CRACKING THE TOEFL IBT 2013 EDITION EBOOK AUDIO CD

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Following the Direction of the Passage
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Answers to Drill #1
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contributed to the Cassini-Huygens project.
Mission designers set highly ambilious goals for the project. After Cassini reached Saturn, scientists hoped the craft would help provide answers to some great astronomical mysteries. Most intriguing †[r]

More than a hundred years later, John Keats, one of the most famous Romantic poets, accused Newton of diminishing beauty by "unweaving the rainbow." His colleague, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, famously remarked that the souls of five hund[r]

die. Too mụch water may also harm the plant by saturating the soil and preventing the roots from absorbing oxygen.
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Though the shell itself is made of dead tissue like that of human hair and
fingernails, it is dotted with sensory cells.
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called Avida that has intrigued not only scientists and engineers
but biologists and philosophers as well
The Avida project began in the late 1990s, when Chris Adami, a physicist, sought to create a computer program that could evolve to do simp[r]

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several typical spam messages and identifies common features in them. Any arriving E-mails that
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READING DRILL #1
“The First Environmentalist: Rachel Carson
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The first known flag of a nation or ruler was unmarked: The king who established the Chou Dynasty in China (around 1000 s.c.) was reputed to have a white flag carried ahead of hìm
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50 to 90 percent of U.S. wetlands.
Currently, \wo major policy approaches are being considered by coastal communities. The first, known as the no-protection approach, is based on a philosophy of nonintervention. Communities: in coastal regions simply[r]

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