托福阅读句子简化题考察句子的理解。在回答这类题目时考生不需要关注文章中的其他内容,仅根据给定句子解题就好了。但是考生由于没有抓住这类题型的解题关键,在看到看上去很是相像的选项时还是会感觉无法下手。
有一些考生在解题时的步骤是这样的:首先看到这个句子,将句子进行翻译。然后对四个选项分别翻译。之后将原句和选项的意思对比,确定选项。这种解题方法先不说答对率的问题,看上去耗时不少,所以它不应该成为我们的解题选择。在这类题目解答时前程百利小编为大家推荐逻辑解题法。
逻辑解题法就是根据对原句逻辑的判断,来确定选项中必定含有的逻辑以及不会存在的逻辑。这样可以锁定几个选项或者排除一些选项。之后再根据原句的相关细节进行进一步判断,直到选出答案。这种逻辑解题方法的好处是:首先和以上的“翻译法”相比,在答题过程中相对轻松;其次,和它想比,正确率会高很多,因为句子不管进行怎样的同义表述,它的逻辑是不变的,而它的翻译因为一些意译的存在会有一些变化。
下面为大家带来一题的举例,看看这种逻辑解题法的应用吧!
原句:At one time, the animals present in these fossil beds were assigned to various modern animal groups, but most paleontologists now agree that all Tommotian fossils represent unique body forms that arose in the early Cambrian period and disappeared before the end of the period, leaving no descendants in modern animal groups.
Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. The animals found in the Tommotian fossil bed were once thought to belong to a variety of modern animal groups, but now they are thought to have descended from a single group.
B. Animals in the Tommotian fossil beds were initially assigned to modern animal groups but are now thought to belong to groups that emerged and died out during the Cambrian period.
C. Though at first they thought otherwise, paleontologists now agree that the animals in the Tommotian have body forms from which modern animals have descended.
D. It is unclear whether the Tommotian fossils from the early Cambrian period represent unique body forms or whether they should be assigned to various modern animal groups.
解题:阴影部分句子可以理解为:“在一段时间内,人们认为这些化石中的动物分化 出了各种各样的现代动物。但是古生物学家们现在却认为所有的托莫特化石都仅代表在寒 武纪初期出现但到寒武纪结束时就消失了的一类特别生物。所以它们没有在现在动物中留 下任何后代。”句子的主要逻辑是转折 (but),而选项C的主要逻辑为让步(though), D选项的主要逻辑为并列,因此可以排除 C和D选项。A选项和B选项的主要逻辑都是转折,但经仔细分析可以发现,A选项中说到“他们是单一族群的后裔”,与原句表达的意思有偏离,所以A选项错误。B选项的主要逻辑与主要意思均与阴影部分句子相同,因此是正确选项。
以上就是前程百利小编为大家带来的托福阅读句子简化题逻辑解题法。托福阅读句子简化题的考察点是句子的逻辑,所以利用逻辑来解题也最可靠。预祝大家托福考试取得好成绩!

