2000年8月toefl试题(编辑修改稿)

2000年8月toefl试题(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

endency of gouache colors to lighten on drying makes a wide range of pearly or pastellike effects. (A) it is possible (B) possible (C) possible to be (D) it possible the 12. Isabel Bishop was one of many American artists by the government during the Depression years on various federal art projects. (A) employed (B) whose employment (C) to employ (D) had been employed 13. Outbreaks of diseases in trees monly occur stressed because of drought or other environmental factors. (A) as forests that bee (B) in forests bee (C) that bee forests (D) when forests bee 14. To break thick ice, an icebreaker boat moves fast enough to ride up on the ice, under its weight. (A) so then breaks (B) when breaks it (C) which then breaks (D) for which then breaks 15. Cholesterol is present in large quantities in the nervous system, where pound of myelin. (A) it a (B) a (C) being a (D) it is a 5 16. Painters of the early twentieth century who were known primarily for they colorful landscapes, the A B C Group of Seven changed is name to the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933. D 17. Most animals have nervous systems, sense ans, and specialized modes of lootion, and are A B C capable of securing ingesting, and to digest food. D 18. The cork oak tree has a layer of cork several inches thickness that can be stripped every ten years. A B C D 19. Inflation, interest rates, and overall economic active can be governed by the United States Federal A B C Reserve’s decision to adjust the supply of money to the economy. D 20. Free radicals of oxygen, which mon byproducts of metabolic processes in the body, are capable A B C D of causing tissue damage. 21. By 1830 the glass industry in the United States had bee too well established that the country no A B C longer needed to depend on imported glass. D 22. Free land, cheaply transportation, and powerfully persuasive railroad advertising all helped flood the A B western part of the United States with farmers in the nieenth century. C D 23. Coral formations have known as fringing reefs are located close to shore, separated from land only A B C by shallow water. D 24. For a seagoing, cargocarrying sailing vessels, the clipper ship was remarkably fast. A B C D 25. Visibly only through large telescopes, Pluto has a yellowish color, which indicates that there is very A B C little atmosphere. D 26. Diamond is the hardest known substance, so diamonds can be cut only by another diamonds. A B C D International Moary Fund was created in a effort to stabilize exchange rates without A B interfering with the healthy growth of trade. C D 28. Butterflies and moths undergo plete metamorphosis, them changing from caterpillar to adult via A B C one intermediate stage, the pupa. D 29. Thousands of meteorite hit Earth each year, but most fall into the sea or in remote areas and are never A B C D recovered. 30. Alaska became the fortyninth state in 1959, and Hawaii became the fiftieth state lately that year. A B C D 31. A sponge feeds itself by drawing water through tiny pores on its surface, filtering out food particles, A B and then expel the water through larger vents. C D 6 32. Toward the end of his life, john Singer Sargent returned to the painting of landscapes and the use of A B C watercolors, of which he excelled. D 33. Pythons differ than most other snakes by having two welldeveloped lungs rather than a much A B C smaller left lung or no left lung at all. D 34. Weighing among two to five kilograms in adults, the skin is the largest an of the human body. A B C D 35. Rodents dwell in various habitat, some species being aquatic, some terrestrial. A B C D 36. The nectar of flowers are ingested by worker bees and converted to honey in special sacs in their A B C D digestive systems. 37. Lucid dreaming, the ability dreamers to bee aware of and to control their dreams while A B C dreaming, is the focus of some current psychological research. D 38. The sensation of sound is produced how vibrations transmitted through the air strike the eardrum. A。