2012年TOEFL词汇模拟题精选系列一

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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
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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
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(D) overlooked

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.
. P. D& s7 D% l9 ?1 L  ~1 fThe word "flourished" is closest in meaning to which of following?
(A) were discovered
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+ f; y& H' y% W9 f* a7 M 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?
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(C) complained
(D) explained

9 y. W5 @6 K: f! b6 E 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
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& [/ ^, e1 C; k7 i(C) near each other
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