What are the key points in the reading section of the TOEFL test? Can you elaborate?

(1) Keywords in topic paragraphs and topic sentences. The topic paragraphs and topic sentences in TOEFL articles are involved in building the structure of the article, so recording several keywords in them is very important to grasp the structure of the full text. At the same time, a lot of important information in the article will also be included in this part.

(2) Time and numbers. Generally speaking, articles or paragraphs where the concept of time appears are usually related to chronological order, and the author will use different time points to string together a time clue. The appearance of individual numbers means that the importance of the concept described by this number cannot be ignored. Therefore, unless there is a accumulation of data in the article, candidates need to record the numbers. There are two issues that need to be paid attention to when recording time and numbers. First, while recording the time, the keywords of the events that occurred at that time point must be simultaneously recorded. Second, no matter what form the time and numbers in the article are in, the candidates must record the time and numbers simultaneously. All times are recorded in Arabic numerals to facilitate subsequent inquiries when doing questions.

(3) Names of people, places and proper nouns. When these concepts appear in articles, they usually appear with capital letters or quotation marks, which is very helpful for information indexing and positioning. In addition, when these specific concepts are mentioned, the article usually uses these concepts to illustrate a certain theory or perspective, so recording these concepts can play a certain assistive role in understanding related theories and perspectives.