老真题练习记托福词汇3

　　The word "maintain" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) improve

　　(B) monitor

　　(C) preserve

　　(D) restore

　　022. In addition, there were performers and since considerable importance was attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites, religious leaders usually assumed that task.

　　The word "considerable" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) thoughtful

　　(B) substantial

　　(C) relational

　　(D) ceremonial

　　023. In addition, there were performers and since considerable importance was attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites, religious leaders usually assumed that task.

　　The word "enactment" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) establishment

　　(B) performance

　　(C) authorization

　　(D) season

　　024. Staggering tasks confronted the people of the United States, North and South, when the Civil War ended. About a million and a half soldiers from both sides had to be demobilized, readjusted to civilian life, and reabsorbed by the devastated economy.

　　The word "Staggering" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) specialized

　　(B) confusing

　　(C) various

　　(D) overwhelming

　　025. About a million and a half soldiers from both sides had to be demobilized, readjusted to civilian life, and reabsorbed by the devastated economy.

　　The word "devastated" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) developing

　　(B) ruined

　　(C) complicated

　　(D) fragile

　　026. Some botanists hypothesized that the living cells of plants acted as pumps. But many experiments demonstrated that the stems of plants in which all the cells are killed can still move water to appreciable heights.

　　The word "demonstrated" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) ignored

　　(B) showed

　　(C) disguised

　　(D) distinguished

　　027. As water is lost from the surface of the leaves, a negative pressure, or tension, is created. The evaporated water is replaced by water moving from inside the plant in unbroken columns that extend from the top of a plant to its roots. The same forces that create surface tension in any sample of water are responsible for the maintenance of these unbroken columns of water.

　　The word "extend" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) stretch

　　(B) branch

　　(C) increase

　　(D) rotate

　　028. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the omnibuses, horse railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more distant from city centers than they were in the premodern era.

　　The word "vast" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) large

　　(B) basic

　　(C) new

　　(D) urban

　　029. The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 new residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago, most of them located in outlying areas.

　　The word "sparked" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) brought about

　　(B) surrounded

　　(C) sent out

　　(D) followed

　　030. Anxious to take advantage of the possibilities of commuting, real estate developers added 800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty years-lots that could have housed five to six million people.

　　The word "potential" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) certain

　　(B) popular

　　(C) improved

　　(D) possible

 

老真题练习记托福词汇的延伸阅读——托福词汇速记技巧

 

　　一、制定一个严格的2-3个月的背单词计划和有效的利用词汇记忆法，快速背3-5遍词汇书，对单词建立深刻的做题印象。对于要准备TOFEL或GRE考试的同学来说，背单词书是绝对不可回避的。同时对于任何水平的英语学习者来说，当拿起一本厚厚的TOFEL或GRE词汇书时，都将意味着一种挑战，都将意味着对英语学习本质性的提高一个良好开始。

　　考生一般需要花费2--3个月的时间来严格重复记忆单词。在3-5遍之后会对单词的外形与词义有一个最起码的模糊而又有印象的整体感觉。在此之后，考生可以通过题目来加深对词汇的进一步记忆和理解运用。

　　1、首先必须选择合适的词汇书，托福词汇书现在特别多，主要有俞敏洪、李笑来、张红岩、王玉梅的词汇书比较受欢迎。

新托福词汇量相较旧托福的确有所加大，你可以选其中任何一本，比如李笑来的《21天突破TOEFL核心词汇》或王玉梅的《TOEFL词汇》(最新版)，王玉梅的词汇书收录词汇应该是最大的(5000多个单词)，外加电脑软件《新东方背单词4》，这样就比较系统。如果按照每天新背一个list的进度，40天就可以背完第一遍。(但要注意不要放松对旧单词的复习，一定要科学的重复，巩固旧单词的重要性不亚于背新单词)。