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托福词汇题精选介绍(十八)

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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

345. Engraving, which grew out of the goldsmith‘s art, originated in Germany and northern Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. It is an intaglio process (from Italian intagliare, “to carve”) . The image is incised into a highly polished metal plate, usually copper, with a cutting instrument, or burin.

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

(A) burned

(B) cut

(C) framed

(D) baked

346. Both woodcut and engraving have distinctive characteristics. Engraving lends itself to subtle modeling and shading through the use of fine lines.

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

(A) unique

(B) accurate

(C) irregular

(D) similar

347. Both methods can yield several hundred good-quality prints before the original block or plate begins to show signs of wear.

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

(A) imitate

(B) produce

(C) revise

(D) contrast

348. But not all animal parents, even those that tend their offspring to the point of hatching or birth, feed their young.

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

(A) sit on

(B) move

(C) notice

(D) care for

349. Few insects feed their young after hatching, but some make other arrangement,provisioning their cells and nests with caterpillars and spiders that they have paralyzed with their venom and stored in a state of suspended animation so that their larvae might have a supply of fresh food when they hatch.

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

(A) supplying

(B) preparing

(C) building

(D) expanding

350. For animals other than mammals, then, feeding is not intrinsic to parental care. Animals add it to their reproductive strategies to give them an edge in their lifelong quest for descendants.

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

(A) opportunity

(B) advantage

(C) purpose

(D) rest

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