托福阅读词汇题是托福阅读中出现次数比较多的题型，在托福阅读词汇题目解题时，考生能够提高答对率的最保险方式是根据已知的题干词汇含义结合上下文猜测词义。这里提到了两点，首先，大家要了解这个词;其次，大家通过语境来确认词义。
前程百利小编不得不提的是，大部分考生是不会这样答题的，因为大家的做法往往有两种情况：第一种是，考生了解这个词，所以直接选出选项，当然依靠的是这个词本来的含义;第二种是，考生不认识这个词，所以只能依靠文章的上下文理解去猜测词义。这两种方式的缺陷是很明确的，第一种方法中，考生没有顾忌上下文，所以在词汇有多重含义的时候有可能答错题目;第二种，考生本身对词汇没有什么认识，仅根据自己的文章理解猜测，在理解出现偏差的时候答题也会出现偏差。
以上是对托福阅读词汇题答题方法的分析。接下来，小编为大家带来一些托福阅读词汇题的较难情形，根据这些题目希望考生可以理解以上的内容。
例1：词汇不认识，理解容易出错的情形
Paragraph 2: The source had long been known but not exploited. Early in the eighteenth century, a pump had come into use in which expanding steam raised a piston in a cylinder, and atmospheric pressure brought it down again when the steam condensed inside the cylinder to form a vacuum. This “atmospheric engine,” invented by Thomas Savery and vastly improved by his partner, Thomas Newcomen, embodied revolutionary principles, but it was so slow and wasteful of fuel that it could not be employed outside the coal mines for which it had been designed. In the 1760s, James Watt perfected a separate condenser for the steam, so that the cylinder did not have to be cooled at every stroke; then he devised a way to make the piston turn a wheel and thus convert reciprocating (back and forth) motion into rotary motion. He thereby transformed an inefficient pump of limited use into a steam engine of a thousand uses. The final step came when steam was introduced into the cylinder to drive the piston backward as well as forward, thereby increasing the speed of the engine and cutting its fuel consumption.
3. The word “exploited” in the passage is closest in meaning to
○utilized
○recognized
○examined
○fully understood
解析：答案是A。所在句：The source had long been known but not exploited.“这种动力来源长期为人们所知但却没被…“通过转折关系可知B、D错误，之后讲的都是蒸汽机怎样改良，怎样利用。所以选A.但是大家需要注意的是这里大家很容易选择D选项，因为had long been known和fully understood是一种递进的关系，但是也可以看做是有对比意味。这样的翻译完全讲得通，如果大家不根据文章中更多的内容来推测，很容易出错。
例2，词汇认识但是出错的情形
Paragraph 3: The subjects of the paintings are mostly animals. The paintings rest on bare walls, with no backdrops or environmental trappings. Perhaps, like many contemporary peoples, Upper Paleolithic men and women believed that the drawing of a human image could cause death or injury, and if that were indeed their belief, it might explain why human figures are rarely depicted in cave art. Another explanation for the focus on animals might be that these people sought to improve their luck at hunting. This theory is suggested by evidence of chips in the painted figures, perhaps made by spears thrown at the drawings. But if improving their hunting luck was the chief motivation for the paintings, it is difficult to explain why only a few show signs of having been speared. Perhaps the paintings were inspired by the need to increase the supply of animals. Cave art seems to have reached a peak toward the end of the Upper Paleolithic period, when the herds of game were decreasing.
5.The word “trappings” in the passage is closest in meaning to
○conditions
○problems
○influences
○decorations
解析：答案是D，词汇题。
正确解法会是首先定位到：The paintings rest on bare walls, with no backdrops or environmental trappings.no backdrops 与environmental trappings以or连接，并列关系，所以二者应该有对应，与背景对应的只有“环境装饰”。但是trap最常用的含义是使…陷入困境，大家最容易选的答案是B。
从以上的分析可以看出，不管是单独从单词意思的角度还是单独从上下文猜词的角度，托福阅读词汇题的解题都可能出现问题。所以最好的解题方式就是先根据上下文猜词，给单词的含义限定一个范围，再根据自己已有的理解去核对正确性。预祝大家托福考试取得好成绩。
