托福考试综合提升：

阅读部分：Ophir 这个古国的位置可能在南亚

1.origin of the goods

2.Long time needed for the shipment

3.Similar words

范文：The reading discusses the reasons that Ophir was located in South Asian, but the professor fights against all those theories in the reading passage.

First,the author claims that many goods traded by Ophir’s merchants come from South Asia. However, the professor indicates that that doesn’t necessarily mean the Ophir was in South Asia. It is because goods produced in various places were first brought to trading centers in the ancient world. Therefore, goods were first brought from South Asia to the trading center of Ophir, which may have been located somewhere else.

Second,the passage states that the long voyage time is consistent with the idea that Ophir was located in South Asia. In contrast, the speaker says that a ship sailing from a less distant place could take a year or more as well.