托福小编整理托福阅读资料时，发现一些关于托福阅读词汇题总结的资料。打开资料，却发现内容像是“缩了水”的词汇书，里面的特色就是每组两个单词或词组，不难想到，这对词就是词汇题目中题干中的词和正确选项中的词。大家整理的确实很细致，但是小编想说：我更希望看到的是托福阅读词汇题的本来面目。为什么这么说呢--基于对托福阅读词汇题的理解：词汇题考查大家的不仅仅是“同义词”，没有这么简单，它本质上是考查大家根据特定的语境环境推测出可以替换的词。所以，如果把词汇题以这种形式展现，“抛弃”了语境，大家只能了解哪些词汇可能具有相近的意味，却很难体会词汇题的本质。
接下来，小编要用举例的形式告诉大家：托福阅读词汇题除了考查“同义词”之外，还会有哪些情形。
举例一：来自TPO4- Deer Populations of the Puget Sound
Paragraph 3: The numbers of deer have fluctuated markedly since the entry of Europeans into Puget Sound country. The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal. Famous explorers of the north American frontier, Lewis and Clark arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River on November 14, 1805, in nearly starved circumstances. They had experienced great difficulty finding game west of the Rockies and not until the second of December did they kill their first elk. To keep 40 people alive that winter, they consumed approximately 150 elk and 20 deer. And when game moved out of the lowlands in early spring, the expedition decided to return east rather than face possible starvation. Later on in the early years of the nineteenth century, when Fort Vancouver became the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company, deer populations continued to fluctuate. David Douglas, Scottish botanical explorer of the 1830s, found a disturbing change in the animal life around the fort during the period between his first visit in 1825 and his final contact with the fort in 1832. A recent Douglas biographer states:" The deer which once picturesquely dotted the meadows around the fort were gone [in 1832], hunted to extermination in order to protect the crops."
4. The phrase "in the same breath" in the passage is closest in meaning to
○ impatiently
○ humorously
○ continuously
○ immediately
解题: D
原文该单词所在句子为：“The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal."可以理解为：“早期的探险家和殖民者说在19世纪早期那儿有大量的鹿群，同时又抱怨这种诱人的猎物稀少。”通过“almost”修饰“in the same breath”这样的搭配可以排除A选项和B选项。由“and”连接的“in the early 1800s”与“yet almost in the same breath” 对应可知 “in the same breath” 和时间有关。
“in the same breath”在文中是“同时”的意思。因此D选项正确。
这里“同时”与“立刻”并不是同义词，但是根据语境，只有immediately是最符合语境环境的，所以选D。
举例二：来自OG- The Origins of Cetaceans
Paragraph 4: Another major discovery was made in Egypt in 1989. Several skeletons of another early whale, Basilosaurus, were found in sediments left by the Tethys Sea and now exposed in the Sahara desert. This whale lived around 40 million years ago, 12 million years after Pakicetus. Many incomplete skeletons were found but they included, for the first time in an archaeocyte, a complete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes. Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land. Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly nonfunctional, or vestigial, hind legs.
6. The word “exposed” in the passage is closest in meaning to
○explained
○visible
○identified
○located
解题：B
定位到： “Several skeletons of another early whale, … and now exposed in the Sahara desert.”意思是：几个其他早期鲸鱼的骨架，Basiosaurus，在Tethys海留下的沉积物中被发现，而且现在被暴露在撒哈拉大沙漠中。根据“沉积物”和“撒哈拉大沙漠”两个地点的转换，可以理解之前是在地下的，现在可以看到了，Visible符合上下文含义，explained和identified首先被排除，located“坐落于”，没有表达“暴露”中可以看见的含义。
“暴露”和“可见的”并不能说是同义词，只是在这个语境下它们可以相互替换。
以上就是前程百利小编为大家带来的关于托福阅读词汇题的介绍，希望对正在备考托福考试的大家有所帮助。
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