在托福阅读中，每篇文中后多会有一道总结文章大意的问题。题目会给出选项，大家要选出3个可以概括文章大意或主要信息的选项。这3个正确选项与原文的用词并不一致，要求大家更好地理解文章。其他的错误选项会在一些细节上出现错误，或是陈述并不重要的细节或概念。这一题主要考察大家的总结能力，以及辨析重要信息的能力。这一题的分值为2分，分数会根据选出了几个正确答案而定。如果只选出两个正确答案，只会得1分。查看托福一周备考突击汇总>>>点击查看

　　Strategies to answer this question：

　　1. 通读全文，理解大意。通常每一段的第一句或最后一句为作者的观点，因此要特别注意。

　　2. 排除有细节错误的选项。在除的过程中，大家要将选项定位到原文中，理解原文所表达的意思，再看选项是否与之相符。

　　3. 抓住关键词。

　　4. 排除文中并没有出现的信息。一些选项中出现了文中并没有提到的信息，大家要注意辨认。

　　5. 不要专注于一些很小的细节。

　　Example:

　　下面我们就拿之前做过的一篇文章为例：

　　The Caravaggio Mystery

　　Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), usually known simply as “Caravaggio,” had a dramatic life, of which parts remain mysterious to scholars even today. Why, then, would it be a surprise that mysteries also surround his work? For example, The Taking of Christ, one of his paintings that had been considered lost since the eighteenth century, was rediscovered in 1990. It had hung, seemingly unrecognized, in the dining room of the Society of the Jesuits in Dublin, Ireland, for more than fifty years. The discovery that the painting was, indeed, a Caravaggio, led many to wonder how such a treasure could be hidden—seemingly in plain sight.

　　The first clue historians have about The Taking of Christ is in the 1603 accounts of an Italian nobleman, Ciriaco Mattei, who paid 125 “scudi” for “a painting with its frame of Christ taken in the garden.” At the time, Caravaggio’s style, with its striking use of light and dark, was admired and often imitated by both students and fellow artists.

　　However, trends in the art world come and go, and two centuries later, Caravaggio’s work had fallen out of favor with collectors. In fact, it wouldn’t be until the 1950s that a Caravaggio “renaissance” occurred, and interest in the artist was renewed.

　　In the meantime, The Taking of Christ had traveled far and wide. Ironically, it was the Mattei family itself that originally misidentified the work, though several centuries after the original purchase. In 1802, the family sold it as a Honthorst to a Scottish collector. This collector kept it in his home until his death in 1921. By 1921, The Taking of Christ—now firmly attributed to Gerard van Honthorst—was auctioned off in Edinburgh for eight guineas. This would have probably been a fair price if the work had been a van Honthorst; for a true Caravaggio, though, it was the bargain of the century. An Irish doctor bought the painting and donated it to the Dublin Jesuit Society the following decade.

　　From the 1930s onward, The Taking of Christ hung in the offices of the Dublin Jesuits. However, the Jesuits, who had a number of old paintings in their possession, decided to bring in a conservator to discuss restoring them in the early 1990s. Sergio Benedetti, the Senior Conservator at the National Gallery of Ireland, went to the building to examine the paintings and oversee their restoration. Decades of dirt, including smoke from the fireplace above which it hung, had to be removed from the painting before Benedetti began to suspect that the painting was not a copy of the original, but the original itself.