托福写作技巧:作文词汇多样性练习

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　　托福写作技巧. 词汇的多样化

　　(一) 经典例子分析

1． We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may ____ begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What ____ invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at ____ precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a ____ chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an ____ eye on the baby ____ ____ ____ The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an ____ unforeseen series of catastrophes. ____ ____ ____ you are on the phone, the baby pulls ____ the table-cloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting ____ himself ____ ____ ____ You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, ____ etc. ____ ____ ____ , the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to ____ tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. ____ ____ L33
2． You can stretch your legs on the spacious decks, play games, swim, ____ meet interesting people and enjoy good food--always assuming, of course, that ____ the sea is calm. If it is not, and you are likely to get sea-sick, no form of ____ transport could be worse. Even if you travel ____ ____ ____ , sea journeys take a ____ long time.

3． Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by ____ ____ ____ ____ special ____ advisory services for novices, but by ____ ____ ____ ____ consumers bits and pieces which ____ they can assemble at home. Such things ____ ____ ____ ____ an excellent outlet for ____ pent-up creative energy, but unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.

4． During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began ____ to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. ____ She suddenly got into a panic and ____ ____ ____ her car. This made the driver ____ following her ____ ____ ____ . His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. ____ As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed ____ on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry-driver who ____ was ____ ____ ____ alongside the car ____ ____ ____ all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded ____ with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle ____ and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the ____ traffic ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ behind.

5． Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms ____ of money, it is extremely difficult to ____ ____ ____ the true value of the services ____ which people perform for us.

6． The great ship, Titanic, sailed for New York from Southampton on April ____ 10th, 1912. She was carrying 1316 passengers and a crew of 89l. Even by modern ____ standards, the 46,000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship. At that time, however, ____ she was not only the largest ship that had ever been built, but was regarded as ____ unsinkable, for she had sixteen water- tight compartments.

7． Children always appreciate small gifts of money. Father, of course, ____ provides a regular supply of pocket-money, but uncles and aunts are always a ____ source of extra income.

8． If you can do without the few pastoral pleasures of the country, you will ____ find the city can provide you with the best that life can offer.

9． Robert was ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ to see me and equally ____ ____ ____ with my little ____ gift.

10． He is forever ____ ____ ____ ____ the friendly people, the clean atmosphere, the ____ closeness to nature and the gentle pace of living. Nothing can be compared, ____ he ____ ____ ____ ____ with the first cock crow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the ____ sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures. My ____ friend ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ the long and friendless winter evenings which are ____ interrupted only by an occasional visit to the local cinema-virtually the only ____ form of entertainment. He ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ the poor selection of goods in the ____ shops, or about those unfortunate people who have to travel from the country to ____ the city every day to get to work.

11． Suddenly they came to a waterfall which dropped into an underground lake ____ at the bottom of the cave. They plunged into the lake, and after loading their ____ gear on an inflatable rubber dinghy, let the current carry them to the other ____ side. To protect themselves from the icy water, they had to wear special rubber ____ suits. At the far end of the lake, they came to huge piles of rubble which had ____ been washed up by the water. In this part of the cave, they could hear an ____ insistent booming sound which they found was caused by a small water-spout ____ shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave.

12． The story of a ____ ____ ____ family that acquired fame and fortune overnight, ____ dramatically illustrates the power of the press. The family lived in Aberdeen, a ____ small town of 23,000 inhabitants in South Dakota. As the parents had five ____ children, life was ____ ____ ____ ____ They were expecting their sixth child ____ and ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ . If they had only had one more child, the ____ fact would have passed unnoticed. They would have continued ____ to ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ and would have ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ But they ____ suddenly became the parents of quintuplets, four girls and a boy, an event which ____ radically changed their lives. The day after the birth of the five children, an ____ aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers.

13． Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does ____ nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of ____ them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch…. Who has not stood in awe ____ at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly, or a column of ants triumphantly ____ bearing home an enormous dead beetle ? …Last summer I spent days in the garden ____ watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree. … ____ During the summer, I noticed that the leaves of the tree were beginning to ____ wither. Clusters of tiny insects called aphides were to be found on the ____ underside of the leaves. They were visited by a colony of ants which obtained a ____ sort of honey from them.