2017年5月27日托福閱讀真題回憶

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    2017年5月27日托福閱讀真題回憶
    

    Passage One
    學(xué)科分類:History
    題目:Venice: An Empire on the Sea
    

    內(nèi)容回憶:1. Water is the source of prosperity in Venice. Venice has several natural advantages.
    2. Apart from natural advantages, Venice’s achievement in
    trade also contributes to its success.
    3. Government’s power and Venice style of republicanism
    4. Commercial families
    

    詞匯題:
    1.   lucrative-profitable
    2.   distinctions-differences
    3.   elaborate-complicated
    4.   persuasively-convincingly
    

     
     
    

     
    

    Passage Two
    學(xué)科分類:Technology
    題目:The Print Revolution
    

    內(nèi)容回憶:1. 宗教革命與打印機(jī)息息相關(guān)。
    2. printing與papermaking 的聯(lián)系
    3. printing與goldsmithing 的聯(lián)系
    4. printing依然spread widely
    5. 詳細(xì)說明了printing revolution帶來的種種影響
    

    詞匯題:
    1.   allied-related
    2.   compilations-collections
    3.   dispersed-spread
    

     
     
    

     
    

    Passage Three
    學(xué)科分類:Zoology
    題目:Effects of Plate Tectonics on Species
    

    內(nèi)容回憶:1. Plate Tectonics主要影響climate和地理
    2. 形成的province越多,物種多樣性越高
    3.對于wind和sea currents有影響,從而影響物種分布
    4. 南方物種被北方來的遷徙類物種代替,而南方卻很少遷徙到北方去。
    

    詞匯題:
    1.   resultant-consequent
    2.   parallels-matches
    3.   profound-very strong
    4.   shallow-having little depth
    

     
     
    

     
    

    Passage Four
    學(xué)科分類:biology
    題目:Extinctions at the End of Cretaceous(2016年10月28日,以及150614CN-P3)
    

    內(nèi)容回憶:1. It has long been recognized that the dinosaurs disappeared from the fossil record at the end of the Cretaceous period. And many other organisms disappeared at about the same time.
    2. On land it was not only the large animals that became extinct.  The mammals, most of which were small, lost some 35 percent of their species worldwide. Plants were also affected. 
    3. Furthermore, it is most likely that these large dinosaurs had slow rates of reproduction, which always increases the risk of extinction. Crocodiles, tortoises, birds, and insects seem to have been little affected. 后面討論了幸存的原因。
    4. 單細(xì)胞生物幸存的原因
    5. 找到a rare metal, iridium, 證明iridium spike was due to a large asteroid that struck  Earth 65 million years ago.
    

    詞匯題:
    1. recognized-accepted
    2. simultaneously-at the same time
    3. dismissed-rejected
    4. elevated-high