在托福阅读部分，段落是理解文章必不可少的一个部分。下面前程百利小编为考生分享如何分析托福阅读段落，帮助考生为理解文章做准备。
例如：TPO27-1 Crafts in the Ancient Near East的第三自然段
A variety of documentation indicates that certain goods, once made by a family member as one of many duties, were later made by skilled artisans. Certain images depict groups of people, most likely women, involved in weaving textiles, an activity we know from later third-millennium texts to have been vital in the economy and to have been centrally administered. Also, a specialized metal-producing workshop may have been excavated in a small area at Uruk. It contained a number of channels lined by a sequence of holes, about 50 centimeters deep, all showing burn marks and filled with ashes. This has been interpreted as the remains of a workshop where molten metal was scooped up from the channel and poured into molds in the holes. Some type of mass production by specialists were involved here.
首句
一般情况下，在托福阅读中首句就能表明本段内容的中心思想。因此想要理解段落内容需要考生在备考的过程中多多注意段落的第一句话，或者段落的前半部分。
在本段落中，第一句话为：A variety of documentation indicates that certain goods, once made by a family member as one of many duties, were later made by skilled artisans. 在本句话中，that引导宾语从句作indicates的宾语，once made by a family member as one of many duties插入语，修饰certain goods. 然后，通过关键词documentation indicates，certain goods， later made by skilled artisans可得出这句话主要意思是：多种文件记录说明，曾经作为义务被家庭制作的商品，在后来由熟练技工制作，即本段的中心思想就是商品由工人制作。
主体
在阅读段落中，除去文章的第一句和最后一句，中间的部分，都在围绕段落的中心思想进行展开。在展开的过程中，有的是通过举例子，有的是通过对比或者直接讲述的方式进行描述。
在本段的第二句中Certain images，weaving textiles，third-millennium texts，通过描述图画上的内容，以及一些文献描述得出女人编制纺织品是当时经济的重要组成部分。第三句和第四句可以通过workshop、channels、burn marks and filled with ashes得出金属制造的工厂存在过，第五句interpreted as the remains of a workshop通过以上的证据证明这个金属制造厂真的存在过，通过这四句话的分析我们可以得出，第二句话主要在说妇女编制纺织品，第三到五句话主要说金属制造厂也存在过，通过这两个例子说明商品由工人制作。
尾句
在段落的尾句部分，一般情况下都是对本段落的内容进行总结，或者起到承上启下的作用，为下一段的内容做准备。
在第三段的最后一句话是Some type of mass production by specialists were involved here，意思是这里包括一些由专业人士进行的大量生产活动。这句话对上文的内容进行总结，回应文章第一句的主题句。
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