Claire Herbert TOEFL 克蕾爾托福 .雅思. GRE 滿分線上家教課程.台大|劍橋.MIT雙碩士| 一週1-2堂課. 3個月有效幫助同學前進國外名校

2019 年 8 月25 日 托福閱讀TOEFL Reading考題回憶

Passage One

學科分類:歷史類

題目:尼羅河洪水

內容回憶:

Nile river 的 consistently 的 flood 對於農業及其他各方面的發展的作用。

Passage Two

學科分類:天文類 題目:the dawn of life

內容回憶: 火星生命起源的猜想。

2019 年 8 月 24 日托福閱讀TOEFL Reading考題回憶

Passage One

學科分類:歷史類

題目:尼羅河洪水

內容回憶:

Nile river 的 consistently 的 flood 對於農業及其他各方面的發展的作用。

Passage Two

學科分類:天文類 題目:the dawn of life

內容回憶: 火星生命起源的猜想。

2019年8月10日 托福閱讀 TOEFL Reading考題回憶

無加試，每篇 2 道詞彙題，1 道推理題，都有否定事實信息題，其中有一篇考 了 2 道目的題。

三篇文章一共考了 2 道事實信息題，2 道句子簡化題           

Passage One Farming in New England         

內容回憶:

第一段講 New England 的農民比 Europe 的更加富有自由, 但是也有 deprivation 因為土地不斷細分。有舉例數據。 第二段講這樣的危機讓人們從 New England 流失，為瞭解決這個問題，提出 了三個方案;其中一個是從政府那裡得到幫助。政府沒有經濟上的幫助，但是 grants to the land of frontier.

所以他們很多人就去其他地方建立 free holding properties 第三段講他們少生孩子多互助來解決這些問題。比如借牛羊給鄰居，artisans 幫忙修東西比如 furniture(不是教他們怎麼製作，此處否定題答案) 第四段講他們 mixed-crop economy, 種植更多樣的農作物比如 corns, potatoes(產量更高，解決 small farms 帶來的問題，此處有題)     

詞彙題:

1. innovative =creative    

2019.08.10 托福閱讀真題
最新閱讀考到這篇：The Origin of Flight

鳥類起源！這篇已經連續三年都有考！

The first flying vertebrates were true reptiles in which one of the fingers of the front limbs became very elongated, providing support for a flap of stretched skin that served as a wing. These were the pterosaurs, literally the "winged lizards." The earliest pterosaurs arose near the end of the Triassic period of the Mesozoic Era, some 70 million years before the first known fossils of true birds occur, and they presumably dominated the skies until they were eventually displaced by birds. Like the dinosaurs, some the pterosaurs became gigantic; the largest fossil discovered is of an individual that had a wingspan of 50 feet or more, larger than many airplanes. These flying reptiles had large, tooth-filled jaws, but their bodies were small and probably without the necessary powerful muscles for sustained wing movement. They must have been expert gliders,not skillful fliers, relying on wind power for their locomotion.

Birds, despite sharing common reptilian ancestors with pterosaurs, evolved quite separately and have been much more successful in their dominance of the air. They are an example of a common theme in evolution, the more or less parallel development of different types of body structure and function for the same reason — in this case, for flight. Although the fossil record, as always, is not complete enough to determine definitively the evolutionary lineage of the birds or in as much detail as one would like, it is better in this case than for many other animal groups. That is because of the unusual preservation in a limestone quarry in southern Germany of Archaeopteryx, a fossil that many have called the link between dinosaurs and birds. Indeed, had it not been for the superb preservation of these fossils, they might well have been classified as dinosaurs. They have the skull and teeth of a reptile as well as a bony tail, but in the line-grained limestone in which these fossils occur there are delicate impressions of feathers and fine details of bone structure that make it clear that Archaeopteryx was a bird. All birds living today, from the great condors of theAndes to the tiniest wrens, trace their origin back to the Mesozoic dinosaurs.

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题目：

1. What does the passage mainly discuss?

(A) Characteristics of pterosaur wings

(B) The discovery of fossil remains of Archaeopteryx