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2016年12月10日託福閱讀真題第一篇
題材劃分： 工業發展
主要內容：美國工業革命之後各個行業都牛逼了起來，生產力極大的提高了所以產量大增，工業產品生產總值超過了農產品。而且很虧啊產品供給大於需求了。根據傳統亞當斯密的自由經濟學原理，當一個產業沒錢賺供大於求，生產商就不生產了，這樣產品少了價格恢復，然後生產商覺得有錢賺，就在開始生產。然後亞當斯密的理論過於簡單，生產商沒停止生產，只是相互壓價而已。最後惡性競爭大家都坐不住了，有的狂做廣告和開拓海外市場，有的壓低成本，有的就開始各行業聯手合作壟斷了。有位銀行人員說歡迎小競爭，更加歡迎大的競爭，這樣纔有更多的貨款。
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TPO6-Powering the Industrial Revolution
相關背景知識：
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factory system. Textiles were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output and capital invested; the textile industry was also the first to use modern production methods. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and most of the important technological innovations were British. The social, economic and political changes in the previous centuries in Great Britain contributed. Whereas absolutism stayed the normal form of power execution through most parts of Europe, institutions ensured property rights and political safety to the people in the UK after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. A change in marrying patterns to getting married later made people able to accumulate more human capital during their youth, thereby encouraging economic development.
The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. In particular, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth. Some economists say that the major impact of the Industrial Revolution was that the standard of living for the general population began to increase consistently for the first time in history, although others have said that it did not begin to meaningfully improve until the late 19th and 20th centuries. At approximately the same time the Industrial Revolution was occurring, Britain was undergoing an agricultural revolution, which also helped to improve living standards and provided surplus labour available for industry.
Mechanised textile production spread from Great Britain to continental Europe in the early 19th century, with important centres of textiles, iron and coal emerging in Belgium, and later in France. Since then industrialisation has spread throughout much of the world. The precise start and end of the Industrial Revolution is still debated among historians, as is the pace of economic and social changes. GDP per capita was broadly stable before the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the modern capitalist economy, while the Industrial Revolution began an era of per-capita economic growth in capitalist economies. Economic historians are in agreement that the onset of the Industrial Revolution is the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals and plants.
The First Industrial Revolution evolved into the Second Industrial Revolution in the transition years between 1840 and 1870, when technological and economic progress continued with the increasing adoption of steam transport (steam-powered railways, boats and ships), the large-scale manufacture of machine tools and the increasing use of machinery in steam-powered factories.
2016年12月10日託福閱讀真題第二篇
題材劃分： 動物類
主要內容：講捕食者會在實驗室情況下遲到被捕食者的representatives, 讓prey species滅掉。但是自然環境中不會，自然環境中捕食者會吃掉幾種prey，一種快吃完了就再吃另外一種，這樣幾個prey的物種數量會交替上升下降但都不會滅亡。舉了一個例子說一開始有狼和A共同吃B, 然後狼滅絕了。A的數量很少，然後引入了雪兔，雪兔來了之後瘋狂增長，A也就增長，然後吃的雪兔不多的時候，它就去吃狼以前的食物了，然後等雪兔變多了以後再吃雪兔，於是雪兔的數量以10年爲一個週期高低交替，而A的數量則是很穩定。第二種情況是捕食者可以幫助prey趕走其他捕食者或者競爭物種，所以這種prey就可以存活下去。另外一個例子中，一種鳥類predator住在一種樹的上枝丫上，既吃樹的花蕾又吃另外一種動物。這種prey天天求的predator的關注。所以這種predator鳥類雖然對樹有害，但能幫助這周prey活下去。第三種情況兩個物種之間有競爭關係的時候，強的一方往往佔據弱的一方的資源，而predator會控制這樣的競爭的平衡，讓弱的一方不至於滅絕。
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A predator is an organism that eats another organism. The prey is the organism which the predator eats. Some examples of predator and prey are lion and zebra, bear and fish, and fox and rabbit. The words "predator" and "prey" are almost always used to mean only animals that eat animals, but the same concept also applies to plants: Bear and berry, rabbit and lettuce, grasshopper and leaf.
Predator and prey evolve together. The prey is part of the predator's environment, and the predator dies if it does not get food, so it evolves whatever is necessary in order to eat the prey: speed, stealth, camouflage (to hide while approaching the prey), a good sense of smell, sight, or hearing (to find the prey), immunity to the prey's poison, poison (to kill the prey) the right kind of mouth parts or digestive system, etc. Likewise, the predator is part of the prey's environment, and the prey dies if it is eaten by the predator, so it evolves whatever is necessary to avoid being eaten: speed, camouflage (to hide from the predator), a good sense of smell, sight, or hearing (to detect the predator), thorns, poison (to spray when approached or bitten), etc.
The fastest lions are able to catch food and eat, so they survive and reproduce, and gradually, faster lions make up more and more of the population. The fastest zebras are able to escape the lions, so they survive and reproduce, and gradually, faster zebras make up more and more of the population. An important thing to realize is that as both organisms become faster to adapt to their environments, their relationship remains the same: because they are both getting faster, neither gets faster in relation to the other. This is true in all predator-prey relationships.
Another example of predator-prey evolution is that of the Galapagos tortoise. Galapagos tortoises eat the branches of the cactus plants that grow on the Galapagos islands. On one of the islands, where long-necked tortoises live, the branches are higher off the ground. On another island, where short-necked tortoises live, the branches are lower down. The cactuses, the prey, may have evolved high branches so that the tortoises, the predators, can't reach them.
(Note, however, not just in this case but in any case of co-evolution and evolution, that there is always more than one cause that forces an organism to adapt, and though it is likely that the higher branches are to avoid the tortoises, it is also possible that it was a different cause, such as the sun, the ocean, or a different organism.)
2016年12月10日託福閱讀真題第三篇
題材劃分：地質類
主要內容： 講地球55 million years ago, 碳12與碳13的同位素比值紊亂了，給這個時期起了一個名字叫做Proterozoic。我們可以從淺海區大陸架獲得線索，這種甲烷冰很矯情，要特定的壓力和溫度才能形成，比如在北極圈苔原還有哪裏能形成因爲氣溫低。說海底大陸架有些地方也有，這種冰也很矯情，一碰就變成了火，然後問題就來了，這種甲烷冰是怎麼如此快速的釋放到空氣中的，一種假設是海底突然變暖，於是甲烷釋放了，但不清楚原因。第二種是溫暖的洋流加熱了大陸架，第三種是海底山體滑坡。極有可能是這三種因素同時發生導致的甲烷大量釋放。但科學家還是不清楚到底釋放了多少導致元素和它同位素比例紊亂和到底是什麼原因
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