2021托福考试阅读试题及解析

托福考试阅读试题及解析 　　学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。以下是为大家搜索的阅读试题及解析，希望能给大家带来帮助!更多精彩内容请及时关注我们! 　　The phrase "this respect" i

托福考试阅读试题及解析 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。以下是为大家搜索的阅读试题及 解析，希望能给大家带来帮助!更多精彩内容请及时关注我们! The phrase "this respect" in the passage refers to A. enormous variations B. being smaller C. number of inhabitants D. shared characteristics 解析： 难点一，很多考生误以为这是词汇题，而词汇题的通常问法是： The word/phrase "…" is closest in meaning to。这道题题干中的 “refers to”表明这是代词指代题，需要读懂句子找清前后指代关 系; 难点二，很多人不知道respect有名词用法，=aspect，表“方 面”; 难点三，回到原文读考句，读不懂。该句为： One may call them towns because even though they varied enormously in numbers of inhabitants, and some were smaller than large villages in this respect, they shared certain characteristics that set them off from rural settlements. 表明从居民数量的方 面来看，一些城镇比大村庄的居民数量还少，但它们仍然是城镇，共 享着区别于村庄的某些特征。所以此题正确答案是C。 Because what distinguished towns from villages was not so