文档介绍：2017年5月13日托福写作真题及答案解析
2017年5月13日托福写作真题及答案解析
2017年05月13日 托福写作考题回忆
综合
阅读：金字塔中转轴的意图
，在金字塔底层房间会有很多工作烟雾（因为照明），所以shaft可以达到通风效果
，赋予宗教含义
，让国王的灵魂来世可以进来
听力：并不赞同
1. 外部的空气渗透到上层房间就停止
2. 并没有任何科学记载，证明和星星联系。并没有任何宗教含义。
3. 通道的门经常是处于封闭状态，并没有来世灵魂进入这一说法。
Sample Answer：
Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss the functions of the shafts found in the Great Pyramid. However, the lecture questions the accuracy of the theories proposed in the reading one by one.
In the first place, whereas the author argues that the shafts are built for ventilation, the speaker refutes this for two reasons. Firstly, unlike the higher shafts, the shafts of the lower chamber are unable to reach the outer wall, which makes it impossible to bring in fresh air. Secondly, since the four shafts are quite similar, they are likely to have the same function. But in this case, only two of them are capable of bringing in fresh air, while the others are not. For these reasons, the lecturer asserts that these shafts are not for ventilation.
In the second place, the lecturer discounts the reading passage’s claim that there’s a link between the shafts and the alignment of stars. He goes on to say that the connection between stars and gods didn’t appear until the later period of ancient Egypt. Nevertheless, the pyramid was built d