IBT 托福閱讀 B版 week 6投影片

IBT 托福閱讀 B版 week 6
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Next week
 bring your text book and official guide
 p. 101: Nineteenth-Century Politics in the United States
 p. 111: The Expression of Emotions
Insert Q.
 the logic of the passage
 time sequence
 grammatical connections (eg. pronoun, this….)
 signal words

■出國前我是新聞記者，出國後我轉行攻讀MBA。當所有台灣同學大學唸的都是財金本科系，絲毫沒有經濟統計會計基礎的我，光是看精裝原文課本的書皮就眼冒金星。這還是其次，反正幾個專業科目拼命咬牙苦讀就過了，頂多是分數比別人難看些。
■最恐怖的是MBA是個強迫社交的科系。找暑期實習時眾多的企業說明會和社交活動，都強調要努力networking，和老美雇主打成一片，搶機會發言還不能用錯文法表錯情，以免被選人才講究語言溝通能力的企業代表從面試名單中刷掉。當同學圍成一圈開始「妳是西北畢業的？那妳一定認識經濟系的娜塔麗‧
強森？」 ■ 「啊真巧，我以前也在紐約萊雅的行銷部工作」，天南地北攀親帶故，我好比歐巴桑誤闖「我愛黑澀會」錄影現場，明明每一個字都都懂，就是搭不上腔。整晚假笑到臉僵，猛啜香檳想著下一個問題要問什麼才顯得聰明又風趣。
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from: http://blog.pixnet.net/cwyuni

The potential magnitude of even such a modest temperature change can
be understood when one considers that the overall world temperature
during the last ice age was only four degrees cooler than it is now.

 Celsius
 Fahrenheit

Moreover, the brains of dolphins continue to grow in size much later
in life than do human brains, suggesting they grow smarter as they get
older.

 surpass
 surge
 surmise
 surplus

But brain size cannot be the only indicator of intelligence. Studies
of parrots, whose brains are the size of walnuts, have shown them to
be remarkably intelligent animals capable of understanding and
communicating abstract ideas, and lions, whose brain-body mass ratio
is higher than that of the common crow, are nonetheless incapable of
the former's impressive problem solving ability.

Although the quartz clock, invented in 1927, came very close, the most
reliable source was not found until 30 years later.

 200 yrs ago: mechanical clock
 pendulum clock

 disparity
 difference

This discovery as well as the inherent imperfections of pendulum
clocks instigated a search for the perfect timepiece—one that was free
from interference, be it gravitational, frictional, or otherwise.

 200 yrs ago: mechanical clock
 pendulum clock
 1957, atomic clock

 oscillate
 fluctuate
 see-saw (v.)

The introduction of atomic clocks, which display an error of only plus
or minus one second in a million years, made possible incredibly
accurate time measurements, and forever divorced time from the
rotation of the earth.

 by-product
 spin-off
 side-effect

 proponent
 advocate

Farmers in the area received it with great welcome, and the idea
gained popularity across the nation.
provided
 provided that
 providing
 as long as
Given….
 Given + N.
 given that + 子句
 considering + N.

Even the earth's natural defense, its magnetic field, is far too weak
to resist energy blasts of such magnitude.
growth rate decline
 a drop in the death rate
 birthrate fluctuate

This ebb in the tide of births was undoubtedly due to the financial
and social crises caused by the worldwide economic depression (the
Great Depression).
growth rate decline
 a drop in the death rate
 birthrate fluctuate
 financial & social crises
 worldwide economic depression

Note, however, that it was the rate of growth that declined over this
50-year period, and not the actual population itself, which has never
ceased to climb.

Greenland
 prehistory: home to Paleo-Eskimo cultures
 800-1300AD: climate change

 500yrs later, Scan. vanished because…..
 1721: Denmark-Norway
 1931: Norway East Greenland
 Until 1940: protected & isolated

 after 1946

………, and when the Norwegian kings converted their domains to
Christianity, a bishop was installed in Greenland as well, subordinate
to the archdiocese of Nidaros.

It has been suggested that cultural practices, such as spurning fish
as a source of food and reliance solely on livestock ill-adapted to
Greenland's climate caused recurring famines, which along with
environmental degradation resulted in the abandonment of the Greenland
Norse colony.

 sovereignty
 domination
 supremacy

 comprehensive
 encyclopedic
 exhaustive
 inclusive

However, Greenland was not content being isolated.
Greenland
 prehistory: home to Paleo-Eskimo cultures
 800-1300AD: climate change

 500yrs later, Scan. vanished because…..
 1721: Denmark-Norway
 1931: Norway East Greenland
 Until 1940: protected & isolated

 after 1946

 propagate
 reproduce
 breed
 multiply
 propagate
 spread
 circulate
 disseminate
 promote
 promulgate
Japan
 great because learn from others
 from China/Han & Tang
3. education
4. Buddhism
5. Confucianism
6. Chinese civilization
7. Not welcome totally
8. today: good in every area

When it was preached and spread throughout the nation, the native
Japanese traditions were forced to define themselves as an alternative
to the Chinese influence.

 permeate
 pervade
 infiltrate
 penetrate
 saturate

It is true that Chinese influence is discernible in a lot of Japanese
culture, but they were themselves evolving and had developed into a
very different Japanese system and culture.

This fondness for the Chinese culture spanned into many aspects of the
Japanese culture.
Japan
 great because learn from others
 from China/Han & Tang
3. education
4. Buddhism
5. Confucianism
6. Chinese civilization
7. Not welcome totally
8. today: good in every area
Next week
 bring your text book and official guide
 p. 101: Nineteenth-Century Politics in the United States
 p. 111: The Expression of Emotions