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托福阅读练习:Groundwater
经典托福阅读练习:Groundwater。道阅读一直就是英语考试中的
重中之重,所以一定要在考前多加练习。今天智课小编给大家分享一篇
名为“Groundwater”的文章。希望对同学们的托福阅读考试有所帮助
。 Groundwater is the word used to describe water that saturates
the ground, filling all the available spaces. By far the most
abundant type of groundwater is meteoric water; this is the
groundwater that circulates as part of the water cycle. Ordinary
meteoric water is water that has soaked into the ground from the
surface, from precipitation (rain and snow) and from lakes and
streams. There it remains, sometimes for long periods, before
emerging at the surface again. At first thought it seems
incredible that there can be enough space in the “solid”
ground underfoot to hold all this water. The necessary space is
there, however, in many forms. The commonest spaces are those
among the particles—sand grains and tiny pebbles—of loose,
unconsolidated sand and gravel. Beds of this material, out of
sight beneath the soil, are common. They are found wherever
fast rivers carrying loads of coarse sediment once flowed. For
example, as the great ice sheets that covered North America
during the last ice age steadily melted away, huge volumes of
water flowed from them. The water was always laden with
pebbles, gravel, and sand, known as glacial outwash, that was
deposited as the flow slowed down. The same thing happens to
this day, though on a smaller scale, wherever a sedimentladen
river or stream emerges from a mountain valley onto relatively
flat land, dropping its load as the current slows: the water usually
spreads out fanwise, depositing the sediment in the form of a
smooth, fan-shaped slope. Sediments are also dropped where a
river slows on entering a lake or the sea, the deposited
sediments are on a lake floor or the seafloor at first, but will be
located inland at some future date, when the sea level falls or the
land rises; such beds are sometimes thousands of meters thick. In
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