[原创]2005年08月toefl原始机经总结

8月1号

8.1USA jijing                           by bandit

郁闷,刚刚写的都没有.只好再来一次.
听力: 听的时候感觉好多没有听懂,还好分数是26.
1\关于生态平衡保护, 不能乱开发土地,保护鸟类的家园.
2\杰克.伦敦的生平事迹.家里穷开始没有受过多少教育,当过工人和船员.后来慢慢地走上文学道路.
一个长段子关于国民生产总值(GDP),包括两部分消费收入和生产收入,不包括政府的再分配.
其他的记得不是很清楚了.
感觉语法比PP难,错了一个.
阅读
1\古代大象和现代大象的共同特点:母象在群体中占领导地位,公象一般到7岁(好象是这个)就要离开象群独自生活.公象容易冒险.
2\埃及和罗马对公历发明的贡献.埃及开始将一年分成12个月每个月都是30, 外加5天. 后来罗马人改进,将每月分成30天和31天,2月份为28天,每四年有一次是29天.
和现在一样,不过还是不够完美.
3\早期无声动画片的出现,众多人设计各种方式弥补其不足的地方.
4\美国西南部土著人建筑传统,后来西班牙殖民者受其风格影响.
单词
roam=wander
burgeon=expand
repine=improve
in terms of = be relation of
作文
学生在校其间要不要每天参加体育锻炼,还是把全部时间放在学习上.

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8.1. Toefl JJ, Montreal,Canada                 by mianzhu

Listening Passages:

1.        Psychology – Traditional psychology (two psychologists) focused on more the negative sides of human beings behavior, and they analyzed the failures of human beings…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

http://web.utk.edu/~gwynne/maslow.HTM

2.        Symbol of American Nation----Bald Eagle

Bald eagle stands for authority, and is native to America…The following links may give you some background information, but it is not exactly the same as what was in the listening.

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20020107.html

3.        Chemical pesticides use in protecting crops from pests.  There are short comings…1)   the pesticide   kills the pest’s predators too, and 2) eventually pests can survive from the pesticide, thus then there is no predators to kill them….. The integration of biological methods are better than that uses chemical pesticide, for example, but this method may take  time to become effective, where farmers may feel reluctant  to apply………..it gave one example ….the introduction of one bee (?)…can not recall fully.

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Reading :

a.      The three steps of make pottery (red and black) in ancient Greece.       Backgound information is as follows. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm

b.      How print arts are made and what make Prints Arts valuable a) no of total issues 2) reputation  of artists  3) quality of the print.

c.      Irrigation developed before urbanization in Eygpt and another area …it gave the comparison why Egypt needed less efforts in bring Nile water for irrigation, and why the other area needed it badly ( some area didn’t have enough rain….)

d.      The automobile industry’s impact on economy, Henry Ford (mass assembly line and reduction of workers’ working hours to minimize costs) , another company under Dr. Sloan’s help, changed car models yearly to meet different needs, and established the first credit organization for issuing car loans. Finally it summarized the impact on the other industry, and on booming of suburb housing.

Essay

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1. Children live in a big city better than in a countyside?

      Good luck.

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by anner

今天犯了低级错误，分数好低，语法才考了26分，紧张到看错只剩1题，结果最后一题没有答。上次还考了29，练习pp也是29，怎么越考越差啦

阅读：selective attention

words：

strict=??? 记不住，但是估计我错了，constantly＝always，

initially＝ originally， though＝however， unintentional= occasional??

只记住作文。building a new high school in our community.是在不好意思。