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2004年5月 TOEFL试题
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[单项选择]Newspaper publishers in the united states have estimated ___________reads a newspaper every day.
A. nearly 80 percent of the adult population who
B. it is nearly 80 percent of the adult population
C. that nearly 80 percent of the adult population who
D. that nearly 80 percent of the adult population
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[单项选择]The rapid growth of the world’s population over the past 100 years have led to a great increase in the acreage of land under cultivation.
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[单项选择]The basis premise behind all agricultural production is _____available the riches of the soil for human consumption.
A. to be made
B. the making
C. making is
D. to make
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[单项选择]The Land Ordinance of 1784 divided the western lands belonging to the United States into territories, each to be govern temporarily by its settlers.
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[单项选择].It was not until the 1920’s that pollution came to be viewed by many as a threat to the health of live on Earth.
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[单项选择]The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 ___ nearly unanimously through the United States Congress.
A. passed
B. in passage
C. having passed
D. passing
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[单项选择]The foundation of all other branches of mathematics is arithmetic, _ science of calculating with numbers.
A. is the
B. the
C. which the
D. because the
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[单项选择]The average level of United States prices grew very little from 1953 until the mid-1960’s when ____________.
A. did inflation begin
B. inflation began
C. the beginning of inflation
D. did the beginning of inflation
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[单项选择]Questions 22-31:
The first peoples to inhabit what today is the southeastern United States sustained themselves as hunters and gathers. Sometimes early in the first millennium A.D., however, they began to cultivate corn and other crops. Gradually, as they became more skilled at gardening, they settled into permanent villages and developed a rich culture, characterized by the great earthen mounds they erected as monuments to their gods and as tombs for their distinguished dead. Most of these early mound builders were part of the Adena-Hopewell culture, which had its beginnings near the Ohio River and takes its name from sites in Ohio. The culture spread southward into the present-day states of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. 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.
About A.D. 400, the Hopewell
A. To explain why they were obedient to their priest-chiefs.
B. To argue about the importance of religion in their culture.
C. To illustrate the great importance they placed on agriculture.
D. To provide an example of their religious rituals.
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[单项选择]Evidence from ancient fossils indicates the scorpion may had been among the first land animals.
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[单项选择] A situation in which an economic market is dominated by a ____ is known as a monopoly.
A. single of a product seller
B. product single of a seller
C. seller of a product single
D. single seller of a product
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[单项选择]Question 11-21:
Printmaking is the generic term for a number of processes, of which woodcut and engraving are two prime examples. Prints are made by pressing a sheet of paper (or other material) against an image-bearing surface to which ink has been applied. When the paper is removed, the image adheres to it, but in reverse.
The woodcut had been used in China from the fifth century A.D. for applying patterns to textiles. The process was not introduced into Europe until the fourteenth century, first for textile decoration and then for printing on paper. Woodcuts are created by a relief process; first, the artist takes a block of wood, which has been sawed parallel to the grain, covers it with a white ground, and then draws the image in ink. The background is carved away, leaving the design area slightly raised. The woodblock is inked, and the ink adheres to the raised image. It is then transferred to damp paper either by hand or with a printing press.
Engraving, which grew out of
A. Their designs are slightly raised.
B. They achieve contrast through hatching and cross-hatching.
C. They were first used in Europe.
D. They allow multiple copies to be produced from one original.
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[单项选择]___to the united states House of Representatives in 1791, Nathaniel Macon remained in office until 1815.
A. Election
B. Why he was elected
C. Elected
D. Who was elected
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[单项选择]Many of the fine-grained varieties of sedimentary rocks known as shales yield oil when distilled by hot.
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[单项选择]Fluorine is a greenish gas too active that even water and glass burn in it.
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[单项选择]____ freshwater species of fish build nests of sticks, stones, or scooped-out sand..
A. As the many
B. Of the many
C. Many
D. Many of them are
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[单项选择]The care of children during their years of relative helplessness appears to have being the chief incentive for the evolution of family structures.
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[单项选择]The attraction of opposite charges is one of the force that keep electrons in orbit around of nucleus of an atom.
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[单项选择]Some of sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s exploits with a gun are almost unbelievable when it comes to accuracy, speed of firing,and endure.
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[单项选择]Jetties, piers designed to aid in marine navigation, are constructed primary of wood, stone, concrete, or combinations of these materials.
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[单项选择]Question 41- 50:
In Death Valley, California, one of the hottest, most arid places in North America, there is much salt, and salt can damage rocks impressively. Inhabitants of areas elsewhere, where streets and highways are salted to control ice, are familiar with the resulting rust and deterioration on cars. That attests to the chemically corrosive nature of salt, but it is not the way salt destroys rocks. Salt breaks rocks apart principally by a process called crystal prying and wedging. This happens not by soaking the rocks in salt water, but by moistening their bottoms with salt water. Such conditions exist in many areas along the eastern edge of central Death Valley. There, salty water rises from the groundwater table by capillary action through tiny spaces in sediment until it reaches the surface.
Most stones have capillary passages that suck salt water from the wet ground. Death Valley provides an ultra-dry atmosphere and high daily temperatures, which promote evaporation an
A. arranged
B. dissolved
C. broken apart
D. gathered together
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[单项选择]In 1820 there were only 65 daily newspapers in the united states, which total daily circulation of perhaps 100,000.
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[单项选择]Of every the major traditions of wood carving, the one that is closest in structure to the tree is the crest pole made by the Native Americans of the Northwest coast.
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[单项选择]Bacteria are one of the most abundant life forms on Earth, growing on and inside another living things, in every type of environment.
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[单项选择].The male cicada sound is made by specialized structures on the abdomen and which apparently serves to attract females.
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[单项选择]In general, novels are thought of extended works of prose fiction depicting the inner and outer lives of their characters.
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[单项选择]Nylon was ___the human-made fibers.
A. the first of which
B. what the first of
C. it the first of
D. the first of
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[单项选择]In the eighteenth century, the Pawnees, descendants of the Nebraska culture, lived in villages sizeable on the Loup and Platte rivers in central Nebraska.
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[单项选择]If there is too much pituitary hormone of too few insulin, the amount of sugar in the blood rises abnormally, producing a condition called. Hyperglycemia.
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[单项选择]________ of classical ballet in the united states began around 1830.
A. To teach
B. Is teaching
C. It was taught
D. The teaching
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[单项选择]Although most petroleum is produced from underground reservoirs, petroleum occurs in a varieties of forms at the surface
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[单项选择]The universe is estimated ___between 10 billion and 20 billion years old.
A. being
B. to be
C. which is
D. is.
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[单项选择]_______more than 65,000 described species of protozoa, of which more than half are fossils.
A. Being that there are
B. There being
C. Are there
D. There are
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[单项选择]A musical organ can have pipes of two kinds: flue pipes that work like a flute and reed pipes that operate on same principle as a clarinet.
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[单项选择].In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the United States developed the reusable space shuttle ________to space cheaper and easier.
A. to make access
B. and making access
C. which made accessible
D. and made accessible.
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[单项选择]Modern skyscrapers have a steel skeleton of beams and columns ___a three-dimensional grid.
A. forms
B. from which forming
C. and forming
D. that forms
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[单项选择]Question 32-40:
Overland transport in the United States was still extremely primitive in 1790. Roads were few and short, usually extending from inland communities to the nearest river town or seaport. Nearly all interstate commerce was carried out by sailing ships that served the bays and harbors of the seaboard. Yet, in 1790 the nation was on the threshold of a new era of road development. Unable to finance road construction, states turned for help to private companies, organized by merchants and land speculators who had a personal interest in improved communications with the interior. The pioneer in this move was the state of Pennsylvania, which chartered a company in 1792 to construct a turnpike, a road for the use of which a toll, or payment, is collected, from Philadelphia to Lancaster. The legislature gave the company the authority to erect tollgates at points along the road where payment would be collected, though it carefully regulated the rates. (The states had unquestioned a
A. popularity of turnpikes
B. financing of new roads
C. development of the interior
D. laws governing road use
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[单项选择] Genetically, the chimpanzee is more similar to humans _______.
A. are than any other animal
B. than is any other animal
C. any other animal is
D. and any other animal is
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[单项选择]The Milky Way galaxy includes the Sun, its planets, and rest of the solar system, along with billions of stars and other objects.
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[单项选择]Question 1-10
All mammals feed their young. Beluga whale mothers, for example, nurse their calves for some twenty months, until they are about to give birth again and their young are able to find their own food. The behavior of feeding of the young is built into the reproductive system. It is a nonelective part of parental care and the defining feature of a mammal, the most important thing that mammals-- whether marsupials, platypuses, spiny anteaters, or placental mammals -- have in common.
But not all animal parents, even those that tend their offspring to the point of hatching or birth, feed their young. Most egg-guarding fish do not, for the simple reason that their young are so much smaller than the parents and eat food that is also much smaller than the food eaten by adults. In reptiles, the crocodile mother protects her young after they have hatched and takes them down to the water, where they will find food, but she does not actually feed them. Few insects feed their young
A. The care that various animals give to their offspring.
B. The difficulties young animals face in obtaining food.
C. The methods that mammals use to nurse their young.
D. The importance among young mammals of becoming independent.
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[单项选择]The Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, was chartered in 1922 to promotion art education by providing art classes and by establishing a publishing program.
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[单项选择]Televisions are now an everyday feature of most households in the United States, and television viewing is the number one activity leisure.
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[单项选择]Until the twentieth century, pendulum clocks were calibrated against the rotation of earth by taking astronomically measurements.
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[单项选择]Metabolism is the inclusive term for the chemical reactions by which the cells of an organism transforms energy, maintain their identity, and reproduce.
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[单项选择]Platelets are tiny blood cells that help transport hormones and other chemicals throughout the body, and it play a role in clotting blood.