话题 : 托福时间!回顾历年托福常考词汇

The Native Americans of northern California were highly skilled at basketry, using the reeds, grasses, barks, and roots they found around them to fashion articles all sorts and sizes-not only trays, containers, and cooking pots, but hats, boats, fish traps, baby carriers, and ceremonial objects.

The word “fashion” is closet in meaning to which of following?

A. Maintain

B. Organize

C. Trade

D. Make

In seeking to describe the origins of theater, one must rely primarily on speculation, since there is little concrete evidence on which to draw. The most widely accepted theory,championed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, envisions theater as emerging out of myth and ritual.

The word “championed” in the passage is closest in meaning to

○changed

○debated

○created

○supported

Increasing salinity caused by the evaporation resulted in the extermination of scores of invertebrate species. Only a few organisms especially tolerant of very salty conditions remained.

The word “scores” in the passage is closest in meaning to B

○members

○large numbers

○populations

○different types