托福听力考试由于是先听，再做题，导致很多考生叫苦不迭。认为想要记下全部内容，实在是难上加难。其实，在能听到理解大部分内容的基础上，托福听力题目的出发是有迹可循的。今天我们就来看一下转折考点之一的infact。
“infact”词组十分简单，初学者都知道是“实际上;事实上“的意思。那么这么一个简单的小词组是如何成为托福出题点最爱的呢?就此，我们当然要到TPO里去找答案。
比如Tpo22的Lecture 4：
Professor: Well, no. Not during the silent-film era. We are talking a period of maybe thirty years where working in movie theaters was the best job for musicians. It was very well-paid. The rapid growth of the film industry meant movie theaters were popping up everywhere. So suddenly there was this huge demand for musicians. In fact, over 20,000 jobs for musicians were gone, disappeared at the end of the silent-film era, 20,000. Ok. So from the beginning, music was a big part of film, even at the first…
13. Why does the professor point out that 20,000 jobs for musicians disappeared at the end of the silent-film era?
A. To explain that many movie theaters closed at the end of the silent-film era
B. To explain that live music had lost popularity
C. To illustrate the huge demand for musicians during the silent-film era
D. To emphasize the number of jobs created by the production of sound movies
我们发现，教授说晚了电影工业的崛起后，提到了huge demand for musicians，紧接着用infact举了个例子。那么我们发现，题目中就问到了这个例子。如果听的时候注意到了这里，那么久不难选出C这个正确答案。
再比如TPO20 Lecture2：
So, um... agriculture, the ... the spread of agriculture, you know we are talking over thousands of years, um... but this could very well had a profound effect on the composition of Earth’s atmosphere. It’s kind of ironic to think that absent that effect, it maybe that we would be heading into an Ice Age again. In fact, back in the 1970s, a lot of theorists were predicting that, you know, the climate would start to cool and we’d slowly enter into the new Ice Age. And then they were puzzled as to why it didn’t seem to be happening.
17. What does the professor imply when he says this:
A. Theorists sometimes make careless predictions.
B. Theorists were unaware of some of the effects of human activities.
C. Technology of the 1970s was not sophisticated enough to detect the earliest stages of an ice age.
D. Scientists in the 1970s overestimated the speed at which ice ages progress.
这道题中，原文中标黑的部分整个都是重听题的播放内容。那么在第一遍听的时候如果注意了，并且结合上文，就不难理解到in fact后的内容是为了说明科学家忽略了人类的影响，就能得出本题应该选C。
再举例一篇lecture生命科学最爱出的动物和生态的文章。TPO16 lecture3中：
But actually, the opposite is true. Beavers will cut down only large trees that are close to the water. They will travel far only to cut down certain small trees that they can cut down quickly and drag back home quickly. Generally, the farther they go from the water, the smaller the tree they will cut down. They’re willing to make more trips to haul back less wood, which carries a greater risk of being exposed to predators. So it looks as though beavers are less interested in minimizing their exposure to predators and more interested in saving energy when foraging for wood, which may also explain why beavers forage primarily during the evenings.
9. What does the professor say about the cutting down of large trees?
A. Beavers generally prefer cutting down large trees to small trees.
B. Beavers generally do not travel long distances to cut down large trees.
C. Beavers will not cut large trees of certain species.
D. Beavers use large trees mainly for the purpose of building shelters.
我们发现，题目中出现了actually后面内容的原词。如果听的时候留心，就不难选出B选项，虽说兔子不吃窝边草，但是beavers们就专砍自己家边儿的大树了。
可以发现，很多文章都含有类似in fact，actually这样的转折词。因此在听的时候如果听到了，就要留心紧跟的内容，因为很可能就会出题哦。所以本文的目标就是——注意in fact!
作者介绍：
教师姓名：王雪君
教授课程：TOEFL听力
教师简介： 毕业于外交学院。兴趣爱好广泛，曾到非洲英语国家进行支教。教学态度认真，风趣幽默，教学方法灵活多样，力求结合中西方教育方式，启发学员。在教学中讲究因材施教，在课程中不但专注于培养孩子对英语学习的兴趣，还尽量为其今后的留学生活做好充分的准备。在提高孩子成绩的同时，让英语学习变更加生动有趣。
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