托福考试必背单词汇总（这7个单词在托福模考题中出现了）
托福考试必背单词汇总（这7个单词在托福模考题中出现了）A weak electric system may have several uses including the exploration of novel environments.【托福真题里的例子】下面我们就来检测一下，这些单词你真的会了吗？【大家熟知的意思】n. 小说
我们做托福阅读的时候，大脑对已经认识的词汇，会一扫而过。吸引我们注意力的，往往是长难词。
没有人能做到，一篇文章里所有词汇都认识。这是一种理想的状态，不存在的。
你和大神之间，差的其实是这些基础词汇。
所以你应该把注意力，放回“简单”的单词上。
下面我们就来检测一下，这些单词你真的会了吗？
novel
【大家熟知的意思】
n. 小说
【托福真题里的例子】
A weak electric system may have several uses including the exploration of novel environments.
一套弱电系统会有数种用途，包括探索新环境。
In most established industries however technological change played little role as in the past new customers were sought by developing novel products based on existing technologies such as a new type of woolen cloth with the texture of silk.
【大家熟知的意思】
主题，课程，臣民，主语，艺术作品的描绘对象
【托福真题里的例子】
Because the Moon has no atmosphere its surface is not subject to erosion so it retains the marks of its early history.
因为月球没有大气层，所以其表面不受到侵蚀的影响，于是月球保持着其早期历史的痕迹。
So we must imagine the early Earth as a mixture of rocky materials metals and trapped gases subject to constant bombardment by smaller planetesimals and without much of an atmosphere.
所以我们必须把早起地球想象成一个岩石材质、金属，和被限制的气体所组成的一个混合物，终日受到小行星体狂轰滥炸，并且没有大气层。
Which of the following is NOT identified in paragraph 3 as a factor contributing to the greater stability and success of the Eastern empire?
下面哪一个没有在第三段被辨识出作为一个对东罗马帝国更大的稳定和成功做出贡献的因素？
A. A shorter border subject to invasion by Germanic tribes一条更短的、受日耳曼部落入侵影响的边境
B. Greater cultural unity among the inhabitants居民中更大的文化统一性
C. More resources available for achieving political goals更多可以用来达到政治目标的资源
D. Lower population densities outside of urban areas城市区域之外更低的人口密度
Volcanic eruptions retreating glaciers and bare sand dunes are examples of sites subject to primary succession while clear-cutting of forests wild fires and hurricanes are examples of sites subject to secondary succession.
火山爆发、退却的冰川和裸露的沙丘都是受主要演替影响的地点的例子，而森林清除、野火和飓风却是受到次要演替影响的地点的例子。
Indeed stability of the biological clock’s period is one of its major features even when the organism’s environment is subjected to considerable changes in factors such as temperature that would be expected to affect biological activity strongly.
事实上，生物中周期的稳定性是其主要特征之一，即使当生物所处的环境遭受到了诸如温度之类可被预期会强烈影响生物活动的因素的巨大变化。
If so the green algae would have been subjected to environmental pressures that resulted in adaptations that enhanced their potential to give rise to land-dwelling organisms.
假设如此，那么绿藻就有可能承受环境压力，这种压力导致了改善其达到陆生生物潜能的适应。
The phrase “subjected to” in the passage is closest in meaning to
A) restricted by
B) distant from
C) exposed to
D) combined with
Seagrass beds also decline if they are subjected to too much exposure to the air.
海草基床也会衰退，如果它们承受了太多在空气中的暴露。
【记】
be subject to： 受……影响，取决于……
be subjected to： 遭受……，承受……，臣服于……
celebrate
【大家熟知的意思】
庆祝
【托福真题里的例子】
Usually comprised of a few trees a spring or a mountain crag sacred groves became intensely mystical places by their associations with gods spirits or celebrated folk heroes.
通常由一些树、一眼喷泉，或者一个峭壁，所组成，神圣的小树林，通过它们与诸神、精灵或者著名的民间英雄，变成愈发神秘的地方。
The Maori people of New Zealand celebrated a tree that separated the sky from the earth.
新西兰的毛利人赞美一棵把天与地分离的树
In a celebrated example 1935s Waiting for Lefty was staged as if the audience were a group of union members; by the play's end the audience was yelling Strike! Strike! in response to the play's issues.
在一个著名的案例中，1935年的Waiting for Lefty被推出，似乎全体观众是工会成员。即将到到这部戏末尾的时候，观众狂呼“罢工！罢工！”，作为对于这部戏剧问题的回应。
【记】
celebrate v. 赞美(to praise to say that something is great or important)
celebrated adj. 著名的
stuff
【大家熟知的意思】
东西
【托福真题里的例子】
Parent birds teach their young to beg by stuffing food in their open mouths.
成年鸟通过把食物塞进嘴中来教会小鸟如何乞食。
【记】
vt. 塞入
boast
【大家熟知的意思】
v. 夸口，自吹自擂(~ about)
【托福真题里的例子】
Mesopotamia’s rivers boasted no such useful reeds but its land did provide good clay and as a consequence the clay tablet became the standard material.
美索不达米亚的河流却并不傲然拥有如此有用的芦苇，但是这片土地着实提供了上好的黏土，因此黏土板成为了标准的材料。
To cite just one example France hastened to develop its own iron industry when the Hapsburgs—the family that governed much of Europe and whom France fought repeatedly in the sixteenth century—came to dominate the manufacture of weapons in Germany and the cities of Liege and Milan which boasted Europe’s most advanced technology.
我们就来引用一个例子吧：法国加速发展自己的钢铁工业，当哈布斯堡—统治欧洲大部分地区的家族，以及与法国在16世纪反复发生战争的家族—开始控制德国和烈日与米兰城市的武器的制造，那些城市傲然拥有欧洲最先进的技术。
Another consequence of evolution was that many small environments boasted their own endemic (native) species often small in number unused to serious predation limited in range and therefore vulnerable to disruption.
进化的另一个结果是，很多小环境傲然拥有了其自己的原生物种，这些物种通常数量稀少、不适应严重的捕猎、活动范围有限，并且因此易受毁坏。
【记】
拥有……（某种很厉害的东西），拥有……（某种让人骄傲的东西）
to have (something that is impressive)
negotiate
【大家熟知的意思】
v. 谈判
【托福真题里的例子】
Trade was the mainstay of the urban economy in the Middle East as caravans negotiated the surrounding desert restricted only by access to water and by mountain ranges.
贸易是中东城市经济的中流砥柱，随着商队穿越周围的沙漠，它只受到可用水和山脉的限制。
【记】
v. 越过(to get over through or around something successfully)
characteristic
【大家熟知的意思】
n. 特点，特征（常常以复数形式出现）
【托福真题里的例子】
Such behavior is not characteristic of a good neighbor.
这种行为不是好邻居典型的行为（意即“好邻居不这么做”）
Stencils of right-handed figures are characteristic of cave art in France Spain and Tasmania.
右手形象的漏字板对于法国、西班牙和塔斯马尼亚岛的洞穴艺术而言是典型性的。
Paragraph 2 implies that which of the following conditions produces the fast moving glaciers?
A) A climate characteristic of the polar regions一种对于极地区域很典型的气候
B) A thick layer of ice in a temperate climate
C) Long warm summers
D) Snow firm and ice that have been buried for several years
Population cycles are characteristic of some species of small mammals and they sometimes appear to be brought about by predators.
人口周期对于一些小型哺乳动物是很典型的，它们有时候似乎由掠食生物来实现。
【记】
adj. 典型的，典范的(be ~ of)
好，今天你花了 5 分钟，彻底学会了 5 个托福单词。可不要小看这 5 个单词，它让你离托福 120 又近了一步。
关注史蒂文老师，获取更多有深度的学习方法和考试技巧。
