託福閱讀參考書如何選擇
現在市面上的託福閱讀參考書五花八門，我們要如何去甄選呢?選擇參考書對託福備考是非常重要的，下面小編就給大家推薦一些!
託福閱讀參考書如何選擇?
有的時候，市面上的學習資料不是太少了，而是太多了。如果用“亂花漸欲迷人眼”來形容現在的託福書籍市場，真的是毫不過分，僅是流行的longman，delta，Thomson，Barron，高分120，TPO，劍橋，Kaplan就已經是一隻手數不過來了。如果再加上很多根本不流行的，很可能要用上朋友的手指頭，加腳趾頭才能數的清。
但是實際上，絕大多數由於出得很早，就是因爲早期佔領了市場而保證銷量延續至今，但是實際上大多隻能算是敗絮其中，要是談兵法，就要首先把市面上的常見材料分分清。
Longman：真的是很初級的教材，難度遠遠低於新託福的實際水平，找快感，樹立自信用這個材料不錯，除此之外，用處不大。當然這是針對基礎不錯的，要是基礎一般的話，這個作爲入門材料也未嘗不可。
Delta：難度略高於Longman，不過現在看來，相比與新托福考試，這本書的作用也僅限於墊桌子角僅此而已，如果非要說有什麼用的話，就是跟Longman一樣，在寒冷的冬夜，可以用來取暖!不知道賣女孩的小火柴^_^會不會驚恐的看到篝火之中出現的不是大餐，而是ETS的logo^_^
Thomson：如果你真的想花錢在這個東西的身上的話，你最好把這些錢捐給李連杰的“壹基金”，相信孩子們的那些教科書比這本書有用多了。Thomson雖然比Delta還是算稍微難一點，以及模考軟件做得更精良一點。但是如果你追求效率的最大化的話，這本書也是可以跳過的。
Barron：這本書要是跳過的話，很多人就有點不舒服了，因爲這本書，在新托福考試的早期還是很受人追捧的。但是無可奈何花落去，雖然這本書在文章的選材，以及題目的難度上，還是可以被稍微認可的。但是我們不得不承認這本書現在與新託福突破口TPO也就是真題比較起來，真的是出題思路或者說出題方向不一致，如果你在考前只堅持用這本書的話，你很有可能是南轅北轍了，現在來看，第一難度偏低，第二思路有偏差，第三考點有偏差。因此這本書可以在準備考試的初期拿來做一做，但是最大的時間還是要放在新託福突破口TPO上的。
劍橋：直接扔!名氣大?!那好吧，回答這個問題LV牌的臭豆腐你吃麼?
Kaplan：簡單來說，難度過大，出題思路詭異，答案就顯得更加詭異!完全不建議做!
高分120：這本書可以說還是不錯的。貼近新托福考試難度，當然還是與前面所提到的材料相比。不過必須客觀的說，就現階段的新托福考試的整體水平，出題難度，確實是高分120是最好的非官方材料，沒有之一!無論是從文章難度，還是從選材以及題目的設置都是不錯的!值得推薦!
新託福突破口TPO：ETS官方的材料，當然是最好的了!但是我們也必須看到，新托福考試的難度還是在逐年上升的，因此很多筒子們都趕腳到，前面的新託福突破口TPO閱讀的難度要低於新託福突破口TPO後面幾條的難度，這就是因爲ETS是每年都會放出一些新的新託福突破口TPO，代碼越大的新託福突破口TPO就越新，也就越接近現在的新托福考試，因此如果想知道現在的新托福考試到底是什麼難度，做最新的也就是TPO19是沒有錯的!但是別急!要知道新託福突破口TPO到現在也只有19套，因此一定要記得至少留3套進行模考哦!至於現在的新託福突破口TPO我們最常得到的是3個版本，一個是黃金閱讀的word版本，再一個是PDF的版本，其實內容差不多，用前面的word版本更好。再一個就是用PPS的模考版本，這個在各大留學論壇上都能找到!
亂花漸欲迷人眼，淺草才能沒馬蹄。最愛湖東行不足，綠楊陰裏白沙堤。自己的心是美的，托福考試也就是美的。
對託福參考書和資料使用的一些建議
除了裸考的同學外，幾乎所有的考生都會買一些托福考試的參考書，也會從網上淘一些參考資料來複習。但是面對這些形形色色的參考書和參考資料，我們該如何選擇呢，下面就是一位考生的經驗之談，也許對大家有一定借鑑。
今天出分了97~ 雖然沒有100 但也算圓滿完成任務~ 所以想對一些剛起步託福的人講一下參考書和託福資料的自己的一些感受 希望大家不要浪費錢在一些沒用的書和資料上~
我剛考託福的時候 只要看到新託福幾個字的書~~ 我就會買~~ 然後發現很多書都沒用 而且壓根也沒用。。。。。所以我在對這個託福資料上還是有點經驗的
閱讀： 網上下 黃金閱讀~~ 全部是真題~~ 灰常有研究價值~~ 如果你願意的話，可以再買本 黃金閱讀真題及解析 卓越 噹噹 都有的買 ~~ 但是隻有TPO1-TPO9的
聽力： 我的經驗是 用老託聽力PartC練聽抄+跟讀 在用TPO的聽力 去研究出題思路， 做題 還有盲讀(盲讀是你的聽力水準差不多在六級聽力的水平 再進行的，也就是慢原聲 0.5秒的樣子跟讀~~但不用聽抄~)
口語：黃金口語80題 各類機經 還有就是一本 口語真經2(裏面收集的都是真題 還有 參考答案的 雖然聽力的音頻是他們找老外自己錄的，女聲有點糾結 )
寫作： 慎小嶷寫的 《十天突破新託福ESSAY》 和 李笑來的 《TOEFL高分作文》 我覺對這兩本足矣~ 實踐。。 就拿機經裏的題目練吧~
至於DELTA Barron 等各類的 我基本沒用 因爲介些都系 模考題~~ 都不是ETS出的 出題思路很難與ETS 保持一致 有時候 偏差還很大~~
所以在搞定TPO 和老託 等各類真題之前 還是 別去做這些模考題了~~
總之一句話 真題至上~~ 有時間的話 再做做模考題吧
最後， 我不是牛人， 以上內容 僅供參考~~
託福閱讀真題1
PASSAGE 1
By the mid-nineteenth century, the term icebox had entered the American language, but icewas still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice tradegrew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by someforward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865),as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, halfthe ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston andChicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new householdconvenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented.
Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenthcentury, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration,was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the icefrom melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the rtheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept theice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve thedelicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.
But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the righttrack. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the villageof Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport hisbutter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs ofhis competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-poundbricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have totravel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The influence of ice on the diet
(B) The development of refrigeration
(C) The transportation of goods to market
(D) Sources of ice in the nineteenth century
2. According to the passage , when did the word icebox become part of the language of the
United States?
(A) in 1803
(B) sometime before 1850
(C) during the civil war
(D) near the end of the nineteenth century
3. The phrase forward-looking in line 4 is closest in meaning to
(A) progressive
(B) popular
(C) thrifty
(D) well-established
4. The author mentions fish in line 4 because
(A) many fish dealers also sold ice
(B) fish was shipped in refrigerated freight cars
(C) fish dealers were among the early commercial users of ice
(D) fish was not part of the ordinary person's diet before the invention of the icebox
5. The word it in line 5 refers to
(A) fresh meat
(B) the Civil War
(C) ice
(D) a refrigerator
6. According to the passage , which of the following was an obstacle to the development of the
icebox?
(A) Competition among the owners of refrigerated freight cars
(B) The lack of a network for the distribution of ice
(C) The use of insufficient insulation
(D) Inadequate understanding of physics
7. The word rudimentary in line 12 is closest in meaning to
(A) growing
(B) undeveloped
(C) necessary
(D) uninteresting
8. According to the information in the second paragraph, an ideal icebox would
(A) completely prevent ice from melting
(B) stop air from circulating
(C) allow ice to melt slowly
(D) use blankets to conserve ice
9. The author describes Thomas Moore as having been on the right track (lines 18-19) to indicate
that
(A) the road to the market passed close to Moore's farm
(B) Moore was an honest merchant
(C) Moore was a prosperous farmer
(D) Moore's design was fairly successful
10. According to the passage , Moore's icebox allowed him to
(A) charge more for his butter
(B) travel to market at night
(C) manufacture butter more quickly
(D) produce ice all year round
11. The produce mentioned in line 25 could include
(A) iceboxes
(B) butter
(C) ice
(D) markets
PASSAGE 1 BBACC DBCDA B
託福閱讀真題2
PASSAGE 2
The geology of the Earth's surface is dominated by the particular properties of water. Presenton Earth in solid, liquid, and gaseous states, water is exceptionally reactive. It dissolves,transports, and precipitates many chemical compounds and is constantly modifying the face ofthe Earth.
Evaporated from the oceans, water vapor forms clouds, some of which are transported bywind over the continents. Condensation from the clouds provides the essential agent ofcontinental erosion: rain. Precipitated onto the ground, the water trickles down to form brooks,streams, and rivers, constituting what are called the hydrographic network. This immensepolarized network channels the water toward a single receptacle: an ocean. Gravity dominatesthis entire step in the cycle because water tends to minimize its potential energy by running fromhigh altitudes toward the reference point, that is, sea level.
The rate at which a molecule of water passes though the cycle is not random but is a measureof the relative size of the various reservoirs. If we define residence time as the average time for awater molecule to pass through one of the three reservoirs — atmosphere, continent, and ocean— we see that the times are very different. A water molecule stays, on average, eleven days inthe atmosphere, one hundred years on a continent and forty thousand years in the ocean. Thislast figure shows the importance of the ocean as the principal reservoir of the hydrosphere butalso the rapidity of water transport on the continents.
A vast chemical separation process takes places during the flow of water over the ble ions such as calcium, sodium, potassium, and some magnesium are dissolved andtransported. Insoluble ions such as aluminum, iron, and silicon stay where they are and form thethin, fertile skin of soil on which vegetation can grow. Sometimes soils are destroyed andtransported mechanically during flooding. The erosion of the continents thus results from twoclosely linked and interdependent processes, chemical erosion and mechanical erosion. Theirrespective interactions and efficiency depend on different factors.
1. The word modifying in line 4 is closest in meaning to
(A) changing
(B) traveling
(C) describing
(D) destroying
2. The word which in line 5 refers to
(A) clouds
(B) oceans
(C) continents
(D) compounds
3. According to the passage , clouds are primarily formed by water
(A) precipitating onto the ground
(B) changing from a solid to a liquid state
(C) evaporating from the oceans
(D) being carried by wind
4. The passage suggests that the purpose of the hydrographic network (line 8) is to
(A) determine the size of molecules of water
(B) prevent soil erosion caused by flooding
(C) move water from the Earth's surface to the oceans
(D) regulate the rate of water flow from streams and rivers
5. What determines the rate at which a molecule of water moves through the cycle, as discussed
in the third paragraph?
(A) The potential energy contained in water
(B) The effects of atmospheric pressure on chemical compounds
(C) The amounts of rainfall that fall on the continents
(D) The relative size of the water storage areas
6. The word rapidity in line 19 is closest in meaning to
(A) significance
(B) method
(C) swiftness
(D) reliability
7. The word they in line 24 refers to
(A) insoluble ions
(B) soluble ions
(C) soils
(D) continents
8. All of the following are example of soluble ions EXCEPT
(A) magnesium
(B) iron
(C) potassium
(D) calcium
9. The word efficiency in line 27 is closest in meaning to
(A) relationship
(B) growth
(C) influence
(D) effectiveness
PASSAGE 2 AACCD CABD
