【正文】 from Wind(在線測試題) 149 Populations of the Puget Sound(TPO4) 156 Art in Europe(TPO4) 164 Resources(TPO4) 172 Impact and Dinosaur Extinction(官方?？碱}) 179 AND PLANTS(TPO5) 186 ORIGIN OF THE PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLE(TPO5) 193 CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION(TPO5) 201 the Industrial Revolution(TPO6) 209 Smith(TPO6) 216 Amnesia(TPO6) 223 Geologic History of the Mediterranean(TPO7) 230 Rome and Greece(TPO7) 237, Iron, and the Bantu Peoples(TPO7) 244 RISE OF TEOTIHUACAN(TPO8) 251 OF THE DINOSAURS(TPO8) 259 WATER ON MARS(TPO8) 267 the Americas via the Northwest Coast(TPO9) 274 IN TEACHING(TPO9) 282 ARRIVAL OF PLANT LIFE IN HAWAII(TPO9) 290 HABITS OF EAST AFRICAN HERBIVORES(OG) 297 FULLER(OG) 303 ICEBERGS(OG) 309 Pottery(TPO10) 315 in the Climate(TPO10) 322 European Economic Growth(TPO10) 329 Egyptian Sculpture(TPO11) 336 and Navigation(TPO11) 342 by Nestlings(TPO11) 349 Hand Did They Use? (TPO12) 356 to Sound in Film(TPO12) 363 in the Desert(TPO12) 370 of Social Groups(TPO13) 376 Clocks(TPO13) 382 of Studying Infant Perception(TPO13) 389APPLIED ARTS AND FINE ARTSAlthough we now tend to refer to the various crafts according to the materials used to construct themclay, glass, wood, fiber, and metalit was once mon to think of crafts in terms of function, which led to their being known as the applied arts. Approaching crafts from the point of view of function, we can divide them into simple categories: containers, shelters and supports. There is no way around the fact that containers, shelters, and supports must be functional. The applied arts are thus bound by the laws of physics, which pertain to both the materials used in their making and the substances and things to be contained, supported, and sheltered. These laws are universal in their application, regardless of cultural beliefs, geography, or climate. If a pot has no bottom or has large openings in its sides, it could hardly be considered a container in any traditional sense. Since the laws of physics, not some arbitrary decision, have determined the general form of appliedart objects, they follow basic patterns, so much so that functional forms can vary only within certain limits. Buildings without roofs, for example, are unusual because they depart from the norm. However, not all functional objects are exactly alike。 I paid dollars for the TPO and pleted it myself, filming the screen and capturing every page. Then I typed all the passages with the help of videos and captured pictures. The 3 passages in the online test happened to be available to me。3. 3 passages provided by ETS to the applicants for a test on line in the early time of iBT,4. 1 passages extracted from the simulated exam software provided by ETS。 in fact, I discovered that the passage types, sentence patterns, arguing methods, and arrangement of questions are not quite consistent with, and sometimes even wildly divergent from those of ETS. I reflect that practicing with these materials cannot expect a satisfactory result. At this, we should collect ETS’s original passages and questions. Such passages available include:1. 13 passages in Official Guide (OG)?！薄斑@ETS的這些文章真的那么好？”。常常有同學拜托我?guī)退ㄋ慞S，也說起自己的句子怎么看都像是小學生寫的（盡管用上了GRE里面的單詞），于是會隨口問我“勇哥，您的寫作能力是怎么訓練出來的。在這53篇由ETS出的文章沒有做完之前，我們實在不應(yīng)該花時間在任何其他的題目之上。（由于TPO之中有3篇文章與OG中完全重復,于是減去3篇,只剩下53篇。雖然工作有些繁雜，但總算完成了所有文章的敲打工作。于是，我們實在應(yīng)該去找找由ETS出的iBT文章來做：（我們能夠找到的|由ETS編纂的標準iBT文章有）1. OG Official Guide 官方指南，由ETS提供的iBT考試指南；之中的13篇文章 Applied Arts and Fine Arts一文屬于ETS范例文章,故題目不全；；（其中3篇為第三版OG之中的文章）2. 13次（套）TPO TOEFL Practice Online: (由ETS提供的，)；之中的3*13=39篇文章 現(xiàn)在報名之后，贈送的是一套Mini Test， 只有1篇文章13道題目；；3. 早期 大家都知道,我是一個溫和的人。會定期更新黃金精選閱讀最新版本,歡迎熱心同學定期轉(zhuǎn)載新托福精選閱讀 真題[2010年1月10日 ]俺常常收到同學們的郵件，要我推薦各種各樣閱讀材料,問我iBT的復習資料中 Barron, Longman, Delta等等哪個更好。在文勇的網(wǎng)站我其實很無奈因為盡管這些機構(gòu)很大牌,但大牌絲毫都不意味著文章“質(zhì)量高”(比如你可以想想三鹿奶粉)說這些機構(gòu)的文章質(zhì)量不高,并不是說文字寫得不好,而是說這些文章的句子結(jié)構(gòu), 論述方式, 出題思路與ETS的并不一致(有時候甚至大相徑庭)：用這樣的材料訓練，實在是 事倍功半。報名之時ETS贈送的3篇在線測試題4. ETS官方給出的模考軟件之中抽出的1篇文章； 于是這個文檔在我的一時興起之下，出現(xiàn)了：OG拿在手上，可以一個個字的敲成電子版；TPO的所有考試都是在自己的計算機進行，于是可以一邊花錢參加考試,一邊截圖與錄像再利用截下來的圖片，逐個的敲下來；早期的ETS贈送的3篇在線測試題，我也恰好有電子版本；官方的?？架浖晕⒂命c功夫，就能將文章提取并復制出來。再花了些時間，把這53篇文章都做了答案，附在文章的后面。）同時我還更正了OG上幾個明顯的錯誤（詳見文后附錄）當然，我還做出了方便大家理解文章的參考譯文，附在文章的后面。我有時候甚至會對著我的弟兄們高呼：“沒有把這53篇做３遍，你好意思上考場么？你好意思花錢在任何一本垃圾書上面么？”另外，如果你正在準備iBTSATGRE的作文部分或者寫留學文書，也應(yīng)該仔細的琢磨一下這些文章：經(jīng)過ETS打磨的文章，無一不是精妙絕倫，極具模仿價值?！蔽艺f，“看唄，看唄：托福文章看多了，寫作能力自然就提高了。每當聽到這個問題，我都會裝做趙本山的樣子來一句“誰用誰知道～～” 文勇IntroductionMany students sent me Email, asking me to remend some reading materials. Of assorted iBT preparing materials, Barron, Longman, Delta, etc, which is the best? As often as not, I feel at a loss: does brand equal to quality? These branded institutions are highly publicized, however, their passages and questions are not necessarily of quality. Does the brand “Sanlu” mean something to you? “QUALITY and safety are the foundations of social harmony,” proclaim posters at the headquarters of the Sanlu Group, until recently one of China’s biggest producers of milk powder. Now we all know that Sanlu Scandal has been more than an embarrassment. To say that these “branded” passages are not of quality does not mean they are not stylish, elegant or carefullywritten。2. 13 sets from TPO, with 3 passages included in each set, 39 passages in total。(3 passages in TPO are abstracted from OG, so they are exactly the same) Then, I cannot resist the temptation to make such a text: I typed every letter of the 13 passages in OG into puter。 and as for the one passage in the simulated exam, though with a little difficulty, I nevertheless succeeded make an electronic text of it. Of course, I finished all these questions and attached the answer to end of this text. Eventually, the final “deluxe” edition of this text, including 53 passages in aggregate (3 passages in TPO are abstracted from OG, so they are exactly the same. Then taking 3 from 56 leaves 53 passages at last. ) I insi