新托福听力场景之历史话题考点分析.docVIP

新托福听力场景之历史话题考点分析 朗阁托福培训中心 我们新托福lecture的难度不断增加。对于考生来讲，有几个方面的障碍需要克服词汇，辨音能力和背景知识。前两方面，考生可以每天定下详细计划分别攻克。而关于背景知识，就需要考生将真题进行总结和积累了。实际上，备考新托福的过程对考生来讲就是一个锻炼语言能力和拓展知识面的过程。在此，朗阁托福培训专家为大家详解听力段子中较难的场景之一—历史话题。 一概述 历史类场景往往和其他分支学科产生联系具体可以从以下几个方面来考察 ☆ 国家政权或制度体制 如农业的产生，古埃及的女法老等。 ☆ 文化方面 如茶文化历史，戏剧的起源，考古方面等。 ☆ 著名历史人物 如爱默生，意大利画家等。 ☆ 其他话题 历史容易和其他学科产生交叉，如考古和艺术。 历史类的话题有一个很大的特点，就是专业词汇较多。很多考生有这样一种感觉，就是好像听明白了一些，但一考到细节题就不知所措。也就是说，历史类话题可能出现较多的专业词汇和细节，考生需谨慎。下面我们就几个例子来仔细体会一下。 二案例分析 下面是一个历史话题的经典案例 E.G. TPO 17 Lecture 3 (Egyptian Calendars) 听力原文 Well, their astronomers had discovered that at a certain time of year the brightest star, Sirius, would disappear. Actually, it’d be hidden in the glare of the Sun. Even more significantly, the reappearance of Sirius would occur around the same time as the Nile’s flooding. And this annual event is called a heliacal rising. The heliacal rising was a fair indicator of when the Nile would flood. The next new moon, after the heliacal rising of Sirius, which happened in the last month of the calendar year, marked the New Year. Why was the helical rising if Sirius important to the Egyptians? Click on 2 answers. A. It helped determine the beginning of the New Year. B. It was used to calculate the length of the month. C. It marked the beginning of harvest time. D. It indicated when the Nile would flood. 分析 此处考的是埃及的历法在这个节选原文中包含了Sirius天狼星heliacal rising（偕日升等概念比较难以理解需要考生有较快的反应速度朗阁托福培训专家在实际教学中发现不少学员在遇到这类话题时会怀有抵触心态大呼这种难度跟阅读都差不多了诚然专业度高理解困难考生应该认识到一点ETS的考察宗旨还是不变的检验考生的瞬时理解能力和知识储备的快速激活在此要做对这道双选题要留心信号词还可以将辨音中听不懂的陌生词转化成抽象符号搞清楚其作用即可可以看出Nile和New Year是关键词故轻松选出AD 下面再看一个例子 2) E.G. TPO 18 Lecture 3 (Egyptian Calendars) 听力原文 Now for the taste... Now, this is a good point to mention one of the biggest myths about spices. It’s commonly said that medieval Europeans wanted spices to cover up the taste of spoiled meat. But this isn’t really true. Anyone who had to worry about spoiled meat couldn’t afford spices in the first place. If you could afford spices, you could definitely afford fr