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智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料 精选托福阅读词汇笔记（九）-智课教育旗下智课教育 本文和大家分享的是精选托福阅读词汇笔记系列的内容，供考生参 考使用，希望考生能够认真备考，预祝考生能够考出好成绩。 说起托福备考，很多人第一反应就是背词汇，作为语言最基础的单 位，词汇自然是我们必须攻克的难题。但是独立的词汇记忆，效果肯定 不会很好，所以智课教育托福小编精选了托福阅读词汇笔记系列，让大 家记忆词汇的同时也能够复习托福阅读 ， 一举两得，岂不乐哉。本文 带来的是笔记九，大家一起在阅读中熟悉并记忆这些词汇吧。 Marjorie Rice was an unlikely candidate for the role of mathematical innovator. She had no formal education in mathematics save a single course required for graduation from high school in 1939. Nonetheless, in 1975 she took up a problem that professional mathematicians had twice left for dead , and showed how much life as in it still. The problem was tessellation , or tiling of the plane , involves taking a single closed figure a triangle, for example, or a rectangle and fitting it together with copies of itself so that a plane is covered without any gaps or overlap. A region of this plane would look rather like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces are all identical. Rice worked primarily with polygons, which consist only of straight lines. More specifically, she worked with convex polygons , in which the line joining any two points on the polygon lies entirely within the polygon itself or on one of its edges(A five-pointed star, for example, does not qualify as a convex polygon.) By the time Rice took up tiling, its basic properties had been established. Obviously, any square can tile the plane, as many kitchen floors have demonstrated. Equilateral triangles are also a fairly clear-cut case. There is one other regular polygon(a polygon whose angles, and sides, are equal) that can tile the plane: the hexagon . This fact was established by the ancient Greeks but had long before been exploited by honeybees in building their honeycombs. And what of irregular polygons? As it turns out any triangle or quadrilateral , no matter how devoid of regularity, will tile the plane. On the other hand, no convex polygon with more than six sides can do so, and the three