2019年托业考试词汇语法选择模拟试题2

1、2019年托业考试词汇语法选择模拟试题21. Another strategy of large desert animals is to toleratethe loss of body water to a point that would be fatal fornonadapted animals. The camel can lose up to 30 percent of itsbody weight as water without harm to itself, whereas humanbeings die after losing only 12 to 13 percent

2、 of their body weight.The word tolerate is closest in meaning to which offollowing?(A) endure(B) replace(C) compensate(D) reduce2. The tolerance of water loss is of obvious advantage inthe desert, as animals do not have to remain near a water holebut can obtain food from grazing sparse and far-flung

3、 pastures.The word obtain is closest in meaning to which offollowing?(A) digest(B) carry(C) save(D) get3. In 1979 Santa Monicas municipal government orderedlandlords to roll back their rents to the levels charged in 1978.Future rents could only go up by two thirds as much as anyincrease in the overa

4、ll price level.The phrase roll back in lines 11-12 is closest in meaningto which of following?(A) credit(B) measure(C) vary(D) reduce4. In any housing market, rental prices perform threefunctions：(1) promoting the efficient maintenance of existinghousing and stimulating the construction of new housi

5、ng.The word stimulating is closest in meaning to which offollowing?(A) experimenting with(B) identifying(C) estimating(D) encouraging5. One result of rent control is a decrease in theconstruction of new rental units. Rent Controls have artificiallydepressed the most important long-term determinant o

6、fprofitability-rents.The word depressed is closest in meaning to which offollowing?(A) saddened(B) created(C) lowered(D) defeated6. In the same year, in San Francisco, California, only2,000 units were built. San Francisco has only a 1. 6 percentvacancy rate but stringent rent control laws.The word s

7、tringent is closest in meaning to which offollowing?(A) straightforward(B) strict(C) expanded(D) efficient7. For example, sometimes the shape or veining in a pieceof stone or wood suggests, perhaps even dictates, not only theultimate form, but even the subject matter.The word dictates is closest in

8、meaning to which offollowing?(A) reads aloud(B) determines(C) includes(D) records8. In 1905 he was sent to Paris as an apprentice to an artdealer, and in the years that followed he witnessed the birth ofCubism, discovered primitive art, and learned the techniques ofwoodcarving from a frame maker.The

9、 word witnessed is closest in meaning to which offollowing?(A) influenced(B) studied(C) validated(D) observed9. The planks form dictated the rigidly frontal view and thelow relief. Even its irregular shape must have appealed toLaurent as a break with a long-standing tradition that required asculptor to work within a perfect rectangle or square.The phrase a break with is closest in meaning to which offollowing?(A) a destruction of(B) a departure from(C) a collapse of(D) a solution to10. In winter especially, it is important for birds to