这些单词你真的认识吗？
很多同学在做阅读时都有一个感受，明明很多单词都认识，但是句子理解起来很别扭，这是因为很多单词的释义特别多，不同语境的意思是不一样的。接下来就一起看看托福阅读中高频出现的一词多义吧～
单词1：complex
1.A somewhat stricter requirement is the presence of these elements in molecules that can be used as ready-made building blocks for life, just as early Earth probably had an organic soup of amino acids and other complex molecules. （Elements of Life）
在这里，complex 作形容词，意思是“复杂的”，常考的近义词是complicated
2.The amount of change in any of these elements, at any time, depends on several variables, including the extent of the urban complex, the nature of industry, site factors such as topography and proximity to water bodies, time of day, and existing weather conditions. （TPO56-3 Urban Heat Islands）
在这句话里，complex作名词，意思是“建筑群，综合体系”。
单词2： score
1.Whether Head Start is seen as successful or not depends on the lens through which one is looking. If, for instance, the program is expected to provide long-term increases in IQ (intelligence quotient)scores,it is a disappointment.
在这句话里，scores作名词，意思是“分数”。
2.With the advent of projection, the viewer's relationship with the image was no longer private, as it had been with earlier peepshow devices such as the Kinetoscope and the Mutoscope, which was a similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards instead of on strips of celluloid. It suddenly became public—an experience that the viewer shared with dozens, scores, and even hundreds of others.
在这句话里，scores作名词，意思是“20，许多”。
3.As her technological expertise grew more sophisticated, so did the other aspects of her dances. Although she gave little thought to music in her earliest dances, she later used scores by Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Wagner, eventually graduating to Stravinsky, Fauré, Debussy, and Mussorgsky, composers who were then considered progressive.
在这句话里，scores作名词，意思是“配乐，总谱”。
单词3：project
1.They were reasonably well governed, without notable corruption or grandiose state projects, although in all of them the government gave some aid to railways, and in Sweden the state built the main lines. (Industrialization in the Netherlands and Scandinavia)
在这句话里，project作名词，意思是“项目，方案”。
2.The situation is most critical in Texas, where the climate is driest, the greatest amount of water is being pumped, and the aquifer contains the least water. It is projected that the remaining Ogallala water will, by the year 2030, support only 35 to 40 percent of the irrigated acreage in Texas that is supported in 1980.
(Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer)
在这句话里，project作动词，意思是“预测”。
小试牛刀
请大家来判断以下句子里标红色单词的意思
1.At its height, between about A.D. 150 and 700, it probably had a population of more than 125,000 people and covered at least 20 square kilometers. It had over 2,000 apartment complexes, a great market, a large number of industrial workshops, an administrative center, a number of massive religious edifices, and a regular grid pattern of streets and buildings. （TPO-8The Rise of Teotihuacán）
2.It is difficult to isolate the factors that led to the next development—the emergence of urban settlements. The earliest, that of Eridu, about 4500 B.C.E., and Uruk, a thousand years later, center on impressive temple complexes built of mud brick. In some way, the elite had associated themselves with the power of the gods.（TPO-26-Sumer and the First Cities of the Ancient Near East）
3.In Berlin, for the premiere performance outside the Soviet Union of The Battleship Potemkin, film director Sergei Eisenstein worked with Austrian composer Edmund Meisel (1874-1930) on a musical score matching sound to image; the Berlin screenings with live music helped to bring the film its wide international fame.
4.Wind power has a significant cost advantage over nuclear power and has become competitive with coal-fired power plants in many places. With new technological advances and mass production, projected cost declines should make wind power one of the world’s cheapest ways to produce electricity. (Electricity from Wind)
5.However, there are significant differences in the regional climates predicted by different models. Most models project greater temperature increases in mid-latitude regions and in mid-continental regions relative to the global average. (Population And Climate)
