托福听力态度题解析

新托福听力考试总共有六大题型的测试，分别是：主旨题、细节题、句子功能题、态度题、结构题和推论题。而ETS将这六大考题细归类为B, P, C三部分，即Basic Comprehension Question基本信息理解题，Pragmatic Understanding Question语用信息理解题和Connecting Information Question信息关联题。B部分包括：主旨题和细节题；P部分包括句子功能题和understanding the speaker's attitude态度题；C部分包括结构题和推论题。

在P类问题(Pragmatic Understanding Questions)中，托福听力的态度题所占的比重相对较少。但是因其一般解题难度较高，因此不可忽视其重要性。下面我从以下几个方面为同学们解析态度题。

一．托福听力态度题的典型提问方式：

What is the professor’s opinion of …?

What can be inferred about the student when he/she says this (reply)?

What is the professor’s attitude about/toward…?

What does the man/woman mean when he/she says this?

二．托福听力态度题的典型出题角度

1.互动时教授的回复，学生的疑问（以反驳观点为主）

下面以TPO6-C2为例：

What can be inferred from the professor when he says this:(Well, that’s certainly an interes ting topic. But you may not realize, I mean, the scope...)

联系上下文，原文中学生问到：The section on dialects, ‘cause…like, that’s the kind of thing that’s always sort of intrigued me, you know?学生对dialect这个话题感兴趣，问教授的意见。教授认可这个话题还不错但提出了自己的进一步的建议，即：范围太广泛。虽然教授没有直接说出来，但通过转折词“but”，我们可以推测出范围太宽泛这一论断。

2. Lecture最后教授对某观点，某研究的结论、前景等的态度。

下面以TPO 28-L4为例进行解析：

TPO28-L4 题目如下：

What is the professor’s opinion about the future of the Gonur‐depe site?

A. She believes it would be a mistake to alter its original form

B. She doubts the ruins will deteriorate further

C. She thinks other sites are more deserving of researchers’ attention.

D. She is not convinced it will be restored.

教授在文章的最后一段提到：“So now the question is, do we partially restore and rebuild the site before the entire thing dis integrates? It will take a lot of funding to restore it and I am not sure it’ll be made available, which would be a pity. Even a partly altered site can provide valuable information, which would be lost otherwise.”他认为修复这一考古发现需要很多资金，不确定是否能修复。如果因为钱的原因不能修复的话，很遗憾。即使修复一部分，也能提供很有价值的信息。因此据此判断正确答案是D。他不确定这里能否被修复，但是他是认可修复的的意义的，因此A选项不对。再者，部分同学即使不能完全听懂，但从教授的语气中，应该能分辨出“不确定的”，根据排除法，依然能选出正确答案D.

3. 情感信号词（形容词或副词的感情色彩）、语气语调的起伏变化（重音、放慢语速或停顿）。

我们以TPO 25-L3 为例：

TPO 25-L3题目如下：

What is the professor’s opinion about Thomas Young’s word with hieroglyphs?

A. She feels that Young has not received the credit he deserves

B. She is amazed that Young’s conclusion about hieroglyphs was correct

C. She is surprised that Young did not recognize his own accomplishments

D. She thinks that Y oung’s work was not careful enough to be taken seriously

原文有明显的情感信号词，揭示教授的态度：“Strangely though, he gave into the dominant thesis of the day that hieroglyphs were pictographs. He actually dismissed his own findings as an anomaly......”, 只要同学们注意到情感信号词，此题就迎刃而解了。

以上是我对态度题的解析，希望对同学们有所帮助。祝同学们早日取得优异的成绩！