托福听力了解题目意图很重要

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　　考生不只要知道语句的表层意义，还要了解说话者的真实目的、懂得言语的隐含意义。也即是说，同学们需求推测出隐含意义，可是要有个“度”，这便是同学们应该把握到的托福听力窍门，尤其是在处理托福听力细节题时，慎用揣度，这是细节题的难点之一，也是很多同学简单犯错的当地。我们来看托福听力资料吧，TPO-18中第三篇Lecture: The Role of Spices。

　　其中一道题是，What two factors explain why medieval Europeans did not use spices to cover the taste of spoiled meat? Click on 2 answers

　　A. Fresh meat was less expensive than spices were

　　B. Spices were mainly used in incense and perfume

　　C. The sale of spoiled food was prohibited

　　D. Salt was cheaper than most spices were

　　这是一道细节题。原文如下：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 fresh meat. We also have evidence that various medieval markets employed a kind of police to make sure that people did not sell spoiled food, and if you were caught doing it, you were subject to various fines, humiliating public punishments. So what actually was true was this: In order to have meat for the winter, people would preserve it in salt, not a spice.

　　托福听力原文中提到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 fresh meat，根据听到语句的表层意义可知，那些买得起香料的人自然可以买得起鲜肉，更不会用香料来掩盖坏肉的滋味了!所以A项精确。同样地，根据原文中 various medieval markets employed a kind of police to make sure that people did not sell spoiled food,可知，大家被制止出售坏肉，所以C项精确。

　　可是，不少同学错选了D项。为何呢?由于原文中是听到了In order to have meat for the winter, people would preserve it in salt, not a spice. 其中就谈到了salt保留肉类，所以一些同学估测：既然香料昂贵，而大家用salt来保留肉类，那不即是说salt比spice要廉价呀，而且这也是常识啊!

　　D项这类过错是对比典型的。注意：标题不是揣度题，所以不能妄加推测，即便D项看起来多么“完美”、多么“无懈可击”，原文没有提到salt比spice廉价，假如咱们硬是要推出来，或许把它作为知识选出来，那就错了!

　　这种类型的题需求同学们把握一些托福听力窍门才干更高效地处理，很多托福听力资料中都在这方面出了考点，为了即是调查考生们对文章了解的深浅。要想做好这种题一定要细心的推测意思，把握好托福听力中所谓的“度”。只要这么才干更精确的回答出标题。

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