想要成功应对托福阅读，除了各个托福阅读题型之外，最为基础的就是词汇了。托福阅读中有一些关键但又容易被忽略的词汇，之所以被忽略，是因为它们貌似简单，但想要它们往往在托福阅读的文中担负 重要的使命。那么，在以下内容中雅雅就为大家带来托福阅读中常见的 100 个词汇，希望能为大家备考带来一些帮助。

1. a couple of 两三个，几个 Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser wasnot completed until a couple of years later.

2. account for 解释Variations of clay composition and the temperatures at which they are firedaccount for the differences in texture and appearance.

3. adapt to 使适应于They have been able to adapt to ecological changes.

4, adorn with sth 用…装饰 Some pots were adorned with incised or stamped decorations.5.appeal to 吸引 Publishing literature consisting ofexciting stories that would appeal to both children and adults

6.apply to 适用于Ethological theory began to be applied to research on children in the 1960’s.

7.at best 充其量，最多Hunting is at best a precarious way of procuring food, even when the diet is supplementedwith seeds and fruits.

8.at intervals 相隔一定距离 However, at intervals of 10 to 100 years, these glaciers moveforward up to 100 times faster than usual.

9.at the expense of sth 在损害…的情况下 A multitude of microorganisms maketheir livings directly at the expense of other creatures.

10.at the height of sth 在…最鼎盛时期 The violin had reached the height ofits popularity by the middle of the eighteenth century.

11.back and forth 来回地 They then spiral back and forth between the Earth's magnetic polesvery rapidly.

12.be absent from 缺席，不在 Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, womenline were not considered an important force in history.

13.be capable of 能…的 Many animals are capable of using objects in the naturalenvironment as rudimentary tools.

14. be characterized by 以…为特征 The nervous system of vertebrates ischaracterized by a hollow, dorsal nerve cord that ends in the head region as anenlargement, the brain.

15.be composed of 由…组成 Ocean life is primarily composed of plants.

16.be concerned with 与某事物有关 Ethnology is concerned with the study of adaptive, or survival,value of behavior and its Evolutionary history.

17.be distinct from 与…不同 Jupiter and the other giant planets areof a low-density type quite distinct from the terrestrial planets

18.be essential to 对…不可缺少 Public performance is essential toverbal art.

19.be exposed to 使接触，使遭受 Body contact reduces the surface area exposed to the cold air.

20.be far from 离…很远，根本不是 But far from being random, molt is controlled by strong evolutionaryforces that have established an optimal time and duration.

21. be hostile to 极不友好的，极厌恶的 Ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans 22.be regarded as 被认为是 Humanity's primal efforts to systematize the concepts of size,shapes, and number are usually regarded as the earliest mathematics.

23.be related to 与…有关的，相联系的 Why is dancing closely related to popular music in the UnitedStates?

24. be responsible for 对…负责 In fact, nuclear reactions that converthydrogen to helium are responsible for most of the energy that stars produce.

25. be sensitive to 对…敏感的 Ants can be extremely sensitive tothese signals.

26.be subjected to 经历，遭受 Oil is formed when organic material trapped in sediments is slowlyburied and subjected to increased temperatures and pressures, transforming itinto petroleum.

27. be superior to 优越于 Natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones

28 .be traced to 找出根源 The ancestry of the piano can be traced to the early keyboardinstruments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

29. be/become aware of 意识到，认识到 People became aware of the new service by word of mouth ornewspaper advertisements.

30. be/become/get accustomed to 习惯于 In the harsh environment of northern Europe, Scandinavian women hadbeen accustomed to practicing forms of shifting cultivation, and theyimmediately understood Native American horticulture.

31. be/become/get involved in 与…有关联的 Two distinct processes are involved inmolting. 32.benefit from 从…中受益Students benefit from schools, which require long hours and homework.

33.break down 分解All of these forces slowly break down the Earth's exposed rocky crust intosmaller and smaller pieces that eventually become clay.

34.by far 到目前为止Marine sediment is by far the most important environment for the preservationof fossils.

35.by means of 通过，凭借 The topic of the passage is developed primarily by means ofAdividing the discussion into two major areas.

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