How to grasp the rhythm of reading on the TOEFL test?

Hello, generally in the case of TOEFL reading without taking the test, you have 60 minutes to do 3 essays of about 700 words and 42 questions. If you are solving a problem based on a 20-minute article, the time is exactly 60 minutes. However, it must be clear that the difficulty of reading the TOEFL 3 passages is not the same, if the first passage topic is simple and you take 20 minutes, then the later passage will not have enough time when you encounter more difficult passages and topics.

I've always been able to syntax, so I'll recommend a small method here. That is to do Chinese graduate English reading, and then extract the difficult sentences in it, and repeat the original sentences with Chinese explanations (here I recommend Zhou Gu's analysis of postgraduate English test questions, Chinese explanations are in place) and repeat them against each other. Because China's graduate English test is a deformed test, first of all, it requires a very low score, 45 55, and many science students in this score range have already reached the score line.

Secondly, it measures your knowledge of the meaning of familiar words and your familiarity with strange grammatical items. As a result, this has created a large number of candidates who have not passed CET4 but have passed the postgraduate English exam. So if you memorize all the difficult sentences in graduate English reading, and then go to the normal human English test, the TOEFL test, you will find that the grammar items are so simple.

In TOEFL reading, the most difficult thing for beginners is not the words, but the requirement to complete 50 reading questions in 55 minutes. We're just going to start here. TOEFL reading is different from CET4, CET6, and is also different from the college entrance examination, because these are about 4 or 5 readings, 20 questions, and none of these tests require the time required to complete the unfinished test.

Therefore, many students are very uncomfortable with the time limit of TOEFL when they first start to read TOEFL, and some people do not even overcome this problem before the test.

Here I like to borrow the method of the predecessors: 1 that is, read the first 4 lines of the first paragraph of the article first, note that this is not the first 2 lines, because the first sentence of many articles is usually composed of professional nouns or some idioms, most Chinese students only know that after reading the first sentence, and then they will collapse, because the professional vocabulary and idioms will confuse them at one time. Therefore, here I recommend reading the first 4 lines to understand the topic direction of the article.

2. Do the question directly, and then find the key words in the question and return to the original text for checking. But there's also a skill to check here. The first question is usually the topic of the article, skip it and don't do it, put it at the end to do it, many other test questions are marked with line numbers or can be identified by special characters, such as numbers, capital letters, spelling very strange words, etc., when a question does not have these marks, it is necessary to locate the position of this question in the original text through other adjacent test questions.

The TOEFL test is a more scientific and rigorous aptitude test, with standard test content and test methods, which measures students' abilities rather than skills. What you need to do is to understand the requirements of the exam, practice according to the correct preparation method, improve your ability, and naturally get a satisfactory score.

1. As far as TOEFL is concerned, the accumulation of vocabulary is particularly important, because one of the 10 major TOEFL reading question types is vocabulary questions, and the number of this question type accounts for one-third of the number of all question types. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that those who get vocabulary questions will get a high score in TOEFL reading.

2. The vocabulary test of TOEFL reading focuses on synonyms and synonyms of words. Therefore, during the preparation for the exam, we should pay more attention to what the synonym of this word is. In addition to this, we have to learn to guess the general meaning of words through various methods, for the simple reason that vocabulary is endless, and no matter how we memorize words, it is inevitable that we will encounter new words while doing reading.

3. The word itself is meaningless, only when the word is put into a sentence, it will be vibrant; It's like a fish can't leave water. In the early stage of exam preparation, we will find out the meaning of the new words in the sentence in Chinese, but we will find that even if we check the meaning of the word, we still cannot understand the sentence accurately and clearly, that is to say, we have not seen the phrase collocation of this sentence, there are too many clauses, and the logic is not clear.

4. No matter how long a sentence is, the most basic elements must be the subject, predicate and object, as long as we can find out the subject-verb-object of this sentence, that is, who it is, what it did, the meaning of this sentence will be easily solved. The most direct use of long and difficult sentences is sentence simplification, factual information and sentence insertion.

5. In the later stage of exam preparation, it is a necessary rhythm to brush questions day and night, but many nurseries stop at the right answers, knowing how many mistakes they made and how many points they scored, and then it was over. In fact, this is the preliminary work of doing the questions, and after the answers are correct, we have a lot of follow-up work, and the meticulousness of these tasks and the time they persist in determine the TOEFL reading score to a large extent.

In the TOEFL test, the reading time is relatively tight and long, and there is definitely no time for word-by-word reading, so scanning is a very important part of the question-making skills, the purpose is to find the sentences related to the question in order to find the basis for the question. In the TOEFL test, after reading a paragraph, you will do only the questions related to that paragraph, and the information is concentrated, which is important to save a lot of time and alleviate the dizziness of the TOEFL reading passage. And this part of the question is often said in the TOEFL detail question.

The TOEFL reading test still has a large number of words requirements, even if the number of words is large, it is inevitable to encounter the situation of rare words, and the articles selected in the TOEFL test are particularly descriptive, often customized, self-explanatory mode, encounter new words, even if you don't know what they mean, you can also figure out the relationship between them according to the context, and use logical reasoning to make the correct answer. Secondly, you can also analyze the options and compare them, and often find that there are usually two options with opposite meanings in the options, and then carefully re-read the original text to rule out the wrong options.

There will be vocabulary questions in almost every paragraph, and some words candidates will know at a glance, so it is easy to ask such questions, but you can't be careless, if you have enough time or don't grasp much, you can bring the options into the article to check it again. For those words that you don't know, there are also many tricks. The first is to analyze the parts of speech and use the elimination method to exclude the option of inconsistent parts of speech.

The second is to use the substitution method. The meaning of the words given in the options is generally recognized by the candidates, bring the options in, and analyze whether they can ensure that the original text is reasonable and smooth.