托福考试

【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】 Usually pitched in the of C, （） may be tuned to B flat by means of a slide. 
A. the bugle 
B. because of the bugle 
C. the bugle that 
D. but the bugle 

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【单选题】thE intErnAtionAl monEtAry FunD wAs CrEAtED in A EFFort to stABilizE ExChAngE rAtEs without intErFEring with thE hEAlthy growth oF trADE.

【单选题】 The first great collector of Canadian folk traditions was Marius Barbeau, who oversaw the preservation of thousands of texts in what is now the National Museum of Canad
A．Fearing that these traditions would disappear unless gathered and catalogued, Barbeau preserved the folklore and folk songs of cultures ranging from rural Quebec to the Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia. These folkways--songs, dialects, legends, tall tales, riddles, and children's rhymes--were all part of Canada's traditional rural experience. They provided evidence of the everyday life of the people that was far richer than that in most other historical texts.
4. Which sentence below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passageA. There is a lot of information in historical texts, but most of it does not deal with real life.B. Canada's folkways give us a much better description of daily life than most histories do.C. The texts collected by Barbeau reveal that some rural Canadians were richer than others.D. The Canadian people provided a lot of materials that illustrate their traditional values.

【单选题】 What is the purpose of the honeybee dance
A．( To determine the quantity of food at a site
B．( To communicate the location of food
C．( To increase the speed of travel to food sources
D．( T identify the type of nectar that is available

【单选题】 The pelican is a water bird with a (large) pouch attached to (its) bill, which it uses (as) a scoop (for) catch small fish.
A．large
B．its
C．as
D．for

【单选题】 In the dark abyss of the deep sea __________ is produced by luminescent fish.
A．because the only light
B．the only light
C．the only light that
D．is the only light

【单选题】 Between 1871( until) 1891, (the population) of Toronto (more than) tripled, increasing (from )56,000 to 181,000.
A．until
B．the population
C．more than
D．from

【单选题】 The word "exceptional" in line 2 is closest in meaning to
A．( remarkable
B．( fearless
C．( expert
D．( visible