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2014年托福阅读备考：倒装句解题技巧
托福阅读之所以成为部分同学的绊脚石，除了词汇量较大以外，句子结构复杂也是新托福阅读的障碍之一。面对难句，必须迅速把握其主干和重点，因为考试时涉及答案的主要是句子的主干和重点，对于句子简化题(sentence simplification)尤其如此。
要把握难句的主干和重点，首先要弄清它们的类型。托福阅读中的难句主要有定语从句、同位语、并列结构、倒装句等等，对于不同类型的难句，把握主干的方法也不一样。下面以倒装句为例，为大家介绍一些把握倒装句的方法。
托福阅读中的倒装句主要有下列情况：
Herein lay the beginning of what ultimately turned from ignorance to denial of the value of nutritional therapies in medicine。
Among the species of seabirds that use the windswept cliffs of the Atlantic coast of Canada in the summer to mate， lay eggs， and rear their young are common murres， Atlantic puffins， blacklegged kittiwakes， and northern gannets。
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Implicit in it is an aesthetic principle as well： that the medium has certain qualities of beauty and expressiveness with which sculptors must bring own aesthetic sensibilities into harmony。
Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”， the film has never been， in the full sense of the word， silent。
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Missing until recently were fossils clearly intermediate， or transitional， between land mammals and cetaceans。
句子倒装的目的主要有两个：
一是被提前的部分被强调，如上述的第四句：Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made be