40天准备托福考试还能通过，有没有可能呢？完全有可能！当然这是英语基础相当好的，几乎是可以媲美以英语为母语的国家的人。先让我们来听一听歪果仁对托福备考的建议是什么？

First, some important points about the Toefl iBT before the preparation:

首先，在准备托福考试之前有几点需要明白：

1.Toefl is not a competitive exam (like GRE/GMAT), but a test of [English] language ability alone. Its a simple pass or fail kind of thing as there is a threshold- that's it.

Toefl 不是竞争性考试（如GRE / GMAT），而是测试英语语言能力的考试。它很简单，不是通过就是失败，因为它有一个门槛 – 就是这样。

2.It does not test the quality of grammar, vocabulary and a person's ability to reason logically or understand abstruse prose in English.It merely tests whether a person can read and understand in English well enough for people to reasonably understand what they mean. This is tested in the reading and listening sections.The speaking section does not penalize an accent, as long as a listener-evaluator can understand what you're saying, like in a typical campus or business environment.

它不测试语法，词汇和人的逻辑理解能力，或者用英语理解深奥的散文。它只是测试一个人是否能够用英文阅读和理解，足够让人们理解他们的意思。这是在阅读和听力部分进行测试。只要听众评估者能够理解你所说的话，说话部分就不会惩罚口音，就像典型的校园或商业环境中一样。

3.The writing section does not ask for your reasoning or knowledge of any topic (like how the GRE does), but checks if you can write a brief essay in English describing something.

写作部分不会要求您对任何主题的推理或知识（如GRE所做的那样），而是检查您是否可以用英文写短篇小说来描述。

As a result, it's usually an easy and high scoring exam for many people (especially native and semi-native English speakers). 

因此，对于许多人（特别是母语和半英语母语者）来说，通常是一个容易和高分的考试。

With this in mind, the test preparation depends entirely on who is taking the test:

考虑到这一点，测试准备完全取决于测试的人：

1.If the test taker is someone for whom English is truly a second-language, then the only realistic preparation possible is to actually learn English. If one is not habituated with reading, listening to, speaking and writing in English or lives in a country where English has very limited use daily (maybe in Japan, France, Germany) – then it will take time to develop one's English abilities. It might be fruitful to learn it directly rather than spend on expensive Toefl prep material from ETS. It will take many months to come up to the requisite level.

如果测试者是以英语为第二语言的人，那么唯一可行的现实准备就是学习英语。如果一个人不习惯阅读，听力，口语和写作英语或生活在英语使用受限的国家（也许在日本，法国，德国） – 那么需要时间来提高自己的英语能力。直接学习英语可能是更有成效的，而不是花费在ETS昂贵的Toefl准备资料上。要达到要求的水平需要好几个月的时间。

2.If one is a native or a semi-native speaker (like many Indians), then the test will be a cinch. The ability to read any English newspaper  is enough to ensure the score you'd need to score well. 

如果一个是一个本地人或一个半母语的人（像许多印度人），那么测试将是一个紧张的。能阅读任何英文报纸的能力足以确保您拿到需要的分数。

总结一下牛人的建议，如果像我们这种以英语为第二语言的人，至少需要几个月的时间来准备托福，而且英语基础不好的人必须先学好英语，再花费时间在托福考试资料上，而不是一开始早就针对托福考试材料复习，这样基础没有打牢，托福很难能够通过。