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托福閱讀推論題考查考生對于文章細節(jié)的更深一層理解，相對于托福閱讀細節(jié)題來講，需要考生根據(jù)原文經(jīng)
過自己的思維判斷得到答案。它屬于理解性題目，是托福閱讀中比較難的題型。這類題型應(yīng)該如何把握才好
呢？接下來小編為大家分析。
推論題的提問方式有以下幾種：
According to paragraph … , what do Y indicate about X?
It can be inferred from the passage that the author most likely believes which of the following about the X?
What does the author imply by saying “XXX”?
Which of the following reasons is suggested in paragraph 2 for X?
所以題干中的infer、indicate、imply、suggest這些詞就是我們判斷題型的關(guān)鍵詞。
這類題目有難度，是因為考生往往在回答詞匯題或者事實信息題時，只要定位到原文，基本上就看到了正
確選項。但是推論題及時定位到原文，大家還是找不到任何可以直接選擇的證據(jù)。還需要大家的思維處理過
程。
舉例： Paragraph 2: Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as outsiders encountered them, in the absence of solid linguistic, archaeological, and biological data, many fanciful and mutually exclusive theories were devised. Pacific islanders are variously thought to have come from North America, South America, Egypt, Israel, and India, as well as Southeast Asia. Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural creativity of the Pacific islanders. For example, British anthropologists G. Elliot Smith and W. J. Perry assumed that only Egyptians would have been skilled enough to navigate and colonize the Pacific. They inferred that the Egyptians even crossed the Pacific to found the great civilizations of the New World (North and South America). In 1947 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a balsa-log raft westward with the winds and currents across the Pacific from South America to prove his theory that Pacific islanders were Native Americans (also called American Indians). Later Heyerdahl suggested that the Pacific was peopled by three migrations: by Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest of North America drifting to Hawaii, by Peruvians drifting to Easter Island, and by Melanesians. In 1969 he crossed the Atlantic in an Egyptian-style reed boat to prove Egyptian influences in the Americas. Contrary to these theorists, the overwhelming evidence of physical anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology shows that the Pacific islanders came from Southeast Asia and were skilled enough as navigators to sail against the prevailing winds and currents. 5. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 2 about early theories of where the first inhabitants of the Pacific islands came from?
○ They were generally based on solid evidence.
○ They tried to account for the origin of the characteristic features of the languages spoken by Pacific islanders.
○ They assumed that the peoples living in Southeast Asia did not have the skills needed to sail to the Pacific islands.
○ They questioned the ideas of G. Elliot Smith and W. J. Perry.
解析：以early (older) theories定位至
Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural creativ
ity of the Pacific islanders. For example, British anthropologists G. Elliot Smith and W. J. Perr
y assumed that only Egyptians would have been skilled enough to navigate and colonize the Pacific
.，說早期的理論認為那些島民的航海能力不行，緊接著給出例子，只有埃及人才有能力航行到并且占領(lǐng)這些
島，所以逆推到不是埃及人就不會做到?？催x項，C選項，東南亞人沒那個技術(shù)航線到這些島上，正確;原文說
沒證據(jù)，所以A反了;B和D都沒提到。
舉例2：
Paragraph 1: Groundwater is the word used to describe water that saturates the ground, filling al
l the available spaces. By far the most abundant type of groundwater is meteoric water; this is t
he groundwater that circulates as part of the water cycle. Ordinary meteoric water is water that
has soaked into the ground from the surface, from precipitation (rain and snow) and from lakes an
d streams. There it remains, sometimes for long periods, before emerging at the surface again. At
first thought it seems incredible that there can be enough space in the “solid” ground underfo
ot to hold all this water.
1. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 1 about the ground that we walk on?
○It cannot hold rainwater for long periods of time.
○It prevents most groundwater from circulating.
○It has the capacity to store large amounts of water.
○It absorbs most of the water it contains from rivers.
解析：根據(jù)題目the ground that we walk on定位
到 At first thought it seems incredible that there can be enough space in the “solid” ground un
derfoot to hold all this water.據(jù)此，我們可以思維正向延伸到其實，地下是可以存留足夠的水的，看選
項：A反義，錯誤。B非定位內(nèi)容，排除，C與推理一致，D也不是可以定位后得到的信息，排除。
以上就是小編帶來的托福閱讀推論題的思維處理介紹。托福閱讀推論題盡管稍有難度，但是相對于其他題
目，更有趣一些。希望大家可以在練習(xí)中掌握題型解決方法。
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