為了幫助考生們更好地備戰(zhàn)托?？荚嚕鰢魧W網(wǎng)托福欄目為您帶來“托福聽力常見問題之句子聽了后面忘前面”，希望對大家有所幫助!
這一期精選的TPO聽力文章是一篇4星級難度的動物學講座TPO22Lecture3。今天我們來學習如何聽懂這篇文章里面的五大長難句。同學們聽到長難句的時候，往往碰到一個問題：句子長得聽了后面忘前面。一種情況是，聽到的是零碎的詞，串不起來，沒理解，所以記不住。還有種情況，是因為同學們在聽的時候沒有重點，只是很被動地去接納所聽到的信息，不知道句子的主干是什么，從句是起什么作用，解釋還是轉折。那這種情況即使聽20-30遍還是會聽不懂。
接下來一起學習這五大長難句，幫助同學們聽清完整句子，快速抓住長難句中的重點。
每句話放三遍。
第一遍，放完整句音頻，請同學們理解句子大意，最核心的關鍵信息;
第二遍，將句子切分為幾個短句，每個短句放一遍;
第三遍，放完整句音頻，理解句子的完整意思 。
1、So, as a way of repairing some of that damage, /a group of conservation biologists has proposed an ambitious, or some might say, a radical plan, /involving large vertebrates, or ,megafauna.
as 作為
conservation 保護; ambitious有野心的; radical 激進的; vertebrate脊椎動物;megafauna巨型動物
2、One is to help prevent the extinction of some endangered megafauna /by providing new refuges, new habitats for them.
help do sth. 幫助……
provide sth. for sb. 為…提供…
3、We believe it played a pivotal role in the evolution of the pronghorn antelope, /the antelope’s amazing speed, to be exact,/ because natural selection would favor those antelope that could outrun a cheetah.
play a role in(doing)sth. 在某事中起某種作用
to be exact 準確來說
4、A big worry is that these transplanted megafauna might devastate plants and animals /that are native to the western United States.
transplanted 移植的;devastate破壞; native 當?shù)氐?，本土?BR> 5、Also, animal species that went extinct 11,000 years ago, /uh, some are quite different genetically from their modern-day counterparts, /like elephants don’t have thick coats like their mastodon ancestors do/when they graze the prairies of the America West during the Ice Age.
be different from 不同于
coat 皮毛;counterpart 相對應物;graze 放牧 吃草;prairie 大草原
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