學習託福閱讀有什麼技巧

學習託福閱讀有什麼技巧:

學習託福閱讀有什麼技巧

來聊一聊託福閱讀段落內部的組織結構,託福最常用的一種段落結構之一就是事例論證。

比如下面這個段落:

The impressive gain in output stemmed primarily from the way in which workers made goods. Since the 1790’s, North American entrepreneurs – even without technological improvements – had broadened the scope of the outwork system that made manufacturing more efficient by distributing materials to a succession of workers who each performed a single step of the production process. For example, during the 1820’s and 1830’s the shoe industry greatly expanded the scale and extend of the outwork system.

Tens of thousands of rural women, paid according to the amount they produced, fabricated the “uppers” of shoes, which were bound to the soles by wage-earning journeymen shoemakers in dozens of Massachusetts town, whereas previously journeymen would have made the entire shoe. This system of production made the employer a powerful “shoe boss” and eroded workers’ control over the pace and conditions of labor. However, it also dramatically increased the output of shoes while cutting their price.

分析:

1. 段落開頭的第一句爲本段的主旨句:產量的大幅增加是由於工人生產方式的改變。而文章的第二句沒有像我們想象的直接距離支撐主旨句的觀點,而是再進一步的闡釋了生產方式是怎樣改變的:had broadened the scope of the outwork system (通過拓寬了外包體系的範圍),結合了這個闡釋句,我們就更能理解topic sentence 給出的觀點了。

2. 接下來作者才舉了一個製鞋業的例子來進一步支持觀點句。這個例子非常的'長,一直到倒數第二句,幾乎佔了這段的二分之一的篇幅。但是我們對於例子的細節不需要細讀,只需要知道兩點:1.這個一個製鞋業的例子;2. 這個例子是爲了支持主旨句的。

3. 此段最後一句爲總結句。把主旨句的內容有總結了一遍,並且還提出了一個新的觀點: cutting their prices(鞋的價格會下降)。

同過以上段落結構的講解,我們能夠得出例證段落的一個黃金公式:

主體段落構成:

(1)分論點

(2)緊隨論點闡釋句

(3)數據、舉例等具體論證

(4)最後一句-承上啓下

我們可以針對不同功能的句子採取不同的處理方式,從而節省閱讀時間,提高閱讀效率。趕快回復,跟老師一起來看看這些“真經”是啥?

後記:閱讀託福文章不是一個均速運動的過程,我們要做變速運動,針對不同的部分應該有不同的閱讀速度和方法。這樣練習以後,大家會發現段落閱讀能夠做到主次輕重分明,再也不用擔心段落讀不懂的問題啦。