托福听力究竟难在哪里呢?其实难点很重要一点在于题目是在听完材料之后才会出现的,因此在听的过程中,我们并不知道哪些信息将会被作为考点。这篇文章的目的就是为了告诉大家在应对听力考试的时候,其实我们是有章可循的,只要抓住以下这些关键词,我们便可以巧妙的预测出哪些地方会是考点了。下面我们就一起来了解一下。
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特殊句式:
特殊句式在托福听力中经常出现,也常常被很多考生忽略。事实上,特殊句式的句子在托福听力中不仅可以为考生提供重点信息出现的信号,同时也为考生提供重要的解题信息。
下面是在托福听力中常出现的部分重要特殊句式:
强调句:e.g. It does have some other impacts though.
问句:e.g. So what’ve city planners decided to do about it?
虚拟句:e.g. You’d think that by the 90s, people would have learned from the past.
我们来看一道例题(TPO6-L1),具体了解一下特殊句式在听力解题中的作用。
Student
The dotcom crash of the ‘90s.
Professor
You’d think that by the 90s, people would have learned from the past.
从学生和教授的对话中我们得知如下信息:
1. 网络泡沫发生在90年代
2. 教授认为:在90年代,人们本应从过去学到经验,但他们却没有。
教授的回答使用了我们刚才列举的特殊句式中虚拟语气,表达了与话语相反的意思,即人们陷入了网络泡沫的危机。在此题中,虚拟语气的句子直接为考生传达重要信息。
下面我们来看题目:
What is the professor’s opinion about the dot-com crash?
A. She thinks that people should have realized it would happen.
B. She does not believe that anything like it will happen again.
C. She is surprised that it did not have more serious consequences.
D. She is confident that people learned a valuable lesson from it.