Structure and Content of Part 7
Part 7 of the TOEIC exam is structured like most standard multiple-choice reading tests. There is some reading material followed by a set of questions. The length of the reading passages varies widely, from short advertisements of less than 100 words to long business letters of over 300 words. One section of the test features double passages that may have over 500 words combined. In general, shorter passages may have as few as two questions to answer while longer passages and double passages will have as many as 5 questions. All questions are of equal value. Because Part 7 is combined with Parts 5 and 6, it is not timed independently. The 48 questions comprising Part 7 of the exam are timed together with the 52 questions from Parts 5 and 6. There are 100 questions total in these three sections and students have 75 minutes to complete as many as they can. Thus, on average, students have 45 seconds to spend on each question.
TOEIC測驗中Part 7的結構是最標準的選擇題式閱讀測驗：即一堆的閱讀資料後伴隨著一組題目。這些閱讀文章的長度變化很大，從少於100字的短篇廣告到多於300字的商業書信都有可能，而其中一個單元更是鋪陳了超過500字的雙倍內容。一般來說，較短的內容基本上只有兩個題目伴隨其後，而較長的文章甚或是雙倍內容的文章則會有五個題目。所有的題目所占的分數比重皆同，因為Part 7和Part 5及Part 6是合併在一起、而非單獨計時的。Part 7中的48個題目是和Part 5及Part 6中的52個題目一起計時，因此這三個單元總共有100個題目，而學生要設法在75分鐘內盡可能的完成這100個題目。平均來說，一題可花費的時間為45秒。
The types of reading passages and types of questions that students will face during the TOEIC exam will vary slightly from test to test. However, the types of skills being tested are always the same. In the next section, we will look at the common types of passages and questions that students are likely to face on the TOEIC exam. Then, after getting an understanding of those commonly tested items, we will shift our focus towards how to earn the highest number of points in the allotted time.
學生每次在TOEIC測驗中所面臨的閱讀內容和題目的型態雖然會有些微的差異，但要測試的能力並無不同。在下一個單元中，我們會看到學生在TOEIC測驗中會面臨到的一些常見的文章內容型態和題目的樣式，接著在了解這些常見的測驗內容後，我們會將重點轉移至如何在限定的時間內得到最多的分數。
What You Need to Know
你要知道的事
In order to prepare to face Part 7 of the exam, it is important that students became very familiar with the ways that information will be presented. As we will see in the following pages, many of the questions require very little English knowledge to answer correctly. Most of the answers will seem quite obvious once examinees locate the required information in the passage. The problem lies in locating that information as quickly as possible. In order to do so, a diligent student will become familiar with the most commonly presented passage structures, with a special focus on where commonly tested information is likely to be located.
要準備好面對Part 7，最重要的是要熟悉其呈現資訊內容的方式。我們在接下來的幾頁會看到，很多問題其實並不需要很多的英文知識技巧就可以正確地回答出來。只要學生能在文章中找到所需資訊的位置，大多數的答案其實很明顯，困難度在於得要盡快地找到資訊所在的位置。而為了要盡快地找到資訊所在的位置，用功的學生就會讓自己熟悉那些常見的文章結構，以特別專注在常被用來測驗的資訊其可能所在的位置。
What You Need to Do
你要做的事
Students who are using the complete Target New TOEIC series know that, in the volume on listening comprehension, our focus was never on "understanding" the content of the conversations but, instead, on identifying the necessary information to choose a correct answer. In general, we will use the same approach for Part 7 of the exam. However, the listening and reading sections differ in an important aspect. During the listening exam, students are led, step-by-step, through the exam. They listen to a conversation and then are given a certain amount of time to answer questions about it. While it is true that some students find the amount of time given to answer questions on the listening section of the exam insufficient, for the most part, allowing students additional time to answer questions on the listening exam won't really improve their scores. After the conversation has ended, it won't be replayed. Students either grasped the important information, or they didn't. Our advice was simply to guess and move on.
已經用過本系列Target New TOEIC書籍的學生就會知道，在聽力篇中，我們著眼的並非在”了解”對話的內容，而在於辨識出必要的資訊以選出正確的答案。基本上，我們會在Part 7使用相同的方法策略，但聽力和閱讀單元之間有一個重要的不同點。在聽力測驗中，學生隨著測驗本身的步調被一步步的引導進行測驗，學生先聽一段對話，接著有一段時間用來作答。有些學生會覺得聽力測驗中給予的作答時間不夠，但給予更多的時間來作答其實並不會因此讓學生多增加一點分數，因為在對話播放結束之後並不會再次重複播放，學生如果不是已經抓到了重要的資訊就是漏掉了，而我們對此的建議是趕緊猜一個答案後再接下去進行後續的作答。
The Part 7 reading portion of the test is different in that students are free to spend as much time as they want to re-read the passage, the questions, and the answers. Most students see this as a benefit, but it is not necessarily so beneficial. In principle, a student could spend the entire 75 minutes of the exam on a single question. Of course no one would actually do that (I hope!), but the concept is an important one to consider. The goal of examinees should be to answer correctly as many questions as possible as quickly as possible rather than try to answer every question correctly no matter how long it takes.
而Part 7的不同處在於學生可以隨便要花多久的時間來反覆閱讀文章、題目和答案。大多數的學生覺得這對自己是有利的，但其實並不那麼有利。原則上來說，學生可以整整花掉75分鐘在一個題目上，當然沒有人會真的這麼做 (我希望不會)！但這個概念是一個很重要的思考因素。考生的目標應在於盡快地正確回答越多的題目越好，而非在於無論花多久的時間都要正確地回答每個題目。
This is the key concept you need to understand in order to maximize your score based on your current level of English ability: although some questions on the exam can be answered quite quickly and others may take much longer, a correct answer in either case only earns the examinee a single point. If the test had no time limit, this would not be a concern. However, the TOEIC exam is timed. There are 48 questions, some of which require a small time investment and some of which require a larger investment. It makes sense for examinees to quickly identify which types of questions can be answered efficiently and which questions will require more time. This is a skill you will be taught to develop in Chapter XX
若你要在現有的英文程度下得到最高的分數，以下這個概念是你必須要了解的：雖然有些題目可以很快地就回答出來，而有些會花比較久的時間，但在這兩種情況下，每個正確答案都只能讓你得到一分。假如測驗本身沒有時間的限制，這點就沒有多大的關係，但是可惜的是，TOEIC測驗是要計時的。總共48個題目，有些只需要少許的時間作答，有些則需要投注較多的時間。考生要能夠很快地判斷出哪種類型的題目是可以被很有效率地作答的，而哪些又是需要多花點時間的，而這個判斷的技巧會在其後提到。
Section 1: What You Need to Know
單元一：你要知道的事
Common Formats常見的格式
As stated above, examinees should become familiar with the most commonly presented formats for passages on Part 7 of the TOEIC exam. Some appear more often that others. In this section, we will begin with the formats that appear most often on the exam (often multiple times within the same exam). Note that in this section, we are focusing on the structure. In Section Two, we will look at commonly tested content.
如前所述，考生得要熟悉Part 7中一些很常出現的文章格式，有些類型出現的頻繁度較其他文章要多。在這個單元中，我們會從最常出現的格式看起 (在同一份測驗中會出現多次)。在這個單元中要注意的是，我們著眼的部分在於結構，而在單元二才會進行常見的測驗內容。
Although many students may neglect to do so, the first thing examinees should notice is that the exam makers present this business letter as if it were written on the official stationary of a business. In many cases, the test makers are not simply doing this in order to make the exam "look authentic;" instead, they are including information within the stationary header that may be crucial to answering a question quickly and accurately.
考生要注意的第一件事應該是要注意到出題者是以一家公司的正式書信用紙來書寫並呈現內容的，而這點是很多學生都會忽略的。在很多情況下，出題者這麼做並不是要讓測驗本身看起來很有權威感，而是因為他們要把一些資訊放入信紙的抬頭，而那些資訊對可快速且正確地回答某個題目可能是很重要的線索。
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