生进步打分的工具,然而研究发现,从记忆中检索信息这一行为可使人们记东西更加容易。换句话说,考试能让你学识渊博。

The study author Mary Pyc, a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis and her co-author Katherine Rawson investigated pieces of information called “mediators.” Mediators are concepts, ideas or phrases that connect one piece of information to another. To be a good mediator, the idea has to be both easy to remember and easy to link to the information you're trying to retrieve.

该研究论文的撰稿人、华盛顿大学博士后玛丽-佩克和她的同事凯瑟琳-罗森着手于研究名为“介质”的信息碎片。“介质”实际上就是一些概念、观点或者短语,它们是连接各条信息的桥梁。要成为优质“介质”,相关观点必须易记且和你要检索的信息相关。

To investigate the effect of testing on mediators, Pyc and Rawson had 118 English-speaking participants learn 48 Swahili words. Some of the learners took tests on the information and then got to restudy the material before being tested again. Others only studied and restudied without tests.

为了调查考试对“介质”产生的效果,佩克和罗森让118名讲英语人士学习48个斯瓦希里语的单词。在之后的实验中,一部分学习者对所学内容进行测试,然后在再次测试前重新学习。而另一些人则只是学习、再学习,没有测试。

A week after learning the words, each group took a final test. Some tests required them to give the English translation from the Swahlii word alone. Another group got a test that gave them the Swahili word plus the mediator they'd used when learning the words. A third group not only had to translate the word, but they also had to remember and write down their mediator word.

一周后,每组都会进行一次期终考试。一组被要求写出斯瓦希里语某些单词的意思,而另一组则在释义时研究者给他们看了自己学习时曾使用的“介质”。第三组不仅需要给单词释义,还要记住并写下自己当时使用的“介质”。

Overall, the group that took practice tests did three times better than the study-only group. In addition, more test practice made for better mediators. Those who had to recall both their mediator and the translation got scores averaging 51 percent if they'd been in the pretesting group and just 34 percent if they'd only studied. Those who didn't have to remember their mediator, just link it to the translation, also did much better if they'd completed practice tests.

总体来讲,经常做测试的那一组的考试结果要比不做测试的那一组好出三倍。此外,测试较多使得学习者使用的“介质”也较好。需要回忆“介质”以及释义的小组成员中,先前在测试较多小组中学习的成员平均分为51分,而那些曾在不测试小组中学习过的成员平均仅为34分。而在考试中不被要求回忆“介质”只需释义的人群,倘若之前做过较多测试,考试成绩也要好得多。

篇5:托福阅读练习怎么练

托福阅读练习怎么练?掌握方法正确高分不再难

一. 纸质阅读习惯如何转换

备考托福就要按照托福考试的要求来备考,大家首先要了解的是,托福考试采用上机考试,全程都是电脑答题。所以,大家在备考托福阅读的时候,要先考虑如何适应电脑考试。托福阅读题目是按照文章的顺序出题,所以建议大家,尤其是做题慢的同学,不必通读全文,直接开始做题。上机考试的时候,要先将阅读文章拉到底部,才能点击“next”开始做题。上机考试的习惯需要大家在平时练习中养成,建议大家使用官方真题Official模考软件练习,另外,平时可以多用电脑浏览英文文章。

二. 托福阅读精读和泛读练习

备考托福的考生都知道,托福阅读练习方法分为精读和泛读两种。托福阅读想要得到提升两种方法缺一不可,做精读是为了将文章理解透彻,泛读则是为了锻炼大家的阅读速度,扩宽知识面。精读练习比较耗费时间,一篇文章要完成精读练习可能需要一个小时甚至更久,大家在备考过程中,如果阅读练习时间有限的话,可以在3篇阅读中选择最难的一篇做精读练习,积累文章里面的生词,整理错题题型和做错原因。泛读练习需要大家大量做练习,不仅读要读阅读文章,还要读一些课外的英语原版文章,比如英文新闻或者英文原版杂志等等。泛读的时候速度一定要快,不影响理解的单词直接跳过,泛读过程中最为重要的是阅读速度和广度。

三. 日常生活中也能处处练阅读

1.词汇积累背记随时进行

托福阅读中会遇到很多生词,有的同学积累记录后就不再看了,记录下来只是第一步,将“生词”转换成“熟词”才是真正掌握了。托福阅读词汇的背记随时都可以进行,大家可以准备一个小本子,将遇到的生词记录在上面,然后将小本子揣在口袋,一天当中一有闲暇的时间就可以拿出来背记单词。不要轻看5分钟的闲暇时间,将每天的琐碎时间利用起来,你的学习时间会比别人多出很多。

2.创造纯英语阅读环境

托福阅读要求大家能读懂一些学术文章,对于阅读水平要求较高。大家在平时练习中可以为自己创造一个纯英语的阅读环境,比如,将手机语言调成英文,用英语和好友聊天,查资料的时候去看一些英文原本资料,查单词的时候用牛津词典查英文原版释义。这样的纯英语阅读环境一开始会有些难以适应,但如果能坚持下来,英语水平肯定会突飞猛进。

托福阅读做题有技巧,但是阅读能力提升却没有捷径可走,大家在备考的过程中应该将基础提升和做题技巧结合起来备考。平时阅读练习时要转换做题习惯,适应上机考试,并且将精读和泛读练习结合起来,在平常生活中可以尝试给自己创造一个纯英语阅读环境。

如何判断托福阅读的正确选项

一般,大多数的托福阅读是通过选择题的形式出现,所以快速判断阅读选项是高效答题的必备技能。下面是几个判断阅读选项的辅助标准,希望对考生有所帮助。

1)段意对:

如果某个选项恰好是刚刚笔记上记下的段意,则选项为正确选项。题干要求选出三个能概括文章主要内容的选项,用正常的思维去想一想,我们一般用什么来概括文章的主要内容呢?当然是段意了。

2)细节错:

人家要的是文章的主要内容,细节显然是错误答案。关键是怎么判断细节——标准就是细节是不需要被解释的内容。举个例子:我说“你是个好人”这就不是细节,这个需要解释:你为什么是好人。

可是我说“你朋友借了你100块钱不还你也不催债”,这就是个细节。这句话不需要解释,它是用来解释你是个好人这句话的。所以说,看到一个选项,觉得这话没什么要解释的,那这个选项一定错了。

3)和文意相反的选项是错的:

这个理由很明白,不用解释什么,关键是你怎么知道哪个选项是和文意相悖的呢?你不是说只读每段的首末句和转折句吗?很多含有细节的句字都读不到呀。

这个问题的解决办法在于做题中积累信息。开始的快速阅读只是构建文章的框架,做主旨题之前的题目的过程就是积累细节的过程,这个不用刻意为之,因为之前的题目都是句子定位或者段落定位的,做题的过程中自然会读到每段的细节。

4)编造出来的选项是错的:

有一种情况是比较让人郁闷的,就是看到一个选项,又不是段意,也不能准确判断就是个细节,并且也判断不出这个选项和文中的那个内容有所违背。这时候有些考生就慌了,觉得自己是文章没有读仔细,又返回去读文章,可是慌慌张张读了半天还是找不到和这个选项有关的内容。

其实不必回去读文章了,关键是头脑要冷静。人家要的文章的主要内容,主要内容一定是某一段的段意或者某几段段意的总结,所以这时候要做的惟一事情就是把段意再总结一遍,如果这个选项和某一段或某几段的段意相符,那么正确,否则这就是一个编造选项,当机立断地把它排除掉!

托福阅读速度慢的三大原因

对于许多托福考生而言,相信阅读来不及答完题是人人都遇到过的情况,打不完题,不仅仅影响阅读成绩,更会影响整场考试的发挥,从而考出不理想的成绩。那么,是什么降低了考生的答题速度,从而产生答不完题的现象呢?

1.逐字翻译导致读句子的速度慢

很多同学在翻译句子的过程中,都没有一个良好的习惯,只是机械地把所有英文单词的中文意思堆砌起来。对于简单句来说,这样做其实无可厚非;但是遇到语法结构稍微复杂的句子,这种方法便会立刻失效,于是同学们便会不断重复回看这句话,想要弄清楚它的意思,这样便造成了时间上的极大浪费。所以我们在平时练习过程中需要训练自己养成一个良好的阅读习惯,不要被那些单词牵着走,而要主动地去分析句子结构:句子主语是谁?这个主语怎么了,发生了什么事?谁是修饰成分?谁才是真正的谓语?当我们能够做到读完一句理解一句,相信我们自然就能在要求时间之内答完题了。

2.练习少,对题目缺乏熟悉度

许多同学把备考托福阅读等同于背单词,因而一天到晚只跟单词书亲近,却不曾正眼看过TPO中的阅读文章。背单词固然重要,毕竟单词不会,文章也无法理解。但是想要提高分数、想要冲刺阅读高分,那我们就必须把TPO阅读文章当作圣经一样来对待。这不只是草草做题对答案了事,更是通过大量做题,来增强自己对于托福阅读出题套路的了解,以期掌握每种题型的应对方案,争取做到读完题之后,能够立刻找到题干中的有效关键词,再迅速回文定位答案。同学们不要觉得题海战术是很笨的方法,多年实践已经证明,它其实是一种很有效率的学习方法,关键在于我们是否能够通过题海战术有所收获,而不是为了做题而做题。

3. 文章结构不够熟悉

我特别强调做完题后,分析每篇文章的文章结构这件事。为什么?因为文章结构大概也就那么几种,见得多了,便就一见如故了。在考场上,我们根本没有时间为了最后一道题而把文章再通读一便。而倘若我们在做题过程中,就能迅速总结出每一段的中心意思,那么这篇文章我们一定会读得更通透,在做每一段相应的题时也就能够提高准确率。而能否迅速总结出段落大意就依赖于平时严格的训练。不要做完了题就万事大吉,把每篇文章充分利用起来,观察它们的结构,多做总结,这样的工作做得多了,必然会有所收获的。

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