句子简化题又叫做释义题，即recognizing paraphrases，是新托福阅读当中比较浪费考生时间的一种题型。该题要求用另一种表达方式表达与原句相同的意思。只要是句子简化题，其所有的题目指令都是一样的，因此考试可以忽略阅读此指令，直接去看原文句子。那么，应对这样类型的题目我们又该使用怎样的呢?我们为大家带来了一系列的实例解析，希望能为大家的备考带来帮助。
Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were unsuspected a few decades ago. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to investigate the hazard posed today by large impacts on Earth. The group conducting the study concluded from a detailed analysis that impacts from meteorites can indeed be hazardous. Although there is always some risk that a large impact could occur, careful study shows that this risk is quite small.(Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction)
Q: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.
A:○ Until recently, nobody realized that Earth is exposed to unpredictable violent impacts from space.
○ In the last few decades, the risk of a random violent impact from space has increased.
○ Since most violent events on Earth occur randomly, nobody can predict when or where they will happen.
○ A few decades ago, Earth became the target of random violent events originating in outer space.
托福阅读句子简化题答案：1
