今天曼拓PTE老师Thomas给大家分享一下SWT的八炸绝招！

SWT这道题，肯定有不少同学都在纠结

哪一句究竟是关键句？

哪一句应该舍弃？

历尽千难万险终于收集好句子时，如何连接起来又是一个令人头疼的问题。

到底该用什么句型呢？

到底谁做主语呢？

最后，终于拼出一个句子出来，结果发现，字数超了。。。

又要删词，删句子，再纠结一次。。。。

为了帮助大家脱离SWT苦海，我们热心的Thomas老师来啦，看看他怎么说的吧！！

今天汤老师给大家详细讲解一下如何快速搞定SWT。好的，废话不多说，直接上干货，干掉本题，可分三步。

第一步：从原文找出关键句

在这一步中请遵循这3个原则：

●      大部分的关键句在首段，尾段以及每段的开头。

●      例子可以不要，人名地名可以，细节信息可以不要。

●      鉴于PTE的评分方式，宁可错选，不要漏选。如果不确定是不是关键句，不妨算上。

第二步： 用连接词将关键句连接起来

可以用的连接词：连词和从句

●    and, but

●    because ,due to the fact that

●    although ,while

●    If

●    who/which/ that

●    ,which means that

●    等等

不可以用的词： 副词

●    however nonetheless

●    therefore thereby hence

●    in addition

●    等等

比如我们从原文找了ABCD四句话，在理解上下文逻辑关系之后，我们可以这么连：

A, and B, which means that C because D.

第三步： 删减不重要的单词已确保字数不超过75字，并同时进行简单的paraphrase.

为了保证字数在限定范围内，将不重要的副词和形容词和地点状语时间状语等词删掉，另外在paraphrase的过程中，为了以防改错，建议只做词性的替换。

比如以下这个例题，汤老师手把手教你怎么庖丁解SWT。

Males do the singing and females do the listening. This has been the established, even cherished view of courtship in birds, but now some ornithologists are changing tune. Läszlö Garamszegi of the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and colleagues studied the literature on 233 European songbird species. Of the 109 for which information on females was available, they found evidence for singing in 101 species. In only eight species could the team conclude that females did not sing.

Females that sing have been overlooked, the team say, because either their songs are quiet, they are mistaken for males from their similar plumage or they live in less well-studied areas such as the tropics. Garamszegi blames Charles Darwin for the oversight. "He emphasized the importance of male sexual display, and this is what everyone has been looking at."

The findings go beyond modern species. After carefully tracing back an evolutionary family tree for their songbirds, Garamszegi's team discovered that, in at least two bird families, singing evolved in females first. They suggest these ancient females may have been using their songs to deter other females from their territories, to coordinate breeding activities with males, or possibly to attract mates.

Note:

Males do the singing and females do the listening. This has been the established, even cherished view of courtship in birds, but now some ornithologists are changing tune. Läszlö Garamszegi of the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and colleagues studied the literature on 233 European songbird species. Of the 109 for which information on females was available, they found evidence for singing in 101 species. In only eight species could the team conclude that females did not sing.

Females that sing have been overlooked, the team say, because either their songs are quiet, they are mistaken for males from their similar plumage or they live in less well-studied areas such as the tropics. Garamszegi blames Charles Darwin for the oversight. "He emphasized the importance of male sexual display, and this is what everyone has been looking at."

The findings go beyond modern species. After carefully tracing back an evolutionary family tree for their songbirds, Garamszegi's team discovered that, in at least two bird families, singing evolved in females first. They suggest these ancient females may have been using their songs to deter other females from their territories, to coordinate breeding activities with males, or possibly to attract mates.

首先找出关键句

Males      do the singing and females do the listening.

but      now some ornithologists are changing      tune

Females      that sing have been overlooked,

because      either their songs are quiet, they are mistaken for males from their      similar plumage or they live in      less well-studied areas such as the tropics.

The      findings go beyond modern species.

these      ancient females may have been using their songs to...

Analysis :

Step 1 : 将1,2句连起来

Ornithologists found evidence that female birds do the singing.

Step 2 : 将第3，4句加上，并将第4句进行以下改写（同学们也可以将改写这一步放在最后去做）

Ornithologists found evidence that female birds do the singing,which has been overlooked before, because of their quiet songs, similar plumage with males and living areas which are less well-studied.

Step 3：将第5,6句加上

Ornithologists found evidence that modern and ancient female birds do the singing as deterrence against other female birds, for the coordination of breeding, and for the attraction of mates,which has been overlooked before, because of their quiet songs, similar plumage with males and living areas which are less well-studied.

Step 4： 将原文的某些细节信息加上（非必要，根据字数来决定，如果符合字数限制，可以加上某些此类信息）

After a study on the literature about 233 songbird species from Europe ,ornithologists found the evidence that modern and ancient female birds do the singing as deterrence against other female birds, for the coordination of breeding, and for the attraction of mates,which has been overlooked before, because of their quiet songs, similar plumage with males and living areas which are less well-studied.

Sample answer :

After a study on the literature about 233 songbird species from Europe ,ornithologists found the evidence that modern and ancient female birds do the singing as deterrence against other female birds, for the coordination of breeding, and for the attraction of mates, which has been overlooked before, because of their quiet songs, similar plumage with males and living areas which are less well-studied. (64 words)

怎么样，看完以上老师的解题思路，大家有没有对SWT有更好的答题策略呢？

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