新托福閱讀中的難句主要包括下列類型:
1.定語(yǔ)(包含后置定語(yǔ)與定語(yǔ)從句)
2.同位語(yǔ)
3.并列結(jié)構(gòu)
4.that引導(dǎo)的各種從句
5.插入結(jié)構(gòu)
6.獨(dú)立主格
7.倒裝句
8.強(qiáng)調(diào)句
9.虛擬語(yǔ)氣
對(duì)于不同類型的托福閱讀考試難句,把握主干的方法也不一樣。以倒裝句為例,主要有下列情況:
1.方位副詞放在句首
Herein lay the beginning of what ultimately turned from ignorance to denial of the value of nutritional therapies in medicine。
2.介詞放在句首
Among the species of seabirds that use the windswept cliffs of the Atlantic coast of Canada in the summer to mate, lay eggs, and rear their young are common murres, Atlantic puffins, black-legged kittiwakes, and northern gannets。