高字A18(托福)

Many nineteenth-century urban problems continue to plague cities today, especially those associated with sanitation and mega-fires resulted from lack of planning and regulation.

• (A) be discussed in

• (B) be found in

• (C) isolate

• (D) cause trouble for

For years, scholars argued that cultivation and animal domestication were invented in one or two locations on Earth and then diffused from those centers of innovation.

• A) defended

• B) expanded

• C) fused

• D) extent

Wegner portrayed his grand concept of continental movement is a series of maps showing the breakup of Pangaea and the movement of various continents to their present-day locations.

• (A) proved

• (B) formed

• (C) depicted

• (D) defended

It was these conditions that allowed an elite to emerge, probably as an organizing class, and to sustain itself through the control of surplus crops.

• A) defend

• B) promote

• C) maintain

• D) transform

Uruk, for instance, had two patron gods – Anu, the god of the sky and sovereign of all other gods, and Inanna, a goddess of love and war – and there were others, patrons of different cities.

• A) counselor

• B) master

• C) defender

• D) creator

Still, extreme temperatures, in combination with other factors, may have dramatic detrimental effects.

• A) harmful

• B) significant

• C) unexpected

• D) distinct

The final stage of forest development, the climax or old growth stage, is characterized by a species composition that in theory can continue to replace itself unless a catastrophic disturbance occurs.

• (A) extremely harmful

• (B) very complex

• (C) different

• (D) long-lasting

Provincial police began to appear, along with district officers and cattle registration and land deeds and registration for compulsory military service.

• (A) foreign

• (B) formal

• (C) required

• (D) preferred

Wildman and Niles make a summary comment: “Perhaps the most important thing we learned is the idea of teacher-as-reflective-practitioner will not happen simply because it is a good or even compelling idea.”

• (A) commonly held

• (B) persuasive

• (C) original

• (D) practical

The impulse to produce more food to feed a growing population was satisfied in some areas by the development of more-complex subsistence strategies involving intensive labor and requiring more cooperation and greater coordination among the increasing numbers of people.

• A) basic motive

• B) only choice

• C) capacity

• D) opportunity