托福阅读推理题在每篇托福阅读文章中出现的次数在0-2次，相对于托福阅读的其他题型，这类题目的一大特色就是它需要大家根据原文进行适当程度的推理判断。考生在解题时，首先注意要以原文为唯一的信息来源，其次要根据原文中的某些特定方法来进行判断。接下来前程百利小编为考生带来托福阅读推理题的两大类推理方式。
首先需要说明的是，托福阅读推理题借助的推理方式一般有两大类。一类是根据文章中的并列或者举例来推测考察的对象具有哪些特点;一类是根据文章中的对比逻辑或者明显是相反或者互相独立的概念之间的特征联系来推测其中一个的特点。
简单的举几个例子。比如，文章中说在这个班级里喜欢吃西瓜的孩子都不喜欢吃葡萄。然后，说了，for example,小园就是一个喜欢吃西瓜的孩子。推断题：请问关于小园能推断出什么呢?选项中给出一项说小园不喜欢吃葡萄，这就是正确选项。这个例子就对应以上的根据文章中的并列或者举例来推测考察的对象具有哪些特点这个方法;再比如，文章中说电视人的注意力是有变化的，过去的电视节目还没有那么多的娱乐节目。推理题：关于现在的电视可以推断出什么?则选项中只要是说现在的电视节目中有很多娱乐节目，就是正确的选项。这个题则是利用了上面提到的根据文章中的对比逻辑或者明显是相反或者互相独立的概念之间的特征联系来推测其中一个的特点这种方法。接下来看托福阅读中的例题来更加深刻体会这些方法。
例题来自-Petroleum Resources
Paragraph 3: Oil pools are valuable underground accumulations of oil, and oil fields are regions underlain by one or more oil pools. When an oil pool or field has been discovered, wells are drilled into the ground. Permanent towers, called derricks, used to be built to handle the long sections of drilling pipe. Now portable drilling machines are set up and are then dismantled and removed. When the well reaches a pool, oil usually rises up the well because of its density difference with water beneath it or because of the pressure of expanding gas trapped above it. Although this rise of oil is almost always carefully controlled today, spouts of oil, or gushers, were common in the past. Gas pressure gradually dies out, and oil is pumped from the well. Water or steam may be pumped down adjacent wells to help push the oil out. At a refinery, the crude oil from underground is separated into natural gas, gasoline, kerosene, and various oils. Petrochemicals such as dyes, fertilizer, and plastic are also manufactured from the petroleum.
6.Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about gushers?
○They make bringing the oil to the surface easier.
○They signal the presence of huge oil reserves.
○They waste more oil than they collect.
○They are unlikely to occur nowadays.
题目解析：
选D。在第三段中的第六句Although this rise of oil is almost always carefully controlled today, spouts of oil, or gushers, were common in the past.(虽然今天油上升到地表的过程被小心地控制着，但在过去自喷井是很常见的。)”， “today”时间点的出现提醒我们现在和过去的不同。因此D选项正确。
这里文章中提到的特质“were common”是关于gushers在in the past的表现，而选项中的是说nowadays，逆推得到的选项。
以上就是前程百利小编为考生带来的托福阅读推理题的两大类推理方式。希望考生在平时的练习中，可以根据自己的答题来体会这两种方法。预祝大家托福考试取得好成绩!
