三步秒杀托福阅读插入题

 托福阅读插入题的题型和数量固定，是每篇文章倒数第2题。以42道题目3篇阅读文章为例，分别在一套试题中的第13题，第27题和第41题。在考试中，轻松取得插入题无异于给高分少清障碍，特别是通过提取关键词，使用有效的快速解题思路，不论是词义复现，逻辑对应，还是信号判定等方法，都能帮助我们易如反掌地拿下这类题型。

解题思路一：词义复现

所谓词义复现，是指题干中的关键词能够在插入段中重复出现的词。秒杀第一步，细读题干长句，提炼主谓宾，提取2-3个关键词（通常为2-3个名词或名词词组）；秒杀第二步，记住关键词并在插入段中，找到词义复现的词或词组；秒杀第三步，判定词义复现的第一次出处，考虑下一句是否有相同复现的词或词组，插入这两句中间，为承上启下的作用。下面以TPO11-3 Begging by Nestlings的插入题为例：

第一步：细读

The cheeping provides important information to the parent, but it could also attract the attention of others.

提取关键词和词组：（1）cheeping（2）parent;（3）others

第二步： 扫读

Many signals that animals make seem to impose on the signalers costs that are overly damaging. ■ A classic example is noisy begging by nestling songbirds when a parent returns to the nest with food. ■ These loud cheeps and peeps might give the location of the nest away to a listening hawk or raccoon, resulting in the death of the defenseless nestlings.■ In fact, when tapes of begging tree swallows were played at an artificial swallow nest containing an egg, the egg in that “noisy” nest was taken or destroyed by predators before the egg in a nearby quiet nest in 29 of 37 trials.■
解析：确定了第一处的（1）cheeping对照的begging, （2）parent原词复现 （3）others对应替换的词组hawk or racoon。

第三步：通读

初步判断插入第2个空，通过词义复现的两句中间，通读一遍，题干句子功能为承上启下，故确定为第2个空。

解题思路二：逻辑对应

所谓逻辑对应，是指提取插入句的逻辑词，对应插入段的整体逻辑，从general to specific原则，层层推进。下面以TPO3-1 ARCHITECTURE　的插入题为例：

第一步：细读

However, some modern architectural designs, such as those using folded plates of concreter or air-inflated structures, are again unifying skeleton and skin.
提取插入句的逻辑词：however和圈定插入句关键词：modern architectural designs,逻辑反推判定However的对应目标词要取非，对应modern.

第二步：扫读

■Modern architectural forms generally have three separate components comparable to elements of the human body; a supporting skeleton or frame, an outer skin enclosing the interior spaces, equipment, similar to the body’s vital organs and systems. ■The equipment includes plumbing, electrical wiring, hot water, and air-conditioning. ■Of course in early architecture—such as igloos and adobe structures—there was no such equipment, and the skeleton and skin were often one. ■
解析：通过However逻辑取非,找到early architecture

第三步：通读

通过句式对应，将取非定位句与插入句进行关键词对照，进一步核实：

原句：Of course in early architecture—such as igloos and adobe structures—there was no such equipment, and the skeleton and skin were often one.

插入句：However, some modern architectural designs, such as those using folded plates of concreter or air-inflated structures, are again unifying skeleton and skin.由此，可轻松判定第四空。

解题思路三：信号判定

信号词一般为分为三类：（1）指示代词this,these,those等，（2）举例和解释的如in fact, indeed, for example等，（3）总结性therefore, thus 等。下面以TPO8-1 THE RISE OF TEOTIHUACAN为例：

第一步：细读

In fact, artifacts and pottery from Teotihuacán have been discovered in sites as far away as the Mayan lowlands, the Guatemalan highlands, northern Mexico, and the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
提取信号词：In fact为解释性的提示词，因此略读长句之后，观察主要特征是地名。

第二步：扫读

The city of Teotihuacán, which lay about 50 kilometers northeast of modern-Day Mexico City, began its growth by 200-100 B.C. At its height, between about A.D. 150 and 700, it probably had a population of more than 125,000 people and covered at least 20 square kilometers. ■It had over 2,000 apartment complexes, a great market, a large number of industrial workshops, an administrative center, a number of massive religious edifices, and a regular grid pattern of streets and buildings. ■Clearly, much planning and central control were involved in the expansion and ordering of this great metropolis. ■Moreover, the city had economic and perhaps religious contacts with most parts of Mesoamerica (modern Central America and Mexico).■

解析：找到概括词Mesoamerica为中美洲的概念，联系题干Mayan lowlands, the Guatemalan highlands, northern Mexico, and the Gulf Coast of Mexico.

第三步：通读

通过基本概念，Mesoamerica可以概括in fact后的各处地名，故插入第四空。

 版权声明：本原创文章版权归新通教育网所有，欢迎转载，请务必保持原文完整，并注明作者和出处“新通外语网（）”。谢谢！

【寒假热报课程】