托福聽力考古題 American President - Zachery Taylor (3)
Man:
I'm glad you brought up the question of our investigations into the makeup of the Earth's interior. In fact --- since this is the topic of your reading assignment for next time --- let me spend these last few minutes of class talking about it. There were several important discoveries in the early part of this century that helped geologists develop a more accurate picture of the Earth's interior.
托福閱讀真題 Early Cinema 解答(3)
11) 1
This is a Vocabulary Question. The word being tested is expanded. It is highlighted in the passage. Choice 1, “was enlarged,” is the correct answer. If something expanded, it grew or got bigger. ”Enlarged” also means “grew or got biggest.”
托福閱讀真題 Early Cinema 解答(1)
6) 4
This is a Factual Information question asking for specific information that can be found in paragraph 4. The correct answer is choice 4. Early movies were different from previous spectacles because they did not require live actors. The paragraph states (emphasis added):
托福閱讀真題 Early Cinema 解答(1)
1) 3
This is a Negative Information question asking for specific information that can be found in paragraph1. Choice 3 is the correct answer. The paragraph does mention that one viewer at a time could view the films (choice 1), that films could be viewed one after another (choice 2), and that films were short (choice 4). Prizefights are mentioned as one subject of these short films, but not necessarily the most popular one.
托福聽力考古題 American President - Zachery Taylor
Woman :
So, uh... as Jim said, James Polk was the eleventh President, and... uh... well, my report's about the next President --- Zachary Taylor.
托福閱讀真題 Early Cinema Task (3)
11) The word expanded in the passage is closest in meaning to
○ Was enlarged
托福閱讀真題 Early Cinema Task (2)
Paragraph 5: Although early exhibitors regularly accompanied movies with live acts, the substance of the movies themselves is mass-produced material that can easily be reproduced by theaters with little or no active participation by exhibitor. Even though early exhibitors shaped their film programs by mixing films and other entertainments together in whichever way they though would be most attractive to audiences or by accompanying them with lectures ” their creative control remained limited. What audiences came to see was the technological marvel of the movies; the lifelike reproduction of the commonplace motion of trains, of waves striking the shore, and of people walking in the street; and the magic made possible by trick photography and the manipulation of the camera.
托福閱讀真題 Early Cinema Task (1)
Paragraph 1: The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial “peepshow” format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater. In the peepshow format, a film was viewed through a small opening in a machine that was created for that purpose. Thomas Edison’s peepshow device, the Kinetoscope, was introduced to the public in 1894. It was designed for use in Kinetoscope parlors , or arcades, which contained only a few individual machines and permitted only one customer to view a short, 50-foot film at any one time. The first Kinetoscope parlors contained five machines. For the price of 25 cents (or 5 cents per machine), customers moved from machine to machine to watch five different films (or, in the case of famous prizefights, successive rounds of a single fight).
TED 營造美好談話經驗的10個原則 - 中文(2)
學習開始一段交談，不浪費時間，不感到無聊，以及最重要的是，不冒犯任何人。我們都曾有過很棒的交談。我們曾有過，我們知道那是什麼感覺，那種結束之後令你感到很享受，很受鼓舞的交談，或者令你覺得你和別人建立了真實的連接，或者讓你完全得到了他人的理解。沒有理由說，你大部分人際互動不能成為那樣，我有10條基本規則，我會一條條給你們解釋，但說真的，如果你選擇一條並且熟練掌握，你就已經可以享受更愉快的交談了。
第一條：不要三心二意。我不是說單純放下你的手機、平板電腦、車鑰匙，或者隨便什麼握在手裏的東西。我的意思是，處在當下。進入那個情境中去。不要想著你之前和老闆的爭吵。不要想著你晚飯吃什麼。如果你想退出交談，就退出交談。但不要身在曹營心在漢。
