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TOEFL【Integrated Writing】TPO32

Starting in the 1960s and continuing until the 1980s, sailors in Russian submarines patrolling the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean would occasionally hear strange sounds. These underwater noises reminded the submarine crews of frog croaks, so they called the sounds “quackers” (from the Russian word for frog sounds). The sources of the sound seemed to be moving with great speed and agility; however, the submarines’ sonar (a method of detecting objects underwater) was unable to detect any solid moving objects in the area. There are several theories about what might have caused the odd sounds.

TOEFL【Integrated Writing】TPO30

A little over 2,200 years ago, the Roman navy attacked the Greek port city of Syracuse. According to some ancient historians, the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a "burning mirror": a polished copper surface curved to focus the Sun's rays onto Roman ships, causing them to catch fire. However, we have several reasons to suspect that the story of the burning mirror is just a myth and the Greeks of Syracuse never rally built such a device.

TOEFL【Integrated Writing】TPO25

In 1938 an archaeologist in Iraq acquired a set of clay jars that had been excavated two years earlier by villagers constructing a railroad line. The vessel was about 2,200 years old. Each clay jars contained a copper cylinder surrounding an iron rod. The archaeologist proposed that vessel were ancient electric batteries and even demonstrated that they can produce a small electric current when filled with some liquids. However, it is not likely that the vessels were actually used as electric batteries in ancient times.

有一家漢堡店聞名世界，但是沒有像麥當勞的銅臭味遠遠超過漢堡本身的味道

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TOEFL【Integrated Writing】TPO05

As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the buildings were used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three competing theories.

AMONG cultural critics who have spent any time considering the meaning of the circus, clowns are often considered bold anarchists of the theatrical arts. Champions of ill-fitting clothes, itinerants who don't dwell on price-to-rent ratios, clowns are enemies of impulse control, averse to agenda setting. They thrive on humiliation and find truth in naïveté. Clowns, it can be said, are that species of performer ontologically most at odds with all that is New York. 

對於在那些隨時都在花時間探索馬戲團奧義的文化名嘴眼中，小丑阿通常被視為劇場藝術勇敢的叛逆份子。以不修邊幅的穿著著稱，也是個連房租都不想付浪人，他們幫忙帶走觀眾暴怒情緒，討厭被當成媒體寵兒。他們在眾人嘲笑當中成長茁壯，在耍憨中找真相（別人笑我太瘋癲，我笑他人看不穿）。也就是說在所有紐約表演者當中，小丑本質上來說是非常奇葩的表演族群