老托福阅读大放送(1995-2005年).docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料 老托福阅读大放送（1995-2005年） 摘要： 新托福在2006年5月后在中国国内执行，就目前的新托福阅读来说，其中还有不少托福阅读的原题是继承了老托福阅读的，因此做好老托福阅读的真题是我们冲刺新托福的基础，希望考生能够善用这些老托福阅读的真题。  关于新老 托福 阅读部分对比  新托福 ：3篇学术文章，每篇700字左右，每篇有12-14个问题。时间：60-100分钟 分数：0-30分  老托福：5篇学术文章，每篇250-350字左右，每篇有10个问题。时间：55分钟 分数：31-67分  今天为大家分享这份很好的 托福阅读 备考资料，95-05年老托福阅读真题，对于刚着手备考托福的伙伴们，这份资料很有用，一般情况下，直接去做新托福的阅读题目，会有一些力不从心，可能会因为做不好影响备考心情，可以从老托福阅读体会ETS出题的规律：喜欢出哪一种类型的阅读文章，喜欢选择什么样的阅读题材，喜欢怎样的文章结构，出题方向等等;还可以把阅读本身当做词汇记忆的一种方法。一举两得。  新老托福阅读:内容节选 1997.12  Before the mid-1860s, the impact of the railroads in the United States was limited, in the sense that the tracks ended at the Missouri River, approximately the centers of the country. At that point the trains turned their freight, mail, and passengers over to steamboats, wagons, and stagecoaches. This meant that wagon freighting, stagecoaching and steamboating did not come to an end when the first train appeared; rather they became supplements or feeders. Each new end-of-track became a center for animal-drawn or waterborne transportation. The major effect of the railroad was to shorten the distance that had to be covered by the older, slower, and more costly means. Wagon freighters continued operating throughout the 1870s and 1880s and into the 1890s, although over constantly shrinking routes, and coaches and wagons continued to crisscross the West wherever the rails had not yet been laid.  The beginning of a major change was foreshadowed in the later 1860s, when the Union Pacific Railroad at last began to build westward from the Central Plaints city of Omaha to meet the Central Pacific Railroad advancing eastward from California through the formidable barriers of the Sierra Nevada. Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the original Pacific Railroad bill in 1862 and a revised, financially much more generous version in 1864, little construction was completed until 1865 on the Central Pacific and 1866 on the Union Pacific. The primary rea