2017年5月6日新托�？荚囬喿x題目解析（一）

　　新托福閱讀回憶：

　　文章3：Mapping the World (20161016)

　　開(kāi)頭講15和16世紀(jì)。第一段講到出版商印刷地圖，之后講map的演變。

　　傳統(tǒng)的地圖很大程度受宗教和歷史的影響。一個(gè)叫P的人開(kāi)始關(guān)注經(jīng)緯線(xiàn)，所以地圖就更精確了，引發(fā)了一場(chǎng)很大的改變。

　　探索的歷程是很曲折的。這種方法使得近的地區(qū)被描繪的很精確，但是距離遠(yuǎn)的地方不能夠被很好的描繪，還是得依賴(lài)一些不準(zhǔn)確的故事和想想。

　　人們慢慢知道地球是圓的，同時(shí)印刷技術(shù)也出現(xiàn)了革新，地圖慢慢變成了曲面圖。

　　此外，除了平面地圖之外，還出現(xiàn)了球形的世界地圖。

　　新托福閱讀難點(diǎn)解析：

　　Mapping the World

　　繪制世界地圖

　　這篇文章的詞匯量、長(zhǎng)難句、以及語(yǔ)義的抽象性都達(dá)到了較高水準(zhǔn)，誰(shuí)讓它是2016年度ETS費(fèi)盡心思出的新題呢，放到今天來(lái)考查，仍然不容小覷。考生可以隨意瀏覽兩句話(huà)，自測(cè)水平：

　　例一：A major impulse to the resolution of remaining cartographical difficulties was provided by the growing popularity of globes.

　　提示：詞匯題impulse to所在考句

　　例二：The impact of this technological revolution helps explain the otherwise paradoxical fact that Ptolemy’s Geography was revised and reissued throughout the sixteenth century even as his maps were increasingly shown to be inaccurate.

　　提示：第6題細(xì)節(jié)題“According to paragraph 2, all of the following statements about Ptolemy are true EXCEPT”相關(guān)考句

　　下面分享兩道考題：

　　考題1：For most mapmakers, recasting the Ptolemaic worldview required a careful study of travel narratives, newly furnished information, and of course other maps and, as a result, the correct delimitation of geographical space emerged slowly, and not without many setbacks and meandering down blind alleys.(句子簡(jiǎn)化題)

　　The Ptolemaic worldview led mapmakers down blind alleys and into many setbacks, causing them to look for ways to recast that worldview.

　　Mapmakers were slow to understand the importance of travel narratives, new information, and other maps for correcting Ptolemaic geography.

　　Obtaining a correct understanding of geographical space was slow and marked by setbacks because of its dependence on studying travel narratives and other maps and on the supply of new information.

　　Most mapmakers were unsuccessful in recasting the Ptolemaic worldview until a correct delineation of geographical space emerged from the study of travel narratives, other maps, and newly furnished information.

　　解析：考點(diǎn)設(shè)置：大量生詞+復(fù)雜句式(多重并列，多重否定not without)+文學(xué)化表達(dá)(meandering down blind alleys在死胡同里徘徊不前)。整句話(huà)意思是：對(duì)大多數(shù)制圖者來(lái)說(shuō)，重新塑造托勒密的世界觀(guān)需要仔細(xì)研究以下內(nèi)容——關(guān)于旅行的記敘、新近提供的信息、以及當(dāng)然還有其他地圖——結(jié)果，對(duì)地理空間位置的準(zhǔn)確定界進(jìn)展緩慢，并且伴隨著許多倒退和停滯。所以，正確答案選C。

　　考題2：According to paragraph 1, what was mainly responsible for the great interest in maps among Europeans in the early sixteenth century?

　　The new ability of Europe’s publishers to produce high quality wall maps

　　The efforts by Europe’s publishers and booksellers to create a new market

　　The voyages that Europeans had begun making to the New World

　　The new type of spatial awareness that had developed throughout European society

　　解析：考點(diǎn)設(shè)置：因果關(guān)系中的原因?qū)ふ�。�?duì)應(yīng)考句為段首前3句： (1)During Europe’s medieval period…,maps were based on ancient, limited knowledge and worldviews.(鋪墊句) (2)But this changed with the first voyages made by Europeans to the New World….(原因句)(3)Maps became objects of fascination in the sixteenth century, amounting almost to a craze.(結(jié)果句)。所以，正確答案選C。