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2012年TOEFL词汇模拟题精选系列六 If such hunters first competed with the larger predators and then replaced them, they may have allowed more young to survive each year, gradually increasing the populations of favored species. The word favored is closest in meaning to which of following? (A) large (B) escaping (C) preferred (D) local They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as well. The word integral is closest in meaning to which of following? (A) interesting (B) fundamental (C) ornamental (D) overlooked They flourished in Pennsyvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tatehams Great and Stately Palace, its garden full of tulips. The word flourished is closest in meaning to which of following? (A) were discovered (B) were marketed (C) combined (D) thrived Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter of the following year grumbled that they were all dead. The word grumbled is closest in meaning to which of following? (A) denied (B) warned (C) complained (D) explained No two comets ever look identical, but they have basic features in common, one of the most obvious of which is a coma. The word identical is closest in meaning to which of following? (A) equally fast (B) exactly alike (C) near each other (D) invisible C B D C B - At the heart of a comers coma lies a nucleus of solid material, typically no more than 10 kilometers across. The word heart is closest in meaning to which of following? (A) center (B) edge (C) tail (D) beginning The most graphic proof that the grand spectacle of a comet develops from a relatively small and inconspicuous chunk of ice and dust was the close-up image obtained in 1986 by the European Giotto probe of the nucleus of Halleys Comet. The word graphic is closest in meaning to which of following? (A) mathematical (B) popular (C) unusual (D)