1. (pp1test 1)Chaparral consists of _________ stunted by short, wet winters followed by long, dry summers. (要读懂句意,加亮的是一个整体) C
C: trees and shrubs
D: how trees and shrubs
2. (pp2 test1-1) ________either by cooling or by depriving the fire of oxygen, and most do both. C 表示一种方式,借助某种方法的意思,而不是“被 cooling….”这样潜意识里认为是火被熄灭了。。。。把extinguishers 看成 extinguishes
A. working fire extinguishers
B. fire extinguishers that work
C. fire extinguishers work
D. the work of fire extinguishers
3. (pp2 test1-3)Prehistoric villages tended to work hard, suffer from more diseases, and eat the poorer diet than nomadic hunters did. D 才是并列,tended并不在其中,要看仔细啊!
4. (pp2 test 1-3)Published in 1957, John Cheerer’s first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, earned __ the National Book Award. D 强烈怀疑答案错了,应该是B吧?
A. that he had
B. him
C. was his
D. to him
5. (pp2 test 1-3) The Mississippi riverboat, which evolved from simpler steamship of the early 1800’s, became the dominant form of passenger transport on the Mississippi River. B steamship-steamships transport本身也是名词,指的是一种vehicle,轮渡载人的
6. (pp2 test 1-3) At the time of columbus’s voyage, Native Amercians used an astounding diversity of languages, ______ the diversity used by Europeans. D
A. the greatest by far
B. by far than greater
C. by far the greatest
D. greater by far than
7. (pp2 test 1-4) To classic scholar, rhetoric was important in three spheres of human interaction: in low courts, in legislative assemblies, and in public forums. A scholar是无疑要加复数的,否则便要有定冠词the, 俄ts常考这一点,不能一错再错。对于吃不准的单复数不要选,感觉托福改错基本上都是有一个比较明显的、很肯定的错误的,如果没有发现很肯定的错误,那么只能说没有读懂该句子,或者看得不够仔细。interaction这样抽象的词,不清楚到底是不是可数的。
8. (pp2 test 1-5) The chief editorial concern in magazine publishing is presenting a mix of news, information and entertain, all targeted at the audience, the magazine seeks to reach. C 对于名词还是动词,一定要找出自己十分确定的地方。此题不能看到mix,想到mixture就选了:(
9. (pp2 test 1-5) The congress of the United States can initiate legislation and significantly amend or rejection Presidential legislative proposals. C 此题第一反应是 B significantly 改为 significant 修饰amend or rejection,实际上,amend作为名词的话,应该是amends,单复数形式相同。如果仔细把整句话读完,也会发现 rejection presidential legislative proposals是不通的。。。。。。所以,托福语法最重要的在于小心仔细的态度!!!
10. (00-05-14) The Woolworth Building in New York was the highest in America when ___ in 1913 and was famous for its use of Gothic decorative details. C
A. built
B. it built
C. was built
D. built it
11. (00-05-21) The first city in the united states that put into effect major plan for the clustering of government buildings was Washington. D.C. B plan-plans
12. (00-05-28) A liquid that might be a poor conductor when pure is often used to make solutions that readily transmits electricity. D 冲动误选 B,而错过简单的单复数匹配的错误