精选托福词汇练习题介绍（12）

　　今天为大家整理了一篇托福词汇练习题，供大家参考，以下是详细内容。

　　089. On the other hand, when it comes to substantive-particularly behavioral- information, crows are less well known than many comparably common species and, for that matter, not a few quite uncommon ones: the endangered California condor, to cite one obvious example. There are practical reasons for this.

　　The word “comparably” is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) interestingly

　　(B) similarly

　　(C) otherwise

　　(D) sometimes

　　090. Being so educable, individual birds have markedly different interests and inclinations, strategies and scams.

　　The word “inclination” is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) tricks

　　(B) opportunities

　　(C) preferences

　　(D) experiences

　　101. The range of the New York canal system was still further extended when the states of Ohio and Indiana, inspired by the success of the Erie Canal, provided water connections between Lake Erie and the Ohio River.

　　The word “extended” is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) increased

　　(B) constructed

　　(C) deepened

　　(D) measured

　　102. The answer lay in a resource that unknowing Americans had trampled underfoot in their haste to cross the “Great American Desert” to reach lands that sometimes proved barren. In the eastern parts of the United States, the preferred grass for forage was a cultivated plant.

　　The word “barren” is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) lonely

　　(B) dangerous

　　(C) uncomfortable

　　(D) infertile

　　103. In the eastern parts of the United States, the preferred grass for forage was a cultivated plant. It grew well with enough rain, then when cut and stored it would cure and become nourishing hay for winter feed.

　　The word “preferred” is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) ordinary

　　(B) available

　　(C) required

　　(D) favored

　　104. They were not juicy like the cultivated eastern grasses, but had short, hard stems. The word “hard” is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) firm

　　(B) severe

　　(C) difficult

　　(D) bitter

　　105. Nevertheless, most domestic architecture of the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century displays a wide divergence of taste and freedom of application of the rules laid down in these books.

　　The word “divergence” is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) description

　　(B) development

　　(C) difference

　　(D) display

　　106. New England still favored wood, though brick houses became common in Boston and other towns, where the danger of fire gave an impetus to the use of more durable material. A few houses in New England were built of stone, but only in Pennsylvania and adjacent areas was stone widely used in dwellings.

　　The word “durable” is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) attractive

　　(B) expensive

　　(C) refined

　　(D) long-lasting