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篇1：如何提高GRE阅读分数
如何提高GRE阅读分数
新GRE阅读文章分类
1. 按题材分：文学评论, 美国历史, 弱势群体, 生命科学
2. 按写作方法分：presentation[立论], argument[评论]
3. 按写作套路分：新旧观点型、现象解释型、结论解释型、问题解决型
训练阅读速度
先别做题了，先拿来一篇文章，做完，然后回过头去看那篇文章，划出认为一定得读的词，把不用看的化掉，比如however,but是必读的，for example之后不用细看。根据题目判断哪些词是必读，这样做个5,6篇文章就有把握了，哪些是关键词。不要盲目的参考其他书说的什么，not only之后不用看，but also要看之类的，一定要自己总结，这样才能尽快习惯。
之后就继续大量训练，不停卡时间，强迫读关键词，读完做题，这样很快就能快速读完了。同时也要看杨鹏长难句，仔细体会怎么快速破解一句难句。做阅读时，尽量做到不回视，除了ts之类的，都一遍读下来，训练的时候一定要这样，养成这个习惯，强迫自己集中注意力。考试的时候，可以反复琢磨下关键句子。
意群阅读训练法
从阅读的意义上来讲，意群就是指大家平时阅读一篇文章时，视线每停留一次，进入视界范围的单词会有多个。这些单词不带有任意性，单词与单词之间的逻辑意义紧密相连，所以可以暂且将这种意义紧密相连的多个单词视为一个意群。
要想将这种方法运用到实际的阅读当中，那就有必要知道，语篇的构成单位为段落，段落的构成单位则是句子，而句子的最终构成单位为语言意义的基本载体单元词汇。而意群训练，是指按照对词汇之间意义的紧密性及对英语句子的结构进行拆分的阅读方法，这样不仅利于阅读速度的提升还可以提高一个人对语篇环境的适应能力。
排除法做题
排除法可以说是应对所有选择题的万能技巧之一，虽然在GRE阅读中排除法也许无法帮你精准地找到最后的正确答案，但在解题初期通过排除法缩小选项范围，把本来五选一的题目变成二选一或者三选一还是很有价值的。所以排除法大家也需要掌握，结合解题思路更有效地提升解题效率，节省考试时间。
GRE阅读材料要精挑细选 科学发电要更倚重自然
说到GRE阅读，无非就是多看。但是看什么很关键。短期捷径有没有?当然有，那就是GRE阅读机经，本月最新的阅读机经已经发布，gre.zhan.com/yuedu45235.html.包含逻辑阅读、短阅读、长阅读，一共5篇。每篇均有资深GRE教师分享给大家的参考答案和解题思路。
如果从长远来看，那就是要多看文章，多读书，了解的多接触的多，自然不怕，也能够更加熟悉英文表达。但是时间有限，选择看什么就很重要。小编通过咨询相关资深GRE培训教师，为大家精选了很多外媒主流杂志，每天会发布一篇文章，包含中文翻译，供大家学习!
design, nature has often got there first
若论巧夺天工，自然常常更胜一筹
A virtuous spiral
上面的螺纹看似简单，实际有效
SOLAR-POWER stations take up a lot of room.
太阳能发电站占地面积巨大，
They need either vast arrays of photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight directly into electricity, or of mirrors,
站内大部分的空间被光伏太阳能板或和定向反射镜所占据。前者能将光能直接转换为电能;后者会将太阳热折射到锅炉，
which direct it towards a boiler, in order to raise steam and drive a generator.
利用锅炉将水加热成蒸汽，驱动发电机组工作，达到热能转化为电能的目的。
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The space these arrays occupy could often be used for other purposes.
这些整齐排列的面板和镜身所占的区域通常能用于其它用途。
Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now devised a better and more compact way of laying out arrays of mirrors.
麻省理工学院的两位研究员就找出了更好的方法布置定向反射镜排列，不仅能节约出更多的空间，还能提高发电效率。
Slightly to their chagrin, however, and somehow appropriately,
然而，有点儿让他们懊恼的是，
they found when they had done the calculations that sunflowers had got there first.
他们计算出的和向日葵花盘型花序上所排列的，大致相同。
Alexander Mitsos and Corey Noone started with the observation that existing concentrated solar-power plants,
Alexander Mitsos和Corey Noone这两位研究员先从观察运行中的集中型太阳能发电厂入手。
as those which drive boilers are known, usually have their mirrors arranged in a way that resembles the seating in a cinema.
如大家所知，这些发电厂用太阳能驱动锅炉做功产生热量。通常定向反射镜的安排布置与电影院座椅位置如出一辙。
The mirrors are placed in concentric semicircles facing a tower, on top of which the boiler and the turbine sit.
高塔处于荧屏所在的中心位置，所有的定向反射镜则以高塔为圆心，呈半圆形分布。
That arrangement, however, sometimes results in the mirrors shading each other as the sun's position in the sky changes,
随着一天中太阳在天空中位置的变换，镜身间会出现相互遮挡的问题。
even though the mirrors are usually attached to robotic arms that track the sun as it moves.
即使厂家通常会在镜身后部安装能随太阳位置变换而相应变换的机械手臂，但这一问题还是无法解决。
According to their report in Solar Energy, Dr Mitsos and Mr Noone found that they could do better.
据他们在《太阳能》杂志上发表的文章称，两位研究员认为能有方法解决这一难题。
They divided each of the mirrors in a real power plant, PS10, in southern Spain into about 100 pieces.
在一家位于西班牙南部的发电站，PS10中，他们把每一片定向反射镜的平面面积分为差不多100块。
They then plugged each of those pieces into a computer model that calculated all of the energy losses
然后将每一片镜身上的这100多块面积里产生的吸热数据接入电脑，通过电脑程序计算出能量损失总和。
by noting points where mirrors were not optimally oriented to the sun and places where they hindered one another by blocking incoming or reflected rays.
这包括镜身没能直对太阳造成的损失，以及镜身位置因相互遮挡使折射光线受阻或反射到锅炉的光线受阻时造成的损失。
It then rejigged them into a better arrangement.
然后再根据数据重新对镜身进行排列组合。
Fermat's conjecture
费马螺线魔力
previous efforts have been directed mainly at stopping the mirrors shading each other, which tends to mean spreading them out.
在此之前，人们做出了种.种努力，但总是在镜身相互遮挡这一问题上束手无策。而对此常会采用的是展开布局，增加排列面积来避免这种情况出现。
Dr Mitsos and Mr Noone also wanted to save space.
而两位研究员还想节省面积。
In trying to do so they stumbled on an unusual arrangement that had the desired effect.
为此绞尽脑汁之际，他们无意中发现有一种非常规的排列布局有很好的效果。
When they showed this layout to a third researcher, Manuel Torrilhon of Aachen University in Germany,
他们将这种布局安排展示给另一位研究者，德国亚琛工业大学的Manuel Torrilhon。
he recognised the spiral patterns within it, and this prompted the trio to test a design specifically modelled on nature.
后者认为这种设计中有螺线存在，这促使三位研究者以向日葵花盘型花序为蓝本仔细测试设计。
That design was a pattern known as a Fermat spiral, in which each element is set at a constant angle of 137° to the previous one.
他们采用的设计即费马螺线。即每一个圆在之前一个圆旋转角度为137度时，折线回旋螺线。
It is most familiar as the arrangement of the florets that make up a sunflower head.
这一排列布置与向日葵花的盘型花序纹路如出一辙。
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When the three researchers programmed their model to arrange PS10's mirrors in front of the tower in a segment from such a spiral,
三位研究者按照计划安排PS10发电厂的镜身位置，在高塔前，将定向反射镜呈部分费马螺线状布局。
they both improved the efficiency of the collection process and saved space.
结果显示在吸收太阳热量的过程中，效率得以提高，占地面积减少。
The improvement in efficiency was, admittedly, quite small,
诚然，效率提高非常有限，
but the space saving was significant—almost 16%.
而空间节省面积却很高，减少近16%。
If solar power is to make up much of the world's electricity output in future, as supporters of alternative energy hope it will,
如果太阳能如可替代能源支持者所希望的一那样，在未来成为世界电力的重要来源，
a lot of land will be needed for the power stations.
那么太阳能发电站势必将需要占据更大的面积。
Reducing that requirement by a sixth, as this discovery promises, would be a big gain.
如果能像此次研究所发现的那样，有希望将定向反射镜所占地面积减少六分之一，那么这将是一个巨大的进步。
It would also show that if you look hard enough, there really is nothing new under the sun.
同样让我们认识到的是，地球上还有许多未知等待我们认真研究。
【热门GRE人文知识拓展阅读】锻炼出点汗，值了
Just why exercise is so good for people is, at last, being understood
为什么锻炼有利于身体健康呢，人们终于知道答案了
ONE sure giveaway of quack medicine is the claim that a product can treat any ailment.
有一种绝对能推销出去狗皮膏药的方法就是说它包治百病。
There are, sadly, no panaceas.
遗憾的是灵丹妙药并不存在。
But some things come close, and exercise is one of them.
但有些方法却起到类似的作用，锻炼就是其中之一。
As doctors never tire of reminding people, exercise protects against a host of illnesses,
医生们一直不厌其烦地提醒人们锻炼身体有助于防范一系列疾病，
from heart attacks and dementia to diabetes and infection.
包括心脏病、痴呆症、糖尿病以及感染。
How it does so, however, remains surprisingly mysterious.
但是人们一直不知道为什么。
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But a paper just published in Nature by Beth Levine of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre and her colleagues sheds some light on the matter.
德克萨斯大学西南医学中心贝丝莱文及其同事最近在《自然》杂志发表的论文给出了一些解释。
Dr Levine and her team were testing a theory that exercise works its magic, at least in part, by promoting autophagy.
莱文博士及其小组证明一个理论的正确性，即锻炼之所以有神奇的作用，
This process, whose name is derived from the Greek for self-eating,
部分原因是它能促进自体吞噬。
is a mechanism by which surplus, worn-out or malformed proteins and other cellular components are broken up for scrap and recycled.
这个名称来自希腊词语自食其肉，指的是多余的、不能再用的、畸形的蛋白质和其他细胞成分被分解成碎片并再循环。
To carry out the test, Dr Levine turned to those stalwarts of medical research, genetically modified mice.
莱文博士在这个实验中使用转基因老鼠作为实验对象，医学研究中经常使用转基因老鼠。
Her first batch of rodents were tweaked so that their autophagosomes,
第一组老鼠被调整使得其细胞中的自噬体发出绿光，
structures that form around components which have been marked for recycling—glowed green.
这种结构形成的部分被用于再循环。
After these mice had spent half an hour on a treadmill,
这些老师被放在跑步机上半个小时后，
she found that the number of autophagosomes in their muscles had increased,
莱文博士发现它们肌肉中的自噬体增加了，
and it went on increasing until they had been running for 80 minutes.
直到跑了80分钟才停止增加。
To find out what, if anything, this exercise-boosted autophagy was doing for mice,
为了找出这种由锻炼刺激的自噬作用对老鼠有什么作用，
the team engineered a second strain that was unable to respond this way.
研究小组设计了另一组不能如此反应的老鼠。
Exercise, in other words, failed to stimulate their recycling mechanism.
换句话说，锻炼并没刺激再循环机制。
When this second group of modified mice were tested alongside ordinary ones,
当第二组的转基因老鼠和普通老鼠一起接受实验时，
they showed less endurance and had less ability to take up sugar from their bloodstreams.
它们的耐力逊于后者，也不能很好地从血液中吸收糖分。
There were longer-term effects, too.
还有长期影响。
In mice, as in people, regular exercise helps prevent diabetes.
老鼠和人一样，定期锻炼有助于预防糖尿病。
But when the team fed their second group of modified mice a diet designed to induce diabetes,
但是在研究小组给第二组转基因老鼠喂了一种专门用来诱发糖尿病的食物后，
they found that exercise gave no protection at all.
他们发现锻炼并没有任何预防效果。
Dr Levine and her team reckon their results suggest that manipulating autophagy may offer a new approach to treating diabetes.
莱文博士及其小组认为实验结果表明受到操纵的自噬作用有可能提供一种新的治疗糖尿病的方法。
And their research is also suggestive in other ways.
他们的研究在其他方面也有启示。
Autophagy is a hot topic in medicine,
自噬作用在医学界是个热门话题，
as biologists have come to realise that it helps protect the body from all kinds of ailments.
因为生物学家逐渐意识到它能抵御各种小病。
The virtues of recycling
再循环的功效
Autophagy is an ancient mechanism, shared by all eukaryotic organisms.
自体吞噬机制很古老，所有真核生物都有。
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It probably arose as an adaptation to scarcity of nutrients.
它的产生可能是为了适应营养物质的缺乏的环境。
Critters that can recycle parts of themselves for fuel are better able to cope with lean times than those that cannot.
有些家畜能循环利用它们身体的一部分作为养料，这样的动物比其他的动物在食物匮乏期更容易生存。
But over the past couple of decades,
但是在过去几十年里，
autophagy has also been shown to be involved in things as diverse，
自体吞噬在其他很多地方也有所体现，
as fighting bacterial infections and slowing the onset of neurological conditions like Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases.
比如对抗细菌感染、放缓老年痴呆症和亨丁顿舞蹈症等神经症状的发病。
Most intriguingly of all, it seems that it can slow the process of ageing.
最有趣的是，看起来它还延缓了老化过程。
Biologists have known for decades that feeding animals near-starvation diets can boost their lifespans dramatically.
生物学家几十年来都知道在动物保持接近饥饿的状态下喂食能大幅度提高它们的寿命。
Dr Levine was a member of the team which showed that an increased level of autophagy, brought on by the stress of living in a constant state of near-starvation,
莱文博士曾经工作的一个小组证明在长期接近饥饿的状态下生存的压力引起了自体吞噬水平的提高，
was the mechanism responsible for this life extension.
这种原理使得寿命延长。
The theory is that what are being disposed of in particular are worn-out mitochondria.
被处理掉的其实是衰弱的线粒体。
These structures are a cell's power-packs.
这种结构给细胞提供能量。
They are where glucose and oxygen react together to release energy.
在线粒体里，葡萄糖和氧气共同作用释放能量。
Such reactions, though, often create damaging oxygen-rich molecules called free radicals,
不过这种反应却常常制造出有害的富氧分子，即自由基，
which are thought to be one of the driving forces of ageing.
它是促成老化的原因之一。
Getting rid of wonky mitochondria would reduce free-radical production and might thus slow down ageing.
除掉没用的线粒体可以减少自由基的生成，这样就可能减缓老化过程。
A few anti-ageing zealots already subsist on near-starvation diets,
一些反老化的狂热分子已经开始靠保持饥饿状态的饮食为生了，
but Dr Levine's results suggest a similar effect might be gained in a much more agreeable way, via vigorous exercise.
但是莱文博士的实验结果表示通过积极锻炼身体这样一种更随和的方式也能得到类似的效果。
The team's next step is to test whether boosted autophagy can indeed explain the life-extending effects of exercise.
该小组下一步将测试被激发的自体吞噬是否真的能解释锻炼有助于长寿。
That will take a while.
这尚需时间方能出结果。
Even in animals as short-lived as mice, she points out, studying ageing is a long-winded process.
她指出即使研究像老鼠这样寿命很短的动物也是长期曲折的过程。
But she is sufficiently confident about the outcome that she has, in the meantime, bought herself a treadmill.
但是她对结果非常自信，于此同时还给自己也买了一个跑步机
篇2：高效利用GRE阅读课外读物提高GRE阅读分数
如何提高GRE考试阅读分数?高效利用GRE阅读课外读物
一、如何选择GRE阅读课外读物。
1.从读物研究的侧重点入手。
GRE阅读课外读物的选择，可以从侧重新闻的报纸(报纸里重点读观点类和特稿类的文章，比如opinion比如features)，或者是侧重评论的杂志入手，再下载几个媒体的app，从自己的兴趣入手。
2.从自身兴趣和专业背景入手。
考生可以从自己感兴趣的，或者是和自己专业背景相似的文章开始。例如，考生对电影感兴趣，可以选择New Yorker里，关于喜欢导演的评论;如果考生的专业是生物工程，可以从New York Times里，寻找一些和基因相关的科技类文章入手。
二、如何高效利用GRE阅读课外读物。
1.循序渐进和坚持不懈。
GRE考试的阅读文章，一般都属于主题深刻、篇幅长、分析性强、语义密度大的文章，所以考生要从开始备考，就从这些角度出发，同时一定要坚持“循序渐进、坚持不懈”的复习原则。
2.尝试攻克自己所不熟悉的领域。
考生可以跳出自己的背景知识范围，挑战一些不熟悉的领域。例如：工科生可以读读政治类文章，文科生请挑战外太空探索，逐渐尝试攻克自己所不熟悉的领域。
三、利用GRE阅读课外读物的注意事项。
1.保持高度的敏感度。
考生需要留意单词书里刷过，但自己从没见过用过词的正确用法;留意一些拖慢阅读速度的长难句;留意段落间的逻辑关系，以及段落内部的论证和分析，特别是有逻辑转折词的部分;如果时间充裕，还可以摘抄一些自己觉得写得出彩的论证分析。
2.遭遇生词要冷静对待。
如果你正处在GRE备考冲刺期，阅读过程中还是遇到了很多生词，如果你的备考周期足够长，可以先标注下生词，回头慢慢查字典;但是如果备考时间短，那么需要赶紧调整背单词、做题和泛读的时间配比。
新GRE阅读复习材料背景知识 意想不到的婚礼保险消费
说到GRE阅读，无非就是多看。但是看什么很关键。短期捷径有没有?当然有，那就是GRE阅读机经，本月最新的阅读机经已经发布gre.zhan.com/yuedu45235.html，包含逻辑阅读、短阅读、长阅读，一共5篇。每篇均有资深GRE教师分享给大家的参考答案和解题思路。
如果从长远来看，那就是要多看文章，多读书，了解的多接触的多，自然不怕，也能够更加熟悉英文表达。但是时间有限，选择看什么就很重要。小编通过咨询相关资深GRE培训教师，为大家精选了很多外媒主流杂志，每天会发布一篇文章，包含中文翻译，供大家学习!
Underwriters are becoming as much a part of the big day as cake and flowers
在婚礼那天，承销商变得和蛋糕和鲜花一样重要
Sorry, your policy doesn't cover cold feet
对不起，您的保险不包含临阵脱逃
JUST as each wedding creates potential business for divorce lawyers, so each engagement gives insurers a chance to drum up business. Future spouses, says Alan Tuvin of Travelers, an insurer, may wish to protect themselves against something going wrong on the wedding day.It is unlikely that your betrothed will scarper on horseback, as Julia Roberts did in “Runaway Bride”, and most insurers wouldn't cover that anyway. But you never know what might happen.Mr Tuvin launched the firm's wedding-insurance business; he and his wife were its first clients.
正如每一场婚礼会为离婚律师创造潜在的业务一样，每一场订婚也会给保险公司招揽生意的机会。保险公司Travelers的承保人艾伦·图瓦表示，未来的夫妻可能更希望在婚礼上保护自己，免出差错。虽然你的未婚妻不太可能像《落跑新娘》中的茱莉亚·罗伯茨那样骑马跑掉—当然，大多数保险公司不会涵盖这项业务，但是你也不可能知道会发生什么。图瓦先生发起了这家公司的婚礼保险业务，他和他的妻子是的一个客户。
A typical American wedding costs 25,000 or so. This has fallen a bit over the past quarter-century but still seems lavish given how tight American belts are these days (see chart).Weddings are pricey because the rich are more likely to marry than the poor, and the average age of newlyweds has gone up, so couples are more prosperous when they eventually tie the knot. High prices, and the fact that many venues require couples to take out liability insurance, feed demand for wedding insurance. A fifth of couples buy it, says the Wedding Report, a trade publication. “If some fat lady slips on a canapé and breaks her hip, she doesn't give a rat's ass that this is her boyfriend's cousin's wedding,” hypothesises Robert Nuccio of Wedsure, an insurer. “She just wants to get paid.”
一个传统的美式婚礼大概花费在25000美元左右。在过去的25年里，这项花费略有下降，但是鉴于美国近年来勒紧的裤腰带，这已经很奢华了。婚礼是昂贵的，因为富人比穷人更有可能结婚，并且现在新婚夫妇的平均年龄正在变大，所以当他们最终结婚时，他们的经济相对而言比较宽裕。昂贵的价格以及许多场馆要求夫妻承担责任保险的事实使得人们对婚礼保险的需求越来越大。贸易出版物Wedding Report 指出有五分之一的夫妇购买婚礼保险。保险公司Robert Nuccio of Wedsure 提出假设：“如果有一个胖太太从沙发上滑下来并且摔疼了屁股，她并不会完全不在意，由于这是她男朋友表哥的婚礼，她只是想要获得赔偿。”
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Wedding insurance began in Britain: Corn hill, an insurer, wrote its first policy in 1988. But there were few takers. The idea only took off once transplanted to America. In the early days, says Mr Nuccio, there were incidents of couples faking engagements to collect a payout. Since then,most policies have a clause that excludes “change of heart”. Wedsure does insure against cold feet, but its policy will pay out only if the wedding is cancelled more than 12 months before it is due to take place, thereby guarding against fiancés (or their parents) phoning the broker once the relationship is already on the rocks.
婚礼保险这项业务最早是由英国的一家保险公司康希尓于1988年提出来的。但是那个时候少有问津。直到它传到了美国，这个想法才得以落实。Nuccio先生说，在早期，会有情侣假装约会来收集费用。从那时候开始，大部分保险条款就不包括“变心”这一项了。婚礼保险包含婚礼前临阵退缩这一项，但是只有在原定婚礼日期前12个月取消婚礼才有效，这是为了防止未婚夫妇(或他们的父母)临时打电话给介绍人说新人的关系已经濒于破裂。
This does not mean policies are useless. Common causes of payouts include the venue orcaterers going bust after having taken a big deposit.Extreme weather, a spouse beingdeployed by the armed forces and an absent priest can all trigger payouts. Most policies will payto re-stage the photos if the snapper fails to turn up or disappears with the pictures. “DJs areflaky. Florists? Flaky. Cakemakers? Flaky. They are all flaky as hell,” warns Mr Nuccio.
这并不意味着这些保险就是无用的。保险支出的常见原因包括场地或供应商在拿到了一笔巨额押金后宣告破产。极端的天气，一方新人被部队征召或牧师的缺席都会导致保险的支出。
For some, even a small risk of something going wrong on a day that has been planned formonths is worth paying to avoid. Who says romance is dead?
对于有些人来说，在一个期盼了数月的重要日子里，即使是一个很小的失误，也是值得花钱去避免的。谁说浪漫已经消失了呢?
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Not all towns are desperate to attract young people
并不是所有城镇都渴望吸引年轻人
Nationally, an ageing population is a problem. But locally it can be a boon. The over-50s control 80% of Britain's wealth, and like to spend it on houses and high-street shopping. The young “generation rent”, by contrast, is poor,distractible and liable to shop online.
在国际上，人口老龄化是个问题。但在地方范围内，这可能是个福音。在英国，50岁以上的人群掌握着80%的财富，并乐于将这些财富用于购置房产和商场购物。相比而言，年轻的“租房一代”经济比较拮据，很容易分心，且依赖网上购物。
People aged between 50 and 74 spend twice as much as the under-30s on cinema tickets.Between and restaurant spending by those aged 65-74 increased by 33%, while the under-30s spent 18% less. The pension pots liberated by George Osborne's budget earlier this year will likely pour into property. And while the young still struggle to find work, older people are retiring later. During the financial crisis full-time employment fell for every age group but the over-65s, and there has been a rash of older entrepreneurs. Pensioners also support the working population by volunteering: some 100 retirees in Christchurch help out as business mentors.
年龄在50到74岁之间的人群花在电影票上的钱是30岁以下人群的两倍之多。在到间，65到74岁人群的餐厅费用增长了33%，而30岁以下人群则减少了18%。今年年初因乔治·奥斯本的新财政预算案而被释放的养老金池将很可能大量涌入流通市场。当年轻人还在找工作的苦海中挣扎时，老年人的退休年龄却越来越推后了。金融危机期间，各个年龄阶层的全职工作率都降低了，只有65岁以上的人群没有受到影响，并且还出现了大批的老年企业家。领取养老金的人还通过志愿服务来帮助工作人群：克莱斯特彻奇就有约100名退休人员志愿成为企业导师。
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Even if they wanted to, most small towns and cities could not capture the cool kids. Mobile young professionals cluster, and greatly prefer to cluster in London. Even supposed meccas like Man chester are ageing: clubs in that city are becoming members-only, and there are an increasing number of places, as one resident puts it, that “a 19-year-old wouldn't be seen dead in”. Towns that aim too young, like Bracknell and Chippenham, can find their high streets full of closed La Senzas (a lingerie chain) and struggling tattoo parlours. Outside Britain's capital, high concentrations of youth are commonly tied to high unemployment rates.
即使很多小城镇希望吸引年轻人，它们也做不到。流动的年轻人喜欢扎堆，尤其是喜欢聚集在伦敦。即使是像曼彻斯特这样所谓的麦加圣地也在逐渐老龄化：城市里的俱乐部正转向会员制，正如一个当地居民所说，越来越多的地方“看不到一个十九岁的少年在其中醉生梦死”。像布拉科内尔和切本哈姆这样定位于年龄过小的年轻人的城市，很容易发现自己的商业区满是倒闭的La Senzas(一内衣连锁店)和艰难经营的纹身室。在英国首都之外，年轻人的聚集通常都与高失业率捆绑在一起。
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Companies often lag behind local authorities in working this out. They are London-obsessed,and have been slow to appreciate the growing economic heft of the old—who are assumed,often wrongly, to stick with products they learned to love in their youth. But Caroyln Free man of Revelation Marketing reckons Britain could be on the verge of a marketing surge directed at the grey pound, “similar to what we saw with the pink”. The window will not remain open forever: soon the baby boomers will start to ail, and no one else alive today is likely to have such a rich retirement.
公司总是要比地方机构晚一步发现这个问题。他们痴迷于伦敦，并在欣赏日益增长的老年人不断提升的经济地位方面显得很迟钝——老年人通常被错误认为只会购买年轻时就认定了的产品。但来自Revelation Marketing(启示营销)的卡罗琳·弗里曼推测英国可能处于瞄准老年人钱包的营销边缘，“与我们从婴儿身上看到的潜力相似”。这么一个机会不会永远处于空窗期：很快婴儿潮世代的人年岁将会增长，而今天也再没有其他人会拥有这么好的退休待遇。
Meanwhile, with the over-50s holding the purse strings, the towns that draw them are likely togrow more and more pleasant. The lord mayor of Manchester, Sue Cooley, notes that decentrestaurants and nice shops spring up in the favoured haunts of the old, just as they do in thetrendy, revamped boroughs of London. Latimer House, a Christ church furniture store full ofretro clothing and 1940s music, would not look out of place in Hackney. Improved high streetsthen entice customers of all ages.
同时，由于50岁以上的人群手握着钱包，吸引他们的城镇正在变得越来越令人满意。曼彻斯特的荣誉市长苏·库利指出受老年人青睐的高档餐厅和精致的商店正在崛起，正如在伦敦时髦、改造过的街区一样。拉蒂摩之家，一家摆满复古服饰、播放着40年代音乐的克莱斯特彻奇家具店，在哈克尼也不会显得格格不入。改进后的商业街可以吸引各个年龄层的顾客了。
Indeed, gentrification and gerontification can look remarkably similar. Old folk and younghipsters are similarly fond of vinyl and typewriters, and wander about in outsized spectacles.Some people never lose their edge.
确实，中产阶级化和老年化看起来惊人的相似。老伙计和年轻潮人都喜爱和打字机，并都戴着大号的眼镜在外闲逛。有些人永远风华正茂。
篇3：如何提高雅思阅读分数
雅思如何打破阅读5.5分魔咒——阅读篇
把握好填空题
其实对比输出单项的写作和口语，作为输入单项的阅读，想要实现5.5到6的突破其实不难。从评分标准来看，阅读单项5.5分是做对20-22个，而6分则是做对23-26个——仅仅需要多做对1-6个题。而这6个题的正确率到底可以从哪里得到保证呢?
雅思阅读一共涉及到16个题型。根据不同的考察侧重点，可以分为细节题和主旨题，细节题只会涉及到原文的1-3句话，而主旨题会涉及到整个段落甚至整篇文章，因此显然细节题比主旨题简单。而根据不同的答题方式，这16个题型也可以分为填空题和非填空题。做过题的同学们肯定都知道，填空题需要大家定位到文章具体的1-3句话上，因此填空题可以判定为细节题，填空题是简单的。所以，各位同学，请大家首先一定把握好填空题，保证100%的正确率，为band 6打好基础。
填空题一共涉及到8个子题型，且每次考试必有，请大家擦亮眼睛识别好，分别是label the diagram(填图)、complete the flow-chart(填流程图)、complete the table(填表格)、answer the question(简答题)、complete the sentences(填句子)、complete the notes(填笔记)、complete the summary without a box(填空型摘要)以及complete the summary with a box(选择型摘要)。
那么如何能够保证填空题百分百的正确率呢?各位同学需要注意以下六点。
第一、关注好题目要求，“明察暗示”。
填空题一定会有这样的题目要求“Choose ONE WORD ONLY / NO MORE THAN X WORDS from the passage for each answer”,这里如果是“NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS”(for example)，那么一定至少有一个空填的是两个单词;而“from the passage”即“原文原词”，但不仅仅是“copy exactly“，且也不能把文章当做语料库对原文单词进行自由组合。
第二、小“title”大用处。
上述6种填空题几乎都会给大家“title”，请大家务必先用其定段，会节约很多时间。要知道在雅思阅读考试中，时间真的是金钱和绳命。
第三，“顺序性”原则不能忘。
然而遗憾的是只有complete the flow-chart(填流程图)、answer the question(简答题)、complete the sentences(填句子)以及complete the notes(填笔记)这4种填空题有严格的顺序性，但依然可以好好利用，帮助我们来定位。
接着的三点开启简单粗暴模式。
第四、每道填空题选取两个关键词用来定位，空前一个，空后一个。
第五、回文定位时一定要定位到那两个关键词同时存在的地方。
第六、接着通读关键词所在的完整句子，完整句子，完整句子。
把握好判断题
因为判断题在雅思阅读中属于必考题型，题目数量较多但难度较小，做对的几率还是比较大的。
首先，判断题有着严格的顺序性，请大家在定位时务必好好利用起来。
其次，一定要按照题目要求来写答案。虽然在做题时TRUE/FLASE 和YES/NO的判断原则一致，但是写答案时如果将TRUE写成了它的好基友YES，是不得分的，FALSE与NO同理。
第三，也是最重要的一点，拿到判断题第一步并不是急吼吼地去定位，而是通读题干，弄清楚题目要让你判断的是什么。
背单词
所谓石头剪刀布，奶茶配珍珠，单词配阅读，而雅思阅读对于单词的要求只有一个维度，即看到后马上反应出准确的中文意思，也就是通常所说的“认知单词”。《四级词汇》是必须每一个都要知道中文意思的，因为它们会出现在题干里。《雅思词汇》记忆起来偏难，大家尽量背。
雅思双语阅读：英国饮食文化早餐篇
Today people in the UK eat a more varied diet than ever before. As well as the regional diets of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland the many immigrant communities have introduced their cuisines to the previously unadventurous Britons: Chinese, Greek, Indian, Italian, Thai, American fast foods such as pizza, hamburgers and fried chicken have to some extent displaced the traditional fast food of fish and chips.
今天，人们在英国吃了更多样化的饮食比以往任何时候。以及区域饮食的英格兰，苏格兰，威尔士和北爱尔兰，许多移民社区介绍了他们的菜以前unadventurous英国人：中国，希腊，印度，意大利，泰国，美国快餐食品，如比萨饼，汉堡包和炸鸡已在一定程度上取代传统的快餐店的炸鱼和薯条。
Because of the climate and the Germanic origins of many of its early people, the UK has been a traditionally beer drinking rather than a wine drinking country. Nevertheless, in recent years, vineyards in the south of England have proved successful. In the west of England the traditional drink is cider , rather than beer. Over Britain as a whole, however, the traditional drink is tea.
由于气候和日耳曼起源及其早期的许多人，英国一直是传统上喝啤酒，而不是葡萄酒的饮用国。然而，近年来，葡萄园在英格兰南部的已证明是成功的。英格兰西部的传统饮料是苹果酒，而不是啤酒。英国作为一个整体，但是，传统的饮料是茶。
今天我们来详细介绍一下英国的早餐。
The most famous meal in Britain could be the traditional breakfast. What makes it so popular with British people and visitors alike?
在英国最有名的一餐可能就要数早餐了。为什么它会这么受英国人和游客的喜爱呢?
英式早餐全餐(British Breakfast)，比其他国家的正餐还要丰富，绝非只有牛角包配果酱咖啡的欧式早餐(Continental Breakfast)可比。这份早餐俗称the fry-up，因为里面多是煎炸的食物：香肠(sausage)，腌肉(bacon)，蘑菇(mushroom)，番茄(tomato)。除此之外，还有土司(toast)，英式烤饼(scone )，茄汁焗豆(baked beans)等食物。
吃英式早餐，鸡蛋是不能少的。鸡蛋通常有四种烹调方法。
Fried 煎
英国人煎蛋，通常只煎一面，蛋黄生生的，俗称“太阳蛋”，也就是美国人口中的 sunny side up
Scrambled 炒
Boiled 煮
是把鸡蛋连壳直接放进水里煮，熟透的叫做hard-boiled，半熟的叫做 soft-boiled
Poached 炖
是把蛋去壳后用温水煮，煮出来的蛋内生外熟，形状不一。
英式早餐茶
Accounts of its origins vary. Drinking a blend of black teas for breakfast is indeed a longstanding British custom. The practice of referring to such a blend as “English breakfast tea” appears to have originated not in England but America, as far back as Colonial times.
英国人喝早餐茶的习惯事实上是英国长久以来的传统。只是“英国早餐茶”这一说法却不是从英国而来的，而是从殖民地时期从美国而来。
English Breakfast tea is a black tea blend usually described as full-bodied, robust, and/or rich, and blended to go well with milk and sugar, in a style traditionally associated with a hearty English breakfast. It is the most common style of tea in Britain.
英国早餐茶是由集中红茶以一定比例拼配而成，是一种口味醇厚，香味浓郁的饮品。适合搭配牛奶和糖。与多姿多彩的英式早餐相得益彰。是英国最常见的一种茶。
雅思双语阅读：美国城市压力排行，芝加哥居首
美国城市压力排行 芝加哥居首
Chicago most stressed city in U.S., Miami least: poll
An image of Chicago. A survey by Harris Interactive found Chicago is the most stressed city in the nation.
Striving to attain that perfect life, work balance? You're not alone, but if you live in Chicago you're more unlikely to find it with residents of the Windy City the most stressed in the United states.
A survey by Harris Interactive found Chicago is the most stressed city in the nation, followed Houston, Boston, Los Angeles and San Diego, while Miami is the least stressed, along with Dallas/Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Cincinnati and Minneapolis.
“It is (due) to a combination of different things. There wasn't one thing that made Chicago stand out but they were the ones who had the least attainment of life balance,” Harris Interactive spokeswoman Regina Corso told reporters.
“In other cities, some by leaps and bounds, their residents have managed to attain some level (of life balance).”
Washington DC, despite its concentration of politicians and high-powered wheeler-dealers, came 12th in the poll of 25 cities, ahead of New York at No. 17 but lower than Denver, San Francisco, Tampa or Seattle on the stress scale.
“I expected to see a different order,” admitted Corso. “But maybe people in Chicago are trying to do too much.”
She attributed Miami's low stress levels to its proximity to the sea, warm weather and laid back attitude.
Nearly three quarters of Americans questioned in the Life Balance Barometer Survey commissioned by Princess Cruises said they have not discovered how to juggle work and personal priorities, but 53 percent believe they could achieve it in the next five years.
Financial pressure was the leading cause of stress among the 1,539 people questioned in the online poll, with getting fit and losing weight coming a close second, followed by failing to complete the to-do list and concerns about unemployment.
Although more than half of Americans said they want to get fit, only 17 percent used exercise to relieve stress.
The most popular methods to calm down at the end of the day were changing clothes, laying down, kissing a spouse or partner, playing with a pet and reading a book or magazine.
Vocabulary:
Windy City：风城，指芝加哥。早在1886年，Windy City(芝加哥)的说法就已被媒体接受，而且，当时所言的windy绝无贬抑之意，而是特指芝加哥的宜人气候。每到夏季，湖区凉风阵阵，芝加哥成为美国人的避暑好去处，Windy City(风城)由此得名。
stand out: 引人注目，脱颖而出
by leaps and bounds：very rapidly(飞跃地，非常迅速地)
high-powered：having great power or energy; dynamic(有权势的;精力旺盛的)
wheeler-dealer：one who advances one's own interests by canny, aggressive, or unscrupulous behavior(商界或政界的工于心计的人，进行复杂交易的人)
laid back：free from stress; easygoing; carefree(无忧无虑的，随和的)
juggle：to manage or alternate the requirements of (two or more tasks, responsibilities, activities, etc.) so as to handle each adequately(尽力同时应对，同时做)
你一直在追求生活和工作的完美平衡?不止你一人这样想。但如果你生活在芝加哥，这一美好的愿望可能较难实现。据调查，这座“风城”是美国压力最大的城市。
哈里斯互动调查公司开展的一项调查发现，芝加哥是美国压力最大的城市，休斯敦、波士顿、洛杉矶和圣地亚哥位居其后。而迈阿密则是美国压力最小的城市，达拉斯/沃思堡、拉斯维加斯、辛辛那提和明尼阿波利斯也在此列。
哈里斯互动调查公司的女发言人雷吉娜•柯索在接受记者采访时说：“这是多方面因素造成的。并不是某一个因素造成了这一结果，但芝加哥人的生活平衡程度最低。”
“在其它一些城市，当地居民能够在工作和生活之间达到一定程度的平衡，其中有些还是飞速发展的城市。”
尽管华盛顿是政界和商界精英的聚集地，但该市在25个受调查城市中中仅列第12位，位于纽约之前(第17位)，但在丹佛、旧金山、坦帕以及西雅图之后。
柯索称：“我没想到是这样的一个结果，但也许芝加哥人太努力了。”
她认为，迈阿密之所以压力小，可能与它靠海，气候温暖以及当地人悠闲的生活态度有关。
近四分之三的美国受访者称他们还没找到兼顾工作和生活的好办法，但53%的受访者称自己可以在五年内实现这一目标。这项“生活平衡晴雨表调查”由美国“公主邮轮公司”委托开展。
共有1539人参加了该在线调查。经济压力被认为是导致压力的主因，保健和减肥紧随其后，没完成计划以及担心失业次之。
尽管半数以上的美国人称想要强身健体，但仅有17%的受访者通过锻炼减压。
在一天的劳累之后，人们常通过这些方法放松：如换衣服、躺下休息、亲吻伴侣或爱人、和宠物玩耍或看看书和杂志。
篇4：如何提高托福阅读分数
The sculptural legacy that the new United States inherited from its colonial predecessors was far from a rich one, and in fact, in 1776 sculpture as an art form was still in the hands of artisans and craftspeople. Stone carvers engraved their motifs of skulls and crossbones and other religious icons of death into the gray slabs that we still see standing today in old burial grounds. Some skilled craftspeople made intricately carved wooden ornamentations for furniture or architectural decorations, while others caved wooden shop signs and ships' figureheads. Although they often achieved expression and formal excellence in their generally primitive style, they remained artisans skilled in the craft of carving and constituted a group distinct from what we normally think of as sculptors in today's use of the word.
On the rare occasion when a fine piece of sculpture was desired, Americans turned to foreign sculptors, as in the 1770's when the cities of New York and Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned the Englishman Joseph Wilton to make marble statues of William Pitt. Wilton also made a lead equestrian image of King George III that was created in New York in 1770 and torn down by zealous patriots six years later. A few marble memorials with carved busts, urns, or other decorations were produced in England and brought to the colonies to be set in the walls of churches — as in King's Chapel in Boston. But sculpture as a high art, practiced by artists who knew both the artistic theory of their Renaissance-Baroque-Rococo predecessors and the various technical procedures of modeling, casting, and carving rich three-dimensional forms, was not known among Americans in 1776. Indeed, for many years thereafter, the United States had two groups from which to choose — either the local craftspeople or the imported talent of European sculptors.
The eighteenth century was not one in which powered sculptural conceptions were developed. Add to this the timidity with which unschooled artisans — originally trained as stonemasons, carpenters, or cabinetmakers — attacked the medium from which they sculpture made in the United States in the late eighteenth century.
1. What is the main idea of the passage ?
(A) There was great demand for the work of eighteenth-century artisans.
(B) Skilled sculptors did not exist in the United States in the 1770's.
(C) Many foreign sculptors worked in the United States after 1776.
(D) American sculptors were hampered by a lack of tools and materials.
2. The word motifs in line 3 is closest in meaning to
(A) tools
(B) prints
(C) signatures
(D) designs
3. The work of which of the following could be seen in burial grounds?
(A) European sculptors
(B) Carpenters
(C) Stone carves
(D) Cabinetmakers
4. The word others in line 6 refers to
(A) craftspeople
(B) decorations
(C) ornamentations
(D) shop signs
5. The word distinct in line 9 is closest in meaning to
(A) separate
(B) assembled
(C) notable
(D) inferior
6. The word rare in line 11 is closest in meaning to
(A) festive
(B) infrequent
(C) delightful
(D) unexpected
7. Why does the author mention Joseph Wilton in line 13?
(A) He was an English sculptor who did work in the United States.
(B) He was well known for his wood carvings
(C) He produced sculpture for churches.
(D) He settled in the United States in 1776.
8. What can be inferred about the importation of marble memorials from England?
(A) Such sculpture was less expensive to produce locally than to import
(B) Such sculpture was not available in the United States.
(C) Such sculpture was as prestigious as those made locally.
(D) The materials found abroad were superior.
9. How did the work of American carvers in 1776 differ from that of contemporary sculptors?
(A) It was less time-consuming
(B) It was more dangerous.
(C) It was more expensive.
(D) It was less refined.
答案：BDCAA BABD
篇5：如何提高托福阅读分数
Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, citizens of the United States maintained a bias against big cities. Most lived on farms and in small towns and believed cities to be centers of corruption, crime, poverty, and moral degradation. Their distrust was caused, in part, by a national ideology that proclaimed farming the greatest occupation and rural living superior to urban living. This attitude prevailed even as the number of urban dwellers increased and cities became an essential feature of the national landscape. Gradually, economic reality overcame ideology. Thousands abandoned the precarious life on the farm for more secure and better paying jobs in the city. But when these people migrated from the countryside, they carried their fears and suspicious with them. These new urbanities, already convinced that cities were overwhelmed with great problems, eagerly embraced the progressive reforms that promised to bring order out of the chaos of the city.
One of many reforms came in the area of public utilities. Water and sewerage systems were usually operated by municipal governments, but the gas and electric networks were privately owned. Reformers feared that the privately owned utility companies would charge exorbitant rates for these essential services and deliver them only to people who could afford them. Some city and state governments responded by regulating the utility companies, but a number of cities began to supply these services themselves. Proponents of these reforms argued that public ownership and regulation would insure widespread access to these utilities and guarantee a fair price.
While some reforms focused on government and public behavior, others looked at the cities as a whole. Civic leaders, convinced that physical environment influenced human behavior, argued that cities should develop master plans to guide their future growth and development. City planning was nothing new, but the rapid industrialization and urban growth of the late nineteenth century took place without any consideration for order. Urban renewal in the twentieth century followed several courses. Some cities introduced plans to completely rebuild the city core. Most other cities contented themselves with zoning plans for regulating future growth. Certain parts of town were restricted to residential use, while others were set aside for industrial or commercial development.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) A comparison of urban and rural life in the early twentieth century
(B) The role of government in twentieth century urban renewal
(C) Efforts to improve urban life in the early twentieth century
(D) Methods of controlling urban growth in the twentieth century
2. The word bias in line 2 is closest in meaning to
(A) diagonal
(B) slope
(C) distortion
(D) prejudice
3. The first paragraph suggests that most people who lived in rural areas
(A) were suspicious of their neighbors
(B) were very proud of their lifestyle
(C) believed city government had too much power
(D) wanted to move to the cities
4. In the early twentieth century, many rural dwellers migrated to the city in order to
(A) participate in the urban reform movement
(B) seek financial security
(C) comply with a government ordinance
(D) avoid crime and corruption
5. The word embraced in line 11 is closest in meaning to
(A) suggested
(B) overestimated
(C) demanded
(D) welcomed
6. What concern did reformers have about privately owned utility companies?
(A) They feared the services would not be made available to all city dwellers.
(B) They believed private ownership would slow economic growth
(C) They did not trust the companies to obey the government regulations.
(D) They wanted to ensure that the services would be provided to rural areas.
7. The word exorbitant in line 16 is closest in meaning to
(A) additional
(B) expensive
(C) various
(D) modified
8. All of the following were the direct result of public utility reforms EXCEPT
(A) local governments determined the rates charged by private utility companies
(B) some utility companies were owned and operated by local governments
(C) the availability of services was regulated by local government
(D) private utility companies were required to pay a fee to local governments
9. The word Proponents in line 18 is closest in meaning to
(A) Experts
(B) Pioneers
(C) Reviewers
(D) Supporters
10. Why does the author mention industrialization (line 24)?
(A) To explain how fast urban growth led to poorly designed cities
(B) To emphasize the economic importance of urban areas
(C) To suggest that labor disputes had become an urban problem
(D) To illustrate the need for construction of new factories
答案：CDBBD ABDDA
篇6：怎么提高托福阅读理解分数
怎么提高阅读理解分数
1、题型——注重解题方法
托福阅读10种题型，除最后的小结题外大都属于考查文章细节的题目。根据题干中的关键词定位是至关重要的一步，然后就是理解。此时如果词汇量太小怎么办?事实上做阅读我们永远要牢记的就是找句子主干，考查的信息基本都在主干中体现了，
比如：The deer which once picturesquely dotted the meadows around the fort were gone [in 1832], hunted to extermination in order to protect the crops.
这个句子较长，其中有which引导的定语从句，还有hunted… 这个状语，而解题时我们只需要句子的主干The deer were gone。多数同学在做题时有个习惯就是看到一句话后就开始逐词阅读，甚至试图把它翻译成中文，这可谓“兵家大忌”。
遇到一句话先抓主干，遇到整段记得扫描段落有无显眼的连词，举例信号词等，浏览每段的主题句。
再说一下小结题，大多数考生的切肤之痛。一是做到最后一题时时间已所剩无几，二是最后一题是对全文的主要内容的总结，相对复杂。
在课堂中，我一再向学生强调把握全文结构及大意的重要性，而如何去把握?
一是做题之前可大概浏览文章的标题及每段首句。作为学术性的阅读文章，首句基本都是主题句。尤其是总分结构的文章，比如练习题6中的Infantile Amnesia, 虽然文章较难理解，但是文中明确提出了三种观点first，second，third… 那么此类文章小结题的选项太显而易见了。再者，文章的每段会对应出2-3道题，那么题目中对应的部分基本都是段落的核心所在。从这两点就可以很快了解文章的主要内容。所以在进行练习题练习时，做题虽不可或缺，但还要注意多加练习快速阅读文章的能力。
2、主题——增加背景知识
有部分学生反映做阅读时很难投入进去，有一点原因就是对于文章所述内容太过陌生，如果你对其略知一二，相信定会有所不同。比如练习题中有篇文章讲到化学元素周期表，对于高中生来说再熟悉不过了，阅读的时候半读半猜，估计也可以理解的八九不离十了。
若考试准备时间充足，可以多加涉猎，扩充自己的知识背景;若时间紧张，则需搞定练习题套题。根据文章记忆单词，并不是文章中出现的每一个“陌生的面孔”都要去熟悉，比如一些繁琐的专有名词跳过即可。主要记忆的当然是一些动词、名词及形容词，尤其是出现在句子主干中，与解题有关的词汇。
除了词汇，应学会分析题干及题目，比如题干中出现了effect，conclusion之类的词，其实已经界定了我们寻找的范围——段落靠后的部分，还有就是观点性和总结性的句子永远会是考察的重点所在。做题的时候学会分析原文和选项，进行对比，比如句子简化题，做一题需要看五个长句，似乎很花费时间，但并不需要每个句子都要细看，而是先明确原句的逻辑及主干，抓住选项中的关键点与原句进行比较。
例如：As a result of crustal adjustments and faulting, the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean now connects to the Atlantic, opened, and water cascaded spectacularly back into the Mediterranean.A. The strait of Gibraltar reopened when the Mediterranean and the Atlantic became connected and the cascades of water from one sea to the other caused crustal adjustments and faulting.B. The Mediterranean was dramatically refilled by water from the Atlantic when crustal adjustments and faulting opened the Strait of Gibraltar, the place where the two seas are joined.C. The cascades of water from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean were not as spectacular as the crustal adjustments and faulting that occurred when the Strait of Gibraltar was connected to those seas.D. As a result of crustal adjustments and faultin;g and the creation of the Strait of Gibraltar, the Atlantic and Mediterranean were connected and became a single sea with spectacular cascades of water between them.
原句是因果逻辑的句子，先找出其因： crustal adjustments and faulting，果：the Strait opened, and water cascaded spectacularly back into the Mediterranean.接着来看选项：A…. caused crustal adjustments and faulting 显然是因果倒置了，毫不犹豫地灭掉;C. 因为此选项中出现比较not as spectacular as, 非常惹眼的一个核心词，而原文中是修饰动词的副词spectacularly，并未进行比较，二话不说也排除掉;D. As a result of crustal adjustments and faulting and the creation of the Strait of Gibraltar,… 这原因里怎么多出来一项啊，掳袖子撵人吧!
管中窥豹，可见一斑。由此例可见找关键，作分析可帮助我们快速并且准确的找出选项。值得注意的一点是：无论解题方法多么巧妙，离开了大量的练习就是“无本之源”。
如何备考托福阅
一、托福阅读答题顺序错误
顺序影响速度，进而影响考试得分。
考生在托福阅读答题时究竟是先看文章还是先读题，就跟“先有鸡还是先有蛋”的问题一样难解，若你还没有找到一个较合理的做题顺序，不妨按照下面的流程来：
先看题，再看每道题目标示出的其对应的段落，并在该段中进行考点定位，阅读，最终选出答案。这样比较容易取得托福阅读高分。
二、托福阅读答题思路错误
常听学生说“这道题做错是因为我当时想多了”。托福阅读的选项之间意思很贴近。而托福阅读基本是在考paraphrase(释义)。
那么在做题的时候一定要注意：答案都是在文中能直接找的到的，不要去做任何推断，哪怕是所谓的推断题。
三、托福阅读答题技巧运用不熟练
首先，我们做题时要时刻保持主动性。这里的主动是指在读文章的时候应主动思考并预判下文以及出题点。并且这招也是很多高分学员分享的经验。那么，“采取主动预判的做题方式，能够帮助你更快的完成题目”这就是一种做题技巧。
不过，知道了技巧和会运用可是两码事。如何熟练的运用?要做系统的训练：托福阅读的每篇文章的逻辑结构都是很严谨的，并且这种严谨的逻辑模式也是屈指可数。
四、阅读核心基本功-单词量不够
很多25/26分的学生刷了数次托福阅读依旧没有满分，分析原因发现他们有一个共性，那就是单词背的不扎实。单词不过关，很容易对题目和文章内容的理解产生偏差。因为你只有看懂了，才会明白题意，才知道如何答题。不以词汇量为基础的所有做题技巧都是不可靠的。所以还是得踏踏实实背单词!
备考托福阅读有哪些需要注意的事项?
1、对托福阅读题型需了解
托福阅读总共包含了三篇文章，每篇文章的单词数在650～750个单词之间，对应考试试题一般在12道左右，这些题目的类型包含：总结题、图表题、词汇题、推断题、修辞目的题、事实信息题等题目。托福阅读的考试时间在60分钟，这个时间需要你去合理的分配时间，在规定的时间把所有的题都解决掉。
2、托福阅读误区需避免
在托福阅读考试中一些误区是要同学们要必须避免的，在平常的备考练习中就要时刻谨记，首先在阅读审题时不要一字不漏的都看完这样你的时间就根本不够用，要学会抓重点。其次是文章没有看完就开始做题，这样整体文章说的什么都不知道，想做对题那就更难了。第三是惧怕生词，做题难免会遇到生词，这时也不要紧张，通过上下文的分析找到正确答案是没有问题的。
3、掌握解题技巧
除了了解托福阅读考什么外，掌握解题技巧也是拿到满意托福成绩的关键。托福解题技巧能够让你在解答过程中除了节省时间外正确率也是非常高的。首先做阅读的前提是英语单词得认识，在掌握了托福阅读做题方法之前，单词的记忆是必修课，提高词汇量是提高阅读成绩的基础。很多同学在做阅读时先读文章每段的首句，然后再看考试题目，再找出文章的托福阅读应对试题。这需要同学们找到适合自己的解题方法来应对解题。
托福阅读如何读懂
1、花两三分钟时间扫描每篇托福阅读文章头一两个句子，定位文章难易程度。虽然平均每篇文章做题时间为11分钟，但是有的文章七八分钟便可以轻松对付，有的文章则需要15分钟左右。一般来说，5篇文章中有2篇难度大一些，比方说：如果最后一篇文章难度大，且12-14道题，在这种情况下，按部就班做题就有可能因时间不够而做错好几道题，带来巨大的损失。因此首先定位文章难程度，同时目测文章的含金量(即题量分布)，有助于科学分配阅读部分的做题时间。
2、采取“结构扫描”法阅读具体的一篇文章。所谓结构，即文章的骨架子。托福阅读文章是纯学术体(Academic)，是北美国际留学生在大学里天天都能接触到的教科书风格的文章，这些文章涉及人文社科和自然科学，均议论文、说明文，最显著的特点是呈板块结构。
文章均由数个自然段组成，正确的阅读文章的方法应该是把文章首句先吃透，文章首句经常为文章主题。然后把首段的其他句子尽快略读，文章其他段落采取同样的方法阅读。各段落其他句子一般来说都是用来说明各个段落的主题句，没有必要每个句子理解难度大，而不涉及考题，在此句停留无疑是白白浪费时间。所以，采取“结构扫描”法，意味着以最快捷的方式了解托福阅读文章大意，从而正确引导下一步做具体的题，而不至于出现大方向的理解错误。
托福阅读的速成方法
分数要求
想得28分以上，一般就是错3个左右，也就是不含加试一篇一个。我给自己的要求：不能错词汇题以外的任何题
阅读时间：
15分钟一篇，一篇13/14道题。(官方要求是20分钟一篇)
13道题中除了4道词汇题(30‘’)1道多选题(1’30‘’)之外，其他题目基本(1‘)一般是在第三段/第四段，大概第8题/第9题的样子，是一段会出2道理解题的段落。题目编排，近几年的TPO一般第一篇第二篇文章偏难，生词多，第三篇简单难度类似早期TPO。
在题目上一般是(细节 词汇，细节 作用， 细节 词汇， 细节 词汇 改写， 细节 词汇， 黑点 大意)规律就是每一段都会出细节题(In paragraph n...)再加一道其他题，早期一段只有一道题的情况几乎不存在了。
简单的文章可能会出比较难的大意题，尤其是对比型的简单文章。用上面的标准控制时间，用下面的方法去读的话，20分钟一般都是够用的。
我的阅读障碍：
速度：1’大概150-170字，生词量一般而且前后不出现感觉自相矛盾需要停下来想的情况下。
选项：词汇量一般，有时词汇题的相似词汇不造句都感觉不出区别。
新托福阅读真题训练技巧：
1，粗看下文章的段数，对每段大概几道题有个预期。(比如只有5段，那长段肯定是3道题)粗看每段第一句话，对文章的整体意思心中有数。
2，每段段首变成中文理解，以迅速的进入状态，并记忆主要意思。(就算只有一道词汇题，这段的段首也要读)
3，每读一段整理一次逻辑，A支持的观点是，A的观点的问题是B的观点是。。。(记忆法，图像帮助理解，逻辑帮助记忆，生成图像来理解含义，对逻辑部分用色彩记忆红黄绿记忆法，每一段的第一句作为逻辑中心标记黄色，这段如果讲倒推如原因，在脑中的逻辑框架就在红色的区域生成记忆，如果正推将后果等就在绿色区域生成图像，读完全文留下来的会是每一排都是红黄绿三色的逻辑关系，每一段都纵向罗列，如下)红——黄——绿
红——黄——绿
4，鉴于每段都会出细节题，如果有词汇题等先只看一句话，做完了要看到细节题问的什么再看文章，鉴于有四个选项，选一个对的或者不对的，看的时候自己要边看边总结，比如总结出三个步骤， 解释了三个方面的问题，或者其他。5，要检查，每个不确定的题都标上guess回来看，我不确定的题错的概率还是非常高的。如果不走神的理解全文，一般15分钟是够的，还能剩下几分钟检查。
新托福阅读真题做题策略：
词汇题、句子改写题——只读该句不读完整段(30‘ 4 + 1’ 1)耗时3分钟
词汇题看好单词的词性、发出者(是人，是物)，保持一致的最对，看这一句即可。
In the past,whole cities grew from the arduoustask of cutting and piling stone upon. Some of the world’s finest stonearchitecture can be seen in the ruins of the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the eastern Andes
Mountains
of Peru.猜词是保证不了完全准了，根据意思，这道题排除BD，剩下AC很是纠结，但是看task本身，skilled task这种说法小奇怪，一般是skilled workers，所以选A
The word “arduous” in the passage is closest inmeaning to
○Difficult○Necessary○Skilled○Shared
词汇题对于我一直是难点超爱错，猜出来的，如果有时间检查一定要再看一下，从ETS出题的角度考虑。
篇7：gre考试阅读分数提升方法
gre考试阅读分数提升方法是?
gre阅读方法一：从容易掌握的题目开始
适用人群：英语基础不是非常好，词汇量缺乏，文章对其来说基本看不太懂的考生。
操作方法：天道gre备考攻略提示，拿到新gre阅读试卷后浏览文章标题，然后选定一篇文章开始做题。但是选择的时候要注意题材的熟悉度，可以挑选自己相对还比较熟悉的题材先做。选定后就开始审题。审题则是按照题型来看。首选是填空题和判断题，其次是选择和配对题。例如说文章后题型搭配为判断题+选择题+填空题，那么先审判断题这一部分题目，一题一题做，根据判断题的做题方法去做，而且可以利用顺序性去看文章找答案。做完判断题以后再做填空题，利用填空题的标题或第一句话中的名词去做定位，然后用填空题的做题方法去把填空题做完。最后去做选择题，因为选择题对于文章的理解要求比较高，对于程度不太好的gre考试考生来说会比较难做。
优点：能尽量保证填空题的正确率，在能得分的题目中保证得分。对于基础不是很好的考生来说是一个既能保证正确率又能相对节约时间的方法;
缺陷：时间花费比较多，而且会多次重复阅读文章。
gre阅读方法二：从文章的开头开始
适用人群：英语词汇量大，平时经常阅读英语文章或浏览英语网站，语法基础扎实，短期记忆力强，对自己的英语能力非常有信心的gre考生。
操作方法：拿到gre阅读考试试卷后浏览文章标题，然后选定一篇文章开始做题。选定文章后先阅读所有的题目，即13-14道题目，把每一道题目的关键词划出来并进行短期记忆。(注：关键词包括定位词和考点，定位词多以名词为主，考点则多以谓语动词和形容词副词为主)重点记忆一些定位性强的名词。
看完题目之后去看文章，从头开始看，按文章的顺序和段落去理解，边看边回忆之前记忆中的定位词，看到了就用笔做一个记号。注意在看的过程中是要以理解文章为主，不要过多的去想题目的内容，主要是看懂文章。看完以后再去看题目，根据文章的内容去做题。如果有文章的内容记不清，就可以利用之前读文章时划出的定位词再回原文看一下然后确定答案。
优点：节省时间，做题速度快;
缺陷：挑战考生英语能力和记忆力，并不适用于大部分考生，主要针对一些立志获得高分的考生。
gre阅读方法三：按照题目从头开始
适用人群：有一定的英语词汇量，并参加过培训班，掌握了基础语法知识。
操作方法：拿到阅读试卷后浏览文章标题和文章后的题型，选择自己最熟悉的话题或者有自己最擅长的题型的那篇文章。然后浏览一下题型，确定下题型关注的先后顺序，也是先填空判断，后配对选择。但这种先后并不是绝对的，而是交替的，也就是在重点做填空判断之前已经将判断选择的定位词和关键词划出并记忆，然后在做填空判断时顺带这看看有没有出现配对题和选择题的定位词出现。如果程度稍好的同学则可以看一段文章，把这段文章中涉及到的各种题型的题目都完成，一段一段解决问题。但是用这种方法的时候要注意时间的把握。
优点：可以相对合理的安排时间去做题，也能保证容易做的题型的正确率。
缺陷：需要考生能随机应变，对不同的题型搭配要有合理的时间分配，可能会造成审题或看文章内容的混乱。
GRE阅读练习：Sea Cow
The dis appearance of Steller's sea cow from the Bering and Copper is lands by 1768 has long been blamed on intensive hunting. But its dis appearance took only 28 years from the time Steller first described the species, a remarkably short time for hunting alone to depopulate the is lands, especially given the large populations initially reported. However, by 1750, huntershad also targeted nearby sea otter populations . Fewer otters would have allowed s ea urchin populations on which the otterspreyed to expand and the urchins ' grazing pressure on kelp forests to increase. Sea cows were totally dependent on kelp for food, and within a decade of the onset of otter hunting Steller noted that the is lands' sea cows appeared malnourished.
1. Which of the following can be inferred from the pas s age about kelp forests in the Bering and Copper is lands between 1750 and 1768?
A. They were reduced significantly.
B. They disappeared entirely from the region.
C. They were the primary food source for sea otters .
D. They were harvested in record numbers by humans
E. They increased pressure on sea urchin populations.
2. According to the pas s age, it is likely that during the m id-1700s, s ea urchin populations near the Bering and Copper is lands
A. were diminished by sea cow predation
B. experienced substantial increases
C. migrated to waters with more plentiful food supplies
D. were reduced by the pressures of hunting
E. appeared to be malnourished
答案：AB
GRE阅读：有效提速的方法
怎样读地快?
每一眼看3,4个单词，形成这种阅读习惯，想想下自己是怎么读中文的，就怎么去读英文，当然肯定会比中文慢。
读文章时，下意识的跳过一些介词，冠词之类的，就像大家读中文都跳过“的”这种词，尽量一句话读一遍，强迫自己不回视，这能大大加快速度，读的慢的同学是不是经常一句话反复读呢?
如果是ts这种重要的句子，可以读个两遍，加强理解。因为英语的语序和我们不同，有时候只读一遍，确实难以一下子理解。
篇8：优质的原版杂志对于提高GRE阅读分数真的很有用
优质的原版杂志对于提高GRE阅读分数真的很有用
外文章。
复习GRE不止要看各类考试资料教课书籍，也需要阅读一些课外读物帮助提升实力，原版杂志无论从文章难度还是涉及内容上来说，都跟GRE考试，特别是GRE阅读有较大的相似度，可以说是最适合GRE复习的课外读物之一。不过，看原版杂志练GRE阅读提分也需要讲究方法，只是走马观花一看而过并不是正确的方法。下面本文就为大家具体讲解看原版杂志提升GRE阅读分数的心得技巧。新GRE机考加试规则大揭秘
一、看原版杂志对复习GRE有哪些好处?
那么看原版杂志对于备考复习GRE来说到底有哪些实际价值和好处呢?
1. GRE词汇&填空
首先从词汇上来说，GRE考试对于词汇的考察不仅体现在量上，对质也有很高的要求。考生不仅要背出单词的含义，还要学会辨析和使用词汇。而原版杂志中的文章由于难度和内容上与GRE考试相近，在词汇使用方面常会大量运用各类GRE词汇，对于很多词汇也常常会用各类近义词进行替换让文章更显出色。因此通过看杂志来学习巩固复习GRE词汇的含义和辨析用法，可以说原版杂志是相当好的选择。
2. GRE阅读
看原版杂志最能够提升的应该就是GRE阅读了。事实上，许多GRE阅读文章本身就是选自杂志中的文章并加以适当改动而来，因此从文章风格上来说，看原版杂志就等于是变相在看GRE阅读文章。而无论是文章涉及的各类背景知识，还是其中对于长难句的运用，考生都可以在GRE阅读中找到相似之处。常看原版杂志的考生，面对GRE阅读时，往往会觉得十分亲切，考试压力也会更小。GRE逻辑阅读烧脑难题怎么做?
3. GRE写作
原版杂志的文章文笔相当优秀，各类遣词造句的使用可谓经典，而文章中对观点理论的阐述和论证，也有很高的借鉴价值，而这些恰恰都是GRE写作所需要的。因此，多看杂志，考生的写作能力必然会在无形中逐渐提升。而把这些技巧心得运用到GRE写作中，想要拿到作文高分自然也就不在话下了。
二、怎样正确阅读和使用原版杂志?
虽然看原版杂志好处不少，但考生也需要讲究正确的阅读和使用方法。充分用好杂志内容需要注意以下几点：
1. 培养端正的阅读态度
大家在看文章的时候总是会想当然下意识地根据自己喜好进行挑选。一些不感兴趣的话题往往会直接跳过。但在GRE考试中无论文章题材如何考生都必须认真去看，因此常会让一些人觉得很痛苦。所以，为了端正阅读态度，做到对所有题材内容都一视同仁，大家在看杂志的过程中也要注意避免挑食，哪怕是完全不熟悉不了解的话题，也需要认真投入地阅读，逐步培养对于所有文章一视同仁的阅读态度。这种态度对于GRE考试是十分重要的。
2. 看文章学会找重点
GRE考试中最让人头疼的就是长篇阅读，文章内容那么长，光是读完就要花不少时间，可以说是许多考生考试时间来不及的罪魁祸首。阅读长篇文章需要学会抓重点、跳读略读等技巧，要做到读完后脑海中对文章主旨和结构框架有所印象。而这些技巧和能力的培养，完全可以通过阅读原版杂志的文章来进行锻炼。大家还可以结合笔记进行整理，提高对长篇阅读的适应力。
3. 训练猜词技巧
在阅读过程中遭遇生词在所难免，哪怕是背熟了GRE词汇也偶尔会碰到冷僻词汇。看原版杂志也常会遇到这种情况。因此，考生完全可以通过阅读杂志来锻炼自己的猜词能力以及在生词干扰下理解文章大意的能力，应对考场上GRE阅读中生僻词。
4. 学习遣词造句
如上文所说，原版杂志中的文章质量很高，特别是在遣词造句方面都可以达到GRE高分满分范文的水平。因此，大家在阅读过程中，也可以适当摘抄记录一些好词妙句，适当背诵后灵活运用到自己的写作之中，让文章增光添彩。
三、提升GRE阅读能看什么原版杂志?
有许多质量优秀适于作为GRE备考课外读物的原版杂志刊物，比如《时代周刊》、《新闻周刊》等等。大家如果有比较方便能够接触到这些内容的渠道，完全可以把它们纳入自己的课外读物书单之中，结合备考复习计划进行阅读。另外，小站每天都会为考生推荐一篇精选双语阅读，确实想要提高阅读能力的同学真的应该每天都看一篇呢。
以上就是本文关于原版杂志和GRE阅读备考提分的一些介绍，希望大家也能够根据自身的备考计划，安排好课外杂志的阅读环节，为考试积累更多底蕴，在GRE考试中发挥出色，分数更上一层楼。
GRE考试阅读真题及答案
Passage 4
Writing about nineteenth-century women’s travel writing, Lila Harper notes that the four women she discussed used their own names, in contrast with the nineteenth-century female novelists who either published anonymously or used male pseudonyms. The novelists doubtless realized that they were breaking boundaries, whereas three of the four daring, solitary travelers espoused traditional values, eschewing radicalism and women’s movements. Whereas the female novelists criticized their society, the female travelers seemed content to leave society as it was while accomplishing their own liberation. In other words, they lived acontradiction. For the subjects of Harper’s study, solitude in both the private and public spheres prevailed—a solitude that conferred authority, hitherto a male prerogative, but that also precluded any collective action or female solidarity.
1. Which of the following best characterizes the “contradiction” that the author refers to?
A. The subjects of Harper’s study enjoyed solitude, and yet as travelers they were often among people.
B. Nineteenth-century travel writers used their own names, but nineteenth-century novelists used pseudonyms.
C. Women’s movements in the nineteenth-century were not very radical in comparison with those of the twentieth-century.
D. Nineteenth-century female novelists thought they were breaking boundaries, but it was the nineteenth-century women who traveled alone who were really doing so.
E. While traveling alone in the nineteenth-century was considered a radical act for a woman, the nineteenth-century solitary female travelers generally held conventional views.
Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
2. According to the passage, solitude had which of the following effects for the nineteenth century female travelers?
A. It conferred an authority typically enjoyed only by men.
B. It prevented formation of alliances with other women.
C. It relieved peer pressure to conform to traditional values.
答案：A B E
GRE考试阅读真题及答案
Although vastly popular during its time, much nineteenth-century women’s fiction in the United States went unread by the twentieth-century educated elite, who were taught to ignore it as didactic. However, American literature has a tradition of didacticism going back to its Puritan roots, shifting over time from sermons and poetic transcripts into novels, which proved to be perfect vehicles for conveying social values. In the nineteenth century, critics reviled Poe for neglecting to conclude his stories with pithy moral tags, while Longfellow was canonized for his didactic verse. Although rhetorical changes favoring the anti-didactic can be detected as nineteenth-century American transformed itself into a secular society, it was twentieth-century criticism, which placed aesthetic value above everything else, that had no place in its doctrine for the didacticism of others.
1. Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
A. It explains why the fiction mentioned in the first sentence was not popular in the twentieth century.
B. It assists in drawing a contrast between nineteenth-century and twentieth-century critics.
C. It provides an example of how twentieth – century readers were taught to ignore certain literature.
D. It questions the usefulness of a particular distinction between Poe and Longfellow made by critics.
E. It explains why Poe’s stories were more popular than Longfellow’s verse during the nineteenth century.
2. In the context in which it appears, “conveying” most nearly means
A. carrying
B. transferring
C. granting
D. imparting
E. projecting
答案：D B
GRE考试阅读真题及答案
During the Pleistocene epoch, several species of elephants isolated on islands underwent rapid dwarfing. This phenomenon was not necessarily confined to the Pleistocene, but may have occurred much earlier in the Southeastern Asian islands, although evidence is fragmentary. Several explanations are possible for this dwarfing. For example, islands often have not been colonized by large predators or are too small to hold viable predator populations. Once free from predation pressure, large body size is of little advantage to herbivores. Additionally, island habitats have limited food resources, a smaller body size and a need for fewer resources would thus be favored. Interestingly, the island rule is reversed for small mammals such as rodents, for which gigantism is favored under insular conditions.
1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. question the plausibility of one explanation sometimes offered for the dwarfing of certain species living on islands
B. argue that dwarfing of certain species living on islands occurred prior to the Pleistocene
C. cite evidence suggesting that dwarfing may have adverse consequences for some species living on islands
D. present some possible explanations for the dwarfing of certain species living on islands
E. contrast the effects of insular conditions on species with large body size and species with small body
2. According to the passage, which of the following statements about body size in mammals is true?
A. A large body is unfavorable to mammalian species’ survival under most conditions.
B. A large body tends to benefit small mammals living on islands.
C. For most herbivorous mammals, a large body size is easier to sustain in the absence of large predators.
D. Under most conditions, a small body is less beneficial to herbivorous mammals than to nonherbivorous mammals.
E. Among nonherbivorous mammals, a small body is more beneficial on an island than on a mainland.
答案：
DB
篇9：如何通过精读提高雅思阅读分数
雅思阅读备考丨如何通过精读提高雅思阅读分数
雅思阅读备考中精读的好处
提升词汇知识，包括学科核心生词，同义词替换等;
掌握更多句法，学会分解读懂长难句;
学习文章结构，提高雅思写作水平。
总之，精读文章是放长线钓大鱼，坚持下去，会实现词汇、句法上的突破，提升阅读成绩以及写作水平。
具体怎么精读?
在精读前，大家要准备好剑桥真题、铅笔、荧光笔、笔记本等工具，然后按照词汇、句子、篇章、题目的顺序依次进行分析。
词汇：实在不认识就蒙+猜，
对很多考鸭来说，雅思阅读中最大的bug莫过于生词太多，所以大家首先要突破生词障碍，才能读下去。大家可以将不认识的词，用荧光笔标注序号并整理到单词本中。
那么问题来了，
是不是逢生词必查?
查词是不是只需要记住意思?
除了生词，还需要记什么?
1.查清楚并掌握生词是必要的，但首先要猜词，因为真正的考试中不允许带字典等其他工具。那么怎么猜词?
大家可以通过上下文的时态、逻辑关系或词根词缀猜测出生词的意思。
如剑4,Test1,Passage1：
Many studies have shown that children harbor misconceptions about 'pure' curriculum science.These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted,
but organized, conceptual framework,making it and the
component ideas,some of which are erroneous, more robust
but also accessible to modification.
如果你不认识这一段中的multifaceted一词，那么我们可以联系上下文猜测它的意思，我们看到前面提到这些误解不是isolated ，再通过but这个转折，可以判断multifaceted应该是与isolated (单独的)相反的意思，并且multi-是一个前缀，表示 “多”的意思，所以可以猜出multifaceted是“多层面”的意思。
然而，并不是每个生词都需要记住：
如果因为不认识某个词就看不懂这句话，那一定要查并记住这个词;
如果一个生词并不影响你理解这句话，那就根据时间安排选择是否识别记忆这个词，不需要死记硬背。
2.中国考鸭习惯记生词只记其对应的中文意思，但如果你想真正地掌握这个词，就应该掌握它的具体用法包括搭配，尤其是动词，从而将来能灵活运用到写作中去。
3.除了记生词外，我们还要积累文中出现的同义词。同义替换是雅思阅读的考察重点和出题点，另外大家也可以借鉴到雅思写作中去，别忘了词语多样性是写作评分标准之一哦!
4.在精读几篇同类文章后，如生物类文章，将其中学科核心词汇整理到一起，以后再遇到生物类的文章，就能够快速读懂。
句子：雅思阅读中存在很多长难句，许多烤鸭经常是云里雾里，搞不清楚句子中谁是什么成分、谁在修饰谁，分分钟被绕晕。
但对于长难句，我们不需要抽丝剥茧，只需要简单粗暴地抓主干，切割主谓宾，即搞清楚：谁，做了什么。在三个成分中，谓语最好找，一般就是动词词组构成。
篇章：这是玩套路的Part!
我们要从宏观角度弄清文章段落逻辑，这个文章怎么就长成这个样子?
搞清楚每个段落的大意及主题句，文章段落间的逻辑关系(划出逻辑标志词)，文章整体结构是如何展开的，通过分析，你就会发现雅思阅读文章“套路”满满!
套路一：读头读尾，找出每段中心句!
以剑4,Test1,Passage1为例：
Many studies have shown that children harbor misconceptions about'pure' curriculum science. These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted, but organized, conceptual framework, making it and the component ideas,some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification. These ideas may be developed by children absorbing ideas through the popular media. Sometimes this information may be erroneous. It seems schools may not be providing an opportunity for children to re-express their ideas and so have them tested and refined by teachers and their peers.
这一段的首句为主题句，下面的内容是具体展开的阐述。
套路二：雅思阅读一身学术范儿，文章也是有模板!
雅思阅读的学术性特点限制着文章结构必须符合一定的学术规范，所以文章层次结构相对固定。
根据剑桥真题系列，学术类阅读大致可分为两类：说明文和议论文。该表格对雅思阅读两种类型的文章结构做了简单分析(大家参考一下)：
我们以说明文为例，开头段一般是引出主题介绍现象、概念或陈述事实，所以多用叙述描写性语言;主体段对事物细节展开描述，各种话题可通过三种不同方式展开，包括时间顺序、并列或递进(从各个侧面来介绍)、逻辑发展顺序，最后结尾段说明问题接下来会怎么发展，进行总结。
掌握这两个套路，我们就能抓住每段的主旨，了解文章的段落布局，那么在解决雅思两大超难题型---list of headings和段落信息匹配就能较快地定位到答案处。
题目：一切不以做对题拿到分为目的的精读都是耍流氓!所以对于题目的精读是重中之重!
细读题目具体操作：
1.看清题目要求
如遇到判断题，考生要看清题目要求答案需要写的是true or false or not given还是yes or no or not given，如果该写TF却写成Yes或No,是会扣分的。
2.读懂题干指示
有的题目已经明确给出答案所在的范围或者相关提示语和关键词，所以大家要根据题干指示，快速地定位到文中答案处。
3.总结同义替换
将题目中的词汇与在文章中所对应的替换点全部找出来，并记在笔记本上，不断积累复习。
但你也不要忘了
雅思阅读注意事项
1.靠多刷题来提高阅读不如踏下心来好好精读分析剑桥真题，要善于总结，总结段落大意、文章结构的开展、答案出现的地方等。
2.真正的雅思考试中需要你快速地处理问题，所以在平时阅读练习中要快慢结合，详略得当，略读和扫读(skimming & scanning)以及精读配合使用，快准狠地找到关键信息。
3.一味地死背单词是没用的，对于生词要灵活掌握，因为阅读中的题目往往是文章内容的同义替换，并不是个别词的明显对应，所以你不仅要掌握一个生词的同义词，还要掌握同类词和相似表达等。
4、词法知识基本功要扎实，断句划分句子结构是需要掌握一定词法知识的，否则在读到复杂的句子抓主干时就会很吃力，想提高填空题正确率也更困难。
雅思阅读每日一练：科技和教育引领终身学习
It is easy to say that people need to keep learning throughout their careers. The practicalities are daunting
WHEN education fails to keep pace with technology, the result is inequality. Without the skills to stay useful as innovations arrive, workers suffer—and if enough of them fall behind, society starts to fall apart. That fundamental insight seized reformers in the Industrial revolution, heralding state-funded universal schooling. Later, automation in factories and offices called forth a surge in college graduates. The combination of education and innovation, spread over decades, led to a remarkable flowering of prosperity.
当教育跟不上技术进步时，就会造成不平等。在创新到来之际，工人如果没有技能使自己对雇主仍然“有用”，他们就会遭殃。而如果落后的工人太多，社会就开始崩塌。这一根本性的洞见极大影响了工业革命时期的改革者，推动了国家资助全民教育的普及。后来，工厂和办公室自动化又引发了大学生人数猛增。教育和创新相辅相成，历经数十年，令繁荣之花耀眼绽放。
雅思阅读高频词汇：
keep pace with 跟上
innovations 创新
fall behind 落后
Industrial Revolution 工业革命
surge 飙升
prosperity 繁荣
Today robotics and artificial intelligence call for another education revolution. This time, however, working lives are so lengthy and so fast-changing that simply cramming more schooling in at the start is not enough. People must also be able to acquire new skills throughout their careers.
Unfortunately, as our special report in this issue sets out, the lifelong learning that exists today mainly benefits high achievers—and is therefore more likely to exacerbate inequality than diminish it. If 21st-century economies are not to create a massive underclass, policymakers urgently need to work out how to help all their citizens learn while they earn. So far, their ambition has fallen pitifully short.
今天，机器人和人工智能呼唤又一场教育革命。而这一次，工作生涯如此漫长而又变化迅速，只在人生初期强加更多教育已经不足以应付。人们还必须能在整个职业生涯中获取新技能。
不幸的是，正如我们本期特别报道所述，目前的终身学习主要是令成功人士受益，因此更可能加剧而非减轻不平等。如果21世纪的经济体不想要产生一个庞大的底层阶级，政策制定者亟需制定措施，帮助国民在谋生的同时学习。而迄今为止，他们的抱负还小得可怜。
雅思阅读高频词汇：
artificial intelligence 人工智能
underclass 下层阶级
policymaker 政策制定者
Machines or learning 机器或学习
The classic model of education—a burst at the start and top-ups through company training—is breaking down. One reason is the need for new, and constantly updated, skills. Manufacturing increasingly calls for brain work rather than metal-bashing. The share of the American workforce employed in routine office jobs declined from 25.5% to 21% between and . The single, stable career has gone the way of the Rolodex.
Pushing people into ever-higher levels of formal education at the start of their lives is not the way to cope. Just 16% of Americans think that a four-year college degree prepares students very well for a good job. Although a vocational education promises that vital first hire, those with specialised training tend to withdraw from the labor force earlier than those with general education—perhaps because they are less adaptable.
机器还是学习
在青少年时强化学习，之后通过公司培训加以补充，这种传统的教育模式正在失效。原因之一是需要新的技能，而且还要不断更新。制造业越来越多地需要脑力而非蛮力。从到，常规办公职位在美国劳动力中所占的比例从25.5%下降到21%。单一稳定的职业生涯已经像旋转式名片夹一样一去不返了。
在人生初期让人们接受更高程度的正规教育并非解决之道。仅有16%的美国人认为四年的大学教育足以让学生找到一份好工作。尽管职业教育能确保找到至关重要的第一份工作，但接受专门培训的人往往比接受普通教育的人更早退出劳动大军，可能是因为前者适应性较弱。
雅思阅读高频词汇：
top-ups 充值
brain work 大脑的工作
withdraw 撤回
general education 通识教育
At the same time on-the-job training is shrinking. In America and Britain it has fallen by roughly half in the past two decades. Self-employment is spreading, leaving more people to take responsibility for their own skills. Taking time out later in life to pursue a formal qualification is an option, but it costs money and most colleges are geared towards youngsters.
The market is innovating to enable workers to learn and earn in new ways. Providers from General Assembly to Pluralsight are building businesses on the promise of boosting and rebooting careers. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have veered away from lectures on Plato or black holes in favor of courses that make their students more employable. At Udacity and Coursera self-improvers pay for cheap, short programs that bestow “microcredentials” and “nanodegrees” in, say, self-driving cars or the Android operating system. By offering degrees online, universities are making it easier for professionals to burnish their skills. A single master’s program from Georgia Tech could expand the annual output of computer-science master’s degrees in America by close to 10%.
Such efforts demonstrate how to interleave careers and learning. But left to its own devices, this nascent market will mainly serve those who already have advantages. It is easier to learn later in life if you enjoyed the classroom first time around: about 80% of the learners on Coursera already have degrees. Online learning requires some IT literacy, yet one in four adults in the OECD has no or limited experience of computers. Skills atrophy unless they are used, but many low-end jobs give workers little chance to practise them.
与此同时，在职培训也在萎缩。在美国和英国，在职培训在过去里下降了大概一半。自雇人群正在增多，令更多的人要为自己的技能负责。在年纪较大的时候抽出时间获得一个正规的资质是一种选择，但要投入成本，而且大多数院校是针对年轻人开设的。
市场正在创新以让工人能够有新的方法学习和赚钱。从General Assembly到Pluralsight，各类供应商纷纷以推动和重启职业生涯的承诺开创业务。大规模开放式在线课程(MOOC)不再讲授柏拉图或黑洞，而向帮助学生就业的课程倾斜。在优达学城(Udacity)和Coursera，进修者付费学习低价的短期课程，获得如自动驾驶汽车或安卓操作系统方面的“微证书”和“纳米学位”。
这些革新显示了如何交织工作和学习。但是，如果任其自行发展，这一新生市场将会主要服务那些已经具备优势的人。如果你在年轻时就享受课堂学习，那么日后学习起来也会更容易：在Coursera，大约80%的学生已经拥有学位。在线学习需要一些IT知识，而在经合组织国家里，四分之一的成年人没有或只有很少的计算机经验。技能不用则退，但在很多低端工作中，工人基本没有机会实践技能。
雅思阅读高频词汇：
geare 齿轮
boosting 提高
bestow 给
burnish 光泽
demonstrate 演示
Shampoo technician wanted
If new ways of learning are to help those who need them most, policymakers should be aiming for something far more radical. Because education is a public good whose benefits spill over to all of society, governments have a vital role to play—not just by spending more, but also by spending wisely.
Lifelong learning starts at school. As a rule, education should not be narrowly vocational. The curriculum needs to teach children how to study and think. A focus on “metacognition” will make them better at picking up skills later in life.
But the biggest change is to make adult learning routinely accessible to all. One way is for citizens to receive vouchers that they can use to pay for training. Singapore has such “individual learning accounts”; it has given money to everyone over 25 to spend on any of 500 approved courses. So far each citizen has only a few hundred dollars, but it is early days.
招募洗发师
如果新的学习方式是要帮助那些最需要帮助的人，那么政策制定者应该寻求远为根本性的举措。因为教育是一种公益事业，其益处会延及整个社会，各国政府要发挥重要作用——不仅要增加投入，还得把钱花得明智。
终身学习始于学校。一般来说，教育不应该有狭隘的职业性。学生需要从课程中学会如何学习和思考。注重“元认知”将帮助学生日后更好地学习技能。
但最大的改变是让所有人都能常态化地进行成人学习。一个方法是向国民发放抵用券，可用于支付培训费用。新加坡就有这样的“个人学习账户”。该国向所有25岁以上的国民提供资金，可用来选择学习500种经认可的课程。到目前为止，每个国民只领取了几百美元，但这才刚刚开始。
Courses paid for by taxpayers risk being wasteful. But industry can help by steering people towards the skills it wants and by working with MOOCs and colleges to design courses that are relevant. Companies can also encourage their staff to learn. AT&T, a telecoms firm which wants to equip its workforce with digital skills, spends $30m a year on reimbursing employees’ tuition costs. Trade unions can play a useful role as organizers of lifelong learning, particularly for those—workers in small firms or the self-employed—for whom company-provided training is unlikely. A union-run training program in Britain has support from political parties on the right and left.
由纳税人付费的课程有可能被浪费。但企业界可以提供帮助，引导人们学习业界所需的技能，并和MOOC及大学院校合作设计有用的课程。企业还可以鼓励员工学习。电信公司AT&T希望员工具备数字技能，它每年支出3000万美元报销员工的学费。工会也可以发挥作用，组织终身学习，尤其是帮助那些小公司的员工或自雇人士，因为这些人不大可能有公费培训的机会。在英国，一个工会组织的培训项目同时得到了左右两派政党的支持。
To make all this training worthwhile, governments need to slash the licensing requirements and other barriers that make it hard for newcomers to enter occupations. Rather than asking for 300 hours’ practice to qualify to wash hair, for instance, the state of Tennessee should let hairdressers decide for themselves who is the best person to hire.
Not everyone will successfully navigate the shifting jobs market. Those most at risk of technological disruption are men in blue-collar jobs, many of whom reject taking less “masculine” roles in fast-growing areas such as health care. But to keep the numbers of those left behind to a minimum, all adults must have access to flexible, affordable training. The 19th and 20th centuries saw stunning advances in education. That should be the scale of the ambition today.
要让所有这些培训有价值，政府需要大力降低执业资格要求以及其他阻碍新人入行的门槛。例如，与其要求有300小时的实习来获得做洗发工的资格，田纳西州应该让理发店自行决定雇谁最好。
并非每个人都能成功应付正在变化的就业市场。受技术颠覆威胁最大的是那些蓝领工人，其中很多人拒绝在医疗护理等快速发展的领域里承担不那么“男子汉”的工作。但是，若要尽量减少因时代改变而落伍的人数，那么所有成年人都必须能够获得灵活而又实惠的培训。在19和20世纪，教育有了令人震惊的进步。今天的抱负应当不逊当年。
4月7日雅思阅读机经预测
雅思阅读文章题目：Living with uncertainty
重复年份：0109A 0515
雅思阅读雅思阅读题材：自然环境
雅思阅读雅思阅读题型：判断7+简答6
雅思阅读文章大意：澳洲的气候变化无常，所以那里的生物需要很强的应变能力。有一种P鸟可以知道什么地方什么时候下雨，可以提前飞去找水喝。当地人为了狩猎把森林烧掉，另一种要吃salt bush的鸟就因此灭绝了。欧洲人来了之后大量种植wheat，Emu喜欢吃，所以繁殖很快。
部分答案参考：
判断：
第一种鸟避开下雨的地方。N
简答：
1.Aboriginal做了什么来方便他们打猎 lit fire
2. G鸟灭绝的原因：salt bush
3. Emu吃wheat
雅思阅读文章题目：Trade
重复年份：20160109B 0728
雅思阅读题材：发展史
雅思阅读题型：暂无
雅思阅读文章大意：贸易的发展史，讲了贸易的人的天性以及各地的贸易发展水平和状况。
Basically trade means exchange of goods, services, or both. Trade is also called commerce. The actual face of trade was barter, which was the direct exchange of goods and services. Today traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, like money, which then makes buying separate from selling, or earning. The invention of money has made trade simpler. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade between more than two traders is called multilateral trade.
Trade exists for many reasons. It can be due to specialization and division of labor. Trade exists between regions because different regions have a comparative advantage in the production of some tradable commodity, or because different regions' size helps getting benefits of mass production.
History of Trade:
Trade originated in prehistoric times. It was the main facility of prehistoric people, who bartered goods and services from each other when modern money was never even thought of. Peter Watson dates the history of long-distance commerce from circa 150,000 years ago.
Trade is believed to have taken place throughout much of recorded human history. Materials used for the creation of jewelry were traded with Egypt since 3000 BC. Long-distance trade routes first appeared in the 3rd millennium BC, by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia when they traded with the Harappan civilization of the Indus Valley. Trading is greatly important to the global economy. From the very beginning of Greek civilization to the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, a financially worthwhile trade brought valuable spice to Europe from the Far East, including China.
The fall of the Roman Empire, and the succeeding Dark Ages brought insecurity to Western Europe and a near end of the trade network. However some trade did occur, the Radhanites were a medieval group of Jewish merchants who traded between the Christians in Europe and the Muslims of the Near East.
The Sogdians ruled the East-West trade route known as the Silk Road from the end 4th century AD to the 8th century AD.
The Vikings and Varangians also traded from the 8th to the 11th century as they sailed from and to Scandinavia. Vikings sailed to Western Europe, while Varangians to Russia.
Vasco da Gama restarted the European Spice trade in 1498. Earlier to his sailing around Africa, the flow of spice into Europe was controlled by Islamic powers, especially Egypt. The spice trade was of major economic importance and helped encourage the Age of Exploration. Spices brought to Europe from distant lands were some of the most valuable commodities for their weight, sometimes rivaling gold.
In the 16th century, Holland was the centre of free trade, imposing no exchange controls, and advocating the free movement of goods.
In 1776, Adam Smith published the paper “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”. This paper criticized Mercantilism, and argued that economic specialization could benefit nations just as much as firms. Since that time the division of labor was restricted by the size of the market, he said that countries having access to larger markets would be able to divide labor more efficiently and thereby become more productive.
The Great Depression was a major economic collapse that ran from 1929 to the late 1930s. There was a great setback in trade and other economic indicators during this period.
The lack of free trade was considered by many as a root cause of the depression. Only during the World War II the recession ended in United States.
雅思阅读文章题目：The history of Russian Ballet
重复年份：20160114 20150418 20121124
雅思阅读题材：发展史
雅思阅读题型：判断6+填空7
雅思阅读文章大意：芭蕾舞发源于意大利，从17世纪后传入俄国后一直欣欣向荣。出了很多优秀的艺术家和作品，外国舞派也对俄国芭蕾舞发展有着影响。后期以戏剧味发展主流，一直讲到本世纪70年代的发展。
参考阅读：
Until 1689, ballet in Russia was nonexistent. The Tsarist control and isolationism in Russia allowed for little influence from the West. It wasn't until the rise of Peter the Great that Russian society opened up to the West. St. Petersburg was erected to embrace the West and compete against Moscow’s isolationism. Peter the Great created a new Russia which rivaled the society of the West with magnificent courts and palaces. His vision was to challenge the west. Classical ballet entered the realm of Russia not as entertainment, but as a “standard of physical comportment to be emulated and internalized-an idealized way of behaving. The aim was not to entertain the masses of Russians, but to create a cultivated and new Russian people.
Empress Anna, (1730 – 1740) was devoted to ostentatious amusements (balls, fireworks, tableaux), and in the summer of 1734 ordered the appointment of Jean-Baptiste Landé as dancing-master in the military academy she had founded in 1731 for sons of the nobility. In 1738, he became ballet master and head of the new ballet school, launching the advanced study of ballet in Russia, and winning the patronage of elite families.
France provided many leaders such as Charles Didelot in St Petersburg (1801-1831), Jules Perrot(1848-1859) and Arthur Saint-Léon (1859-69).
In the early 19th century, the theaters were opened up to anyone who could afford a ticket. A seating section called a rayok, or 'paradise gallery', consisted of simple wooden benches. This allowed non-wealthy people access to the ballet, because tickets in this section were inexpensive.
One author describes the Imperial ballet as “unlike that of any other country in the world…the most prestigious of the ballet troupes were those attached to the state-supported theatres. The directors of these companies were personally appointed by the tsar, and all the dancers were, in a sense, Imperial servants. In the theatre, the men in the audience always remained standing until the tsar entered his box and, out of respect, after the performance they remained in their places until he had departed. Curtain calls were arranged according to a strict pattern: first, the ballerina bowed to the tsar’s box, then to that of the theater director, and finally to the general public.
雅思阅读文章题目：Aquaculture in New Zealand
重复年份：20160114 20151031 20121124 0212
雅思阅读题材：农业
雅思阅读题型：小标题7+人名理论配对3+句子填空3
雅思阅读文章大意：新西兰水产养殖，介绍了新西兰一种新型保护海底动物多样性兼顾商业运作的方式一aquaculture , 其发展遇到的问题及前景。
部分参考答案：
小标题
14. vi (一个受益的村庄)
15. vii (company’s profit)
16. 选含 limitation 的那项
17. 选含 concerns to environment 的那项
18. 选含 alternative explanation 的那项
19. 选含 research 的那项
20. 选含 science and business 的那项
填空题
24. polyculture/aquaculture
25. commercial partner
26. market value/high price
雅思阅读文章题目：Children and robots
重复年份：20160305 20141002
雅思阅读题材：科技
雅思阅读题型：小标题5+配对5+填空3
雅思阅读文章大意：机器人对孩子学习的影响。主要讲到把机器人放在学校可以辅助老师还有陪学生玩，还可以让它们拥有表情促进交流，但是过度使用可能会造成伦理问题，此外还提到了几个科学家和他们的观点。
参考阅读：
Robotics is making inroads into society, not only in factories and industry but also in homes and schools, where social robots are helping children cope better with conditions such as diabetes and autism.
A robot and child
Studies show that interaction with a robot can benefit children with certain medical conditions such as diabetes, as well as autism and other developmental disorders. (Image: ALIZ-E project.)
This week, thousands of people – young and old – are exploring the weirdness and wonders of robotics technology during the European Robotics Week, which is taking place in labs, museums, public squares and schools all over Europe.
But robotics offers more than just show and tell. It can make a real difference in the lives of children who, for example, struggle with diabetes or autism, or need extra help in the classroom.
‘Nao’ the friendly (but not perfect) robot
Recently, scientists showed that social robots can help diabetic children accept the nature of their condition and become more confident about their futures. In the four-and-a-half year ALIZ-E project, a research team led by Plymouth University studied the interactions between hundreds of European children aged 7-11 and a robot prototype called ‘Nao’.
Standing around 60 centimetres tall and featuring specially designed speech recognition software, ‘Nao’ helped the youngsters in keeping a diary of food intake, insulin injections and blood sugar levels. Through quizzes and games it also helped the kids to better understand diabetes and the huge amount of information they are given.
According to ALIZ-E leader Tony Belpaeme, the robot is not just a novelty factor to catch the children’s attention but a tool to engage and motivate them. “In many cases where a child has diabetes, you notice their confidence has been knocked and the robot can help restore that. By personalising its responses and recognising the children it has met before, the robots can support and educate, and we have seen many times the positive impact this is having on children and their families,” Belpaeme says in a Plymouth University news release.
The European Commission-funded study has not only shed light on how children relate to social robots, but also how robots need to be designed to maximise their impact when used for educational or therapeutic purposes.
“The robot needs to personalise what it does. If it treats children on an individual level, they immediately relate to it – it taps into our primitive need to interact and communicate,” Belpaeme says in the release. “One of the things that does appeal to children is that the robot makes mistakes – if it never did so, it could become intimidating. It does make the child realise they too don’t have to be perfect all of the time.”
Robots to assist autistic children
The researchers also showed the robots have potential to act as classroom assistants helping pupils who may be in danger of falling behind their peers. The team is now exploring additional uses for the robots, for instance to help children on the autistic spectrum.
“Our initial work shows it could have an incredibly positive impact on those children, and given that autism can impact heavily on someone’s ability to communicate and build relationships, we now need to establish why it seems they can relate to a tiny robot. From that, we can explore how widely we can use the robot as a therapeutic tool and can we, in fact, use it to teach about wider social interactions,” Belpaeme says.
As shown in a number of recent reports by the BBC, there is indeed growing evidence that robots can help autistic children not only to learn but also to improve their communication skills.
篇10：托福阅读分数提高的方法
托福阅读分数提高难?你的方法不对!
在听说读写四科中，托福阅读无疑是提分最快最多的科目。如果基础一般的同学，想要参加托福考试，最好提前3-4个月准备起来。词汇问题是阅读中的十分普遍的，所以一本好的词汇书是必不可少的。
其实背哪一本词汇书不是重点所在，重要的是能够持之以恒，每天对所背的词汇进行复习和总结。因为在做词汇题时如果能遇到熟悉的词，可以节省很多看上下文猜词的时间。虽然不能保证背到就一定能考到，但是单词可以帮助你更好的理解文章。有了词汇量，你会发现自己可能还是看不懂句子，所以我们还需要学习语法。很多同学认为自己语法还可以，但是到理解句子的时候就不能准确理解句子了。问题在于，很多同学的语法不成体系，无法帮助分析句子。
另外我们要从理解文章的结构开始理解文章。我们要明白，托福考试的阅读文章都是北美校园基础课程的文章，基本没有做过改动。所以文章的结构就是完全按照美式作文的五段法，我们的考生只要用这样的方式去分析每一篇文章，就会发现他们的结构是大同小异。
积累背景知识对我们来说相当的重要，因此我们在做新托福阅读的题目的同时，也应该在空余的时候多阅读课外读物，原版杂志。譬如，国家地理，自然，今日美国等一些著名的原版杂志，这不仅可以扩充我们的背景知识，同时也可以补充我们在词汇量上的不足。
在复习的最后阶段，做做模拟练习题是复习新托福阅读必不可少的。如果有条件的话，最好做一下水平测试软件。因为这样可以模仿新托福机考的真实场景。模考是一定要的，并且一定要严肃对待把它当作真实的战场!
托福阅读到考什么?
Vocabulary and Grammar
Major ideas and Important Information
Relative Importance of Ideas
Relationships of Ideas to each other
Organization of Ideas and Concepts
1.词汇和语法
对于语言类考试来说，都会涉及到词汇和语法的考查，但在不同的考试中，词汇和语法的考试形态会有一定的差异，比如有的考试是在阅读里考查单词，有的是在单句填空中考查单词。因此，在备考托福阅读过程中，我们要科学背单词，系统学语法，这里就不赘述了。
2.对主要观点和重要信息的理解
一篇文章讲了什么，以及每个段落讲了哪些重要信息，这些都会是托福阅读考查重点。
3.观点的相对重要程度
对于前面提到的托福阅读两个考查要点，大多数考生都能理解，但是说到观点的相对重要程度的时候，情况就有所不同了。在一篇文章中，所给出的信息并不是同等重要的，有些信息更重要，有些就没有那么重要了。因此，这部分其实考查的是大家对托福阅读文章信息的筛选能力——认知能力。
4.观点之间的两两关系
大多数同学读完一篇文章后，脑子里留下的是一堆信息碎片，但最后会发现，记住的全都不考，考查的内容，自己都没记住(听力更明显)。最直接的考查方法就是问因果，如：文章中提到了……，是因为……。实际上考查的就是观点之间的关系。
5.观点和概念的组织结构
读完一篇文章之后，是否形成了清晰完整的文章结构框架，也叫作思维框架 (Menatal Framework)。托福阅读中的“六选三”题，考查的就是对文章架构的掌握，以及在此基础上，筛选主要信息的能力。
托福阅读答题要遵循什么原则?
1、有据可循。每篇文章题目都根据文章布局一步一步向前推进，即使有个别题打乱文章布局，在题干里总是有提供信息的关键词将考生带入文章的具体部位。
2、回归原文。做题时，根据题干或选项的关键词回归文章寻找重现关键词或其释义的语言区域，同时排除相应的选项。
3、整句分析。遇到难句子时，应该对其进行句子结构分析，排除修饰成分，寻找主干部分，从而迅速把握整个句子的意思，不要盯着单个的词不放，不然就会因小失大。
4、基于事实。每个问题的四个选项或者是对文章中相关部分的正确释度、或者是歪曲原文、或者与原文毫不相干。同学们应该明白自己的职责是辨别真伪，找到符合文章意思和题意的选项。
托福阅读的这五个关键点你掌握了吗?
第一点，注重归纳的能力培养。
新托福阅读的最后一大题都是以全文意思的归纳为基础才能完成的，尤其是summary，考察的就是考生对文章的整体把握。因此考生在平时练习的时候一定要注意对文章段落的归纳，能够在较短的时间内把文章段落的中心大意读出来，然后进行总结，最后选择出最能代表文章中心含义的内容。如果能在平时就注重归纳能力的培养，那么考试的时候就不用害怕summary这种归纳概括性的题型了。
第二点，词汇基础要扎实。
新托福阅读有一个很大的特色就是有专门考察单词的题型，也就是词汇题。从文章中抽出一个单词，给四个选项，让考生选择与这个单词词义最接近最符合的。这些词汇是没有一个大纲让考生去背的，只有靠考生平时自己大量的词汇积累，尤其是一些学术学科的词汇。
第三点，逻辑关系词要牢记在心。
英语句子的理解很多时候是要去理解其逻辑关系的，常见的逻辑关系有并列(and, as well)，比较(than, as….as)，因果(because, so, therefore, thus, result from)，递进(also, furthermore)，转折(but, however, yet)等等。句子内有这些逻辑关系，句子和句子之间也有这些逻辑关系，这样才能理清整篇文章的脉络，去完成例如句子简化，插入句子这类题型。
第四点，快速阅读能力要加强。
新托福阅读考试每篇的时间是规定为20分钟，除了看长篇的文章外，还有11或13道题目的内容，所以时间是非常紧张的，因此在阅读的时候速度就很关键。小编提醒考生要改掉一些阅读的坏习惯，例如逐字阅读，出声阅读，或者指着阅读等，这样的习惯只会拖慢阅读的速度。所以快速阅读能力在考试中是非常重要的，读的时候要以意群来看。
第五点，基本语法知识要了解。
新托福阅读考试是一项比较全面的考察学生英语能力的内容，所以从词汇开始，一直到句子已经篇章都有对应的练习题类型去考察。但是要理解句子的含义，光是词汇认识也不一定能完全搞清楚，有的时候需要通过语法知识去分析。这种语法在很多题型中有所体现。例如指代题，要分析代词所指的先行词是哪个，有时就要通过句子主谓宾成分的分析才能找到。
托福阅读四大技巧分享
托福阅读答题技巧：
分段阅读做题，省去“扫读”的时间
在托福考试中，阅读时间相对紧张，篇幅较长，逐字阅读肯定是没有时间的，所以做题技巧中扫读是很重要的环节，目的是找到与题目相关的语句才能找到做题依据。而在托福考试中，是每阅读完一段就做只涉及该段的题目，信息集中，重要的是节省了大量的时间，缓解了托福阅读文章通篇的眩晕感。而这部分题目就是托福中常说的细节题。
文章说明性强，生词不必怕
托福阅读提高分数，对单词量的要求还是很大的，即使单词量很大了，也难免会遇上生僻词的情况，而托福考试中选用的文章说明性特别强，往往是自定义、自解释的模式，遇到生词，即使不知道什么意思，也可以根据上下文语境弄清它们之间的关系，运用逻辑推理的方法作出正确的答案。其次，还可以分析选项，进行对比，往往会发现选项中通常会出现两个意思相反的选项，此时再仔细重读原文就可以排除错误选项了。
词汇题解析有技巧
几乎每段中都会有词汇题，有些词考生一看就认识，这样的题目就很容易了，但是也不能粗心大意，如果时间充足或者把握不大，可以把选项带入文章中检查一遍。对于那些不认识的词汇，也是有许多技巧的。首先是分析词性，采用排除法排除词性不一致的选项。其次是用代入法。选项中给出的词意一般就是考生认识的，将选项带入，分析一下是否能够保证原文合情合理，通顺。
分段阅读打基础，全篇文章心里明
在分段阅读的同时，可以记下关键词或者中心句，在文章结束时就可以有根据回想起整篇文章的脉络结构，逻辑关系，对最后题的选择有很大帮助。同时题目中也明确给了做题方法，即没有提到的信息或者不重要的观点就可以排除了。
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