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1、阅读与写作部分第一课时第一节主题题型十四种推理题全文态度题全文结论题段落结论题从句插入语同位语平行结构结论题结构题定义题举例子说明概述题列举题类比题行数题前后文延续题指代题词汇题细节题题型toefl一共分为三个部分：听力，语法，阅读托福作文：满分6分，进阶0.5分。弱点：1理由段中间的例子问题2理由段之间缺乏联系3语言不地道根据错误率而不是绝对错误进行判分听力 阅读 语法满分 68分 67分 68分错14个 错4个 错2个（53分 + 62分 + 65分）*10/3600分总共错=20far from more than just三个原则：词汇当先，熟练方法，认真复习四种能力：词汇，题型，解法

2、，寻找一共14种题型。第二节托福阅读词汇要求9000背单词：满足“面”，满足“点”lumber，slumber（睡眠）七个最难：s t c d e i p七个最简单：q u v w x y zcomparablesimilarsaveexcept（完全性排除） short ofresourcepowerupsetoverwhelm end 推翻，颠覆endupset， goalfacultyability 能力rawuncooked raw meat unprocessed raw datapicture 1.icon 2.describe picture it out 3.imagine第三

3、节本节讲的是托福阅读文章的特点1、 托福阅读文章都是由学术体的语言组成的，学术性议论文。2、 出题顺序与文章议论顺序严格一致3、 文章的出题原则p16，25题 although only i person in 20 in the colonial period lived in a city, the cities had a disproportionate influence on the development of north america. they were at the cutting edge of social change. it was in the cities t

4、hat the elements that can be associated with modern capitalism first appearedthe use of money and commercial paper in place of barter, open competition in place of social deference and hierarchy, with an attendant rise in social disorder, and the appearance of factories using coal or water power in

5、place of independent craftspeople working with hand tools. the cities predicted the future, wrote historian gary b. nash, even though they were but overgrown villages compared to the great urban centers of europe, the middle east. and china. except for boston, whose population stabilized at about 16

6、,000 in 1760, cities grew by exponential leaps through the eighteenth century. in the fifteen years prior to the outbreak of the war for independence in 1775, more than 200,000 immigrants arrived on north american shores. this meant that a population the size of boston was arriving every years, and

7、most of it flowed into the port cities in the northeast. philadelphias population nearly doubled in those years, reaching about 30,000 in 1774. new york grew at almost the same rate, reaching about 25,000 by 1775. the quality of the hinterland dictated the pace of growth of the cities. the land surr

8、ounding boston had always been poor farm country, and by the mid-eighteenth century it was virtually stripped of its timber. the available farmland was occupied; there was little in the region beyond the city to attract immigrants. new york and philadelphia, by contrast, served a rich and fertile hi

9、nterland laced with navigable watercourses. scots, irish, and germans landed in these cities and followed the rivers inland, the regions around the cities of new york and philadelphia became the breadbaskets of north america, sending grain not only to other colonies but also to england and southern

10、europe, where crippling droughts in the late 1760s created a whole new market.25. it can be inferred that in comparison with north american cities, cities in europe, the middle east, and china had (a) large populations (b) little independence (c) frequent social disorder (d) few power sourcesp44，19和

11、20题 certainly no creature in the sea is odder than the common sea cucumber. all living creature, especially human beings, have their peculiarities, but everything about the little sea cucumber seems unusual. what else can be said about a bizarre animal that, among other eccentricities, eats mud, fee

12、ds almost continuously day and night but can live without eating for long periods, and can be poisonous but is considered supremely edible by gourmets? for some fifty million years, despite all its eccentricities, the sea cucumber has subsisted on its diet of mud. it is adaptable enough to live atta

13、ched to rocks by its tube feet, under rocks in shallow water, or on the surface of mud flats. common in cool water on both atlantic and pacific shores, it has the ability to suck up mud or sand and digest whatever nutrients are present. sea cucumbers come in a variety of colors, ranging from black t

14、o reddish-brown to sand-color and nearly white. one form even has vivid purple tentacles. usually the creatures are cucumber-shapedhence their nameand because they are typically rock inhabitants, this shape, combined with flexibility, enables them to squeeze into crevices where they are safe from pr

15、edators and ocean currents. although they have voracious appetites, eating day and night, sea cucumbers have the capacity to become quiescent and live at a low metabolic ratefeeding sparingly or not at all for long periods, so that the marine organisms that provide their food have a chance to multip

16、ly. if it were not for this faculty, they would devour all the food available in a short time and would probably starve themselves out of existence. but the most spectacular thing about the sea cucumber is the way it defends itself. its major enemies are fish and crabs, when attacked, it squirts all

17、 its internal organs into the water. it also casts off attached structures such as tentacles. the sea cucumber will eviscerate and regenerate itself if it is attacked or even touched; it will do the same if the surrounding water temperature is too high or if the water becomes too polluted.19. of all

18、 the characteristics of the sea cucumber, which of the following seems to fascinate the author most? (a) what it does when threatened (b) where it lives (c) how it hides from predators (d) what it eats20. compared with other sea creatures the sea cucumber is very (a) dangerous (b) intelligent (c) st

19、range (d) fat第四节p9，44题 when jules verne wrote journey to the center of the earth in 1864, there were many conflicting theories about the nature of the earths interior. some geologists thought that it contained a highly compressed ball of incandescent gas, while others suspected that it consisted of

20、separate shells, each made of a different material. today, well over a century later, there is still little direct evidence of what lies beneath our feet. most of our knowledge of the earths interior comes not from mines or boreholes, but from the study of seismic wavespowerful pulses of energy rele

21、ased by earthquakes. the way that seismic waves travel shows that the earths interior is for from uniform. the continents and the seabed are formed by the crusta thin sphere of relatively light, solid rock. beneath the crust lies the mantle, a very different layer that extends approximately halfway

22、to the earths center. there the rock is the subject of a battle between increasing heat and growing pressure. in its high levels, the mantle is relatively cool; at greater depths, high temperatures make the rock behave more like a liquid than a solid. deeper still, the pressure is even more intense,

23、 preventing the rock from melting in spite of a higher temperature. beyond a depth of around 2,900 kilometers, a great change takes place and the mantle gives way to the core. some seismic waves cannot pass through the core and others are bent by it. from this and other evidence, geologists conclude

24、 that the outer core is probably liquid, with a solid center. it is almost certainly made of iron, mixed with smaller amounts of other elements such as nickel. the conditions in the earths core make it a far more alien world than space. its solid iron heart is subjected to unimaginable pressure and

25、has a temperature of about 9.000f. although scientists can speculate about its nature, neither humans nor machines will ever be able to visit it.44. what is todays richest source of information about the earths interior for geologists? (a) boreholes (b) shells (c) seismic waves (d) minesp119，49题 leg

26、end has it that sometime toward the end of the civil war (1861-1865) a government train carrying oxen traveling through the northern plains of eastern wyoming was caught in a snowstorm and had to be abandoned. the driver returned the next spring to see what had become of his cargo. instead of the sk

27、eletons he had expected to find, he saw his oxen, living, fat, and healthy. how had they survived? the answer lay in a resource that unknowing americans had trampled underfoot in their haste to cross the great american desert to reach lands that sometimes proved barren. in the eastern parts of the u

28、nited states, the preferred grass for forage was a cultivated plant. it grew well with enough rain, then when cut and stored it would cure and become nourishing hay for winter feed. but in the dry grazing lands of the west, that familiar blue joint grass was often killed by drought. to raise cattle

29、out there seemed risky or even hopeless. who could imagine a fairy-tale grass that required no rain and somehow made it possible for cattle to feed themselves all winter? but the surprising western wild grasses did just that. they had wonderfully convenient features that made them superior to the cu

30、ltivated eastern grasses. variously known as buffalo grass, grama grass, or mesquite grass, not only were they immune to drought; but they were actually preserved by the lack of summer and autumn rains. they were not juicy like the cultivated eastern grasses, but had short, hard stems. and they did

31、not need to be cured in a barn, but dried right where they grew on the ground. when they dried in this way, they remained naturally sweet and nourishing through the winter. cattle left outdoors to fend for themselves thrived on this hay. and the cattle themselves helped plant the fresh grass year af

32、ter year, for they trampled the natural seeds firmly into the soil to be watered by the melting snows of winter and the occasional rains of spring. the dry summer air cured them, much as storing in a barn cured the cultivated grasses.49. which of the following was not mentioned as a characteristic o

33、f western grasses? (a) they have tough stems (b) they are not affected by dry weather (c) they can be grown indoors. (d) they contain little moisture.p204，35题 in science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related. a theory often involves an imaginary model that helps s

34、cientists picture the way an observed event could be produced. a good example of this is found in the kinetic molecular theory, in which gases are pictured as being made up of many small particles that are in constant motion. a useful theory, in addition to explaining past observations, helps to pre

35、dict events that have not as yet been observed. after a theory has been publicized, scientists design experiments to test the theory. if observations confirm the scientists predictions, the theory is supported. if observations do not confirm the predictions, the scientists must search further. there

36、 may be a fault in the experiment, or the theory may have to be revised or rejected. science involves imagination and creative thinking as well as collecting information and performing experiments. facts by themselves are not science. as the mathematician jules henri poincare said: science is built

37、with facts just as a house is built with bricks, but a collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house. most scientists start an investigation by finding out what other scientists have learned about a particular problem. after known facts have been g

38、athered, the scientist comes to the part of the investigation that requires considerable imagination. possible solutions to the problem are formulated. these possible solutions are called hypotheses. in a way, any hypothesis is a leap into the unknown. it extends the scientists thinking beyond the k

39、nown facts. the scientist plans experiments, performs calculations, and makes observations to test hypotheses. for without hypotheses, further investigation lacks purpose and direction. when hypotheses are confirmed, they are incorporated into theories.35. bricks are mentioned in lines 14-16 to indi

40、cate how (a) mathematicians approach science (b) building a house is like performing experiments (c) science is more than a collection of facts (d) scientific experiments have led to improved technology第二课时第一节p280，12题 what geologists call the basin and range province in the united states roughly coi

41、ncides in its northern portions with the geographic province known as the great basin. the great basin is hemmed in on the west by the sierra nevada and on the east by the rocky mountains; it has no outlet to the sea. the prevailing winds in the great basin are from the west. warm, moist air from th

42、e pacific ocean is forced upward as it crosses the sierra nevada. at the higher altitudes it cools and the moisture it carriers is precipitated as rain or snow on the western slopes of the mountains. that which reaches the basin is air wrung dry of moisture. what little water falls there as rain or

43、snow, mostly in the winter months, evaporates on the broad, flat desert floors, it is, therefore, an environment in which organisms battle for survival. along the rare watercourses, cottonwoods and willows eke out a sparse existence. in the upland ranges, pines and junipers struggle to hold their ow

44、n. but the great basin has not always been so arid. many of its dry, closed depressions were once filled with water. owens valley, panamint valley and death valley were once a string of interconnected lakes. the two largest of the ancient lakes of the great basin were lake lahontan and lake bonnevil

45、le. the great salt lake is all that remains of the latter, and pyramid lake is one of the last briny remnants of the former. there seem to have been several periods within the last tens of thousands of years when water accumulated in these basins. the rise and fall of the lakes were undoubtedly link

46、ed to the advances and retreats of the great ice sheets that covered much of the northern part of the north american continent during those times. climatic changes during the ice ages sometimes brought cooler, wetter weather to midlatitude deserts worldwide, including those of the great basin. the b

47、roken valleys of the great basin provided ready receptacles for this moisture.12. what is the geographical relationship between the basin and range province and the great basin? (a) the great basin is west of the basin and range province. (b) the great basin is larger than the basin and range provin

48、ce. (c) the great basin is in the northern part of the basin and range province. (d) the great basin is mountainous; the basin and range province is flat desert.两种不考的情况：（1） 重复不考（2） 过难不考p278 a coincident with concerns about the accelerating loss of species and habitats has been a bgrowing appreciatio

49、n of the importance of biological diversity, the number of species in a particular ecosystem, to the health of the earth and human well-being.第二节做题方法p86，31-42questions 31 - 42 despite the road improvements of the turnpike era (1790 - 1830), americans continued as in colonial times to depend wherever

50、 possible on water routes for travel and transportation. the larger rivers, especially the mississippi and the ohio, became increasingly useful as steamboats grew in number and improved in design. river boats carried to new orleans the corn and other crops of northwestern farmers, the cotton and tob

51、acco of southwestern planters. from new orleans, ships took the cargoes on to eastern seaports. neither the farmers of the west nor the merchants of the east were completely satisfield with this pattern of trade. farmers could get better prices for their crops if the alternative existed of sending t

52、hem directly eastward to market, and merchants could sell larger quantities of their manufactured goods if these could be transported more directly and more economically to the west. new waterways were needed. sectional jealousies and constitutional scruples stood in the way of action by the federal

53、 government, and necessary expenditures were too great for private enterprise. if extensive canals were to be dug, the job would be up to the various states. new york was the first to act. it had the natural advantage of a comparatively level route between the hudson river and lake erie, through the

54、 only break in the entire appalachian mountain chain. yet the engineering tasks were imposing. the distance was more than 350 miles, and there were ridges to cross and a wilderness of woods and swamps to penetrate. the erie canal, begun in 1817 and completed in 1825, was by far the greatest construc

55、tion job that americans had ever undertaken. it quickly proved a financial success as well. the prosperity of the erie encouraged the state to enlarge its canal system by building several branches. the range of the new york canal system was still further extended when the states of ohio and indiana,

56、 inspired by the success of the erie canal, provided water connections between lake erie and the ohio river.31. the paragraph preceding the passage most probably discussed which of the following? (a) a map of canals in america (b) the period before the turnpike era (c) water routes (d) the construct

57、ion of turnpike32. what does the passage suggest was the principal route for transporting crops to the east prior to 1825? (a) river to road (b) canal to river (c) river to ocean (d) road to canal33. it can be inferred from the passage that shipping cargo east by way of new orleans was (a) advantageous for