首先，在第四題的reading部分，我們重要也是的主旨就是要找到題目中給出的學術話題的definition，Official Guide里面是這樣描述閱讀的意義的：Reading passage broadly defines a term, process, or idea from an academic subject。由于托福考試當中只有45S的閱讀時間，我們只需要用信號詞尋覓的方法找到擁有定義的那句話并且吵在草稿紙上就可以了。
經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的信號詞包括：
……(Definition)is known as ……
……(Definition) is called ……
……(Definition) is often referred to as ……
…… is a form of (Definition)……
…… is a term used to describe (Definition)……
……occurs when (Definition)……
One way……(Definition) is by ……
找到了Definition，接下來就要進入聽力的部分了，
第四題其實也是對未來的留學生活當中有幫助的一道題目，Official Guide里面對聽力的描述是An excerpt from a lecture provides examples and specific information to illustrate the term, process, or idea from the reading passage。也就是說聽力部分是講課當中的一處節(jié)選，提供了閱讀部分中對于學術話題定義的舉例說明。因此在聽力當中，考生只需要聽到教授舉出的一個或兩個例子并且與閱讀當中的定義做一個連結就可以了。聽力當中的例子基本上都是與我們的生活息息相關，因此用詞文法較為簡單，考生不必擔心聽不懂的情況。在聽懂例子的前提下需要按順序記下事件發(fā)展的關鍵詞。
聽力與閱讀的連結方法有二：
一是點對點的方法，也就是說在閱讀和聽力的同一句話里表達同一個意思，只是用詞不同而已。例如：
Work in isolation from other artists = Kept his work completely private.
Outsider artists must invent their own ways of doing things you notice how unique it is and not at all like traditional art . = It doesn't remind you of anything you’ve ever seen before. It's very much his own.
這兩句話均出自TPO11，閱讀當中用isolation和unique這些詞來形容outsider artists的作品風格，聽力當中又用private和very much his own這些表達方式來形容Henry Darger的作品，不同的詞組和單詞，但是是一樣的意思。
另外就是點對面的方式，By observing the results, or consequences, of another’s behavior, people tend to imitate the behavior of another when they see that it leads to a desirable consequence---hoping to repeat it for themselves. = The sister starts crying and screaming and mom buys the girl the toy. The little brother is there and he is watching all this. What do you think he is going to start doing when he wants something from Mom? He will probably cry and scream. If the girl was punished to be forbidden to watch her favorite TV program, the boy will not do that next time because the result us undesirable.
TPO 19 的這道題在閱讀當中形容social learning定義是人們會根據(jù)觀察別人所做事情的結果的合意程度來決定要不要模仿這種做法，而聽力當中有舉出了一個姐弟和媽媽去超市的例子，假設姐姐的哭鬧可以得到想買的玩具，弟弟未來就會模仿;假設姐姐沒有得到玩具，還被限制了看喜歡的電視節(jié)目，弟弟就不會模仿。
經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的信號詞包括：
……(Definition)is known as ……
……(Definition) is called ……
……(Definition) is often referred to as ……
…… is a form of (Definition)……
…… is a term used to describe (Definition)……
……occurs when (Definition)……
One way……(Definition) is by ……
找到了Definition，接下來就要進入聽力的部分了，
第四題其實也是對未來的留學生活當中有幫助的一道題目，Official Guide里面對聽力的描述是An excerpt from a lecture provides examples and specific information to illustrate the term, process, or idea from the reading passage。也就是說聽力部分是講課當中的一處節(jié)選，提供了閱讀部分中對于學術話題定義的舉例說明。因此在聽力當中，考生只需要聽到教授舉出的一個或兩個例子并且與閱讀當中的定義做一個連結就可以了。聽力當中的例子基本上都是與我們的生活息息相關，因此用詞文法較為簡單，考生不必擔心聽不懂的情況。在聽懂例子的前提下需要按順序記下事件發(fā)展的關鍵詞。
聽力與閱讀的連結方法有二：
一是點對點的方法，也就是說在閱讀和聽力的同一句話里表達同一個意思，只是用詞不同而已。例如：
Work in isolation from other artists = Kept his work completely private.
Outsider artists must invent their own ways of doing things you notice how unique it is and not at all like traditional art . = It doesn't remind you of anything you’ve ever seen before. It's very much his own.
這兩句話均出自TPO11，閱讀當中用isolation和unique這些詞來形容outsider artists的作品風格，聽力當中又用private和very much his own這些表達方式來形容Henry Darger的作品，不同的詞組和單詞，但是是一樣的意思。
另外就是點對面的方式，By observing the results, or consequences, of another’s behavior, people tend to imitate the behavior of another when they see that it leads to a desirable consequence---hoping to repeat it for themselves. = The sister starts crying and screaming and mom buys the girl the toy. The little brother is there and he is watching all this. What do you think he is going to start doing when he wants something from Mom? He will probably cry and scream. If the girl was punished to be forbidden to watch her favorite TV program, the boy will not do that next time because the result us undesirable.
TPO 19 的這道題在閱讀當中形容social learning定義是人們會根據(jù)觀察別人所做事情的結果的合意程度來決定要不要模仿這種做法，而聽力當中有舉出了一個姐弟和媽媽去超市的例子，假設姐姐的哭鬧可以得到想買的玩具，弟弟未來就會模仿;假設姐姐沒有得到玩具，還被限制了看喜歡的電視節(jié)目，弟弟就不會模仿。