托业即TOEIC(Test of English for International Communication),中文译为国际交流英语考试,是针对在国际工作环境中使用英语交流的人们而指定的英语能力测评,由美国教育考试服务中心设计。下面yjbys网小编为大家介绍两种提高阅读水平的方法,希望对大家有用!
一、首先要扩大阅读的范围
考试阅读中前两部分通常是实用性强的功能性短文,如菜单、产品说明、通知、住宿安排和广告等,非常贴近西方的实际生活,但对我们国内绝大多数考生而言会很陌生。这就要求考生们争取每天阅读一定量的原版英文报刊、书籍,如time、 reader‘s digest等,尤其注意其中的各种各样的广告。并非要读懂每一个字,或完全理解,只要能理解其中大至含义既可。
另一部分类阅读中主要是关于历史中的重要人物、事件和发明和科学现象、学科最新动向、地理现象以及社会发展、经济状况等。其中大部分文章选自国外人文类、经济类和科学类的知名报纸、杂志或各政府、组织的研究报告。如:new scientist、 financial times、 the economist、popular science、national geographic、scientific american 等。这些刊物在国内虽然不易看到,但考生们可以通过internet在网上进行阅读,以熟悉它们的文风、常用的词汇和句子结构。
二、要提高阅读的速度
提高英语阅读的速度,靠的不是一日之功,通常需要相当长一段时间的学习及训练。加强英文基础训练、掌握必要的测试技巧和鄙弃一些坏习惯,都会有助于考生们阅读文章是加快速度。
考试的阅读部分,测试考生的阅读速度和理解的精确度,考生们既不能为了在1小时的时间内答完考题而单一求快,也不能为了答题的准确性高而不得不放弃回答一些问题。
英语阅读的速度可以通过加强自己快速阅读的能力来提高。快速阅读就是用扫描文章的方法对其结构有大致的了解,并把握其主旨。同时,在重点句子和词汇上做出标记。这种方法对阅读考试帮助极大,平时可多加练习。考生们应鄙弃逐词阅读的陋习,逐词阅读不但速度太慢,而且容易引起误解。而学会词汇组合阅读。
另外,为了提高阅读的速度还要养成良好的阅读习惯,不能边看边用嘴跟着读,眼、嘴并用必会降低读速;一旦发现生词(这种情况绝大多数考生都肯定要遇到),先不要紧张,要通过英语构词法(前缀、词根和后缀)来分析推测词义,或结合上下文、前后词语去猜测,如果根据上下文及前后词语还是无法确切了解其真正含义,你可以再看一下这个词对整个句子所构成的影响是肯定的,还是否定的,实际上这对你理解作者的意图已足够了,实在不行就做上记号,将来看一看是否影响答题,如无影响就坚决忽略,切记不要恋战。
托业考试阅读材料:一棵树的四季
Four Seasons of a Tree
by Author Unknown, Source Unknown
Don't judge a life by one difficult season.
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no - it was covered with green buds and full of promise.
The third son disagreed, he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but one season in the tree's life.
He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are - and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life - can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.
If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall. Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
一棵树的四季
不要只在某人某段艰难的岁月里去判断他的一生。
从前,一个父亲有4个儿子。他希望儿子们能学会凡事勿匆下结论,于是轮番派遣他们到很远的地方去寻一棵梨树。
大儿子是冬天去的,二儿子春天启程,老三去时已是炎热的夏季,老么于金秋时节踏上了征程。
待他们全都寻树归来以后,父亲把他们叫到一起,听他们各自描述自己的所见。
大儿子数落说大树枝弯干斜,很难看。二儿子连忙否认,说树上发满嫩绿的新芽,生机盎然。
老三不同意了,树上明明开满鲜花,吐露芬芳,漂亮极了。
他们的说法实在让老么哑然,枝头上坠满的难道不是累累果实,在彰显生机与收获吗?
父亲解释说,儿子们的说法都没错,因为他们看到的是大树一年四个季节里的不同情景。
他告诉儿子们说,不能以一季来判断树,更不能以一时来判断人,因为人之本质——源自他们喜、乐、爱的根本——只有在其生之了结时,才可盖棺论定。
倘若你在冬季就已放弃,那无疑会错过春季的生机、夏季的美丽和秋季的收益。勿为一季的痛苦而破坏了所有的欢乐。