托福词汇例题汇总讲解

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　　例1. The world’s heaviest flower is a parasite that flourishes among, and lives off of, the roosts of jungle vines. Each of these ponderous blooms can weigh up to 15 pounds ().
　　The word ponderous in the passage is closest in meaning to____.
　　A. smelly B. hidden C. mature D. heavy
　　例2. Some of the proposed mechanisms required a very brief period during which all extinctions suddenly took place; other mechanisms would be more likely to have taken place more gradually, over an extended period, or at different times on different continent. Some hypotheses fail to account for simultaneous extinctions on land and in the seas.
　　The word extended in the passage is closest in meaning to ____.
　　A. specific B. unlimited C. reasonable D. long
　　例3. An asteroid of this size would be expected to leave an immense crater, even if the asteroid itself was disintegrated by the impact. The intense heat of the impact would produce heat-shocked quartz in many types of rock.
　　This world intense in the passage is closest in meaning to____.
　　A. sudden B. unusual C. immediate D. extreme
　　例1. She embarked on her career by working as a newspaper reporter in and soon began writing novels.
　　The phrase embarked on in this sentence is closest in meaning to ____.
　　A. took a trip to
　　B. started out on
　　C. improved upon
　　D. had an opinion about
　　例2. The subject of the paintings are mostly animals. The paintings rest on bare walls, with no backdrops or environmental trappings.
　　The word trappings in the passage is closest in meaning to _____.

　　A. conditions
　　B. problems
　　C. influences
　　D. decorations
　　例3. Several skeletons of another early whale, Basilosaurus, were found in sediments left by the and now exposed in the dessert.
　　The world exposed in the passage is closest in meaning to ____.
　　A. explained
　　B. visible
　　C. identified
　　D. located
　　例1. We might expect that early artist efforts would be crude, but the cave paintings of Spain and southern France show a marked degree of skill. So do the naturalistic painting on slabs of stone excavated in southern Afirca.
　　The world marked in the passage is closest in meaning to ___.
　　A. Considerable
　　B. Surprising
　　C. Limited
　　D. Adequate
　　例2. Furthermore, the figures in the paintings are sized according to their social status; they do not show larger figures in the foreground and smaller ones in the background like some other styles of art do. Although Egyptian paintings seem rather stilted compared to modern paintings, the Egyptians understood proportion and much about human and animal forms. They simply avoided displaying this knowledge in their artwork.
　　The word stilted in the passage is closest in meaning to ____.
　　A. outdated
　　B. unnatural
　　C. minuscule
　　D. simplistic
　　例 1. This desert, which already occupy approximately a fourth of the Earth’s land surface, have in recent decades been increasing at an alarming pace. This expansion of desert-like conditions into areas where they did not previously exist is called desertification. It has been estimated that an additional one-fourth of the Earth land surface is threatened by this process.
　　The world threatened in the passage is closest in meaning to___.
　　A. restricted
　　B. endangered
　　C. prevented
　　D. rejected
　　例 2. Children normally desire to vent aggressive impulses on other people, including their partents, because even the most attentive parents cannot gratify all of their demands immediately.
　　The world gratify in the passage is closest meaning to ___.
　　A. identify
　　B. modify
　　C. satisfy
　　D. simplify