通过对比比较巧解托福阅读推理题.docx

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通过对比比较巧解托福阅读推理题
考生假如对所考文章的学科词汇一窍不通，文章读起来必定是云里雾里难以连续，因此适当把握一些学科词汇会使我们更有效备考。下面我就和大家共享通过对比比较巧解托福阅读推理题,盼望能够关心到大家，来 However, unlike the cases of sea otters and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses, whose limbs are functional both on land and at sea), it is not easy to envision what the first whales looked like. Extinct but already fully marine cetaceans are known from the fossil record. How was the gap between a walking mammal and a swimming whale bridged? Missing until recently were fossils clearly intermediate, or transitional, between land mammals and cetaceans.
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Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 1 about early sea otters?
It is not difficult to imagine what they looked like.
There were great numbers of them.
They lived in the sea only.
They did not leave many fossil remains.
猜一下正确答案是什么?没有错，答案就是A。
为什么呢?请留意原文中说“However, unlike the cases of sea otters and pinnipeds(seals, sea lions, and walruses, whose limbs are functional both on land and atsea), it is not easy to envision what the first whales looked like.”重点信息是“unlike thecases of sea otters…., it is not easy to envision….whale...”，“不像sea otter的状况，对于鲸鱼而言，是很难想象最初的鲸鱼是什么样子的。
不够清楚?我们再来画一个表格。
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cases
seaotter
whale
envision
noteasy
有没有发觉很熟识!是不是跟刚刚的化学试验一模一样!所以请告知我，空白处应当填什么?“easy”，对吗?好的，这时候我们再来看一下选项A说了什么?“It is not difficult to imagine what they looked like.”
“not difficult”是不是就等同于我们填入的“easy”!所以这么一道绕来绕去的题目我们就搞定啦。正确答案就是A选项。
有没有发觉get到了一个很高大上的技能!
托福阅读长难句：大量物种灭亡
The possibility that mass extinctions may recur periodically has given rise to such hypotheses as that of a companion star with a long-period orbit deflecting other bodies from their normal orbits, making some of them fall to Earth asmeteors and causing widespread devastation upon impact. (TPO15, 46)
recur /rɪkɜː/ v. 再发生，复发
periodically ，周期性发生地
hypothesis /haɪpɑθəsɪs/ n. 假说，假设
deflect /dɪfl