TOEFL词汇精选17天巧记

--经典生词短文大串联背诵法修正版

内容介绍：共17篇短文，是我在备考最后一次"旧托福"期间记忆单词的一点成果积累。主要参考书是张红岩的《TOEFL词汇精选》。共包含了1000多个核心词汇，并且在写作的时候根据金山词霸2005修正了语法错误。

背诵方法：先背3个Unit，然后选出其中的生词写成一篇短文，再把短文背下来，效果很好。希望对各位有帮助！

Unit One The Abduction

An adage says that adversity is transient. The following allegory is an example.

　　Long, long ago there were two couples that had no children. They adopted a boy named Terry. They were affable to Terry and Terry adored them very much. They lived an amicable life and amassed affluent affections.

　　One day two bad men came to the village. They found Terry and accosted him: "Are your parents at home?" "No, they went to drink in the tavern." terry replied. "Good!" alleged one of them, "I've heard of an anecdotesaying that, there's a bulk of ablaze antique treasure hidden somewhere near the apex of the mountain. Do you wish to find it out with us?" Terry was a boy with agility. He was allured and acclaimed: "Wonderful! I'll affiliate you."

　　Consequently, Terry's parents did find him when they came back. "Maybe you have alienated Terry. He finds you acrimonious and left. " The mother said in anguish. "I do not doubt his allegiance; He may have been abducted." replied the father.

　　Just then they received a mail with an annex amalgamated with the text. In the appendix there was an abridged letter: "Your son is in our hands. We've abated his diet and annulled his sleep. We want $10,000 for absolving him. If you are amenable to our advisable request, send the money to the allocated aperture of the sewer at the north of the village within two days; if you adjourn, you'll never see him again!" the letter admonished without any annotation. The letter was not abstruse, but the abhorrent allusion drove them into agony. Quickly they called the police.

　　Several policemen were allotted to the case. They were adroit and adept in their job. Soon they rescued Terry and treated him with antiseptics. The couple felt abashed: "Thanks to the police, their affinity to spec ops amazed us. We'll abstain drinking and accentuate the agrarian work."

　　The criminal and his accomplice were accused for abduction but were acquitted although proof was against them, because the avaricious judge adopted their bribery.

(April, 2th)

Unit Two Greed

　　There were two archaic countries called Albania and Croatia long ago. Albania was arid and bleak while Croatia arable. The king of Albania was an autocrat with belligerent bent who begrudged Croatia and belittled her armament, and he decided to assail Croatia.

　　Firstly, he sent an astute ambassador in bleached apparel to visit Croatia. The king of Croatia held a banquet and appointed him. He avowed: "We Croatians are bestowed by God the ardent aptitudes. We are ascetic as to have few assets and bequests. We're also assiduous and keep austerity." "Sure," the messenger beguiled, "Your people have begotten(原形beget) great attainments, and we want to barter with your country."

　　On hearing that, the Albania king said: "Good, nobody can balk us." And he basted Croatia with his army. They bereaved Croatia's land and beset its capital. The Croatia king was astounded and berated: "You shit belied your avid aspire for our land and blemished justice!" All Croatian officials were befuddled and began to bicker with each other. Only one minister said: "Although situation is arduous, we shall not apprehend them. I've appraised them and asserted that their ardor won't last long. Everything is auspicious and will get assuaged."

　　The Albania-forces' general thought: "Our king is too bigoted. Ever since I passed his audition and became general, my allegiance has been basked in attrition. I've awed him, but now filled with aversion. I'll kill him and retire. I'm apt to study barometer." So he aspersed: "Our king is avaricious and barbarous. We shouldn't bend to his arrogance." Then he sent an assassin and assassinated the king.

(April, 3th)

Unit Three Prisoners of War

　　Thousands of war prisoners were kept in captivity in the bulky camp. They lived in clutter and had to deal with chores. They must show categorical obedience or else receive caustic chiding. The guarding officers censure them very often, as well as clamor carnal punishments. Some captives got bruise and clots all over. Male prisoners lost their collaterals and female ones failed to keep chaste.

　　They wear burnished canvas, and rested in circumscribed room with small capacity and caliber. They chafe each other and brawled frequently. They were chary of moving and can hardly budge. Their situations captivated lots of reporters, who castigated the government with cogent proof. However, the government gave bombastic data and bragged about the conditions in the camps.

　　After the calamity of war ceased, large numbers of captives were longing for the boon of brisk and free life. According to a clandestine bond between the two canny governments, a process of exchanging captives will soon commence. This is considered as opening a cleft in the clogged wall between the two countries.

(April, 4th)

Unit Four Laden's End

　　As Osama Ben Laden(奥萨马-本-拉登)'s forces failed contending with the Northern Confederate, he had to abandon the commodious capital city of Kabul and conceal his trail inside the contour of large mountains and caverns. His career comprises confidentialconspiracy, conspicuous terrorist assaults, Islamic fundamentalist creed and contemptible crimes. But now, most of Laden 's subordinates contemplated and become contrite, while castigating him with their conscience.

　　Three months ago, some conciliatory connoisseurs of international affairs from UN came to Afghanistan(阿富汗) with cordialcompassion to the catastrophe occurring there, and consorted Laden. They deem it contingent to arrive at a congruity if Laden would concede. However, Laden was credulous in his counsel's words that the constellation shows fortune to them. He was covetous and contemptuous of his enemy. Confounded by conceit, he craved for uniting the entire nation. Thus he contemned the UN commission's advice and convened his troops for counterstrike.

　　Soon US corroborated that Laden was the person who contrived the new attack method of impacting skyscrapers with planes, and person who conspired the concerted serial assaults in New York. Laden cowered and constricted his mouth. He controvert that he was consecrating some food with condiment to the God in order to confine the contagious disease in Afghanistan, and had no time to organize the attack. But US ignored his construing. They said that Laden's story was concocted and his credential was counterfeited. Then they confiscated it and attacked his troops with bombs that contaminated the whole country.

　　Laden confided his genial" title="a.意气相投的；合适的">congenial officer with composure: "They won't connive our terrorism, any more than condone us. We must consolidate the forces, equip them with the counterpart weapons of US army's, and put compulsive death to those infidels." "You're so composed! Let's conceive something optimistic." The officer commended.

(April, 5th)

Unit Five Family betrayer

　 　Maria was a damsel in a noble family that had passed its culmination and fallen into decadence. She was little defective, for he knew decorum well and was deft at cuisine of desserts. She followed her father's decree and deferred marriage year after year, her best ages detained.

　　One day, Maria's father designated her as a deputy to dispatch a deleterious man who denounced her family and depicted its defects to others. After she saw the man, he declaimed: "You're deluded by your culpable father's deceit. He's a despicable person who despoiled our property. He derided us and denoted that we should work for him. I am the delegate of all deceived people. We detest your father in cynical manners and demur to him before the deities. We live in dank cells and feel dazed frequently, but we're dauntless. We'll keep deprecating him until he deplore."

　　What the man delineated struck Maria greatly. Her deference to father detracted, she said in a dejected mood: "I have despised you poor people but now I'm deferential. You're right in decrying my father's detriment to you all. He deformed the truth and defrauded me. I'll curb my cursory task to put you into demise with this deterrent. Also, I'll detach myself from my family."

　　After some curt compliments, the man said: "Thanks, I'll go around that declivity and dab the bell dangling on the ceiling as a signal for us to escape."

(April, 6th)

Unit Six The Arrogant Scholar

　　Alder is a scholar with many devout disciples. He has been disseminating doctrines that is said to be not having the most diminutivedrawback. He economizes his own life and become emaciated. When he came to our city last year, our domineering boss discerned him and invited him to give us a discourse.

　 　Alder was eloquent and began dilating with elation: "What I want to elucidate today is a problem which is long distained and has dismayed many people. It distracts them all the time and makes them downcast. That is: How to effectuate the discretion in edifying your disposition? ......" He devised lots of dispensable sentences while eluding the important things, thus digressed the topic and the lecture sounded devoid of sense. What's more, his dialects greatly disarrayed the audience and dwindled away the effectiveness of his speech.

　　It was getting dusky and began to drizzle. We all became drowsy and our boss's patience ebbed. He was discreet and didn't want to disfigure himself by forcing Alder to stop, but he really disparage his speech very much and cannot dissemble any more. Eventually, he said in a devious way: "Your topic is discernible, but it's so dingy now. Let's disband the meeting and I'll disburse your plane ticket back home with discounts."

　　Alder became dismal at once. He replied: "Do not dissimulate or disclaim your real purpose. You divulged that your patience have dissipated. Well, if any of you can disprove the topic of my discourse, you can displace me and I'll go home keep dormant. I'm so ductile."

　　"Stop effusing your words filled with discord," shouted the boss angrily, "I've dissected your topic and it embodies nothing. Diversify its content, or I'll efface them. We diverge too much and I have to let you leave, otherwise you're doing nothing but embezzling our money."

(April, 7th)

Unit Seven Great Archaeological Discovery

　　An erratic instrument was exhumed from an excavation of ancient epoch. It looked like a pipe but was embroidered exquisite pictures on it, and could still engender a euphonious sound. As nobody in the country can enunciate what it is, an archaeologist with special expertise skill was enlisted from abroad.

　　Following the envoy, the expert came to the expedient huts encompassing the spot. During his expeditious esteeming, the expert was completely engrossed. He exclaimed: "This is an exotic flute which is the oldest extant one, and all others have been exterminated in ethnic migrations." Then he gave an exemplary play with the pipe, followed by extemporaneous expounding to its structure. Eventually, he extolled the importance of this discovery, showing exorbitant etiquette.

　　The enrapturing local official held a banquette on the archaeologist's exodus. However, the instrument's value enticed the expert and entailed his greed. He emended his plan and wanted to encroach the flute. Thus he exerted his eloquence and equivocated: "Sorry I've made a mistake maybe. According to an excerpt from a book enacted by my teacher, this instrument is unworthy. Its value cannot emulate a common flute."

　　The official was exasperated: "Nobody will endorse such nonsense excluding yourself. Your crime can be neither extenuated nor exempted. Expedite your steps and eschew us, foolish exponent."

　　The archaeologist was enervated and ran away as soon as possible.

(April, 8th)

Unit Eight The Fox and the Chicken

　　The frigid winter and scarce food supply famish many animals, including a ferocious fox. He is almost forlorn because he has garnered little food when the land was fertile, and the flora is extraneous to his diet. He used to be fussy and extravagant with his food but now has to fetter his stomach and be frugal. "What a formidable winter!" he gabbles.

　　Just then his eyes flicker due to a fortuitous discovery. After ferreting about the whole grassland fraught of snow for fishy objects, he finally found a small finch with fuzzy feather and fragrant smell. A chicken! "Aha, facile prey!" the fox was exultant, "Hmm...She looks so fatuous and feeble. But I shall not go forthright, because the feud between foxes and chickens will fluster or fret her, and foment her escape. I must make her believe her foe through frauds."

　　After fitful garnishing, the fox comes up to the fluffy fowl with a genial smile on his face. He feigned that he is a gentry with genteelspeaking genre: "Hey, my fraternal friend! I'm coming to extricate you from a disaster. It's not facetious. Your nest is too flimsy and frail to be a fixture for living. It cannot foil great gales coming soon. However, I can help building a new nest with many fortes for you, which can forestall water exuding. I just want to show my genuine feat and won't extort money from you."

　　"Stop your futile fraudulent figment. It's such gauche farce." the chicken flouted, "Look at the frowsy gash on your cheek. You're the fickle figurehead of the fox clan who just failed in the factious fights."

　　The fox cannot gainsay the chicken's words and left in frenzy frustration.

(April, 9th)

Unit Nine Generation Gap

　　Ted made a fortune and hiked back his idyllic home in illustrious guises. He wore a grand hat, a pair of gilded glossy shoes and a girdle with glazed tip. All neighbors in the gorge welcomed Ted with homage instead of grudging, and he was gleeful as well as haughty.

　　Yet, Ted's father, who used to be humane, criticized him bitterly: "How hideous you are! We used to be hardy and hectic. We're gregarious and never guileless. Now you made a haphazard fortune and lost our virtues. Hearsay says that you get your money by harrying passengers and hewing trees. Somebody even imparted me that you've committed immense homicide. If you've done those illicit things, It's surely ignominious idiosyncrasy, and you'll lose your imminent heirship if you go on like that." He humiliated Ted.

　　Ted imbibed some tea, groped his match and ignited a cigar. "You're too hackneyed and grumpy," he grumbled in a grouchy voice, "I cannot gratify your obsolete ideology. You old people used to live like ignoble cattle and illegible grasses. You glean grain from fields and heave them back in gratitude to the God. You gnaw dirty food everyday, ignorance of hygiene. All my wealth hinges on my gripping many chances and it's unreasonable for you to gibe me like that."

　　The hubbub of haggling attracted many neighbors who were heedless at first. Some of them approved the son's grievance while others took it as heresy. The quarrel's gist was generation gap.

(April, 10th)

Unit Ten Diplomatic Friction

　　A newly inaugurated impervious US submarine with diesel impetus was taking an imperative task near an insular navy base in Japan. As it made its way across the intrinsic flows, an inconceivable fish boat suddenly emerged in front of them. The indolent captain was so imprudent and inert that he turned the steer too late. It was a big submarine with great inertia and the fish boat was in an inept position. It was stricken hard, and the influx of water into the boat's interior space caused the boat to sink in impotence.

　　The imposing accident incited incisive diplomatic frictions after short interlude. Incensed local fishermen were indignant and impetuous. They incriminated the US navy for insulting their nation. Some of them even instigated local governors with inordinate incentive.

　　A group was set up to inquire the accident. After some inquisitive inquiry, they imputed the matter to the fish boat and tried to act as the intermediary to intercede between the fishermen and the US navy. However, the local fishermen were insubordinate and intrepid. Although they're indigent and make livings on indigenous products, they decided to indict the US navy. Their action gained impassioned support and incessant invocation from the mass people. They hoped the insolent US navy could pay the indemnity.

　　The impassive governors, however, feared being implicated in the trouble. They intimidated the fishermen by instilling that, the US navy had innate privileges, and insinuated that their inflexible indictment was ineligible. But the fishermen were indomitable and inverted the infusing. The lawsuit began eventually.

　　All the crew of the submarine was interrogated. Finally all the incredulity dissipated: the intrinsic fault lay in the captain's incipient operation error. Although almost impeccable in the past, there's no impunity for him. When the indented judgment text was announced, the fisherman improvised an impromptu verse to mock the government's improvident waste of time.

(April, 11th)