It is these three books that we have the most contact with.

The first book called OG, the official guide, is the most authoritative TOEFL test book and the only book published by ETS so far, which is equivalent to the TOEFL test outline, and its value is self-evident. There are six independent articles in the OG book, which are no different from the real questions in terms of length, content and topic setting. Through these six articles, students can not only understand the overall topic setting of TOEFL reading, the types and themes of reading articles, but also find out some rules of reading test. Students who have time can do the questions on OG several times. I believe that every time they do it, they will have new experiences and new gains. At the same time, at the back of the six articles, OG is accompanied by a complete set of exercises, which, like the real TOEFL reading test, contains three articles. Each article 12- 14 questions, a * * * is 38 questions, equivalent to the original 42 points. Students can modify it by themselves after completion, and compare it with the grading table on page 125. It should be noted that OG gives sample questions, and the purpose is only to let candidates know the real questions and adapt to the TOEFL test. Therefore, the overall difficulty of OG will be slightly lower than the real TOEFL test. In order to get better results in the real TOEFL test, we need to supplement other simulated test questions to help us.

The second book is called Delta, the full name of the new TOEFL preparation strategy and simulation questions, and the blue Delta is a better choice for simulation questions. In this sense, Delta is the closest simulation to the real TOEFL test on the market. Throughout the book, its overall examination difficulty, question setting, article selection and other aspects are very close to the real question. The first half of the book is divided according to the types of questions, and * * * is divided into ten types of questions. Examples and explanations are given for each question type, and some exercises are provided to facilitate students to break down each question type separately. Therefore, students can take this book as the focus of TOEFL mid-term preparation. There are differences in each question type, and accordingly, we use different skills. This is the advantage of sub-topic. When we have a thorough understanding of each question type and the corresponding skills, we need to jump out of the "trees" and meet the "forest". At this point, students can use the four complete sets of questions in the second half of this book. Therefore, in the middle and late stage of preparing for TOEFL, or in the sprint stage, students can do the complete questions at the back.

The third book, Longman, is a comprehensive course of the new TOEFL test with a green cover. First of all, from the difficulty point of view, the difficulty of this book is relatively simpler than the real question, and it is more suitable for students to use in the early stage of preparing for TOEFL. The new version is close to the real TOEFL test in the setting of test questions. This book is the same as Delta. The first half of the book is divided into ten types of questions, and different types of questions have examples and exercises. Slightly different from Delta, the number of exercises given in a single article will be more concentrated. There are also some differences between the second half of this book and Delta. First, give eight mini-tests, each exercise only gives one article as a reference, and students can refer to it when preparing in advance. After the mini-test, two sets of complete exercises are given, which are consistent with the real TOEFL test and slightly less difficult. As the end of the preliminary preparation, students can use these two sets of questions to test their preparation. Another valuable thing about Longman is that it comes with a model test CD. The CD simulates the real TOEFL computer test and gives a lot of exercises, and the exercises in the CD are different from those in the book.

Second, TOEFL reading preparation model test software:

In addition to these necessary teaching materials, there is another thing that is essential for us to prepare for TOEFL, and that is the model test software. Almost all students will report after the exam that the feeling of doing exercises on the computer is very different. When you do the problem, you are in a confused state, and often the result will be unsatisfactory! This is an obstacle that students must overcome! It is inevitable that you will not adapt to the form of computer examination, and it will be more difficult to stare at the screen all the time. Moreover, we can't mark some key points on the test paper as before. Note that you are never allowed to scribble on the screen with a marker in the exam. And the TOEFL article is very long. As soon as you pull the scroll bar, the point you just marked is taken away by you. This is another obstacle we have encountered. Therefore, in addition to relying on the exercises in books to help us get familiar with the various questions and methods of TOEFL, we also need to use these model test software to help us adapt to such an examination form as computer test. In any exam, the higher your adaptability to her, the closer your grades will be to your true level, even beyond your level! So what model testing software are we exposed to in the market?

1.TPO

The first TPO, the full name of TOEFL online practice and TOEFL online test practice, is a platform that fully simulates TOEFL online test. Its advantage lies in knowing the real questions, being familiar with the examination environment and operation, and testing your real level. And you can receive feedback immediately after the exam, including written and oral feedback. Then New Oriental will become the only language training school in China authorized by ETS to implant TPO into TOEFL courses. Students can buy TPO from Daewoo Bookstore in New Oriental, and all students in TOEFL classes in New Oriental will give TPO free of charge with the course. The interface of TPO is no different from the real test. In fact, TPO is the real test center for the new TOEFL test, and we all know that after the TOEFL reform in 2005, we can no longer take the real TOEFL test. In other words, TPO is the only real TOEFL test we can get at present! All right!

However, the number of TPOs is limited, and it will be gone after completion. Then you need to supplement other model testing software, and you can find the following.

2. Kaplan

Translated into Kaplan, Kaplan has both. Students in need can go to the bookstore to buy this book. The new TOEFL intensive training (2008-2009) includes a software CD and two CDs. Of course, there is another place for students who want to find free resources, and that is an evil place called electric donkey. You can download a CD-ROM image with ISO suffix, and then you can use it with a virtual CD-ROM software. It is recommended to use Daemon Tools 4.30.3, which is easy to operate. After installing the software, you can directly load the downloaded CD-ROM image on the computer, which is no different from the CD-ROM drive, except that it eliminates the interference sound when the CD-ROM drive reads the CD. Another problem that students often encounter is that when reading Kaplan, there are a lot of garbled words in the article, which makes it impossible to read the article. The solution is simple. Select "Regional and Language Options" in the control panel, click the "Advanced" tab, set the language of non-Unicode programs to "English", and then automatically restart the computer.

3. Barron

The second model testing software is Barron, commonly known as Barron. The full name is "How Barron prepares for TOEFL Online Test", and the model test CD is presented with the book. In fact, this book can be said to be the guidance material of the model test software, because the full set of seven sets of model test questions, model test questions explanation, listening texts and composition examples are all included in the CD-ROM, which can also be bought in Daewoo Bookstore in New Oriental. These seven sets of questions are of high value and difficult. At present, the difficulty of TOEFL is gradually increasing. Relatively speaking, we need some difficult problems to help us adapt to such difficulty and intensity. At the same time, its interface is close to the test interface, which can help us to be familiar with the test.

Ok, after talking about the necessary hardware for preparing for TOEFL reading, let's talk about software, that is, after we have these things, if we use them reasonably, what kind of efforts are needed to finally cross the TOEFL barrier!

For reading, the biggest influence is undoubtedly vocabulary, which is particularly prominent in the new TOEFL. Students familiar with the new TOEFL test know that there is a kind of question called vocabulary question, which means that a word or a phrase will be shaded in the article, and then four options will be given in the question. Please choose the one with the closest meaning to the word or phrase given in the original text. The setting of this type of question directly reflects the requirements of ETS questioners for candidates' vocabulary! Moreover, this type of question generally gets 3-5 questions in an article, nearly one-third of the questions! If the students can grasp the meaning of this word and its meaning in the context, then this question type can be solved immediately! Of course, we will have many skills to help you solve this problem smoothly, but the importance of vocabulary to reading can already be seen! Accordingly, equipped with a good vocabulary book, through vocabulary course learning, can help us improve our vocabulary quickly in a short time.

Third, how to review TOEFL reading:

Next, review. Many students are most likely to encounter problems one to two weeks after class. At this time, they have mastered the skills of question types, but they always feel that the accuracy rate stays at a level. There is no way to break through a bottleneck and achieve a substantive breakthrough. TOEFL reading seems to have nowhere to start, and the reason may be precisely in vocabulary and reading volume!

Because TOEFL reading is academic reading, in short, it is to test students' reading ability in an academic environment. What is reading in an academic environment? In other words, the content of his article may range from astronomy to geography, but it will not involve trivial matters of life. It may be all-encompassing, but it will never tell a story, express a feeling or discuss a gossip. It is different from the magazines or novels we usually read, and it is a textbook-style article. The official guide gives us a clear explanation, that is, the articles in the reading part of the new TOEFL test are all extracted from university-level textbooks, which are generally introductory contents about a certain subject or theme. The main purpose of the new TOEFL test is to evaluate the examinee's understanding of academic articles, in short, to test whether the examinee has reached the English level of successfully participating in teaching activities. To cope with the TOEFL test in this situation, we need to master some professional vocabulary and read some academic articles extensively to adapt to the TOEFL test. So many professional words, how to solve it? Here, there is another sentence in the official TOEFL guide that gives us the direction. It doesn't matter if candidates don't understand the topics involved in an article, because all the information needed for answering questions will appear in the article. This means a lot to us! We don't need to dwell on endless professional vocabulary, because it doesn't test professional knowledge! However, this academic point still has a guiding role in our vocabulary review, which is reflected in the fact that the meaning of all vocabulary must rely on professional academic aspects! A word may have many meanings, but in the context of TOEFL reading, it must have a more formal meaning, not a meaning in the oral context! After finishing the vocabulary, it is a question of extensive reading. Although it doesn't matter whether we know the topic involved in an article, we all have this experience. If the content of this article is closer to life or within our own knowledge, it will certainly be easier to understand! You can do extensive reading in 3-6 months. On the one hand, you can expand your background knowledge, and on the other hand, a certain amount of reading every day will help improve your reading ability! We have experienced too much intensive reading in English learning since childhood, and thoroughly analyzed and chewed every word and sentence in the article, but now what we lack most is extensive reading! The length of TOEFL articles is controlled at about 700 words. It is almost impossible to read this 700-word article in 20 minutes at the speed of intensive reading and then complete the following 12- 14 questions at the same time! Many students have only one feeling when they arrive at the examination room, that is, time is too late! Of course, there is a big difference between doing a reading for one hour and doing a reading for 20 minutes! What we need is to change our thinking, improve our reading speed through a lot of reading practice, and adapt to how to grasp the most important things in the article and understand the meaning of the article in a limited time. There are a lot of extensive reading materials, but be careful not to just look at your favorite topics, because you can't predict what topics you will take in the TOEFL test, and don't extensively read novels and magazines outside the academic scope, which is not the most targeted for our TOEFL test! If you want to use your strength on the blade, I recommend you to look at these things.

1. Old TOEFL real questions

The importance of old TOEFL is self-evident. In the new TOEFL, we found that the ideas and settings of some vocabulary questions are still the same as those in the old TOEFL. So when it comes to extensive reading, we should first push the old TOEFL questions and spend a little time turning over the old TOEFL questions every day. I believe that the new TOEFL will not outrun you.

2. TOEFL listening to the original text

TOEFL listening has become very academic, and at the same time, we find that the new TOEFL test combines listening, speaking, reading and writing from all angles. Therefore, the original text of TOEFL listening can also be used as important materials for our reading, especially the lecture part of listening. After listening, you should carefully study the original text, which is of great help to improve your listening and reading ability, and also practice the combination of listening and reading involved in the following oral and writing parts. It is a good way to kill two birds with one stone!

The above two kinds of extensive reading materials are closely related to our TOEFL reading test, so in addition, if students want to read more things related to academic topics, as an alternative, we can consider these two magazines:

1 National Geographic

A very famous old-fashioned magazine, the English name is National Geographic, with illustrations and beautiful words. As a suitable material to supplement natural science knowledge, it belongs to popular science articles, and the difficulty is roughly the same as TOEFL.

2. Economists

Or The Economist, the English name is The Economist, an old British magazine, covering humanities, history, economic management and so on. Its sharp words and excellent sentence patterns are of great help to extensive reading and writing.

The above extensive reading materials suggest that you download them online by saving money and protecting the environment. The location is still the evil electric donkey. Of course, there is another biggest advantage, which is to help you adapt to the feeling of reading English articles on the computer as soon as possible and make full preparations for the online exam!

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Frequently asked questions about TOEFL reading preparation

Reading speed is too slow

One problem that many students will encounter is the lack of reading time. As we just mentioned, it is not easy to read an article of about 700 words and answer the following questions 12- 14 in 20 minutes. So reading time is a big challenge for us. So what is the reading speed? Two aspects! That is our reading volume and a very important reading method, that is, structural reading method (that is, a way to identify sentence components and grasp the trunk of sentences). We have talked about some useful extensive reading materials above. On the other hand, the TOEFL reading test is essentially to examine students' reading ability in an academic environment, so it is very important to extract the most useful and relevant information in a short time. Today's society is an information explosion society. Extracting the most valuable information from complicated information is undoubtedly an excellent embodiment of reading ability. The setting of TOEFL reading test is also a consideration in this respect. The source of the new TOEFL question can basically be found in the original text. As long as students can find out sentences related to this topic from the original text in the shortest time, and then extract useful information from this sentence to expose the most relevant information in the original text, then the problem of reading speed will naturally be solved. Therefore, students can master the structural reading method, plus good synonymous substitution and quick positioning ability, which can fundamentally improve the reading speed.

2. Long sentences are difficult to understand

One of the characteristics of TOEFL articles is that there are many long and difficult sentences, and a lot of information closely related to our problem solving is hidden in these long and difficult sentences. The ability to understand long and difficult sentences is very important for almost all types of topics. Many students have personally experienced this sentence, and I know that the key to solving the problem lies in this sentence, but I can't understand this sentence. What a pity! Unfortunately, some students know all the words in this sentence, but when these words form a more complicated sentence, students will be at a loss. In fact, many times we encounter such a sentence, not to thoroughly understand the full meaning of this sentence, but whether there is any way to extract the most useful information for us to solve the problem in a short time. To interpret long and difficult sentences, we must jump out of a misunderstanding. Remember, what we have to do in the exam is not to thoroughly understand the meaning of every word in the sentence, but to eliminate the interference information and find the information related to our problem solving quickly and correctly. The specific operation method can refer to the structural reading method.