TED 你腦內的兩個世界 - 英文(1)
演講者： 吉兒泰勒 (神經解剖學家)
I grew up to study the brain because I have a brother who has been diagnosed with a brain disorder: schizophrenia. And as a sister and later, as a scientist, I wanted to understand why is it that I can take my dreams, I can connect them to my reality, and I can make my dreams come true. What is it about my brother's brain and his schizophrenia that he cannot connect his dreams to a common and shared reality, so they instead become delusion?
托福分科單字 數學(Mathematics)單字
abacus (N.) 算盤
addition (N.) 加法； 添加； 增加的人或物； 擴建部分
aggregate (N. / V. / Adj.) 總計； 集成體；總數； 使聚集 ； 合計的
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization 解答 (2)
7) 1
This is a Vocabulary question. The word being tested is spearheaded. It is highlighted in the passage. The correct answer is choice 1, “led.” The head of a spear leads the spear, so the craft workers who “spearheaded” this movement led it.
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TASK：The expression "Never, never give up" means to keep trying and never stop working for your goals. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization 解答 (1)
3) 4
This is a Vocabulary question. The word being tested is disrupted. It is highlighted in the passage. The correct answer is choice 4, “upset.” The word “upset” here is used in the context of “hurting productivity.” When something is hurt or damaged. It is “upset.”
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization 解答 (1)
1) 3
This is an Information question asking for an inference that can be supported by the passage. The correct answer is choice 3, “ They were produced with more concern for quality than speed of production.” A number of statements throughout the passage support choice 3. Paragraph 1 states that “ Before 1815 manufacturing in the United States had been done in homes or shops by skilled artisans…After 1815 this older form of manufacturing began to give way to factories with machinery tended by unskilled or semiskilled laborers.” Paragraph 2 states that “ Before the rise of the factory…skilled artisans did not work by the clock, at a steady pace, but rather in bursts if intense labor alternating with more leisurely time.” Paragraph 3 states, “ The factory changed that. Goods produced by factories were not as finished or elegant as those done by hand, and pride in craftsmanship gave way to pressure to increase rates of productivity.”
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TASK： Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Dancing plays an important role in a culture. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization Taks (3)
Paragraph 5: n this newly emerging economic order, workers sometimes organized to protect their right and traditional ways of life. Craft workers such as carpenters, printers , and tailors formed unions, and in 1834 individual unions came together in the National Trades’ Union. The labor movement gathered some momentum in the decade before the Panic of 1837, but in the depression that followed, labor’s strength collapsed. During hard times, few workers were willing to strike” or engage in collective action. And skilled craft workers, who spearheaded laborers. More than a decade of agitation did finally bring a workday shortened to 10 hours to most industries by the 1850’s, and the courts also recognized workers’ right to strike, but these gain had little immediate impact.
6) The phrase gathered some momentum in the passage is closest in meaning to
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TASK： It has recently been announced that a new movie theater may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
