托福听力考试技巧之推理

Sometimes inference questions are difficult because theyask about a moment in the lecture that you might have skippedin your notes or plainly didn’t understand. In a situation like this,remember that elimination is one of your best friends on thistest. Look at those answer choices and think about which onesdo not fit to what you do understand about the lecture or theconversation. Most likely, the wrong answer choices are going tobe false or irrelevant. This means that you need to train yourself to always think about whatanswer choices you can eliminate based on what you do know from the listening section. Whenyou eliminate, usually you can narrow your chances down to two choices. Those are better oddsthan one out of four. Also, remember that the questions tend to go in chronological order whichmeans that the first question you answer will most likely be from the listening passage in an areabefore the next question. If you cannot locate the information you need in your notes to makethe inference from, then perhaps you need to look at the questions before and after in order toget an idea of the section you should be looking at.