TOEFL Lesson 46.1

When apple growers talk about new varieties of apples, they don't mean something developed last month, last year, or even in the last decade.

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Blood cholesterol used to be thought of as a problem only for adults.

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A metal-worker of 3,000 years ago would recognize virtually every step of the lost-wax process used to cast titanium for jet engines.

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There is more quartz in the world than any one kind of feldspar, but the feldspars as a group are five times more common than quartz.

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Compares with the rest of its brain, the visual area of a turtle's brain is comparatively small since turtles, like all other reptiles, depend on senses other than sight.

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Contrary to popular belief, there is no validity to the stories one hears of initials carved in a tree by a young boy becoming elevated high above his head when he visits the tree as an old man.

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illegible handwriting does not indicate weakness of character, as even a quick glance at the penmanship of George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, or John Kennedy reveals.

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William Faulkner set many of his novels in and around an imaginary town, Jefferson, Mississippi, which he closely patterned after his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi.

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Most fish take on, to a certain degree, the coloration of their natural surroundings, so it is not surprising that the fish inhabiting warm, shallow waters around tropical reefs are colored all the brilliant tints of the rainbow.

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Although sheepherding is an older and more beloved occupation, shepherds never caught the attention of American filmmakers they way cowboys did.

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