老托福阅读真题PASSAGE 67-智课教育旗下智课教育.pdf

智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料老托福阅读真题PASSAGE 67-智课教育旗下智课教育本文和大家分享的是老托福阅读真题PASSAGE 67，练习真题是最重要也最有效的复习方法，大家在复习托福阅读考试的时候一定要对真题重视起来。托福阅读 的思维方式就是托福阅读的出题方式，只有掌握了这种思维方式，才有可能在做题之前，预测到新托福阅读题的出题形式和特点，为找答案节省时间。老托福阅读试题的核心价值，在于其最贴近真题的阅读思维方式。此外老托福阅读真题比新托福IBT阅读文章要短，比较容易适应。这也是大家在备考托福的时候非常重要的一点。因为前期的入手如果能从容易的开始，就会形成一个循序渐进的过程方式，让大家的练习有一个提高的过程。既然老托福阅读试题有这样的效果，那我们如何利用那有限的真题来达到锻炼自己的目的呢?事实上这就一个办法，就是坚持。本期为大家推荐老托福阅读的真题PASSAGE67，附有原文及答案，希望对托福考生备考有所帮助。Geographers say that what defines a place are fourproperties:soil,climate,altitude,and aspect,or attitude to theSun.Floridas ancient scrub demonstrates this principle.Its soil ispure silica,so barren it supports only lichens as ground cover.Itdoes,however,sustain a sand-swimming lizard that cannot livewhere there is moisture or plant matter the soil.Its climate,despite more than 50 inches of annual rainfall,is blisteringdesert.The only plant life it can sustain is the xerophytic,thequintessentially dry.Its altitude is a mere couple of hundred feet,but it is high ground on a peninsula elsewhere close to sea level,and its drainage is so critical that a difference of inches inelevation can bring major changes in its plant communities.Itsaspect is flat direct,brutal and subtropical.Floridas surrounding lushness cannot impinge on its desertscrubbiness.This does not sound like an attractive place.It doesnot look much like one either:shrubby little oaks,clumps ofscraggly bushes prickly pear,thorns,and tangles.It appears,Saidone early naturalist,to desire to display the result of the miserythrough which it has passed and is passing.By our narrowstandards,scrub is not beautiful;neither does it meet our selfishutilitarian needs.Even the name is an epithet,a synonym for thestunted,the scruffy,the insignificant,what is beautiful aboutsuch a place?The most important remaining patches of scrub lie along theLake Wales Ridge,a chain of paleoislands running for a hundredmiles down the center of Florida,in most places less than tenmiles wide.It is relict seashore,tossed up millions of years agowhen ocean levels were higher and the rest of the peninsula wassubmerged.That ancient emergence is precisely what makesLake Wales Ridge so precious:it has remained unsubmerged,itsecosystems essentially undisturbed since the Miocene era.As aresult,it has gathered to itself one of the largest collections ofrare organisms in the world.Only about 75 plant species survivethere,but at least 30 of these are found nowhere else on Earth.1.What does the passage mainly discuss?(A)How geographers define a place(B)The characteristics of Floridas ancient scrub(C)An early naturalists opinion of Florida(D)The history of the Lake Wales Ridge2.The author mentions all of the following factors thatdefine a place EXCEPT(A)aspect(B)altitude(C)soil(D)life-forms3.It can be inferred from the passage that soil composed ofsilica(A)does not hold moisture(B)is found only in Florida(C)nourishes many kinds of ground cover(D)provides food for many kinds of lizards4.The word sustain in line 6 is closets in meaning to(A)select(B)strain(C)support(D)store5.The author mentions the prickly pear(line 12)as anexample of(A)valuable fruit-bearing plants of the scrub area(B)unattractive plant life of the scrub area(C)a pant discovered by an early naturalist(D)plant life that is extremely rare6.The author suggests that human standards of beauty are(A)tolerant(B)idealistic(C)defensible(D)limited7.The word insignificant in line 16 is closest in meaning to(A)unimportant(B)undisturbed(C)immature(D)inappropriate8.According to the passage,why is the Lake Wales Ridgevaluable?(A)It was originally submerged in the ocean.(B)It is less than ten miles wide.(C)It is located near the seashore.(D)It has ecosystems that have long remained unchanged9.The word it in line 21 refer to(A)Florida(B)the peninsula(C)the Lake Wales Ridge(D)the Miocene era10.The passage probably continues with a discussion of(A)ancient scrub found in other areas of the country(B)geographers who study Floridas scrub(C)the climate of the Lake Wales Ridge(D)the unique plants found on the Lake Wales Ridge参考答案：BDACB DADCD以上就是智课教育为大家整理的老托福阅读真题，考生可进行参考训练以提高自己的考试水平。若您想了解托福考试更多相关信息请关注智课教育。