新托福聽力歷史話題場景解析

　　新托福聽力lecture部門的難度在賡續增長，灌音中計劃到的話題也是愈來愈多樣，本日為考生剖析的是個中較難的汗青話題場景，願望考生在灌音入耳到相幹辭匯的時刻能遐想到本日為眾人先容的這個場景，以便更好的找到題目的謎底。

　　一、概述

　　汗青類場景每每和其他分支學科發生接洽，詳細可以從如下幾個方面來考核：

　　國度政權或軌制體系體例 如農業的發生，古埃及的女法老等。

　　文化方面 如茶文化汗青，戲劇的來源，考古方面等。

　　有名汗青人物 如愛默生，意大利畫家等。

　　其他話題 汗青輕易和其他學科發生交織，如考古和藝術。

　　汗青類的話題有一個很大的特色，便是專業辭匯較多。許多考生有如許一種感到，便是似乎聽明確了一些，但一考到細節題就手足無措。也便是說，汗青類話題大概湧現較多的專業辭匯和細節，考生需謹嚴。下面咱們就幾個例子來細心領會一下。

　　二、案例剖析

　　下面是一個汗青話題的經典案例：

　　1) E.G. TPO 17 Lecture 3 (Egyptian Calendars)

　　聽力原文：

　　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.杜蘭

　　C. It marked the beginning of harvest time.

　　D. It indicated when the Nile would flood.

　　剖析：

　　此處考的是埃及的歷法。在這個節選原文中包括了Sirius(天狼星)，heliacal rising(偕日升)等觀點，比擬難以懂得，須要考生有較快的反響速率。別的，很多學員在碰到這種話題時會懷有抵牾心態，大叫這類難度跟瀏覽都差未幾了。誠然專業度高懂得艱苦，考生應當熟悉到一點：ETS的考核主旨照樣穩定的——磨練考生的瞬時懂得才能和常識貯備的快速激活。在此，要做對這道雙選題，要留意粗體旌旗燈號詞;還可以將辨音入耳不懂的生疏詞轉化成抽象標記，搞清晰其感化便可。可以看出，Nile和New Year是癥結詞，故輕松選出AD。

　　下面再看一個例子：

　　2) E.G. TPO 18 Lecture 3 (Egyptian Calendars)

　　聽力原文：

　　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 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. Spices actually aren’t very effective as preservatives.

　　25. 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.

　　剖析：

　　這裏考核的是香料在汗青上的腳色。配景常識：香料在中世紀的歐洲是異常寶貴的器械，只有貴族皇族能力享用獲得。緣故原由諸多，運輸昂貴是個中之一。考生若不熟習spice這個單詞，可以依據左右文預測，此處很輕易猜出。

　　在這裏想誇大一下myth的寄義。大多半考生對這個詞的懂得都存在誤區。現實上這個詞只要考到，一樣平常取“誤會”這一寄義，而非神話等義。在這裏是說，人們用香料腌制壞掉的食品這類懂得是毛病的，由於人們有錢買香料就有錢買鮮肉，前者的懂得自己就有抵觸。同時留意also這個主要並列詞，背面引出第二個緣故原由，以是選AC。

　　三、考點追蹤

　　從上面這個例子可以看出汗青話題具備如下特色：

　　細節偏多：大概沒有旌旗燈號詞引領，聽時要心神專註。

　　旌旗燈號詞：旌旗燈號詞的情勢多種多樣，多是零丁的詞組，也有多是融匯在句子傍邊，要實時做好條記。

　　生疏觀點：可先記下首字母，左右文一樣平常會有界說說明或同義詞。也能夠留意盤算機屏幕的提醒詞是不是為這個詞。

　　上面的信息為考生具體先容了新托福聽力汗青話題場景，信任考生在灌音入耳到響應的辭匯時能很好的鑒別出該場景，以便對付該灌音的出題點有更加全面的斟酌，針對汗青類的聽力段子，發起寬大考生在備考時要多存眷相幹辭匯，聽時留意鎖定細節，紮踏實實地控制場景辭匯，進步敏銳度。