托福TOEFL词汇题精选单词题400题（20）

　　391. In 1903 the members of the governing board of the University of Washington, in Seattle, engaged a firm of landscape architects, specialists in the design of outdoor environments --- Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts --- to advise them on an appropriate layout for the university grounds.
　　The word "engaged" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) trained
　　(B) hired
　　(C) described
　　(D) evaluated
　　392. John Olmsted did the investigation and subsequent report on Seattle's parks.
　　The word "subsequent" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) complicated
　　(B) alternate
　　(C) later
　　(D) detailed
　　393. With such unparalleled sumsat their disposal, with the Olmsted guidelines to follow, and with the added incentive of wanting to have the city at its best for the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition of 1909, the Parks Board bought aggressively.
　　The word "sums" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) problems
　　(B) amounts
　　(C) services
　　(D) debts
　　394. Many prehistoric people subsisted as hunters and gatherers. Undoubtedly, game animals, including some very large species, provided major components of human diets.
　　The word "Undoubtedly" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) occasionally
　　(B) unexpectedly
　　(C) previously
　　(D) certainly
　　The word "components" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) parts
　　(B) problems
　　(C) changes
　　(D) varieties
　　395. Hunter-gatherers may have contributed to Pleistocene extinctions in more indirect ways. Besides overhunting, at least three other kinds of effects have been suggested: direct competition, imbalances between competing species of game animals, and early agricultural practices.
　　The word "Besides" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) caused by
　　(B) whereas
　　(C) in addition to
　　(D) in favor of
　　396. 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
　　397. 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
　　398. They flourished in Pennsyvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham's "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
　　399. 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
　　400. 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