本文为大家准备了托福词汇题目练习(22)，便于考生托福备考。
212. Puritan town councils expected widows and unattached womento be self- supporting and for a long time provided needy spinsters with parcels of land.
The phrase “unattached women” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) women without high social status
(B) women without property
(C) unmarried women
(D) unemployed women
213. The artisan who makes pottery in North America today utilizes his or her skill and imagination to create items that are beautiful as well as functional, transforming something ordinary into something special and unique.
The word “functional” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) useful
(B) strong
(C) inexpensive
(D) original
214. The potter uses one of the Earth‘s most basic materials: clay. Clay can be found almost anywhere.
The word “basic” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) familiar
(B) fundamental
(D) dirty
215. They then pour on the liquid glaze and let it run over the clay surface, making any kind of decorative pattern that they want.
The word “pattern” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) model
(B) color
(C) puzzle
(D) design
216. Horses live in a monochrome world. Light visible to human eyes, however, occupies only a very narrow band in the whole electromagnetic spectrum.
The word “monochrome” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) monotonous
(B) ultraviolet
(C) one-dimension
(D) one-color
217. The world would look eerily different if human eyes were sensitive to infra-red radiation.
The word “eerily” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) strangely
(B) increasingly
(C) slightly
(D) superficially
218. They are, in fact, remarkably discerning in color gradation. The color sensitivity of normal human vision is rarely surpassed even by sophisticated technical devices.
The word “surpassed” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) recorded
(B) exceeded
(C) found
(D) provided
219. Once, just before he died, when he was sick with the flu, I took him a sack full of oranges. The joy I felt in giving that simple gift is undiminished by time. He said he liked oranges, too. “
The word “undiminished” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) not exaggerated
(B) not lessened
(D) unequaled
220. And he was kind to me; I will always be grateful that in his absolute warmth and generosity he fulfilled my deepest dream (and need) of what a poet should be. “
The word “dream” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) nightmare
(B) expectation
(C) sleep
(D) misconception
221. “After my first meeting with Langston Hughes I vowed I would write a book about him for children someday.
The word “vowed” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) confided
(B) believed
(C) denied
(D) promised
本文为大家准备了托福词汇题目练习(23)，便于考生托福备考。
222. A third process by which salinity may be altered is associated with the formation and melting of sea ice. When seawater is frozen, the dissolved materials are left behind.
The word “altered” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) determined
(B) changed
(C) accumulated
(D) needed
223. With encouragement from the park, local landowners initiated a land-use planning effort to guide the future of the North Fork.
The word “initiated” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) started
(B) requested
(C) purchased
(D) considered
224. The willingness of local landowners to participate in this protection effort may have been stimulated by concerns that Contoeflss would impose a legislative solution.
The word “stimulated” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) motivated
(B) anticipated
(C) substituted
(D) undermined
225. Nevertheless, many local residents want to retain the existing the character of the area.
The word “retain” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) preserve
(B) possess
(C) enjoy
(D) improve
226. There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods
The word “divergent” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) different
(B) distributed
(C) recorded
(D) prominent
227 Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or reducing to comprehensible form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data.
The word “unwieldy” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) unmanageable
(B) unpredictable
(C) understandable
(D) unreliable
228. 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 toeflw 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
229. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual protoeflss depends.
The word “illuminated” is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) illustrated
(B) accepted
(C) clarified
(D) lighted
230. 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
231. 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
