8-8 98 年 8 月托福听力试题

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1. (A) She plans to send out all the invitations.
(B)She's a new student.
(C)She thinks the man is right.
(D) She invited the man to a party.

2. (A) he didn't know what hospital Bill was in
(B) he took Bill to the hospital.
(C) He's sorry the woman hurt herself.
(D) He forgot to call the woman.

3. (A) She hasn't heard from the professor in a week.
(B) The class has extra time to complete the assignment.
(C) She only just found out about the economics paper.
(D) She won't see the professor until next week.

4. (A) The doctor has stopped seeing new patients.
(B)The doctor's once will be closed tomorrow.
(C)The doctor's schedule is filled tomorrow.
(D)The doctor can see the man tomorrow.

5. (A) Where the meeting is being held.
(B)Where Joe will meet her.
(C)What the topic of the meeting is.
(D) What Joe was wearing.

6. (A) She doesn't know the person cal hug.
(B)She'll pay for the call.

(C) She was sorry the man couldn't finish his laundry.
(D) She saw the man run out.

13. (A) his coach didn't help him enough ..
(B) He had no chance of winning
(C)He didn't follow his coach's advice
(D)His coach didn't listen to him

14. (A) She often goes to the Variety Theater.
(B) She expected the theater to close down
(C) She's surprised by the news.
(D) She likes the new theater in town.

15. (A) They aren't very good because they're so different.
(B) He thinks they should each do both.
(C) They should each do a different one.
(D) It doesn't matter which one they do

16. (A) Wash fewer clothes at a time
(B) Use a different washing machine.
(C) Let her use the washing machine first.
(D) Wash his clothes by hand

17. (A)She is going to drop the class too.
(B)She doesn't know how to swim.
(C) It took her a long time to learn to swim.
(D) She teaches swimming.

18. (A) She'll give the man a hew prescription right away.
(B) She'll be away from the office for two days.

(C)Go to Customer Service.
(D) Wrap the gift herself

25.

(A) Move the plants away from the window.
(B) Water the plants more often.
(C) Put the plants in a place where there is more sunlight.
(D) Let her take care of the plants for a while.

26. (A) Someone else at the wedding took good pictures.
(B) The woman's camera is broken.
(C)Dan and Linda didn't hire a professional photographer.
(D)He wasn't at Dan and Linda's wedding.

27. (A) Sally should think more before talking.
(B) She doesn't think Sally listens well either.
(C) She doesn't understand the man's point
(D) Sally is preparing for her role in a play.

28. (A) The meeting is not expected to last a long time.
(B) He expects to meet the woman at the meeting.
(C)Members will be told to he brief in their comments
(D) Committee members will be informed before the meeting

29. (A) The frame is not too expensive.
(B) The woman paid too much for the poster.
(C) The poster looks better without the frame.
(D) The woman got a bargain.



36.(A) When they get the meal.
(B) At the beginning of the week.
(C) At the beginning of the year.
(D) At the end of the year.

37. (A) They can invite guests to meals at a reduced price.
(B) They receive cards that allow them to be served first.
(C) They can help decide what will be on the menu..
(D) They pay less per meal than those who eat there only part of the time.

38. (A) By paying for meals one at a time.
(B) By borrowing a student's meal card.
(C) By ordering their meals in advance.
(D) By buying a weekend meal card.

39. (A) She works for a museum.
(B) She's a Lincoin scholar.
(C) She does it as a hobby.
(D) She teaches a course on currency exchange.

40. (A) They identify the city where the penny was minted.
(B) They are the initials of a famous coin collector.
(C)They stand for the government agency that mints coins.
(D) They are the initials of the person who created the penny's design.

41. (A) All of her friends collected them.
(B) Pennies were cheap to collect.
(C) Someone gave her a rare penny
(D) She needed the money.


48. (A) Crop production became increasingly specialized.
(B) Economic depressions lowered the prices of farm products.
(C) New banking laws made it easy to buy farmland.
(D) The United States increased its agricultural imports.

49. (A) Prices for farm products rose.
(B) Farmers became more dependent on loans from banks.
(C)Jefferson established government programs to assist farmers.
(D) Farmers relied less on foreign markets.

50. (A) They provided evidence that Jefferson's ideal could be achieved.
(B) They made farmers less dependent on local bankers.
(C) They affected the prices that farmers could receive for their crops.
(D) They decreased the power of the railroads to control farm prices. 98 年 8 月托福语法试题

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1. Because air is highly compressible, --- to define a clear upper boundary of the
atmosphere.
(A) it is impossible
(B) impossible is
(C) so the impossibility
(D) is the impossibility

2. BASIC, the acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a high –
level Instruction Code, is a high – level computer programming language ---.


7. A popular belief --- radio and television have homogenized the language of the United States.
(A) states that
(B) that is stated
(C) that states
(I)) stating that

8. The astronomical unit is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun --- is the standard
of distances in the Solar System.
(A) and
(B) also
(C) in addition
(D) because
9. In 1952 Ernest Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea ---.
(A) won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
(B) and the Nobel Prize for Literature won in 1954
(C) in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this work.
(D) a work that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954

10. Many birds have feathers----with their surroundings.
(A) colors blend
(B) that colors to blend
(C) whose colors blend
(D) of which the colors that blend

11.Mosaic is the art of closely setting small, colored pieces, such as stone or glass, into a
surface --.
(A) and create a decorative design
(B) and a decorative design creates
(C) to create a decorative design

16£® According
to modern astronomers, the space between the planets and
A B
stars is not empty; rather he
is filled with something called dark matter;
C D

17. In the late nineteenth century, journalist and publisher William

Randolph Hearst established
a vast publishing empire that included
A B