【托福词汇】词汇模拟精选(一)

　托福考试词汇模拟题精选系列(一)

　　if such hunters first competed with the larger predators and then replaced them, they may have allowed more young to survive each year, gradually increasing the populations of favored species.

　　the word favored is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(a) large

　　(b) escaping

　　(c) preferred

　　(d) local

　　they became an integral part of the gardens of the ottoman empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of european life as well.

　　the word integral is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(a) interesting

　　(b) fundamental

　　(c) ornamental

　　(d) overlooked

　　they flourished in pennsyvania too, where in 1698 william penn received a report of john tateham‘s great and stately palace, its garden full of tulips.

　　the word flourished is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(a) were discovered

　　(b) were marketed

　　(c) combined

　　(d) thrived

　　thomas hancock, an english settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from england, but his letter of the following year grumbled that they were all dead.

　　the word grumbled is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(a) denied

　　(b) warned

　　(c) complained

　　(d) explained

　　no two comets ever look identical, but they have basic features in common, one of the most obvious of which is a coma.

　　the word identical is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(a) equally fast

　　(b) exactly alike

　　(c) near each other

　　(d) invisible

　　c   b    d　c　b