小托福考试中的阅读题目如何答题，下面是重庆新航道学校托福教研组老师给大家带来的小托福阅读答题技巧。

　　小托福阅读一共有6种题型，今天我们就集中去看一下其中比较重要的一种题型-主旨类题型。我们可以先看下主旨类题型典型问法：

　　Whatis the main topic of the article?

　　Whatis the passage mainly about?

　　What would be the best title for this story?

　　通过问题不难看出，这类题型主要想检测我们“概括一个段落主要内容的能力”。

　　小托福阅读主旨类题目答题方法

　　首先我们可以参考以往经验，一个段落或者文章的主旨词或句大多会出现在首尾处 (因为很多文章基本是按照“总分总”结构来)，并且很可能在全文有多次出现。而这就可以帮助我们去解决很多此类型题目，比如下面这道:

　　The Golden Gate Bridge is a famous bridge in San Francisco. The bridge has a red color.but gray clouds often surround it. On clear days people come to take pictures of the bridge. The pictures show the green hills next to the bridge and the blue water under it.

　　What is this text mostly about?

　　(A) Gray clouds

　　(B) San Francisco

　　(C) A famous bridge

　　(D)Taking photographs

　　从0个框的原文段落里面能看到首尾句都有出现”bridge”这个词并且中间又有2次反复提及，而”A,B,D”三个选项虽有提到，但没有bridge”这么引人注目和反复，因此败下阵来。当然并不是每一个题目都会非常直截了当地就把主旨展现出来，有时可能还需要加入我们对于文章整体理解，比如下面这道:

　　Ouestions 24-29 are about the following passage.Plato was a phllosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens. the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato laid the very foundations of Western philosophy and science.

　　Plato was the innovator of the dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy, which originated with him Plato greatly admired and emulated Socrates. He often wrote down the interesting dialogues that occurred between Socrates and various intellectuals. Plato would study these written conversations to gain further knowledge from his master.

　　After Socrates died, Plato followed in his footsteps by establishing his own school of philosophy in 385 BC, calling it the Academy. It rapidly acquired the reputation as the most famous classical school of that era.Furthermore, the dialogues that Plato had transcribed from Socrates were used as a basis to teach lessons about mathematics, logic, philosophy, and other subjects.

　　After some time, Plato began writing The Republic, which is considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest manuscripts in Western Philosophy. With it, Plato appears to have been the founder of Western political philosophy. He questioned not only what is just for an individual but for a society as a whole He claimed that the leaders of his era ruled not with their logic and intellect but with their ego and power Meanwhile, Plato believed that the states needed to be governed by “philosopher kings", leaders who ruled from logic instead of greed, and that educational systems needed to be developed in order to teach students how to reason and think.

　　Colleges and universities around the world still use Plato's The Republic in philosophy classes, and many governmental systems worldwide rely on his theories to rule their states. What Plato proposed was true aemocracy.and until true aemocracy is cxccurted, a state camnot rcach happiness and stability.

　　24.What's the main topic of this passage?

　　(A) Plato's The Republic

　　(B) The Academy

　　(C) The achievements of Plato

　　(D) The dialogue and dialectic forms

　　上面这篇文章中首先0句就出现了”academy”“这个词，然后贯穿全文好像也没有看到”achievements”这个词，因此有同学可能就会认为主旨是B而不是C。但我们再仔细看下文章，虽然”academy”和”TheRepublic”在文中都有出现，但其实都是在描述”plato”做的一些事情，相当于是一些细节。然后我们再结合0段“Plato laid the veryfoundations of..."以及最后一段"many governmentalsystems still rely on his theories”这些表达，不难感受出这篇文章主要想突出"Plato“的一些成就。

　　还有一类主旨比较狡猾，在了解这类之前，我们先来看两个句子:

　　1.今天天气很好，但是我不想出去。

　　2.这个地区常年下雨，但今天出太阳了。

　　上面这两句话里面，说话人是更想强调前面一句，还是后面一句呢?是的，后面一句对吧，而哪个词给我们提示呢?无疑就是”但“这个转折词了。在英文里面表示转折的常见词有哪些呢? But,However......那我们再来看一道题:

　　Going online is a favorite pastime for millions of American children. Almost 10 million (14 percent) of America's 69 million children are online. The Internet both entertains and educates children, however,there are some possible negative consequences for children who access kid-based Web sites. Advertising onkid-based Web sites has become both a rapidly growing market for consumer companies and a concern forparents. With a click on an icon, children can link to advertisers and be granted tremendous spending power.Children are an important target group for consumer companies. Children under age 12 spent $14 billion.teenagers another $67 billion, and together they influenced $160 billion of their parents’ incomes.

　　30.Which headline best summarizes the article?

　　(A) Negative Influence of Going Online on

　　(B) How Much Money Children Spend onGoing Online

　　(C) Criticisms of Unethical Advertisers

　　(D) The Underestimation of Children's MediaAwareness

　　上面这个段落里面前面还在说”entertain (娱乐)“和”educate(教育)“孩子们，看起来是正向的，但后面紧接着就来一个”however”，根据刚才那两句话经验来看，作者主要想强调”however”后面内容，而又出现了”negative”，就正好和题目中A选项对应了。

　　小托福阅读主旨类题目答题总结:

　　本节课主要讲了怎样去找”主旨”，基本从三个方面:

　　1. 看首尾以及中间反复提及事物。

　　2.如果主旨不是很明显地点名，那就整体分析文章，也可以结合“排除法”，将细节排除后就是主旨。

　　3.注意留意一些转折词 (如however等，一般在段首) ，后面很可能出现主旨。

　　备注：以上内容来自于重庆新航道学校托福教研组郝梦成老师，更多小托福培训学习大家可以在线咨询重庆新航道学校官网。