托福口语阅读要准确把握句子间的关系

　　托福口语阅读要准确把握句子间的关系，在新托福口语考试中，45秒钟的时间绝对不允许我们一次次地反复阅读某个句子，即使碰到难懂的句子也是如此。怎么办呢?继续读下去，试图在后一句中找到理解前一句(特别是难句)的线索。这一线索就是句子与句子之间的关系。因此，准确地把握句子与句子之间的关系就不失为一种能很好地提高阅读理解的方法了。

　　句子之间的关系多种多样，常见的有：并列关系、因果关系、递进关系、转折关系和相互解释关系。Women could and did play a partin this process of settlement. Iceland, for instance, was uninhabited, and apermanent population could only be established if women also made the journeythere. (后一句的具体事例为前一句提供说明与解释)

　　People borrowed more and more money so that they could buy these shares.Because of this, the American people started to believe that share prices couldonly go up further. ("because of"明显的因果关系)

　　Astronomy is a science that deals with all the celestial bodies in theuniverse. Astronomy includes the study of planets and their satellites, cometsand meteors, stars and interstellar matter, star systems and clusters.(后一句是对前一句celestial bodies 的进一步解释)