7 Nuggets of TOEFL reading (vol.2)

1. Heavy rain and hail often occur in thunderstorms that later produce tornadoes.

2. Grandma Moses is among the most celebrated twentieth-century painters in the United States.

3. Grandma Moses’ pictures were first sold at the local, drugstore and a fair, and we’re soon spotted by a dealer who bought everything she painted.

4. Grandma Moses produced son 2,000 pictures.

5. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistic, is represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses all of which led to modern descriptive statistics.

6. The beaver is North America’s largest rodent.

7. The beaver’s legendary capacity for hard work has produced some astonishing results.