2018年5月6日
托福阅读题目考试日期：
2018年5月6日
新托福阅读题目：
Passage 2
The recession of the European economy inFourteenth Century
The first paragraph shows that there aremany factors for the recession in Europe. The second paragraph and the thirdparagraph say that the climate is a cause, and the temperature drops by 2degrees. Although it seems to be very small, it has great influence. It is alsomentioned that the trade path of the Mediterranean is very important to them.Next, when agricultural tools arrive at 1300s, there is no change at 1100slevel, so the output of crops is not high. In fact, in the middle of thetwelfth Century, there was a prototype of this problem. The occasional climatewould cause a bad harvest. In Fourteenth Century, it did not reach the degreeof crisis, but in fact, the problem has been continuing, and crop production isincreasingly unable to match the increasing population. The last paragraph saysthat more and more people are running from the countryside to the city to findjobs, but cities can not afford such a large population at all.
14世纪欧洲经济的衰退，第一段表示有很多factors 第二段还是第三段说是气候是一个原因;气温下降2度，虽然看起来变化非常小，但是其实影响很大。(此处有出排错题，选项说气温剧烈变化了)中间提到一个点说地中海的贸易道路被阻了所以选择找新的路线，因为维持与亚洲的贸易对他们来说很重要;
大概记得最后一个点是说：农业工具到了1300s还一直维持在1100s的水平没有变 革，所以农作物的产量就不高。其实在13 世纪中期已经有这个问题的雏形了，偶尔的气候之类的原因会导致收成很不好，14世纪虽然还没有达到危机的程度，但其实问题一直在持续，农作物的产量越来越 不能与不断增加的人口相匹配。