托福考試的閱讀環節是重要的部分，考生怎麼提高閱讀的分數?爲此本站小編爲大家帶來托福考試的閱讀部分的提高方法。
一、主題段和主題句的關鍵詞
託福閱讀文章中的主題段和主題句是每一個段落的主題，也是文章的要點，都是參與搭建文章結構的，因此記錄它們中的幾個關鍵詞對於把握全文的結構非常重要。同時，文章中有很多的重要信息，而且閱讀文章後面的題目大都是根據主題而出，考生在解答題目的時候，可以快速根據主題句找到對應的段落。
二、 時間和數字
一般來說，出現時間概念的文章或段落通常和時間順序有關，作者會用不同的時間點串出一條時間線索。而個別數字的出現則意味着這個數字所闡述概念的重要性是不容忽視的。因此，除非文章中出現了數據堆積的現象，否則考生都需要把數字記錄下來。
三、 人名、地名和專有名詞
人名、地名以及專有名詞出現的時候，一般都會出現大寫字母或引號等標記，非常有利於信息索引和定位。當提到這幾個具體的概念時，文章通常是在用這些概念說明某個理論或者觀點，因此記錄下這些概念對於理解相關理論和觀點可以起到一定的輔助作用。
四、舉例主體
有的時候，爲了說明某些理論和觀點，文章中會出現大段的舉例文字。實際上，託福閱讀考試會考查這些例子具體內容的時候非常少，而更多的是考查作者使用這些例子的原因或它們所證明的觀點。因此，考生在快速記錄的筆記中只需要記錄下例子是什麼就可以了，至於例子中所闡述的具體信息，可以適當忽略。
五、新概念和核心概念
所謂“新概念”是指當考生讀到文章某個位置時，之前沒有出現過的概念。這種新概念的出現，說明之前出現的概念已經不能夠說明問題。所以，新概念的出現必然也意味着一個重要信息的出現。而“核心概念”是指在連續的幾個段落中集中闡述的主題概念，對於這種概念來說，無論是作爲觀點還是舉例大家都應該注意，因爲它顯然是作爲重點在文章中被強調的。
六、重要的邏輯關係
很多考生在託福閱讀文章的時候只注意到了文章所闡述的重要內容，但是忽略了信息之間的邏輯關係，因而對信息關聯理解不準確，這也是一種嚴重的錯誤。因此，在閱讀過程中記錄下信息之間所產生的邏輯關係可以避免考生丟失信息之間的關聯信息。記錄邏輯關係也可以幫助考生更加清晰地理清段落之間的關係。
託福閱讀考試的.時間規劃第一步：看開頭
花兩三分鐘時間掃描每篇文章頭一兩個句子，定位文章難易程度。雖然平均每篇文章做題時間爲11分鐘，但是有的文章七八分鐘便可以輕鬆對付，有的文章則需要15分鐘左右。
一般來說，5篇文章中有2篇難度大一些，比方說：如果最後一篇文章難度盧大，且12-14道題，在這種情況下，按部就班做題就有可能因時間不夠而做錯好幾道題，帶來巨大的損失。因此首先定位文章難程度，同時目測文章的含金量(即題量分佈)，有助於科學分配閱讀部分的做題時間。
第二步：看結構
所謂結構，即文章的骨架子。託福閱讀文章是純學術體(Academic)，是學生在大學裏天天都能接觸到的教科書風格的文章，這些文章涉及人文社科和自然科學，均議論文、說明文，最顯著的特點是呈板塊結構。
第三步：看段落首句
託福閱讀文章均由數個自然段組成，正確的閱讀文章的方法應該是把文章首句先吃透，文章首句經常爲文章主題。然後把首段的其他句子儘快略讀，文章其他段落採取同樣的方法閱讀。各段落其他句子一般來說都是用來說明各個段落的主題句，沒有必要每個句子理解難度大，而不涉及考題，在此句停留無疑是白白浪費時間。
託福閱讀高分練習素材One thing I have found out is that how smart or how educated a person is has nothing to do with how many years he spent in school. I have seen plenty of people who graduated from college who don't have the sense God gave a turkey - in other words, they were educated beyond their intelligence - and plenty who stopped even before they graduated from high school who have done an excellent job of educating themselves.
I suppose the necessary quality would be motivation. I'm not sure how anybody would make it through four years of college and still be as, . . , unknowing as the day they entered. Or twelve years of high school for that matter. We provide twelve free years of education, or I should say thirteen since kindergarten is now included in most states. I guess we'll always have someone blaming the teachers if a child comes out not knowing how to read.
Let me get off my soapbox and continue with the purpose of this piece, which is to let you know that there are some shortcuts for people who would like to be a little more educated than they are. Lots of people dropped out of school for this reason or that, and now wish they could go back and redeem their learning, but feel like they have too big of a mountain to climb.
As an educator, I can tell you that you do not have to go back and learn every single item that you should have learned in school. In fact, the vast majority of people don't remember most of that information. There are certain things that help a person have an aura of being more learned, and here I have tried to distill this down to its very essence.
1. Build your vocabulary. It may not be fair, but most people judge how educated a person is by the words they use. A Roget's Thesaurus will do the trick, as will any number of vocabulary building books. Also, cut out the curse words. A person with a great store of words to use does not need to rely on vulgar language as a crutch.
Learning a great variety of words will give you more of a store to draw from. People who read a lot tend to have wider vocabularies than those who do not, which is probably how the idea got started that more intellectual you are, the more words you will know.
2. Read out loud from a book. This sounded silly to me when I first heard it. A friend said that he was trying to get some of the "country" out of how he talked and somebody had told him to try this. Oddly enough, it worked. You don't have to come out sounding like a national news anchor, just do it enough to get to where you want to be.
3. Invest in a book of quotations. Find a Bartlett's Familiar Quotations or some similar book. Just read over it. You'll be surprised to find that a lot of familiar sayings came from one of three sources: the Bible, Shakespeare, or Poor Richard's Almanac by Ben Franklin. Just being familiar with all the old saws of the English Language and where they came from will give you a smug feeling. Most people don't know this information.
4. Get one book with a synopsis of each of Shakespeare's plays. I had to take a Shakespeare class in college. Fortunately, I had one of these books that I happened to have picked up. I didn't have time to read the entire plays as they were assigned, so I read the synopsis. This gets the job done! Get familiar with the characters as well as the events. A lot of cultural references are based on Shakespeare.
5. Ditto with the Bible. Even if you don't believe the Bible, it doesn't hurt to be acquainted with the stories in it.
6. Get a GED book and work through it. The GED tends to be looked down on as a secondary, or "Good Enough Diploma." As a GED teacher, I can tell you that if you know enough to pass the GED, you have an education.
7. Read Cliff's Notes or MasterPlots. Get familiar with the characters and plots of most of the major works of literature.
8. Keep up with current events. Read the newspaper. Read the national news. Read all the national news magazines. You can go to the library and do this, they usually will have subscriptions to the major newspapers and magazines. Even though most magazines have a slant, usually liberal, this will teach you to read with an open mind. Take the information that you can use and discard the rest.
9. Know the history of your area. This is history come to life. Knowing about where you live is the very least you should know.
10. Show some curiosity. The more questions you ask, the more you wind up knowing. It's a fact that the smarter a person is, the more he realizes he doesn't know, and therefore asks questions.
You have made a good start by reading my enlightening piece. You're a little smarter already! Now get going, go learn some stuff.
