托福TOEFL词汇题精选单词题400题（17）

　　321. A third process by which salinity may be altered is associated with the formation and melting of sea ice. When seawater is frozen, the dissolved materials are left behind.
　　The word "altered" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) determined
　　(B) changed
　　(C) accumulated
　　(D) needed
　　322. With encouragement from the park, local landowners initiated a land-use planning effort to guide the future of the North Fork.
　　The word "initiated" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) started
　　(B) requested
　　(C) purchased
　　(D) considered
　　323. The willingness of local landowners to participate in this protection effort may have been stimulated by concerns that Congress would impose a legislative solution.
　　The word "stimulated" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) motivated
　　(B) anticipated
　　(C) substituted
　　(D) undermined
　　324. Nevertheless, many local residents want to retain the existing the character of the area.
　　The word "retain" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) preserve
　　(B) possess
　　(C) enjoy
　　(D) improve
　　325. There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods
　　The word "divergent" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) different
　　(B) distributed
　　(C) recorded
　　(D) prominent
　　326. Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or reducing to comprehensible form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data.
　　The word "unwieldy" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) unmanageable
　　(B) uNPRedictable
　　(C) understandable
　　(D) unreliable
　　327. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild-and the accumulated knowledge of lens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.
　　The word "controlled" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) abundant
　　(B) managed
　　(C) required
　　(D) advanced
　　328. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends.
　　The word "illuminated" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) illustrated
　　(B) accepted
　　(C) clarified
　　(D) lighted
　　329. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers-the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table-is itself far from innate.
　　The word "prerequisite" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) reason
　　(B) theory
　　(C) requirement
　　(D) technique
　　330. The droplets or ice crystals in clouds are exceedingly small. The effect of gravity on them is minute. Air currents move and lift droplets so that the net downward displacement is zero, even though the droplets are in constant motion.
　　The word "minute" is closest in meaning to which of following?
　　(A) second
　　(B) tiny
　　(C) slow
　　(D) steady