首先要知道這句話的main idea：比如Everyone will agree, he argues, that happiness is the ultimate end to be valued for itself and really only for itself. For what other purpose is there in being happy? What does it yield ? The attainment of happiness becomes the ultimate or highest good for Aristotle.此句話如果做聽寫會很麻煩，因為開頭那個插入語引導的兩個義群都相對較長：
everyone will agree/ that happiness is the ultimate end to be valued for itself，如果一般的聽寫會把語流所帶出來的邏輯打亂：這樣，考生的腦子里就會形成“每個人都知道，他(Aristotle)提出，幸福是人類追求的最終要義……”
原本流暢的一句話就這樣被切割了。但是當我們注重一句話的main idea的時候，我們就會發現，這兩句聽完，表達的就是一個意思：幸福是人類追求的最終成就(要義、結果……)
大家可以判斷一句話的感情色彩：在某些語氣強烈的句子當中，比如反問句和對比性較強的句子，說話者往往拿兩個事情進行對比而得出一個答案，此時，我們只要聽出得出的答案即可：比如，But why? why do workers and soliders have to learn self-control? Well,how can a society flourish if the workers and soliders don't control their desires and emotions?
此處一個反問句，其實表達的意思即一種：Anyway,無論如何，W和S should and must learn to control themselves。這樣也減輕了大家在聽力的時候記憶可能過載的現象。
大家還要根據幾句話的內容來推測即將展開的新托福聽力內容：比如，
1. So, for Watson, thinking is identical with the activity of muscles. A related concept of thinking was developed by William James. It's called ideomoter action;接下來展開的是ideomoter action;
2. But why? why do workers and soliders have to learn self-control? Well,how can a society flourish if the workers and soliders don't control their desires and emotions? Plato thinks if the they aren't under control, workers will sleep too much and play too much, so they're not going to get their jobs done. And soliders need to channel their high spiritedness in a certain direction, precisely by being courageous.But you are not going to get that automatically.推斷接下來要講如何使W和S能夠學會self-control的，所以接下來文章提出的education問題才不會顯得十分突兀。
通過以上分析可以總結出，在新托福聽力備考的過程中，要注重句子之間的邏輯問題，這樣才能正確的思考。
最后，小編祝您直掛云帆濟滄海!