精选托福词汇练习题介绍（17）

　　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。

　　159. Beads are miniature bundles of secrets waiting to be revealed: their history, manufacture, cultural context, economic role, and ornamental use are all points of information one hopes to unravel.

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

　　(A) communicate

　　(B) transport

　　(C) improve

　　(D) discover

　　160. Even the most mundane beads may have traveled great distances and been exposed to many human experiences.

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

　　(A) carved

　　(B) beautiful

　　(C) ordinary

　　(D) heavy

　　161. Wagon freighters continued operating throughout the 1870‘s and 1880’s and into the 1890‘s,although over constantly shrinking routes, and coaches and wagons continued to crisscross the West wherever the rails had not yet been laid.

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

　　(A) lead the way

　　(B) separate

　　(C) move back and forth

　　(D) uncover

　　162. The primary reason was skepticism that a railroad built through so challenging and thinly settled a stretch of desert, mountain, and semiarid plain could pay a profit.

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

　　(A) doubt

　　(B) amazement

　　(C) urgency

　　(D) determination

　　163. In discussing the Pacific Railroad bill, the chair of the congressional committee bluntly stated that without government subsidy no one would undertake so unpromising a venture; yet it was a national necessity to link East and West together.

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

　　(A) persuasion

　　(B) financing

　　(C) explanation

　　(D) penalty

　　164. However, the concept of number and the counting process developed so long before the time of recorded history (there is chaeological evidence that counting was employed by humans as far back as 50,000 years ago) that the manner of this development is largely conjectural.

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

　　(A) complex

　　(B) based on guessing

　　(C) unbelievable

　　(D) supported by careful research

　　165. Probably the earliest way of keeping a count was by some simple tally method, employing the principle of one-to-one correspondence. In keeping a count of sheep, for example, one finger per sheep could be turned under.

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

　　(A) using

　　(B) paying

　　(C) focusing

　　(D) hiring

　　166. Counts could also be maintained by making scratches in the dirt or on a stone, by cutting notches in a piece of wood, or by tying knots in a string.

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

　　(A) justified

　　(B) asserted

　　(C) located

　　(D) kept