新托福阅读考试:能看懂却不能做对的怪圈,症结在哪?
新托福考试阅读部分算是中国考生们比较有把握的一部分了,但在新托福阅读考试中,能看懂文章却又做错题目的现象貌似已成为一种常态。反而是在老托福的时期,这样的事从来没有见过。新托福考试看似取消了语法的单项考察,但是在实际考试之中又将对于语法的考察融合在了新托福考试之中,这里面就是阅读考试体现得最为明显。请看下面一个例子: The extreme seriousness of desertification results from the vast areas of land and the tremendous numbers of people affected, as well as from the great difficulty of reversing or even slowing the process。 很多人在看到这句话的时候,经常翻译为"沙漠化是源于"或者翻译为"沙漠化导致""很多的土地与很多的人去影响的原因。 "这里面有两个点特别容易犯错误,一是result from是源于的意思,而不是单纯的导致的意思。二是affected在这里其实是后置定语,因此这里的意思是"被影响",这里很多人又疑惑了,因为我们以前看到的东西都是,人的因素导致沙漠化啊,怎么又会是被影... [ 查看全文 ]新托福阅读考试:能看懂却不能做对的怪圈,症结在哪?的相关文章
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