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老托福阅读真题 PASSAGE 87 托福阅读的思维方式就是托福阅读的出题方式，只有掌握了这种思维方式，才有可能在做题之 前，预测到新托福阅读题的出题形式和特点，为找答案节省时间。老托福阅读试题的核心价值，在 于其最贴近真题的阅读思维方式。此外老托福阅读真题比新托福 IBT 阅读文章要短，比较容易适应。 这也是大家在备考托福的时候非常重要 的一点。因为前期的入手如果能从容易的开始，就会形成一 个循序渐进的过程方式，让大家的练习有一个提高的过程。 既然老托福阅读试题有这样的效果，那我们如何利用那有限的真题来达到锻炼自己的目的呢? 事实上这就一个办法，就是坚持。本期为大家推荐老托福阅读的真题 PASSAGE 87，有原文及答案， 希望对托福考生备考有所帮助。 Because the low latitudes of the Earth, the areas near the equator, receive more heat than the latitudes near the poles, and because the nature of heat is to expand and move, heat is transported from the tropics to the middle and high latitudes. Some of this heat is moved by winds and some by ocean currents, and some gets stored in the atmosphere in the form of latent heat. The term latent heat refers to the energy that has to be used to convert liquid water to water vapor. We know that if we warm a pan of water on a stove, it will evaporate, or turn into vapor, faster than if it is allowed to sit at room temperature. We also know that if we hang wet clothes outside in the summertime they will dry faster than in winter, when temperatures are colder. The energy used in both cases to change liquid water to water vapor is supplied by heat — supplied by the stove in the first case and by the Sun in the latter case. This energy is not lost. It is stored in water vapor in the atmosphere as latent heat. Eventually, the water stored as vapor in the atmosphere will condense to liquid again, and the energy will be released to the atmosphere. In the atmosphere, a large portion of the Suns incoming energy is used to evaporate water, primarily in the tropical oceans. Scientists have tried to quantify this proportion of the Suns energy. By analyzing temperature, water vapor