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1、托福考试阅读试题及解析托福考试阅读试题及解析考题1The phrase “this respect” in the passage refers toA. enormous variationsB. being smallerC. number of inhabitantsD. shared characteristics解析：难点一，很多考生误以为这是词汇题，而词汇题的通常问法是：The word/phrase “.” is closest in meaning to。这道题题干中的“refers to”说明这是代词指代题，需要读懂句子找清前后指代关系;难点二，很多人不知道respect有名
2、词用法，=aspect，表“方面”;难点三，回到原文读考句，读不懂。该句为： One may call them towns because even though they varied enormously in numbers of inhabitants, and some were smaller than large villages in this respect, they shared certain characteristics that set them off from rural settlements. 说明从居民数量的方面来看，一些城镇比大村庄的居民数量还少，但
3、它们仍然是城镇，共享着区别于村庄的某些特征。所以此题正确答案是C。考题2解析：这是句子简化题所在考句，最大考点在于“not so much A.as B”句式真正意义的考察。在这里，否认A，而肯定B。即城镇区别于村庄的特征并不是其规模大小，而是其经济活动和社会活动的密集度。同样的句式表达还有less A than B。反过来，more A than B，就是肯定A而否认B了。这一考点在同一篇文章中又再次考到，看下题。考题3考句：In southern Europe there was more continuity from earlier settlement patterns. Growt
4、h came less from the creation of new towns than from the flow of immigrants to old settlements.It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that urban growth in southern Europe was marked byA. more people in a greater number of townsB. more people in the same number of townsC. development of new settlement p
5、atternsD. movement of people into newly created towns解析：第一句话“In southern Europe there was more continuity from earlier settlement patterns.”属于抽象语言，对抽象语言的理解，一靠大量阅读的.积淀，二靠向下文寻找详细对应。此句中的抽象概念“more continuity from earlier settlement patterns”，详细对应到下句的“the flow of immigrants to old settlements”。因为“less A than B”中，A是否认内容，B才是作者重点表达的肯定内容。所以综合两句信息来看，南欧地区城镇的增长是来自于移民涌入原有的老的定居点，而不是去建造新的定居点/新城镇。所以正确答案选B。第 页 共 页
