很多考生难以理解托福阅读文章，缘由有两点：
(一)、没学会一些熟词的生僻含义。
(二)、缺少剖析长难句结构的能力。
举例说明：
There is always hope that in its labyrinth of musty， dark， disordered rooms a real rarity will be found amongst piles of assorted junk that litter the floor.
该句是由两个that引导的从句，分别充当hope的同位语从句和piles of assorted junk的定语从句。第一个由that引起的同位语从句，是由一段地址状语“in its labyrinth of musty， dark， disordered rooms”来展开全句的，其主句的语态是一个由a real rarity做主语的被动语态。全句可以翻译如下：大家还常常幻想在发霉、阴暗、无序的迷宫般店堂里，从杂乱地堆放在地面上的、各式各样的垃圾中淘到一件稀世珍品。
大家再来看一下这个句子，它是如此写的：
Though my aunt pursued what was， in those days， an enlightened policy， in that she never allowed her domestic staff to work more than eight hours a day， she was extremely difficult to please.
句子开头为Though引起的状语，动词pursue的宾语是一个由what引起的名词性从句，在插入了一个很书面的in that(意思等于since)引起的从句之后，终于出现了主句she was extremely difficult to please。这种一步步将句子意思推向高潮的写法就是英文中很有气势的“圆周句”，直到句子的末尾，作者最后的意思才被揭晓。全句可以如此理解：“(尽管)姑妈对待佣大家的做法在当时那个年代算是开明的，(由于她)从不让佣大家天天干活超越8个小时，但佣大家还是非常难让她感到认可。”
托福阅读文章中曾出现过一个典型的长句。其困难程度更胜GRE：In everyday life， people tend to have a different approach to those they consider their equals from that which they assume with people they consider higher or lower than themselves in the social scale.
句子的主干为people tend to have a different approach from that，其中that为代词，指代approach，此处译为“方法”最为贴切，因此主干的意思非常简单：“大家倾向于使用一种方法，与其它方法不同。”
代词that后紧跟which引导的从句充当that，即the approach的定语。除此之外，句中还有两个省略了whom的定语从句，将之补全如下：
In everyday life， people tend to have a different approach to those (whom) they consider their equals from that which they assume with people (whom) they consider higher or lower than themselves in the social scale.
全句直译如下：在日常，大家用一种方法对待他们觉得与自己社会地位同等的人，而用另一种的方法去对待他们觉得比自己社会地位高或低的人。
对于这种长句的准确剖析，需要日积月累的语言常识及好语感，大伙在托福阅读备考过程中，千万不可以忽略真题演练。
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