TPO-17 Reading 1解析

Europe's Early Sea Trade with Asia

欧洲早期与亚洲的海洋贸易

In the fourteenth century, a number of political

developments cut Europe's overland trade routes to

southern and eastern Asia, with which Europe had had

important and highly profitable commercial ties

since the twelfth century. 在14世纪，政治的快速发展切断了横跨从亚洲东部以及南部到欧洲大陆的贸易路线，并且从20世界开始亚洲东南部欧洲之间有重要的高收益的商业联系This

development, coming as it did when the bottom had

fallen out of the European economy, provided an

impetus to a long-held desire to secure direct

relations with the East by establishing a sea trade.随着底层经济从欧洲经济中衰落，这种发展形势通过建立海上贸易提供了一个可以维系东西部满足长期互利需求关系的推动力Widely

reported, if somewhat distrusted, accounts by figures

like the famous traveler from Venice. 广泛地被报道，尽管有一些数据被怀疑，Marco Polo, of the willingness of

people in China to trade with Europeans and of the

TPO 17 listening 题目

1. Why does the man visit the professor?

A. To get the professor’s approval for his paper topic.

B. To ask for source material for his paper.

C. To ask the professor’s opinion about a particular production of a Shakespeare play.

D. To get help finding articles about a play.

2. What is the subject of the man’s paper?

A. The influence of film on theater.

B. The transient nature of theater.

C. Modern interpretations of a play by Shakespeare.

D. A comparison of different film versions of Shakespeare’s play.

3. What do the speakers say about Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s

Dream? Click on 2 answers.

A. It influenced subsequent productions.

B. It was performed only a few times.

C. Written accounts of it are difficult to find.

D. Film versions of it probably do not exist.

Listening

The passage clams that there will be fewer and fewer birds, but the arguments used

to support this claim are unconvincing.

First, it’s true that urban growth has been bad for some types of birds, but urban

development actually provides better and larger habitats for other types, so much so

that city and suburban dwellers often complain about increased birds

populations—seagulls at landfills, pigeons on the streets and so on. Even birds like

hawks and falcons can now be found in cities, where they prey on the increasing

populations of pigeons and rodents. So it’s not going to be a story of uniform decline

of bird populations in the future. Some populations may shrink, but others will grow.

As for agriculture, it’s true that it too will increase in the future, but not in the way

assumed by the reading passage. The truth is, in the United States, less and less land

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1.引言：介绍剑桥 17text3 阅读 1 的内容和主题

2.文章概述：概括全文的主要内容和结构

3.文章细节解析：详细解析文章的重点句子和段落

4.主题解析：深入探讨文章的主题思想和观点

5.结论：总结文章的主要观点和启示

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剑桥 17text3 阅读 1 是一篇关于阅读理解的文章，主要探讨了阅读的重要性和方法。文章通过实例和理论相结合的方式，向读者展示了如何通过阅读来提高自己的知识和能力。

文章一开始就提出了阅读的重要性，指出阅读不仅能够提供知识和信息，还能够激发想象力和创造力。接着，文章通过一个实例说明了阅读对于提高语言能力的重要性。在这个实例中，作者通过阅读一篇文章，不仅学到了新的词汇和语法，还从中感受到了作者的情感和观点。

随后，文章进入了主题部分，详细解析了阅读理解的方法和技巧。文章指出，阅读理解不仅要注重词汇和语法的学习，还要关注作者的观点和态度，以及文章的结构和逻辑。为了更好地实现这一目标，文章提出了一些具体的阅读方法，如预测、扫描、略读和详读等。

在文章的最后，作者再次强调了阅读的重要性和价值，并呼吁读者积极参与到阅读中去，不断提高自己的阅读能力和水平。