胡敏读故事记单词托福词汇144

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144 calamities¹ maybe fool the world

The mighty² mammoth³ once was the largest mamo of them all, a sight of magnificence, if not to say majesty⁴, as it strolled across the primoridy of landscape. But where have they gone, those mighty beasts? One theory is that some malign⁵ organism caused that majestic⁶ mammoth demise⁷. Another is that there was some serious flaw in the mammoth’s genetic⁸ makeup⁹, leading to a gradual decrease in fertility rates. Yet another is that a medial of large magnitude struck earth. The resulting dust cloud hit the planet in darkness lasting¹⁰ for many years. This magnified devastation¹¹ by leading to a major decline in the yield of wild maze¹², their major source of protein. If that be so, the beasts would have gradually and painfully died of malnutrition¹³. Natural calamities such as medial strikes luckily are rare occurrences. Much more frequent are malicious¹⁴ attacks by the arranged people who, for some reason or other, have become seriously malcontent¹⁵, in days of old a simple tool such as a mallet¹⁶ would often be those maniacs’ means of attack. With increasing scientific and technological¹⁷ progress alas¹⁸, they increasingly went their malevolent¹⁹ intent by the release of poisonous gas or organisms, resulting in serious malady²⁰ or even death for many. In some crowded mall or station concourse, what could be the causes for such acts of malice²¹? One wonders. Mercifully, those criminals spent most of their energy and ideological²² in doctrination, leaving insufficient²³ time for the maintenance of their equipment. Cases of malfunction²⁴ are therefore fairly common, causing the attackers designed to be thwarted²⁵.