托福阅读方法技巧总结
1. The word “intriguing” in line 5 is closest in meaning to(果然，就是考了猜词，这个我不是骗人，我读到那里就觉得要考猜词了.这种你绝对认识但是一时说不明白什么意思的词绝对高频!!!)
(A) changing (B) perfect (C) visible (D) fascinating 这道题没猜对，应该是D，我选的C，看到后面有visible
解答：我把这个句子拿下来再看：. Until 1979, it was just another astronomy textbook statistic.Then came the close-up images obtained by the exploratory spacecraft Voyager 2, and withindays, Europa was transformed-in our perception, at least-into one of the solar system'smost intriguing worlds. The biggest initial surprise was the almost total lack of detail,especially from far away.好了，现在再来分析，你应该可以看出Peter拿了这个词的前后两句，其实不止两句，最好头脑里现在想着这篇文章在说什么.开始作者说从astronomy textbook statistic到close-upimages是想表达什么意思?以前关于欧罗巴的资料只是数据，现在已经有了图象，那我现在就认为这个intriguing可能有"真实，准确，栩栩如生，生动，"等意思，继续往下看，was transformed-in ourperception说明可能生动，栩栩如生这方面的意思可能更多一点，现在看后边的句子，好了，看到了surprise，可以大笑三声了，因为可以体会出作者的思想感情出来了，好了，现在直接把A,C选项拉出去弊了，那么就请比较perfect和fascinating这两个词哪个可以表达我上边分析的含义，你可以发现perfect强调完美，而后者有allure吸引的含义，你是永远不可能把perfect和surprise 联系起来的，也不可能把perfect和生动联系起来，所以这个题绝对是D.
注意：你可以看出Peter在分析这个题的时候完全没看intriguing那个词和句子，不过你如果背过红宝书，相信你连分析也不用，就直接选了D，我还能记得这个词在word list22,或者23不信你去找找.
8. According to the passage, what is the effect of Jupiter's other large moons on Europa?
(A) They prevent Europa's subsurface waters from freezing. (B) They prevent tides that coulddamage Europa's surface. (C) They produce the very hard layer of ice that characterizesEuropa. (D) They assure that the gravitational pull on Europa is maintained at a steady level. 答案是A，我选的是D
解答：答案在这里：The interior of Europa has been kept warm over the eons by tidal forcesgenerated by the varying gravitational tugs of the other big moons as they wheel aroundJupiter. The tides on Europa pull and relax in an endless cycle. 这里has been kept warm不就是They prevent Europa's subsurface waters from freezing吗?
9 According to the passage, what is believed to cause the thin lines seen on Europa's surface?
(A) A long period of extremely high tides (B) Water breaking through from beneath the surfaceice (C) The continuous pressure of slush on top of the ice (D) Heat generated by the hotrocky core 答案是B，我选的C
解答：呵呵，Peter又一次准确预测了考试题，看来我可以去出题了.这里就是问鸡蛋壳上的"裂痕"wateror slush oozes from below.，这里你选C可能就是看到了slush，其实这词啥意思我也不知道，但我认识water，而且要注意water是要from below而不是on top，而且这个continous pressure也不对吧.
Questions 30-39 Native Americans probably arrived from Asia in successive waves over severalmillennia, crossing a plain hundreds of miles wide that now lies inundated by 160 feet of waterreleased by melting glaciers. For several periods of time, the first beginning around 60,000 B.C.and the last ending around 7,000 B.C., this land bridge was open. The (5 )first people traveledin the dusty trails of the animals they hunted. They brought with them not only their families,weapons, and tools but also a broad metaphysical understanding, sprung from dreams andvisions and articulated in myth and song, which complemented their scientific and historicalknowledge of the lives of animals and of people. (从物质生活讲到文化生活)All this they shaped ina variety of languages, bringing into being oral literatures of power and beauty. (10)Contemporary readers, forgetting the origins of western epic, lyric, and dramatic forms, areeasily disposed to think of “literature” only as something written. But on reflection it becomesclear that the more critically useful as well as the more frequently employed sense of the termconcerns the artfulness of the verbal creation, not its mode of presentation. Ultimately,literature is aesthetically valued, regardless of language, culture, (15)or mode ofpresentation, because some significant verbal achievement results from the struggle inwords between tradition and talent. Verbal art has the ability to shape out a compelling innervision in some skillfully crafted public verbal form. Of course, the differences between thewritten and oral modes of expression are not without consequences for an understanding ofNative American literature. The essential (20)difference is that a speech event is an evolvingcommunication,(重要区别) an “emergent form,” the shape, functions, and aesthetic valuesof which become more clearly realized over the course of the performance. In performingverbal art , the performer assumes responsibility for the manner as well as the content of theperformance, while the audience assumes the responsibility for evaluating the performer'scompetence in both areas. It is this intense (25)mutual engagement that elicits the displayof skill and shapes the emerging performance. Where written literature provides us with atradition of texts, oral literature offers a tradition of performances. (对比型文章)