今年托福（TOEFL）考试模拟试题（3-2）_托福模拟题
牐牐燪uestions 1-10
牐牐燗lice walker makes her living by writing, and her poems short stories, and novels
have won many awards and fellowships for her. she was born in eatonton, georgia. she went to public schools there, and then to spelman college in atlanta before coming to new york to attend sarah lawrence college, from which she graduated in 1966. for a time she lived in jackson, mississippi with her lawyer husband and small daughter.
about langston hughes, american poet, her first book for children, she says ,"after my first meeting with langston hughes i vowed i would write a boot about him for children someday. why? became i, at twenty-two, knew next to nothing of his work, and he didn't scold me; he just gave me a stack of his book. and he was kind to me; i will always be grateful that in his absolute warmth and generosity he fulfilled my deepest dream (and need) of what a poet should be.
牐 "to me he is not dead at all. hardly a day goes by that i don't think of him or speak of him. once, just before he died, when he was sick with the flu, i took him a sack full of oranges. the joy i felt in giving that simple gift is undiminished by time. he said he liked oranges, too."
1. what is the main topic of the passage?
(a) alice walker's reflections on langston hughes
(b) the influence of alice walker on the writing of langston hughes
(c) langston hughes' book about alice walker
(d) a comparison of the childhoods of alice walker and langston hughes
2. in the passage, alice walker is described as
(a) a research fellow at spelman college
(b) a professor at sarah lawrence college
(c) a prize-winning writer of爌rose and poetry
(d) an author of爌lays for children
3. before attending college, alice walker went to school in
(a) atlanta, georgia
(b) eatonton, georgia
(c) jackson, mississippi
(d) lawrence, massachusetts
4. the word "vowed" in line 7 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
(a) confided
(b) believed
(c) denied
(d) promised
5. it can be inferred from the passage that alice walker was twenty-two years old when
(a) she moved to jackson, mississippi
(b) she moved to new york
(c) she first met langston hughes
(d) langston hughes died
6. it can be inferred from lines 9-11 that alice walker's first impressions of燣angston hughes were derived mostly from
(a) talking with his friends
(b) reading his autobiography
(c) studying his poetry
(d) meeting him
7. the word "dream" in line 11 is closest in meaning to
(a) nightmare
(b) expectation
(c) sleep
(d) misconception
8. what does alice walker imply when she says langston hughes "is not dead at all" (line 12)?
(a) langston hughes believed in eternal life.
(b) she had not been informed of langston hughes' death.
(c) for her, langston hughes had never really existed.
(d) langston hughes is still present in her thoughts.
9. the word "undiminished" in line 14 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
(a) not exaggerated
(b) not lessened
(c) disappointed
(d) unequaled
10. according to the passage, what did alice walker give langston hughes before he died?
(a) a job
(b) an award
(c) some oranges
(d) a stack of books
牐牐 question 11-21
牐牐 human vision, like that of other primates, has evolved in an arboreal environment. in the dense, complex world of a tropical forest, it is more important to see well than to develop an acute sense of smell. in the course of evolution, members of the primate line have acquired large eyes while the snout has shrunk to give the eye an unimpeded view. of爉ammals, only humans and some primates enjoy color vision. the red flag is black to the bull. horses live in a monochrome world. light visible to human eyes, however, occupies only a very narrow band in the whole electromagnetic spectrum. ultraviolet rays are invisible to humans, though ants and honeybees are sensitive to them. humans
have no direct perception of爄nfrared rays, unlike the rattlesnake, which has receptors tuned into wavelengths longer than 0.7 micron. the world would look eerily different if human eyes were sensitive to infrared radiation. .then, instead of the darkness of night, we would be able to move easily in a strange, shadows world where objects glowed with varying degree of intensity. but human eyes excel in other ways. they are, in fact , remarkably discerning in color gradation. the color sensitivity of normal human vision is rarely surpassed even by sophisticated technical devices.
11. what does the passage mainly discuss?.
(a )ultraviolet rays
(b) human vision
(c) sight and smell
(d)the environmen
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