托福阅读：TPO阅读单词语境记忆

 　　亲爱的同学们，在做TPO阅读的时候，你是否被大量生词搞得晕头转向?很多学生初学托福阅读，看到不认识的单词会一个一个查字典，特别浪费时间。很多同学因为不耐烦查单词，放弃或者延误了托福学习。现在，为了节省大家的时间，笔者为大家整理了TPO上的重点单词。学学这些单词吧!TOEFL之TPO阅读单词语境记忆，让记忆单词快速准确!

　　新托福之TPO阅读重点单词语境记忆18

　　Agriculture, iron, and the Bantu people

　　Scattered¹ 分散的;稀疏的

　　They heard a few scattered shots. 他们听见几声稀疏的枪声。

　　They try to round up a scattered herd² of cattle. 他们试图把分散的牲口赶在一起。

　　Livestock³ 家畜

　　At the county fair last year, prizes were given for the best farm products and livestock. 在去年全县交易会上, 最好的农产品和家畜都得了奖。

　　He is good at breeding livestock. 他擅长养家畜。

　　Camel 骆驼

　　The camel is a herbivorous animal. 骆驼是一种食草动物。

　　The merchant decided⁴ to use camels to carry his goods across the desert. 商人决定用骆驼载运货物穿过沙漠。

　　Profound 深度的;深远的

　　I give you my profound thanks for saving my life. 我对您的救命之恩深表谢意。

　　Beauty is but superficial while mind is profound. 美貌是肤浅的，而思想才是深邃的。

　　Blacksmith 铁匠

　　The old man is a blacksmith. 那位老人是一位铁匠。

　　The blacksmith’s shop is very noisy. 这个铁匠铺很吵。

　　Ingenious 设计独特的

　　Try to think of unusual and ingenious solutions. 尽量想想不同寻常的、巧妙的解决方法。

　　I never heard anything more ingenious than your suggestion. 我从来没有听过象你这样有独创性的建议。

　　Desiccation 干燥

　　Application: Suitable for desiccation, medical treatment and poultry⁵ artificial incubation. 用途：干燥、医疗和家禽人工孵化。

　　Spores⁶ normally resist desiccation and have many ordinary procedures of disinfection. 芽孢能抗干燥并且有很多普通的消毒方法。

　　Millet⁷ 小米

　　Millet is cultivated on some farms here. 这里有些农场种小米。

　　Mother cooked easily digestible millet mash⁸ at noon. 妈妈中午做了容易消化的小米糊糊。

　　Sorghum⁹ 高粱

　　They made sorghum into pig feed. 他们把高粱做成了猪饲料。

　　We can grow sorghum or maize¹⁰ on this plot. 我们可以在这块地上种植高粱或玉米。(plot小块土地)

　　Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚

　　They quarrelled with Italy without saving Ethiopia. 他们同意大利争吵，却救不了埃塞俄比亚。

　　I’m familiar with the many nationalities that comprise Ethiopia. 我对组成埃塞俄比亚的众多民族都很熟悉。

　　Sudan 苏丹

　　Our government buys most of Sudan’s oil and sells it arms. 我们政府购买了大部分的苏丹石油，并向苏丹出售武器。

　　I will go to Sudan on this summer holiday. 今年暑假我将去苏丹。

　　Hyksos 希克索斯王朝(公元前18-16世纪统治埃及，又称“牧人王朝”)

　　But the Hyksos did introduce new ideas into Egypt. 不过克索人将新思想介绍进了埃及。

　　They had now acquired the war-horse and the war-chariot, which the Hyksos hand brought to them. 他们现在得到了战马和战车，那是希克索斯带给他们的。

　　Cavalry¹¹ 骑兵

　　The cavalry were advancing. 骑兵队伍正在挺进。

　　They were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry. 他们的侧翼受到一队骑兵袭击。

　　Metallurgy 冶金学

　　I graduated in metallurgy from Birmingham in 1985. 我于1985年在伯明翰大学修读完冶金学学位。

　　They are mainly used in metallurgy and conveyor systems. 它们主要应用在冶金和输送设备领域。

　　Nigeria 尼日利亚

　　Back in Nigeria we used to play a lot of tennis. 我们以前在尼日利亚经常打球。

　　Our listener question this week comes from Nigeria. 本周，我们要解答的听众提问来自尼日利亚。

　　Ghana 加纳

　　I live in Ghana. 我住在加纳。

　　Tema is the port of Ghana in West Africa. 特马，是西非加纳的港口。

　　Mali 马里

　　Konare became Mali’s President on June 8th this year. 杜尔是今年6月8日就任马里总统的。

　　The other countries affected¹² are Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. 其它感染的国家有马里，尼日尔，尼日利亚。

　　Hoe 锄

　　Choose me a good hoe. 替我选一把好锄头。

　　I’d like to hoe in the field. 我愿在田里锄地。

　　Furnace 火炉

　　A blast of hot air came from the furnace. 一股热风从火炉里吹出来。

　　We had better fire up the furnace. 我们最好把炉子生起来。

　　Demographic 人口统计学的

　　Demographic pressures threaten to burden the next generation with heavy costs. 人口压力危机下一代的承重负担。

　　Demographic change is another reason why the workforce¹³ is greying. 人口变化是劳动力老龄化的又一原因。

　　Grey 灰色的;灰色

　　Today, the canopy¹⁴ of the heaven is grey. 今天的天幕是灰色的。

　　The most popular color this autumn is grey. 今年秋天最流行灰色。

　　Sub-Sahara Africa (非洲)撒哈拉以南的

1 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

2 herd   

n.兽群，牧群；vt.使集中，把…赶在一起

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见，只是人云亦云。

3 livestock   

n.家畜，牲畜

参考例句：

• Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
• The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 poultry   

n.家禽，禽肉

参考例句：

• There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
• What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?

6 spores   

n.（细菌、苔藓、蕨类植物）孢子( spore的名词复数 )v.（细菌、苔藓、蕨类植物）孢子( spore的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Ferns, mosses and fungi spread by means of spores. 蕨类植物、苔藓和真菌通过孢子传播蔓生。
• Spores form a lipid membrane during the process of reproducing. 孢于在生殖过程中形成类脂膜。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 预防生物武器

7 millet   

n.小米，谷子

参考例句：

• Millet is cultivated in the middle or lower reaches of the Yellow River.在黄河中下游地区，人们种植谷子。
• The high quality millet flour was obtained through wet milling.采用湿磨法获得了高品质的小米粉。

8 mash   

n.麦芽浆，糊状物，土豆泥；v.把…捣成糊状，挑逗，调情

参考例句：

• He beat the potato into a mash before eating it.他把马铃薯捣烂后再吃。
• Whiskey,originating in Scotland,is distilled from a mash of grains.威士忌源于苏格兰，是从一种大麦芽提纯出来的。

9 sorghum   

n.高粱属的植物，高粱糖浆，甜得发腻的东西

参考例句：

• We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.这块地可以种高粱或玉米。
• They made sorghum into pig feed.他们把高粱做成了猪饲料。

10 maize   

n.玉米

参考例句：

• There's a field planted with maize behind the house.房子后面有一块玉米地。
• We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.这块地可以种高粱或玉米。

11 cavalry   

n.骑兵；轻装甲部队

参考例句：

• We were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry. 我们翼侧受到一队骑兵的袭击。
• The enemy cavalry rode our men down. 敌人的骑兵撞倒了我们的人。

12 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

13 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

14 canopy   

n.天篷，遮篷

参考例句：

• The trees formed a leafy canopy above their heads.树木在他们头顶上空形成了一个枝叶茂盛的遮篷。
• They lay down under a canopy of stars.他们躺在繁星点点的天幕下。