2013年托福词汇精选试题及答案10

1. The confusion and congestion of individual citizens looking for their letters was itself enough to discourage use of the mail. It is no wonder that, during the years of these cumbersome arrangements, private letter-carrying and express businesses developed.

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

(A) burdensome

(B) handsome

(C) loathsome

(D) quarrelsome

2. But this delivery service was at first confined to cities, and free home delivery became a mark of urbanism. As late as 1887, a town had to have 10,000 people to be eligible for free home delivery.

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

(A) granted

(B) scheduled

(C) limited

(D) recommended

3. They were, by training, social scientists, not historians, and their work tended to reflect this bias. The questions they framed and the techniques they used were designed to help them understand, as scientists, how people behaved.

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

(B) read

(C) avoided

(D) posed

4. In Kingston, New York, for example, evidence has been uncovered that indicates that English goods were being smuggled into that city at a time when the Dutch supposedly controlled trading in the area.

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

(A) ruthlessly

(B) tightly

(C) barely

(D) seemingly

5. And in Sacramento an excavation at the site of a fashionable nineteenth-century hotel revealed that garbage had been stashed in the building's basement despite sanitation laws to the contrary.

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

(A) city

(B) housing

(C) health

(D) trade

6. When Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864, there were many conflicting theories about the nature of the Earth's interior. Some geologists thought that it contained a highly compressed ball of incandescent gas, while others suspected that it consisted of separate shells, each made of a different material.

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

(A) controlling

(B) outdated

(C) opposing

(D) important

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