TOEF与L阅读经典难句荟萃.doc

TOEFL阅读经典难句荟萃 By Saavedro Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have come widely publicized and form the basis for folklore. The desperate plight of the South has eclipsed the fact that reconstruction had to be undertaken in the North, though less spectacularly. The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we known as urban sprawl. Amid rumors that there were prehistoric mammoths wandering around the unknown region and that somewhere in its wilds was a mountain of rock salt 80 by 45 miles in extent, the two captains set out. A series of mechanical improvements continuing well into the nineteenth century, including the introduction of pedals to sustain tone or to soften it, the perfection of a metal frame and steel wire of the finest quality, finally produced an instrument capable of myriad tonal effects from the most delicate harmonies to an almost orchestral fullness of sound, from a liquid, singing tone to a sharp, percussive brilliance. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. The fact that half of the known species are thought to inhabit the world’s rain forests does not seem surprising, considering the huge numbers of insects that comprise the bulk of the species. To appreciate fully the diversity and abundance of life in the area, it helps to think small. Science