利用托福阅读备考托福写作：官方真题Official1-1 Groundwater亮眼句式剖析（原TPO）
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官方真题Official 阅读部分就是一个非常好的语料库，虽然里面的内容大都是科普类的，可能很难直接搬到我们的作文中，但是论证所需的词、短语、句式、乃至结构都是完全可以搬到我们的写作中来的。大家在做阅读的时候如果时间允许，可以多去思考一下，人家的文章结构是什么，每一段的展开的结构又是什么，有哪些结构、句式和表达式可以用到我们写作中。下面我们来看一下官方真题Official1-1 Groundwater这篇阅读文章中有哪些句式值得借鉴应用到我们的托福写作中。
原句1
Groundwater is the word used to describe water that saturates the ground, filling all the available spaces.
地下水是指渗入到地下并将所有孔隙填满的水。
句式1
… is the word to describe …
例句1
Multitasking is a word to describe a situation in which a person is dealing with several tasks at the same time, which is proven by science to be one of the major culprits of tension and anxiety.
多任务描述的是人们同时处理事儿的情况，这被科学证明是紧张和焦虑的罪魁祸首。
原句2
At first thought it seems incredible that there can be enough space in the “solid” ground underfoot to hold all this water. The necessary space is there, however, in many forms.
乍一看来让人觉得难以置信的是，在我们脚下“坚实的”土地中竟然有足够的空间能储存这么多水。然而，地下水所需的储存空间的确以多种多样的形式存在着。
句式2
At first thought it seems incredible that …. The … is there, however, in many forms.
例句2
At first thought it seems incredible that Chinese students are exposed to so much pressure that a growing number of them are suffering from some form of mental illness. The stress is there, however, in many forms.
乍一看来让人觉得难以置信的是中国的学生面临着如此大的压力以至于越来越多的学生遭受某些形式的精神疾病。压力确实存在，然而，以多种不同的形式。
原句3
The same thing happens to this day, though on a smaller scale, wherever a sediment-laden river or stream emerges from a mountain valley onto relatively flat land, dropping its load as the current slows: the water usually spreads out fanwise, depositing the sediment in the form of a smooth, fan-shaped slope.
现代也有冰水沉积，尽管规模相对较小。凡是有携带沙石的河流或者溪流从山谷流至相对平坦的地面时，砂石就随着水流速度的减慢逐渐沉淀;水流通常呈扇形扩散，它们所携带的沙石也会沉淀为光滑的扇形斜面。
句型3
The same thing happens to …, though …, ….
例句3
同样的事儿也发生在老年人身上，尽管出于不同的原因，老年人有相对低水平的消费并且不太愿意跟别人攀比在做重要的购买决定的时候。
