老托福阅读1989年～2004年历年真题.docx

智课网TOEFL备考资料老托福阅读1989年～2004年历年真题 摘要： 相当全，都是真题，没有听力的文字和mp3，不过这已经很好了，省的自己挨个去找了，非常适合大家提高自己的托福阅读词汇题成绩。 在 托福 阅读考试过程中，我们常常会遇到各种各样的 托福阅读 词汇题，托福阅读词汇题时托福阅读中常见的一种题型，不少学生之所以自己的托福阅读获得不了高分，其原因就是在托福阅读词汇题上面，今天，小编就来为大家详细介绍一下有关老托福阅读词汇题的相关内容。 老托福阅读1989年～2004年历年真题： By the mid-nineteenth century, the term icebox had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented. Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox. But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass