2011年TOEFL词汇模拟题精选系列六十七

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

326 A

327 B

328 C

329 C

330 B