文档介绍：新托福黄金精选阅读(原黄金29篇)真题[]
【2011年7月5日】
更新TPO18-22的15篇文章
Introduction
Many students sent me E-mail, asking me to mend some reading materials. Of assorted iBT preparing materials, Barron, Longman, Delta, etc, which is the best? As often as not, I feel at a loss: does brand equal to quality? These branded institutions are highly publicized, however, their passages and questions are not necessarily of quality. Does the brand “Sanlu” mean something to you? “QUALITY and safety are the foundations of social harmony,” proclaim posters at the headquarters of the Sanlu Group, until recently one of China’s biggest producers of milk powder. Now we all know that Sanlu Scandal has been more than an embarrassment. To say that these “branded” passages are not of quality does not mean they are not stylish, elegant or carefully-written; in fact, I discovered that the passage types, sentence patterns, arguing methods, and arrangement of questions are not quite consistent with, and sometimes even wildly divergent from those of ETS. I reflect that practicing with these materials cannot expect a satisfactory result. At this, we should collect ETS’s original passages and questions. Such passages available include:
13 passages in Official Guide (OG);
22 sets from TPO, with 3 passages included in each set, 66 passages in total;
3 passages provided by ETS to the applicants for a test on line in the early time of iBT,
1 passage extracted from the simulated exam software provided by ETS;
(3 passages in TPO are abstracted from OG, so they are exactly the same)
Then, I cannot resist the temptation to make such a text: I typed every letter of the 13 passages in OG puter; I paid dollars for the TPO pleted it myself, filming the screen and capturing every page. Then I typed all the passages with the help of videos and captured pictures. The 3 passages in the on-line test happened to be available to me; and as for the one passage in the simulated exam, though with a little difficulty, I n