托福阅读分类词汇

备考托福阅读，自然也离不开阅读词汇的复习。复习托福阅读词汇，建议大家从高频词汇入手，这样我们能够有充足的时间，重点记忆这些词汇。这对我们接下来的文章练习，会有很大的帮助。下面就跟随一起来看看这些词汇内容吧!

state n. 情形, 状态, 国家, 政府, 州 vt.声明, 陈述, 规定

statement n.声明, 陈述

special adj.特别的, 特殊的, 专门的

especially adv.尤其，特别

specialization n.特殊化, 专门化

specialise v.专业化，专门研究

specialised adj. 专门的, 专科的

specialist n. 专家

speciality n.特性, 特质, 专业

specify vt.指定, 详细说明

specific adj.详细而精确的, 明确的

specifically adv.特定的, 明确的

species n.种类

differ vi.不同

difference n.差异, 差别 different adj.不同的

differentiate v.区别, 区分

appropriate adj.适当的

inappropriate adj.不适当的

5 staff n. 全体职员

6 contradict vt.同...矛盾

contradiction n.反驳, 矛盾

contrary adj.相反的, 逆的

contrast vt.使与...对比 n.对比, 对照

claim n.(根据权利提出)要求, 主张 vt.(根据权利)要求, 主张

claimant n.(根据权利)提出要求者

reclaim vt.要求归还，开垦

reclamation n.收回，开垦

similar adj.相似的, 类似的

similarly adv.同样地, 类似于

similarity n.类似, 类似处

assimilation n.同化

evidence n.明显, 显著，证据

evident adj.明显的, 显然的

major n. 主修课 adj.主修的，主要的 vi.主修

majority n.多数, 大半

由于托福阅读备考的词汇量比较大，因此复习备考中，有些词汇也容易被大家忽视。但是这些词汇内容，在考试中的作用却非常重要。因此本篇文章汇总了相关的词汇内容，供大家参考。

1、似曾相识，却不知其确切含义

2、一词多义，只知其一不知其二

3、熟词僻义，熟者过熟僻者极僻

perspective 透视画法;观点，方法;前景，远景

prospect 前景，景色;前途;勘探，寻找

appreciate 理解，认识，意识到;欣赏;感激

elaborate v. &adj. 精心制作，详细描述;精心制作的

address v.从事，忙于;n. 演讲

appropriate v. 拨给(资金)， 盗用/ adj.合适的

strain n. 血统，品系，菌株;紧张，张力;v.扭伤，拉紧

article n. 物品，商品

intrigue v. &n 激发兴趣;密谋;阴谋

intriguing adj. 激发兴趣的

assume v. 承担，担任;假装;假设

bark n. 树皮; 犬吠

bill n.议案，法案; .鸟嘴;账单

champion vt. 支持，拥护;n.冠军

aging n.老化，陈酿

complex n. 综合体 adj.复杂的

concern n. 公司(垄断组织“康采恩”就是它的音译)

attribute v. &n 归因于;特征，属性

default n. &v. 不履行;违约;拖欠;默认(值)

drill vt. 钻(孔);训练，操练

exploit v. 开发，利用n. 功绩

fair n. 集市，交易会;adj.公平的，美丽的 adv.公平地，直接地

fairly adv. 相当地，公平地

game n. 猎物，野味;

fashion vt. 形成，塑造 n.时尚，方式

inviting adj. 引人注目的，吸引人的

alternate v. &adj. 交替，轮流; 交替的

alternating adj.交互的，交替的

alternative n. &adj. 可供选择的方案(option);

选择性的(optional)

figure n. 人物;体形

hit n. 轰动一时的人物或作品vt. 偶然碰见

托福阅读过程中，对于考试常考的文章类型，大家也要多进行练习。为大家整理了自然科学类的文章，供大家更好地参考练习。

Many of the most damaging and life-threatening types of weather-torrential rains, severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes--begin quickly, strike suddenly, and dissipate rapidly, devastating small regions while leaving neighboring areas untouched. One such event, a tornado, struck the northeastern section of Edmonton, Alberta, in July 1987.、 Total damages from the tornado exceeded $250 million, the highest ever for any　Canadian storm. Conventional computer models of the atmosphere have limited value in predicting short-lived local storms like the Edmonton tornado, because the available weather data are generally not detailed enough to allow computers to discern the subtle atmospheric changes that precede these storms. In most nations, for example, weather- balloon observations are taken just once every twelve hours at locations typically　separated by hundreds of miles. With such limited data, conventional forecasting models do a much better job predicting general weather conditions over large regions than they do forecasting specific local events.

Until recently, the observation-intensive approach needed for accurate, very short-range forecasts, or "Nowcasts," was not feasible. The cost of equipping and operating many thousands of conventional weather stations was prohibitively high, and the difficulties involved in rapidly collecting and processing the raw weather data from such a network　were insurmountable. Fortunately, scientific and technological advances have overcome most of these problems. Radar systems, automated weather instruments, and satellites are all capable of making detailed, nearly continuous observation over large regions at a　relatively low cost. Communications satellites can transmit data around the world cheaply and instantaneously, and modern computers can quickly compile and analyzing this large volume of weather information. Meteorologists and computer scientists now work　together to design computer programs and video equipment capable of transforming raw weather data into words, symbols, and vivid graphic displays that forecasters can　interpret easily and quickly. As meteorologists have begun using these new technologies in weather forecasting offices, Nowcasting is becoming a reality.

Investigation of the Deep-Ocean

Keywords: ocean, researchers, techniques, samples, rocks

The ocean bottom ---- a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth ---- is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted, until　about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth's surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space.

Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation's Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry. The DSDP's drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean's surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor.

The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600,000 kilometers and took　almost 20,000 core samples of seabed sediments and rocks at 624 drilling sites around the world. The Glomar Challenger's core samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to calculate what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger's voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes that shape the Earth.

The cores of sediment drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also yielded information critical to understanding the world's past climates. Deep-ocean sediments provide a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years, because they are largely isolated from the mechanical erosion and the intense chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroy much land-based evidence of past climates. This record has already provided insights into the patterns and causes of past climatic change---information that may be used to predict future climates.

托福阅读部分，具体的考试题目内容的回顾，可以作为背景知识，辅助我们更好地备考。因为托福考试中，也有可能重复出题，因此对于旧题的备考，也不容忽视。为大家整理了11月4日的托福阅读题目回忆，一起来看看吧!

托福考试日期：

2018年11月4日

托福考试内容回忆：

The gender roles of Early Horticulture and Agriculture

orticulture和agriculture，男女分工和社会地位。女人主要种植，男人hunting。养cattle之类的产生副产品，女人可以一边纺织一边看小孩。随着plow的流入，男人逐渐开始主导farming，作为对比，有的坚持horticulture的地方还是女人种植。后来农场主渐渐都让儿子继承了，因为年轻的男人可以分担农活。