jiba托福雅思Sentence Understanding

2021年1月14日发(作者：谷佑箴)
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1. Then the climate gradually became warmer and the water trapped in glaciers and ice caps was
released.
2. Frequent use of eye drops designed to reduce redness is not advised.
3. Last spring a Colorado health department survey of 72 playgrounds in private child-care centers
found that 95 percent had unsafe conditions ranging from splinters to equipment near collapse.
4. The biggest unknown for the individual in a knowledge-based economy of this information age is
how to have a career in a system where there are no permanent careers.
5. We call differences among living things of the same kind variation.
6. In one experiment, two groups of goldfish were released into a large aquarium separated by a
transparent panel. (制胜新托福阅读P53)
7. A public reared on science- fiction movies and excited by the growing power of computers had
high expectations. (剑5 P71)
8. The Anasazi build two- and three-story dwellings made of sandstone blocks held together with
mortar made of mud.
9. Declan Mayes, President of the Music Buyers Association, is furious at a recent announcement by
the recording industry regarding people downloading MP3 music files from the Internet as actual
criminals.
10. Efforts to meld Europe’s patchwork of financial services into an efficient and unified whole keep
running into protectionist roadblock thrown up by Germany, France, Spain and other countries.
11. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way
aboard.
12. Children who are unable to shed tears because of an inherited disease called familial
dysautonomia suffer severe reactions to even mild stress.
13. How the discovery was made by our ancestors that seeds could be saved and planted to raise a
new crop can only be guessed at today.
14. As already mentioned, the efficiency with which protein is used to build the body diminishes as
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the percentage of protein in the diet increases.
15. There is no way in which, if the society of which we are a part begins to go to pieces, we can help
going to pieces ourselves.
16. A monkey set the problem of reaching a banana, say, hung high up in its cage can work out a
system for getting it even if it involves piling up boxes to stand on and then knocking down the
banana with a stick.
17. He quoted “reason over passion” as maxim in reconciling the long-standing division between
Canada’s English-speaking majority and the French-descended minority concentrated in his home
province of Quebec.
18. Another factor contributing to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was
that the concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are
committed.
19. There is a choice between a Big Brother world where individual privacy is almost extinct and a
world where the data are kept by individual organizations or services and kept secret and secure.
20. After the 1969 moon landing, the space program focused most of its efforts on the shuttle program,
whose purpose was both to add to the growing application of satellites in space to commercial
purposes and to satisfy the military’s need for development of space vehicles and operations.
21. This conclusion, reached by Dr S. I. Rasool and Dr S. H. Schneider, of the United States Goddard
space flight centre, answers the apparently conflicting questions of whether an increase in the
carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere will cause the Earth to warm up or increasing the
aerosol content will cause it to cool down.
22. By building your houses underground, the vast amount of energy now expended in warming our
surface surroundings when they are too cold, and cooling them when they are too warm could be
saved.
23. Lacking information about energy use, people tend to overestimate the amount of energy used by
equipment, such as lights, which are visible and must be turned on and off and underestimate that
used by unobtrusive equipment, such as water heater.
24. Scientists have suggested that once every 10 million years or so a truly colossal object from space
cuts through the atmosphere and slams into Earth, sending up a global pall of dust that blots out
the sun, alters the climate, and changes the course of evolution by killing off many plant and
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animal species.
25. Pupils’ responses indicate some misconceptions in basic scientific knowledge of rainforests’
ecosystems such as their ideas about rainforests as habitats for animals, plants and humans and the
relationship between climatic change and destruction of rainforests. (para 10, passage 1, test 1, 剑
4)
26. According to a panel of health officials, there has been a great deal of confusion in the medical
profession about whether obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or a condition
more related to appearance than to health.
27. He denies that his father’s dismissal from his job and his own expulsion from the Gymnasium (欧
洲大学预科) where he was a student, followed by forced entry into an all-Jewish school, have had
the profound effect on his outlook on the world.
28. In the information technology industry it is widely acknowledged that how well IT departments of
the future can fulfill their business goals will depend not on the regular updating of technology,
which is essential for them to do, but on how well they can hold on to the people skilled at
manipulating the newest technology.
29. What is the source of quality that one finds, let us say, in a Pomo Indian basket so tightly woven
that it was used to hold boiling water and never leaked a drop, or in an Eskimo skin boat with its
matchless combination of lightness, strength, and seaworthiness?
30. Nothing could be more dramatic than the difference between the new breed of little girls who
cheerfully turn in their Barbies for the new improved model and those who, like their mothers and
grandmothers before them, clutch lingeringly and lovingly to the same doll until it disintegrates
from sheer age.
31. Even if the professor holds no consultancy with any firm, some people many still distrust him
because of his association with those who do, or at least wonder about the source of some his
research funding.
32. Given the recent change of control in Congress, the popularity of measures like increasing the
minimum wage, and efforts by California’s governor to offer universal health care, these guys
don’t need their own personal weathermen to know which way the wind blows.
33. Humans Carry More Bacterial Cells than Human Ones (You are more bacteria than you are you,
according to the latest body census)
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34. After all, any living creature lives by feeding on something else, whether it be plant or animal,
dead or alive.
35. Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
36. It's hardly news that the immigration system is a mess.
37. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we
read ours.
38. Watching TV is a deeper-rooted problem, sure. But it would help them all to get rid of the set.
39. It is surely too much to hope that these increases in the cost of public education can be borne by the
local communities.
40. The paper of this page looks white because it sends back to our eyes all the colors in the light that
reach it.
41. A small area may balance a large area if it has an importance to the eye (because of bright color, for
example) which equals that of the larger area.
42. Mount Rainier has a permanent ice cap and extensive snow fields that give rise to over forty
glaciers. These feed swift streams and tumbling water covered with forests. There are alpine
meadows between the glaciers and the forests that contain beautiful wild flowers.
43. Anything else that is causing your mind to give attention to it is drawing from your ability to
concentrate and thus makes comprehending what you read a struggle.
44. Psychotherapists have occasionally described patients under stress who develop skin disorders that
disappear when they are finally able to cry it out.
45. Geologists consider the earth as having a molten core, surrounded by a semi-molten mantle and a
brittle, outer skin. It helps to think of a soft-boiled egg with a runny yolk, a firm but squishy white
and a hard shell.
46. Hollywood quickly recognized film as an entertainment medium with a unique ability to put
people onto seats and money in the pockets of producers, distributors and cinema managers and,
mostly, left it to others to develop its potential as an art form.
47. Even in recent times, the not uncommon lack of truly factual historical data makes it difficult to
reconstruct an accurate picture of what actually did happen in history.
48. It has been hypothesized that the emission of light on disturbance is advantageous to the plankton
in making the predators of the plankton conspicuous to their predators!
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49. Streamlined swimmers and bloodhounds of the sea,
sharks are equipped with an extraordinary sense of
smell.

50. An excellent, all-around student with a congenial
personality, she is a promising candidate for WOW,
an international scholarship program for outstanding
women around the world.

51. Often visible as smog, ozone is formed in the
atmosphere when hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides,
two major pollutants emitted by automobiles, react
with sunlight.

52. At some point in the celebrations, the bride goes
off to change into everyday clothes and then leaves
the party with her husband to go on their honeymoon,
the journey they will make together, often in romantic
surroundings abroad.

53.
Long a student favorite and the seventh
most-trafficked Internet site, has found
a new following—those who wear blue.

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54. And he it was who dared to condemn us, the only group around nowadays who’ve got anything
original to exhibit to the public, or at least to those members of the public who’ve got the taste and
intelligence to make the effort to understand us.
55. Currently, the major problem in the field of biomaterials, the science of replacing diseased tissue
with human-made implants, is control over the interface, or surface, between implanted
biomaterials and living tissues. Our fundamental understanding of how implant devices adhere to
tissues remains incomplete.
56. Those who live solely through reason are less likely to realize their full potential than are those
who maintain a balance between the life reason and the life of passion.
57. He who has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he for whom you
yourself have done a favor.
58. A study that tested that children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years found that those with a
blood-lead level of 10 meg per deciliter had, on average, a 7.4-points-lower IQ than children 1
meg per deciliter.
59. In reality, an African- American youngster has about as much chance of becoming a professional
athlete as he or she does of winning the lottery.
60. Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross
national product on defending its coasts from rising
seas than the United States does on military defense.

61. A study commissioned by the Department of
Agriculture showed that if calves exercise and
associate with other calves, they require less
medication and gain weight more quickly than do
those raised in confinement.

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62. A research group from Washington University
reported that the smell of mint or orange sprayed in a
store resulted in customers rating the store as more
modern and more pleasant for shopping than other
stores without the smell.

63. Similarly, the US Nurses’ Health Study, which
tracked 68,000 women for 16 years, found that those
who slept an average of 5 hours a night gained more
weight during the study period than women who slept
6 hours, who in turn gained more than those who
slept 7.

64. Many magazines and TV shows love nothing more
than suggesting that we can’t make it through the day
without practically dying from stress.

65. But the New York Times (NYT), as comprehensive
as its news coverage sometimes is, is hardly in a
position to offer the real story on its current woes,
anymore than a psychoanalyst is able to objectively
analyze him or herself.
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66. The primary danger of the television screen lies not
so much in the behavior it produces as in the
behavior it prevents.

67. Drinking Coca-Cola does not make Russians think
like Americans any more than eating sushi makes
Americans think like Japanese.

68. What's bad for the NYT is not necessarily bad for
journalism any more than what is good for the NYT
is necessarily good for journalism.

69. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every
disaster is our fault.
70. From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the
notion of profit over community interests, Etzioni has seen a lot that’s left him shaking his head.
71. The movement of iron ore from one place where it has little use in supplying human wants to
another place where it can supply these wants by ultimately being shaped into automobiles and
applicants is termed place utility. One function of transportation is to create place utility.
72. The average wage-earner, who leads a colorless existence, devotes a small percentage of his
earnings to keeping alive with extraordinary constancy the dream of achieving some magic change
in his life.
73. Viruses are normally fought with vaccination—giving the human system a weak dose of the virus
sufficient to set in motion the immune system that normally protects the body against specific
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