iBT閱讀B版第五週投影片

TOEFL IBT Reading Longman week 5
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Simplification Q.
 choose the essential meaning
 never more than one Q.

Few people, however, regardless of their feelings towards snails, know a great deal about them.


 repellent
 disgusting
 revolting
 repulsive

locomotion

lay
lie
laid
lain
lied


 lie  lied  lied / lying
lay down片語
 lay o. down
 正式公開聲明或宣布
 放下武力

 He finished his breakfast and laid the newspaper down on his table.
 The companies Act lays down a set of minimum requirements.
 The robbers have offered to lay down their arms.

herbivore
vegetarian

 bore
 drill
 burrow
 gouge out
 penetrate
 pierce

Their spiral shell is mainly used as protection against predators although inland snails in arid climates it also protects against desiccation.
apt = fit
 adapt
 adaptation
 adaptive
 aptitude
 apt
 adept
 ineptitude
 inept


vestigial
vestige
investigate
investigate


For many, however, the snail is a garden menace yet the snail’s important role in the food chain suggests that gardeners should think twice before attempting to rid their gardens of them.


The Statue of Liberty
1. introduction
2. Frenchman built it
3. Americans built pedestal
4. Dedicated to Museum of Immigration
volv, volu, volt, vol = roll
 revolution
 revolt
 revolting
 evolve
 evolution
 evolutionary

 involve
 involvement
 convolution



 convoluted
 volume
 voluminous
 voluble

bear  bore  borne
 support
 shoulder
 sustain
 uphold



centennial
vert, vers = turn
 controversy
 controversial
 vertebrate
 invertebrate
 adversary
 adverse
 avert
 aversion
 anniversary
 convert
 divert
 diversion


 diverse
 extrovert
 extrovert
 pervert
 perverse

tornadoes
1. most violent
2. Each is unique and big
3. Thunderstorms
4. When to have tornadoes

The United Kingdom experiences an average of 32 tornadoes each year which is the highest frequency of reported tornadoes per unit area in the world but the deadliest and most violent tornadoes occur in the United States.

They form where warm, moist air and cold, dry meet and create upward currents of air that develop into massive rotating cumulonimbus clouds.




ingenuity
genius
originality
sharpness
shrewdness
a controversy over American landing on the moon
1. Armstrong: land on the moon
2. US & Russia compete
3. Apollo program
4. Fake  still photo
5. Fake  adjust cameras
6. Other evidence backing American landing on the moon
7. Might be solved

hoax
trick
trap
deception
put-up job
scam
fraud

This meant that America was actually lagging behind Russia who took the lead in the so called “space race.”

embody
exemplify
manifest
represent
stand for
symbolize
incarnate

 outdo
 outclass
 outmaneuver
 surpass
 beat
 transcend
 eclipse



 falsify
 forge
 counterfeit
 fake

To back up their argument they say that evidence suggests that instead of traveling to the Moon’s surface, astronauts stayed within the Earth’s magnetic field.
gen = 生命
 genuine
 ingenuity
 gene
 genetic
 gender
 genitals
 congenital
 general
 generic
 generate
 generation
 generative

 degenerate
 degeneracy
 degeneration
 degenerative
 progenitor

 beyond doubt
 beyond reasonable doubt
 beyond a shadow of (a) doubt
 without a shadow of (a) doubt

 conclusive
 decisive
 convincing
 definite
 ultimate



eating disorder
1. Male eating disorders are ignored
2. Male: ignored
3. Why: beauty is more related to female
4. Western more common, increase
5. 15% below average
6. wrongly believe them to be fat