考生在備考托福閱讀的時候，會發(fā)現(xiàn)有些托閱讀題中的用句遠遠超出了自己的能力范圍。對于這些句子，我們需要從語法的角度去完全把握。但是如果是在考試中遇到不能理解的句子時，考生就偏向于一遍一遍地去讀句子，新托福閱讀到底在考察什么?我們來看看托福閱讀到底有什么深意。

　　本來另有深意，并不是托福閱讀的特性，如果非要說到另有深意，其實這應該是老托福聽力的特點，既然說到這里，大家先看一眼老托福聽力來找一下感覺。

　　原文：

　　M: Do you know what time the train goes the city?

　　W: Normally it's every 20 minutes. But it's weekend, so I'm not sure.

　　選項：

　　(A) Listen to the traffic report on the radio

　　(B) Take a later train.

　　(C) Ron to catch the next train.

　　(D) Check the weekend schedule.

　　很顯然這里的正確答案為D，因為原問題到了周末時間表與周1-5不同，因此，最好的選擇方案是看一下周末的時間表，去找一下準確的時間。

　　很顯然這里W并沒有直接的告訴我們要去查詢時間表，而是告訴我們周末的時間不確定，因此我們發(fā)現(xiàn)了她實際上是在暗示我們要Check the weekend schedule。這就是典型的另有深意。

　　新托福閱讀也繼承了老托福聽力的光榮傳統(tǒng):P，也開始為我們大張旗鼓的玩起了另有深意這樣的事情。這一點尤其在新托福TPO里面體現(xiàn)得尤為明顯。

　　當然還是拿真實例子說話，首先看一下新托福真題TPO1里面的一段。

　　Groundwater is the word used to describe water that saturates the ground, filling all the available spaces. By far the most abundant type of groundwater is meteoric water; this is the groundwater that circulates as part of the water cycle. Ordinary meteoric water is water that has soaked into the ground from the surface, from precipitation (rain and snow) and from lakes and streams. There it remains, sometimes for long periods, before emerging at the surface again. At first thought it seems incredible that there can be enough space in the "solid" ground underfoot to hold all this water.

　　題目：

　　Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 1 about the ground that we walk on?

　　A It cannot hold rainwater for long periods of time.

　　B It prevents most groundwater from circulating.

　　C It has the capacity to store large amounts of water.

　　D It absorbs most of the water it contains from rivers.

　　很顯然原文At first thought it seems incredible that there can be enough space in the “solid” ground underfoot to hold all this water. 為我們提到很難想象，在如此“堅實”的地下，會有足夠的空間來盛如此之多的水，這里就很隱晦的告訴我們其實地下并不“堅實”，而是還有很多的空間，來盛放groundwater，因此我們得到的正確答案就是C選項，也就是原來我們行走的這片土地之下還有足夠的能力來承載如此之多的水。

　　很顯然，這里也是很隱晦的告訴我們地下空間其實是很大的。

　　下面這道題也是一樣。

　　The same thing happens to this day, though on a smaller scale, wherever a sediment-laden river or stream emerges from a mountain valley onto relatively flat land, dropping its load as the current slows: the water usually spreads out fanwise, depositing the sediment in the form of a smooth, fan-shaped slope. Sediments are also dropped where a river slows on entering a lake or the sea, the deposited sediments are on a lake floor or the seafloor at first, but will be located inland at some future date, when the sea level falls or the land rises; such beds are sometimes thousands of meters thick.

　　All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 3 as places that sediment-laden rivers can deposit their sediments EXCEPT

　　A A mountain valley

　　B Flat land

　　C A lake floor

　　D The seafloor

　　本題問的是到底哪里沒有沉積呢?

　　dropping its load as the current slows: the water usually spreads out fanwise, depositing the sediment in the form of a smooth, fan-shaped slope. 告訴我們，只有在流速緩慢的地點才會沉積。但是他不直接告訴我們具體在什么地點，而是讓我們?nèi)ビ眠壿嬐评怼?/p>

　　因此當我們尋找的時候，發(fā)現(xiàn)Flat land“平緩之地”毫無疑問是流速緩慢的，這樣的地方不會沉積，然后再告訴我們a river slows on entering a lake or the sea，湖和海洋，也是流速緩慢的地點，自然也不會沉積。那么唯一會沉積的地方也就只有上游mountain valley才會沉積，因為河流流經(jīng)的地點分別是from a mountain valley onto relatively flat land，以及a river slows on entering a lake or the sea。

　　自然當我們排出了Flat land、a lake以及the sea之后，也就只可能剩下mountain valley了。

　　以上就是托福閱讀考試的詳細分析，這就是新托福閱讀的特點，也就是不直接告訴我們答案，而是讓我們在充分理解句意的情況下自己infer出答案。看來大家平時還是要多做題多練習。最后，小編祝各位考生考試順利。