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TOEFL【Integrated Writing】TPO22

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(50/50)

The discovery that Haydn’s and Mozart’s symphonies were conducted during their lifetimes by a pianist who plays the chords to keep the orchestra together has given rise to early music recording in which a piano can be heard obtrusively in the foreground, despite evidence indicating that the orchestral piano was virtually inaudible to audiences at eighteenth-century concerts and was dropped as musically necessary when a better way to beat time was found.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(49/50)

None of these translations to screen and stage, however, dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee, which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan’s three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babbling about drawbridges and battlements.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(48/50)

Though historically there is a discernible break between Jewish law of sovereign state of ancient Israel and of the Diaspora (the dispersion of Jewish people after the conquest of Israel), the spirit of the legal matter in later parts of the Old Testament is very close to that of Talmud, one of primary codifications of Jewish law in the Diaspora.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(47/50)

The history of global diversity can be summarized as follows : after the initial flowering of multicellular animals, there was a swift rise in the number of species in early Paleozoic times (between 600 and 430 million years ago) , then plateau-like stagnation for the remaining 200 million years of the Paleozoic era, and finally a slow but steady climb through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras to diversity’s all-time high.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(46/50)

The people’s liberty consists not in their original responsibility for what exists, but merely in the faculty they have acquired of abolishing any detail that may distress or wound them, and of imposing any new measure, which, seen against the background of existing laws, may commend itself from time to time to their instinct and mind.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(45/50)

Because the increased awareness of civil rights in these decades helped reinforce the belief that life on reservations prevented Native Americans from exercising the rights guaranteed to citizens under the United State Constitution, the readjustment movement advocated the end of the federal government’s involvement in Native American affairs and encouraged the assimilation of Native Americans as individuals into mainstream society.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(44/50)

In the early 1950’s, historians who studied preindustrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite: the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books. 

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(43/50)

The physicist rightly dreads precise argument, since an argument that is convincing only if it is precise loses all its force if the assumption on which it is based are slightly changed, whereas an argument that is convincing through imprecise may well be stable under small perturbations of its underlying assumption.

TOEFL【Integrated Writing】TPO51