托福阅读大部分取材于欧美大专院校课上所接触到得文章，文体涵盖的范围也比较广泛：包括议论文，记叙文，历史传记，社会科学以及商业技术等。在
托福阅读词汇题的考察要点是考生是否能在上下文环境中较好地猜测到单词的含义，主要考察考生对于段落情境的理解以及对生单词同义词的把握。对于托福阅读词汇题来讲，考生常常存在的失分点有三种：
①未完全理解上下文含义;②错选同义词或近义词;③看不懂相关选项的含义。
例题：
Trends in clothing fashions are often engineered by clothing designers, advertisers, and the media to create a particular “look”. The “grunge” look is an example of a heavily promoted fashion. Fashions are more universally subscribed to than fads. Wearing athletic shoes as casual attire is a good example of a universal fashion.
Glossary:
Grunge: One that is dirty, inferior, obnoxious, or boring.
The words subscribed to in the passage is closest in meaning to
A: advertised
B: donated to
C: followed
D: led
此题正确答案为C，很多学生容易错选为B，那么就犯了上述失分点中的第二个错误，此处donate虽然与subscribe相近，但在此处语境不对。
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