2011年06-12月托福机经合集(21)

【924】 托福机经回忆帖．

越毒: 词汇题不难. 只要背了 TOEFL21天 就够了. 不过我是翻来覆去背了好多遍

第一篇: 讲的是 Islam 的书籍发展(最后归纳大意题这么说的)

先说造纸术带来的改变: 纸比过去更thin 对艺术家还是谁有帮助.后来提到中国. 总之不太难.

第二篇: 我一开始以为是做到TPO原题. 刚刚一看. 不是一篇. 但内容近乎相同的. 提前看过对理

解有很大的帮助 我给大家直接贴上来吧. 题目是 steam power(大概是这个意思).

Powering the Industrial Revolution

In Britain one of the most dramatic changes of the Industrial Revolution was the

harnessing of power．Until the reign of George Ⅲ(1760-1820)，available sources of

power for work and travel had not increased since the Middle Ages. There were three

sources of power：animal or human muscles；the wind, operating on sail or windmill;

and running water .Only the last of these was suited at all to the continuous

operating of machines, and although waterpower abounded in Lancashire and Scotland and

ran grain mills as well as textile mills, it had one great disadvantage：streams

flowed where nature intended them to and water-driven factories had to be located on

their banks whether or not the location was desirable for other reasons. Furthermore