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托福珍題真相，字神名師揭秘 【珍貴托福閱讀真經分享：Reading-Gondwana】

托福閱讀真經的題目來自實戰真題（非TPO）， 所以考場上都有機會再次重現，所以大家一定要好好練習哦。
新題出題思路和難度都特別符合現在的考試趨勢，所以推薦給大家。

今天的題目是一道閱讀句子簡化題（sentence simplification question）。
做句子簡化題有個小訣竅，就是要先「化繁為簡」，用結構式閱讀課教的找出五大強詞的解題關鍵。
這樣可以避免受到選項的干擾（因為很多干擾選項，你越看就覺得越像是答案！）

Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

原句：One idea developed during the late nineteenth century was that there existed in the remote geological past a vast Southern Hemisphere continent—in other words, that the modern continents of the Southern Hemisphere were somehow connected long ago, thus explaining the similarities in fauna and flora.

(A) The similarities in fauna and flora across Southern Hemisphere continents were explained in the late nineteenth century.
(B) In the nineteenth century it was discovered that the Southern Hemisphere continents contain fauna and flora that are highly similar.
(C) In the nineteenth century, it was suggested that the modern continents of the Southern Hemisphere were once connected.
(D) The fauna and flora of the modern continents of the Southern Hemisphere were found to be very similar in the late nineteenth century.

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康康老師：公佈正解哦：C。為何A是錯的呢?

→ thus接的類似補充說明 不是主題。不過有點狠，因果字後竟接補充訊息非主題，這就是練新題最棒的地方，讓我們知道實戰中會出現的最新陷阱!!