托福阅读背景知识（八）

　　3. Marilyn Monroe:

　　玛丽莲•梦露

　　A wise woman likes but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe and leaves before she is left.

　　聪明的女人会喜欢但不会深爱，会倾听但不会相信，会在被抛弃以前离开。

　　4. Dick Van Dyke:

　　迪克•范•戴克

　　Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

　　女性绝不会有和男人一样的成功，因为她们没有妻子给她们建议。

　　5. Whitney Houston:

　　惠特尼•休斯顿

　　I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

　　即使是生活在男人的世界里我也喜欢做女人。毕竟，男人不能穿裙子，但是我们能穿裤子。

　　6. Cameron Diaz:

　　卡梅隆•迪亚兹

　　What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

　　我们女人需要做的就是，与其担心我们没有的东西，还不如爱我们已经有的东西。

　　7. Farrah Fawcett:

　　法拉•弗西

　　God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

　　上帝给了女人直觉和女人味儿。使用合理的话，这两者结合就能很容易迷倒我曾遇到过的所有男性。

　　8. Yul Brynner:

　　尤尔•伯连纳

　　Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

　　女孩儿有男孩儿没有的优势：如果她们不能通过变聪明得到她们想要的，那么她们可以通过变得愚笨得到。

　　9. Joseph Conrad:

　　约瑟夫•康拉德

　　Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

　　做女人难，因为主要是和男人打交道。

　　10. Oscar Wilde:

　　奥斯卡•王尔德

　　Women are made to be loved, not understood.

　　女人生来是被爱旳，而不是被理解的。

二、托福阅读背景知识：火山岩

　　Lava （火山岩）

　　Lava is magma that breaks the surface and erupts from a volcano. If the magma is very fluid, it flows rapidly down the volcano’s slopes. Lava that is more sticky and less fluid moves slower. Lava flows that have a continuous, smooth, ropy, or billowy surface are called pahoehoe (pronounced pah HOH ee hoh ee) flows; while a a (pronounced ah ah) flows have a jagged surface composed of loose, irregularly shaped lava chunks. Once cooled, pahoehoe forms smooth rocks, while a a forms jagged rocks. The words pahoehoe and a a are Hawaiian terms that describe the texture of the lava. Lava may also be described in terms of its composition and the type of rock it forms. Basalt, andesite, dacite, and rhyolite are all different kinds of rock that form from lava. Each type of rock, and the lava from which it forms, contains a different amount of the compound silicon dioxide. Basaltic lava has the least amount of silicon dioxide, andesitic and dacitic lava have medium levels of silicon dioxide, while rhyolitic lava has the most.