托福閱讀詞匯題目考點(diǎn)解析（三）

One of the things that most impressed the original audience for photography was the idea of authenticity. Nature now seemed able to speak for itself, with a minimum of interference. The title Talbot chose for his book, The Pencil of Nature (the first part of which was published in 1844), reflected this feeling. Artists were fascinated by photography because it offered a way of examining the world in much greater detail. They were also afraid of it, because it seemed likely to make their own efforts unnecessary.
　　The word "authenticity" in the passage is closest in meaning to
　　O improvement
　　O practicality
　　O genuineness
　　O repetition
　　解析：托福閱讀詞匯題的做題方法除了“詞綴法”和“近義詞”法之外，還有另外一種方法：“舉例法”。有時(shí)文章中會(huì)出現(xiàn)一個(gè)概念詞，而下文會(huì)用一種例子來(lái)對(duì)其進(jìn)行闡述。因此，我們的目標(biāo)是卻確定所考詞匯的下文有無(wú)一些明顯的舉例論證即可。比如上文當(dāng)中出現(xiàn)了“authenticity”, 而下文是“Nature now seemed able to speak for itself, with a minimum of interference.”也就是表明正是由于“authenticity”, 所以“自然可以為自己代言”。因此此詞肯定是“真實(shí)”的意思。故答案是第三個(gè)。