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。
327. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild-and the accumulated knowledge of lens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.
The word “controlled” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) abundant
(B) managed
(C) required
(D) advanced
328. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends.
The word “illuminated” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) illustrated
(B) accepted
(C) clarified
(D) lighted
329. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers-the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table-is itself far from innate.
The word “prerequisite” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) reason
(B) theory
(C) requirement
(D) technique
330. The droplets or ice crystals in clouds are exceedingly small. The effect of gravity on them is minute. Air currents move and lift droplets so that the net downward displacement is zero, even though the droplets are in constant motion.
The word “minute” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) second
(B) tiny
(C) slow
(D) steady
341. Its peoples became great traders, bartering jewellery, pottery, animal pelts, tools, and other goods along extensive trading networks that stretched up and down eastern North America and as far west as the Rocky Mountains.
The word “bartering” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) producing
(B) exchanging
(C) transporting
(D) loading
342. Over the next centuries, it was supplanted by another culture, the Mississippian, named after the river along which many of its earliest villages were located.
The word “supplanted” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) conquered
(B) preceded
(C) replaced
(D) imitated
343. Most of these towns boasted at least one major flat-topped mound on which stood a temple that contained a sacred flame. Only priests and those charged with guarding the flame could enter the temples.
The phrase “charged with” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) passed on
(B) experienced at
(C) interested in
(D) assigned to
344. Printmaking is the generic term for a number of processes, of which woodcut and engraving are two prime examples.
The word “prime” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) principal
(B) complex
(C) general
(D) recent