In the 1950s Torreya taxifolia, a type of evergreen tree once very common in the state of Florida, started to die out. No one is sure exactly what caused the decline, but chances are good that if nothing is done, Torreya will soon become extinct. Experts are considering three ways to...
题干分析：可用题干中关键词decline of Venetian shipping定位到第二段第一句。
Venetian shipping had started to decline from about 1530-before the entry into the Mediterranean of large volumes of Dutch and British shipping-and was clearly outclassed by the end of the century. ——威尼斯的航运业已从大约1530年开始衰退,在...
THE DECLINE OF VENETIAN SHIPPING 1. resurgence复兴,复活,所以正确答案是comeback。不认识的同学想想前缀re-,表示再次,所以能沾边儿的就只有B的back了。代入后的意思是经济上的什么使得这些城市成为最重要的经济中心,复兴是说得通的。尽管A转变C计划和D扩张也不算错,但词缀明显告诉我们正确答案是B。 2. ...
The Decline of Venetian Shipping In the late thirteenth century, northern Italian cities such as Genoa, Florence, and Venice began an economic resurgence that made them into the most important economic centers of Europe. By the seventeenth century, however, other European powers had taken over, ...
托福阅读真题第230篇TheClassicMayanCollapse(答案文章最后)(1) The Classic Mayan Collapse Paragraph 1:The Classic Mayan civilization, located in the lowlands of present-day southern Mexico and Central America, began a precipitous decline around A.D. 900. The majority of the people abandoned their gre...
托福阅读句子插入题:The Decline of Venetian Shipping 【Paragraph 2】This decline can be seen clearly in the changes that affected Venetian shipping and trade. First, Venic’s intermediary functions in the Adriatic Sea, where it had dominated the business of shipping for other parties, were lost ...
The Decline of Venetian Shipping In the late thirteenth century, northern Italian cities such as Genoa, Florence, and Venice began an economic resurgence that made them into the most important economiccenters of Europe. By the seventeenth century, however, other European powers had taken over, as...
shift eastward of seasonal rains may have been responsible for decreasing moisture on the western Indian subcontinent, encouraging a drying trend that became well established there and inMesopotamia, where civilizations also began to decline around the same period. Ironically , both the Harappan and ...