每一个初次接触托福的人，初识托福听力，心里都会碎碎念：怎么？还要记笔记？以前从来没记过啊！......无数考生几乎都这么念叨过
什么都不知道的情况下，记得次做托福题目听力部分的时候，听到最后一篇文章，草稿纸写的满满当当，手都抽筋了。凭借着初中就开始熟练的狂草字体，还有之前考过口译的笔记底子，内容的确是写了不老少，做题时候所幸，有的还是能用上的。
相信不少同学有一样的感受，甭管听的是什么，就是疯狂的写，能听到啥写啥，有时候潦草的笔记中，还真能隐约看到题目的答案。
其实，要领很简单，但是，一定是一个需要理解和练习不断重复和强化的过程。托福听力笔记该如何记？大家请务必记住下面10个字：记名词，越具体越需要记！
现在请强迫自己在大脑中重复三遍，深深地刻在你脑海中！跟随老师先看一篇文章的片段截取（由于一篇文章的内容量过多，故截取部分说明），文章中所有名词、名词短语等，都进行了加颜色的标注，基本选择了每句话中相对核心的名词性信息。
Professor
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The idea of primary colors, and specifically the idea of red, yellow and blue being THE primary colors, didn’t exist until about 200 years ago. Until then, the dominant theory about color was one that had been proposed by Isaac Newton. Newton gave a scientific and objective explanation of colors. He used a prism to break white light down into the various colors of the spectrum. And he theorized, rightly so, that different colors are essentially different wavelengths of light. But he made no mention of primary colors. That idea came from, or was at least published by a man named Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Goethe was a well-known author. He wrote many famous novels, plays, poems. So why did he start thinking about colors? Well, Goethe was part of the Romantic Movement in western literature. And he was a Romantic, through and through, meaning that he explained objects and phenomena in terms of the spiritual, emotional impact they had, as opposed to explaining them in terms of their scientific nature. He rejected an objective understanding of color, in favor of a more subjective understanding. He believed that when we see color, it stimulates our emotions. And different colors appeal to or inspire different emotions in different people.
Student
That sounds like psychology.
Professor
Well, color theory is used in psychology too. Some psychologists do use their field’s version of color theory to diagnose and treat patients. Um… anyway, Goethe conducted a number of experiments trying to figure out which colors corresponded to which emotions. And in terms of that goal, he wasn’t very successful. But his experiments actually did show a lot about the relationships between colors themselves, about how colors change when placed next to other colors, about how they interact with one another. Scientists studying optics and chromatics today still marvel at his findings. But Goethe wasn’t really able to establish a clear connection between colors and emotions.
Then in 1806, he received a letter from a relatively unknown German artist, a painter named Philipp Otto Runge.
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这是TPO27 Lecture4中的部分节选。同学们可以看到，标注颜色的字体部分都是，我们所能挑选出来的名词或者名词短语的部分。大家看过以后，带着头脑中大概留有的印象，跟随老师来看两道这篇文章后面的题目：
31 Why does the professor mention Isaac Newton?
A. To show the similarities between early ideas in art and early ideas in science.
B. To explain why mixing primary colors does not produce satisfactory secondary colors.
C. To provide background information for the theory of primary colors.
D. To point out the first person to propose a theory of primary colors.
同学们，Isaac Newton眼熟么？再来看下一道题：
32 According to the professor, what were the results of Goethe’s experiments with color? Click on 2 answers.
A. The experiments failed to a connection between colors and emotions.
B. The experiments showed useful connections between color and light.
C. The experiments provided valuable information about the relationships between colors.
D. The experiments were not useful until modern psychologists reinterpreted them.
同学们，results, Goethe’s experiments with color眼熟么？
两个人名是不是印象非常深刻？以及G这个人做的实验是不是也是有印象的？这就是我们记录名词的个关键所在，做题定位很好找！不仅如此，答案在一些情况下，比如细节题目中也是会比较清晰。
比如：32题中，G做的实验，如果我们在理解的时候，重点抓住了experiment, emotions, goals, colors, relationship这几个关键词，像这样的细节题就会非常容易选出正确答案了。正确答案是AC，大家看一下是不是很轻松根据关键词就可以正确选择。
再看31题：Isaac Newton对应这里，主要重点在explanation, prism, white color, various colors, spectrum, different colors, different wavelength这几个关键词上，所以像B这样选项中出现关键词和我们听到关键词不一致的，是一定不是正确的。这样排除选项的题目，听力中可以应用许多。这道题目主要是一个转折逻辑对应的考点。
如果我们的关键词可以配合老师给大家的考点总结，那么大多数情况下，我们都是可以直接预测到考点，考点也不会遗漏掉。这需要一个系统的学习过程。
通过上述两道题目的展示，不知大家有没有get到咱们笔记中名词的重要性和精髓？笔记记好了，不仅仅是做题上有帮助，在文章内容的记忆和回顾上，以及今后海外的学习中也是非常有帮助的。
