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智课网TOEFL备考资料 老托福听力93篇(83-84)-Okay, as you 摘要： 老托福听力93篇(83-84)-Okay, as you。托福听力一直困扰着中国考生，如何能让自己的听力能力提高，很多考生都想找到解决方法，小编今天向大家推荐老资料，一起来看看吧。  老 托福 听力对新 托福听力 的备考依然有重要的作用,老托福听力的语速比较快,有助于提高同学们的辨音能力,小编为各位考生整理老托福听力93篇精选，各位同学仔细看看吧。  83  Okay, as you look at this next exhibit, youll notice something quite common—an ordinary bar of soap. Now, soap has been around a long time. In fact, the ancient Phoenicians produced soap as a substance for washing the body way back in 600 B.C. They made it by blending goats fat with wood ash. The Phoenicians, as you may know, regularly traded along the Mediterranean, and they were the ones who introduced soap to the Greeks and Romans. Now, soap was not something welcomed by all countries. In fact, during the superstitious Middle Ages, many people were afraid to bathe their whole body too frequently. They thought it could be dangerous for their health—that it could even kill them. And even after the production of soap became common in some European countries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, even then some people in the heart of Europe refused to use it. Youll find it interesting that when a duchess was given a box of soap as a present in 1549, she was so insulted that she had the gift-giver thrown off her estate! But by the nineteenth century the attitude toward soap had changed drastically. In some regions of Europe the tax on soap was so high that people secretly made their own. A baron went so far as to suggest that the wealth of a nation could be judged according to the amount of soap it used. Now, if you turn your attention to the next exhibit, you can see how soap is manufactured today.  【生词摘录】  1. bar: n. [C]长方块  2. Phoenician: n. [C]腓尼基人  3. substance: n. [C]物质，物体  4. goat: n. [C]山羊  5. ash: n. [C]灰烬  6. trade: v. 交易，买卖，经商  7. Mediterranean: n. [C]地中海  8. superstitious: adj. 迷信的  9. bathe: v. 沐浴，洗  10. duchess: n. [