托福阅读练习20篇.docVIP

大家好， 今天是这个学期最后一天了，相信大家已经打好行李，拿着车票准备回家过年了。 现在我把假期给大家准备的礼物提前派发喽！ 托福阅读一共20篇文章，建议大家： 1.不要查其中的任何一个单词的意思，就是以80%读懂的状态理解内容。 2.每篇文章后面的题目帮助大家更好地把握文章结构，further consideration部分是拓展阅读，也许是我们下学期的平时测验内容。 3. passage 20里面保留了托福真题的测试模式，大家可以自我测试一下。 4.阅读时心情不能大喜，也不能大悲，平淡如水吧。 ? 最后，祝大家回家的路上平安，春节愉快！ Passage 1 The Titus-Bode Law predicted that there would be a fifth planet between Mars and Jupiter. In 1800, a group of astronomers nicknamed the celestial police was organized to search for the missing planet. Before the plan could be put in effect, another astronomer, G. Piazzi, discovered l Ceres, the largest asteroid, in this position in space on New Years Day,1801. While trying to locate Ceres again, the astronomer H. Olbers discovered 2 Pallas in 1802 J.Harding discovered 3 Juno in l804. H. Olbers also discovered 4 Vesta, the brightest asteroid, in 1807. It was not until 1836 that a fifth asteroid, 5 Astrea, was added to the list. At first, many nineteenth-century astronomers did not find asteroids of much interest. One even called them the vermin of the sky. In 1891, Max Wolf pioneered the use of astrophotography to detect asteroids. Then Wolf went on to discover 248 asteroids, beginning with 323 Bruscia. At present, around 150,000 asteroids have been discovered. Most are spotted today by automated systems that pair telescopes with computers. Asteroids vary in size from Ceres, with a diameter of 570 miles, to tiny bodies that are only the size of pebbles. Only the four largest-Ceres, Palas, Vesta, and Juno-are spherical. Most are elongated or irregular. Asteroids are not uniformly distributed through space. Many occur in clusters called groups, or in even tighter clusters called families. Families of asteroids with similar characteristics, indicating a common origin, are called Hiruzama asteroids. H. Olbers advanced the theory that asteroids are the remnants of a large planet that exploded. Other astronomers suggested that the asteroids were originally moons of Jupiter that b