托福考试

【单选题】While play is important at all levels of human development, （） takes on particular significance when children are five and six years old. 
A. it 
B. and 
C. which 
D. because it 

【单选题】Settled by English Puritans in 1630, Boston became （） . 
A. the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 
B. the Massachusetts Bay Colony its capital 
C. it was the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 
D. so that the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 

【单选题】Published in 1957, John Cheever’s first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, earned （） the National Book Award. 
A. that he had 
B. him 
C. was his 
D. to him 

【单选题】 The Franklin stove, invented around 1742, （）_, originally with a partially open front, and was designed to fit into a fireplace. 
A. was made of cast iron 
B. cast iron was made of 
C. cast of iron was made 
D. was of iron made cast 

【单选题】 There are as many as 200 million insects for every human beings, and in fact their total number exceeds that of all other animals taken together.

【单选题】 Native to South America and cultivated there for thousands of years, the peanut is said to have introduced to North America by early explorers.

【单选题】 By 1810 the 23 towns of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, had reached a remarkable uniformof economic development as well as population density.

【单选题】 The author uses the term "Ironically" in line 29 to indicate that a weather map's appearance
A．( is not important to newspaper publishers
B．( does not always indicate how much information it provides
C．( reflects how informative a newspaper can be
D．( often can improve newspaper sales

【单选题】 It can be inferred from the passage that soil composed of silica
A．( does not hold moisture
B．( is found only in Florida
C．( nourishes many kinds of ground cover
D．( provides food for many kinds of lizards

【单选题】 The word "finding" in line 20 is closest in meaning to
A．( published information
B．( research method
C．( ongoing experiment
D．( scientific discovery