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8-8 98 年 8 月托福听力试题 A 1. (A) She plans to send out all the invitations. (B)She's a new student. (C)She thinks the man is right. (D) She invited the man to a party. 2. (A) he didn't know what hospital Bill was in (B) he took Bill to the hospital. (C) He's sorry the woman hurt herself. (D) He forgot to call the woman. 3. (A) She hasn't heard from the professor in a week. (B) The class has extra time to complete the assignment. (C) She only just found out about the economics paper. (D) She won't see the professor until next week. 4. (A) The doctor has stopped seeing new patients. (B)The doctor's once will be closed tomorrow. (C)The doctor's schedule is filled tomorrow. (D)The doctor can see the man tomorrow. 5. (A) Where the meeting is being held. (B)Where Joe will meet her. (C)What the topic of the meeting is. (D) What Joe was wearing. 6. (A) She doesn't know the person cal hug. (B)She'll pay for the call. (C)She'll charge the purchase. (D) She'll call Mike back. 7. (A) Go to the library. (B)Check her calendar (C)Attend the performance (D) Get exercise. 8. (A) They're extremely noisy. (B) They should have arrived by now. (C)They should be allowed to fly there. (D)They're not on a definite schedule. 9.(A) She's very interested in the idea. (B)She thinks they should invite more people. (C)She can't afford a holiday in June. (D)She's doubtful about the weather in June. 10.(A) She bought the woman some chocolates. (B) He will get angry soon. (C)He's also ready for dinner. (D)He wants to buy some candy. 11.(A) She didn't clean the apartment. For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org (B)Her roommate is messy. (C)She needs to clean the lab. (D)She'll help the man clean his apartment. 12. (A) She thought the man's lawn was too dry. (B) She thought the man's laundry was done badly. (C) She was sorry the man couldn't finish his laundry. (D) She saw the man run out. 13. (A) his coach didn't help him enough (B) He had no chance of winning (C)He didn't follow his coach's advice (D)His coach didn't listen to him 14. (A) She often goes to the Variety Theater. (B) She expected the theater to close down (C) She's surprised by the news. (D) She likes the new theater in town. 15. (A) They aren't very good because they're so different. (B) He thinks they should each do both. (C) They should each do a different one. (D) It doesn't matter which one they do 16. (A) Wash fewer clothes at a time (B) Use a different washing machine. (C) Let her use the washing machine first. (D) Wash his clothes by hand 17. (A)She is going to drop the class too. (B)She doesn't know how to swim. (C) It took her a long time to learn to swim. (D) She teaches swimming. 18. (A) She'll give the man a hew prescription right away. (B) She'll be away from the office for two days. (C)The man doesn't need anything for his cough. (D)the man should continue using the medicine. 19. (A) Buy the pants the woman showed him (B) Wait until the pants are on sale. (C) Look for the pants in a different color. (D) Look at pants made of a different material. 20. (A) She didn't require any papers last semester. (B) She was more flexible last semester. (C) She grades papers very quickly (D) She isn't teaching this semester 21. (A) The women don't want to go to any more barbecues. (B) The guests are late because of the weather. (C) Everybody should help with the cooking. (D) The weather wasn't good at the last barbecue. 22. (A) Find out when the new job begins. (B)Make more copies of the letter. For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org (C) Ask for an extension to apply for the job. (D) Get a more recent reference letter. 23. (A) He has been asked to join the committee (B) There are several new people on the committee (C) He'd like to take the woman's place oil the committee. (D) The woman should try to join the committee 24. (A) Choose the gilt she will buy. (B) Decide oil the paper for the gift. (C)Go to Customer Service. (D) Wrap the gift herself 25. (A) Move the plants away from the window. (B) Water the plants more often. (C) Put the plants in a place where there is more sunlight. (D) Let her take care of the plants for a while. 26. (A) Someone else at the wedding took good pictures. (B) The woman's camera is broken. (C)Dan and Linda didn't hire a professional photographer. (D)He wasn't at Dan and Linda's wedding. 27. (A) Sally should think more before talking. (B) She doesn't think Sally listens well either. (C) She doesn't understand the man's point (D) Sally is preparing for her role in a play. 28. (A) The meeting is not expected to last a long time. (B) He expects to meet the woman at the meeting. (C)Members will be told to he brief in their comments (D) Committee members will be informed before the meeting 29. (A) The frame is not too expensive. (B) The woman paid too much for the poster. (C) The poster looks better without the frame. (D) The woman got a bargain. 30. (A) She expects Mary to win (B) She thinks Mary will run again in the next election. (C)Mary shouldn't have campaigned against Steve. (D) The man should vote for Mary in the election 31. (A) To improve his skating techniques. (B) To take a vacation. (C) To take a course. (D) To learn to ski. 32. (A) her sister lives there. (B) She attended college there. (C) She lives thirty minutes from there. (D) She visited there last year. 33.(A) He has been to New Mexico many times. (B)He has just graduated from college. (C) He enjoys sports.' For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org (D)He has relatives in Albuquerque. 34. (A)The low humidity. (B) The changing climate. (C) The high altitude. (D) He extreme temperatures. 35. (A) All students pay the same amount per year. (B) Students choose how many meals a week they will pay for. (C) Students get money back for meals they don't eat. (D)Some students get free meals. 36.(A) When they get the meal. (B) At the beginning of the week. (C) At the beginning of the year. (D) At the end of the year. 37. (A) They can invite guests to meals at a reduced price. (B) They receive cards that allow them to be served first. (C) They can help decide what will be on the menu (D) They pay less per meal than those who eat there only part of the time. 38. (A) By paying for meals one at a time. (B) By borrowing a student's meal card. (C) By ordering their meals in advance. (D) By buying a weekend meal card. 39. (A) She works for a museum. (B) She's a Lincoin scholar. (C) She does it as a hobby. (D) She teaches a course on currency exchange. 40. (A) They identify the city where the penny was minted. (B) They are the initials of a famous coin collector. (C)They stand for the government agency that mints coins. (D) They are the initials of the person who created the penny's design. 41. (A) All of her friends collected them. (B) Pennies were cheap to collect. (C) Someone gave her a rare penny (D) She needed the money. 42. (A) Trade coins with club members. (B) Show the audience her coins. (C) Explain how the penny is minted. (D) Discuss the life of Lincoln. 43. (A) The male and female wasps together. (B) The male wasp. (C) The female wasp. (D) The new offspring. 44.(A) Only female wasps transmit diseases. (B) Male wasps do not leave the nest. (C) Female wasps are bigger than males. For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org (D) Only female wasps have stingers. 45.(A) To protect the nest. (B) To lay eggs. (C) To gather food. (D) To replace nest cells. 46. (A) Mud. (B) Stone. (C) Paper. (D) Grass. 47. (A) Jefferson's views about commercialized agriculture. (B) International trade in the nineteenth century (C)Improvements in farm machinery in the United States. (D) Farmers' loss of independence 48. (A) Crop production became increasingly specialized. (B) Economic depressions lowered the prices of farm products. (C) New banking laws made it easy to buy farmland. (D) The United States increased its agricultural imports. 49. (A) Prices for farm products rose. (B) Farmers became more dependent on loans from banks. (C)Jefferson established government programs to assist farmers. (D) Farmers relied less on foreign markets. 50. (A) They provided evidence that Jefferson's ideal could be achieved. (B) They made farmers less dependent on local bankers. (C) They affected the prices that farmers could receive for their crops. (D) They decreased the power of the railroads to control farm prices. For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org 98 年 8 月托福语法试题 B 1. Because air is highly compressible, --- to define a clear upper boundary of the atmosphere. (A) it is impossible (B) impossible is (C) so the impossibility (D) is the impossibility 2. BASIC, the acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a high – level Instruction Code, is a high – level computer programming language ---. (A) learning relatively simple (B) related it simply to learning (C) simple and relative to learn (D) that is relatively simple to learn 3. --- Frances Perkins held the post of labor secretary for twelve years. (A) The first woman appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position was (B) The first woman appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position (C) Appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position was the first woman who (D) The first woman was appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position who 4. --- at the turn of the century, the Minnesota State Capitol building is made of white granite and marble. (A) Erected (B) Was erected (C) To erect it (D) Erecting it 5. A stream of volcanic lava flows differently, -- on the sort of ground it flows over. (A) to depend (B) depending (C) that dependent (D) when it depended 6. --- large amounts of vitamin E found in green leaves, such as lettuce, and in cereals, especially in wheat germ. (A) The (B) They have (C) There are (D) Because of 7. A popular belief --- radio and television have homogenized the language of the United States. (A) states that (B) that is stated (C) that states (I)) stating that 8. The astronomical unit is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun --- is the standard of distances in the Solar System. (A) and (B) also (C) in addition (D) because For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org 9. In 1952 Ernest Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea ---. (A) won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 (B) and the Nobel Prize for Literature won in 1954 (C) in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this work. (D) a work that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 10. Many birds have feathers----with their surroundings. (A) colors blend (B) that colors to blend (C) whose colors blend (D) of which the colors that blend 11.Mosaic is the art of closely setting small, colored pieces, such as stone or glass, into a surface --. (A) and create a decorative design (B) and a decorative design creates (C) to create a decorative design (D) that a decorative design is created 12.--- that distinguish human beings from mother primates are related to the ability of people to stand upright and walk on two legs. (A) Many of the physical characteristics (B) Of the many physical characteristics (C) The physical characteristics (D) There are many physical characteristics 13.The letters of Abigail Adams to her husband and future President, John, --- during the American Revolution, conveyed a vivid picture of the times (A) were written (B) which written (C) written (D) written when 14. The lenses in an optical microscope bend the light passing through a specimen to form an image of that specimen that is much larger --- actually viewed. (A) Than it (B) Than the one (C) One than (D) Than one which 15. Not only --- as a cooked dish the world over, but it is also used as the base of many other foods, condiments, and even beverages. (A) eating rice (B) rice is eaten (C) people eat rice (D) is rice eaten 16£® According to modern astronomers, the space between the planets and A B stars is not empty; rather he is filled with something called dark matter; C D 17. In the late nineteenth century, journalist and publisher William Randolph Hearst established a vast publishing empire that included A B For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org Eighteen newspapers in twelve city. C D 1 8. Because the diamond is the hardest naturally substance, it is A B used in industry for to cut, grinding, and boring other hard materials. C D 30. An electromagnet will remain magnetized only as longer as electricity A B C flows through it D 20. Being chemical compounds, minerals have characteristic shapes and A B colors, whereas do rocks not. C D 21. Some of the first aerial photographs were taken from a balloon while the A B C D Civil War in the United States. 22. Beyond their importance as a source of food for both people and animals, A B C corn is also used to produce alcohol-based fuels. D 23£® The Bollingen Prize in poetry established of the Bollingen Foundation, A B is a $1,000 award for the year's highest achievement in poetry in the C D United States. 24. For more eighty years, scientists have argued over whether life exists on A B C the planet Mars. D 25. Ludmilla Turkevich, known as a translator and scholar in the field of A B Russian literature, she became a member of the faculty of Princeton University C during the Second World War. D 26. The Architectural History Foundation was established in 1977 to support A B the publication of important book on architecture. C D 27.Wildlife photographers are involved of a new government project to A docum the 50 most endangered species in the United States. B C D 28.Most bats roost in crevices, caves, or building by day and are active at A B C night or twilight. D For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org 29.Changes within the chemist structure of single genes may be induced by A B C exposure to radiation and extreme temperatures. D 30. A landmark famous, the Brooklyn Bridge in New Yolk was one of the first A B C woven wire cable suspension bridges ever constructed. D 31. Industry's need for more and minerals is a constant challenge to the mining A B C industry to make new discoveries. D 32. The waters of Hanauma Bay in Oahu, Hawaii, are known for the color, A B diversity and abundant of their tropical fish. C D 33. The United States government program Head Start prepares children for A B school encourages the involvement of local communities in the children's C Development. D Brown rice has great nutritional value than white rice because the nutrient-rice outer A layers of the rice kernel are not removed from brown rice. B C D 35. After 1845, pestilence spread in Boston, but before then, Boston was a city A B in which the life span of its citizens was long and disease was rarely. C D 36. Entomologists, scientists who study insects, are often concerned with the A B fungus, poisonous, or virus carried by a particular insect. C D 37. The eight stripes of red, white, and blue on state flag of Hawaii represent A B C Hawaii's eight major islands. D 38. Cool temperatures, shade, moist, and the presence of dead organic material A B provide the ideal living conditions for mushrooms. C D 39. Metalworkers use the term "machine tool" to refer to a piece of an A B equipment used for shaping metal. For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org C D 40. In pools, goldfish are not just ornamental: since they feed on mosquito A B C larva they are also benefit. D For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc atwww.tailieuduhoc.org [...]...For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org 98 年 8 月托福阅读试题 C Questions: 1-10 A seventeenth-century theory of burning proposed that anything that burns must contain material that the theorists called "phlogiston." Burning was explained as the release of phlogiston from the combustible material... (B) burned without leaving much residue (C) were more mysterious than phlogiston (D) contained limited amounts of phlogiston 8 The word "constituent" in line 19 is closest in meaning to (A) component (B) opposite (C) principle (D) temperature 9 The word "Since" in line 20 is closest in meaning to (A) later (B) because (C) during (D) although 10 Which of the following is true of both the phlogiston theory... scientific investigation of an experience as private as consciousness is frustratingly beyond the usual tools of the experimental psychologist This may be one reason that many researchers have shied away from the notion of mind and consciousness in nonhuman animals In the late 196 0's, however, psychologist Gordon Gallup devised a test of the sense of self: the mirror test if an animal were able to recognize its... cathedrals Paxton's Crystal Palace, designed to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, covered an area of 1848 feet by 408 feet in prefabricated units of glass set in iron frames The Paris Exhibition of 18 89 included both the widest span and the greatest height achieved so far with the Halle does Machines, spanning 362 feet, and the Eiffel Tower 1,000 feet high However, these achievements were mocked by... 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Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org 24 The word "core" in line 4 is closest in meaning to (A) center (B) surface (C) mineral (D) field 25.The author mentions "dark stones" and "white snow" in line 9 to illustrate that (A) meteorites are found most often in Antarctica (B) glaciers stop meteorites from mixing with soil (C) meteorites are easier to find in glacial areas (D) most of Antarctica is covered... suggests that which of the following is most commonly responsible for the poor preservation of meteorites that fall to Earth? (A) The size of the fragments (B) Ice sheets (C) Erosion (D) Desert heat 29. Where was the Mundrabilla meteorite discovered? (A)On the Nullarbor Plain (B)In a field (C)On a mountain (D)In Antarctica 30.The word "they" in line 25 refers to (A)stony meteorites (B) falls (C)Earth... elusive No one had ever isolated it and experimentally determined its properties At times it seemed to show a negative weight: the residue left after burning weighed more than the material before burning This was true, for example, when magnesium burned Sometimes phlogiston seemed to show a positive weight, when, for example, wood burned, the ash weighed less than the starting material And since so little... Gallup tried the experiment with a chimpanzee, the animal acted as if it knew that the reflection was its own, it touched the red spot on its forehead Gallup' report of the experiment, published in a 197 0 article, was a milestone in our understanding of animal minds and psychologists wondered how widespread self-recognition would prove to be 28 The word "dogma" in line 3 is closest in meaning to (A) . Literature won in 195 4 (C) in 195 4 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this work. (D) a work that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 195 4 10. Many. atwww.tailieuduhoc.org 9. In 195 2 Ernest Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea ---. (A) won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 195 4 (B) and the Nobel