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　　161. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.

　　The word "realization" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) certainty

　　(B) awareness

　　(C) surprise

　　(D) confusion

　　162. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining, satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive.

　　The word "aesthetically" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) artistically

　　(B) exceptionally

　　(C) realistically

　　(D) dependably

　　163. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions.

　　The word "refreshing" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) popular

　　(B) ridiculous

　　(C) meaningful

　　(D) unusual

　　164. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity.

　　The word "devote" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) distinguish

　　(B) feel affection

　　(C) prefer

　　(D) dedicate

　　165. Hotels were among the earliest facilities that bound the United States together. They were both creations and creators of communities, as well as symptoms of the frenetic quest for community.

　　The word "bound" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) led

　　(B) protected

　　(C) tied

　　(D) strengthened

　　166. The growing custom of regularly assembling from afar the representatives of all kinds of groups, not only for political conventions, but also for commercial, professional, learned, and avocational ones... in turn supported the multiplying hotels.

　　The word "assembling" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) announcing

　　(B) motivating

　　(C) gathering

　　(D) contracting

　　167. In the past, as today, men, women, and children adorned themselves with beads. In some cultures still, certain beads are often worn from birth until death, and then are buried with their owners for the afterlife.

　　The word "adorned" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) protected

　　(B) decorated

　　(C) purchased

　　(D) enjoyed

　　168. Besides their wear ability, either as jewelry or incorporated into articles of attire, beads possess the desirable characteristics of every collectible: they are durable, portable, available in infinite variety, and often valuable in their original cultural context as well as in today's market.

　　The word "attire" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) ritual

　　(B) importance

　　(C) clothing

　　(D) history

　　169. Beads are miniature bundles of secrets waiting to be revealed: their history, manufacture, cultural context, economic role, and ornamental use are all points of information one hopes to unravel.

　　The word "unravel" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) communicate

　　(B) transport

　　(C) improve

　　(D) discover

　　170. Even the most mundane beads may have traveled great distances and been exposed to many human experiences.

　　The word "mundane" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) carved

　　(B) beautiful

　　(C) ordinary

　　(D) heavy，来源：北京新航道托福培训

　　171. The crossed mandibles enable the birds to exert a powerful biting force at the bill tips, which is critical for maneuvering them between the scales and spreading the scales apart. Next, the crossbill snakes its long tongue into the gap and draws out the seed.

　　The word "gap" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) opening

　　(B) flower

　　(C) mouth

　　(D) tree

　　172. Next, the crossbill snakes its long tongue into the gap and draws out the seed. Using the combined action of the bill and tongue, the birds cracks open and discards the woody seed covering and swallows the nutritious inner kernel.

　　The word "discards" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) eats

　　(B) breaks

　　(C) finds out

　　(D) gets rid of

　　173. As a rule, large billed crossbills are better at seeming seeds from large cones while small billed crossbills are more deft at removing the seeds from small, thin scaled cones.

　　The word "deft" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) hungry

　　(B) skilled

　　(C) tired

　　(D) pleasant

　　174. This bird has a large, robust bill, yet most of Newfoundland's conifers have small cones, the same kind of cones that the slender-billed white-wings rely on.

　　The word "robust" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) strong

　　(B) colorful

　　(C) unusual

　　(D) sharp

　　175. It was she, a Baltimore printer, who published the first official copies of the Declaration, the first copies that included the names of its signers and therefore heralded the support of all thirteen colonies.

　　The word "heralded" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) influenced

　　(B) announced

　　(C) rejected

　　(D) ignored

　　176. She was also the city's postmaster from 1775 to 1789 --- appointed by Benjamin Franklin --- and is considered to be the first woman to hold a federal position.

　　The word "position" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) job

　　(B) election

　　(C) document

　　(D) location

　　177. Galaxies are the major building blocks of the universe. A galaxy is a giant family of many millions of stars, and it is held together by its own gravitational field.

　　The word "major" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) intense

　　(B) principal

　　(C) lunge

　　(D) unique

　　178. The elliptical galaxies have a symmetricalelliptical or spheroidal shape with no obvious structure. Most of their member stars are very old and since elliptical are devoid of interstellar gas, no new stars are forming in them.

　　The word "symmetrical" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) proportionally balanced

　　(B) commonly seen

　　(C) typically large

　　(D) steadily growing

　　The word "obvious" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) discovered

　　(B) apparent

　　(C) understood

　　(D) simplistic

　　179. Their light was already halfway here before the Earth even formed. The light from the nearby Virgo galaxy set out when reptiles still dominatedthe animal world.

　　The word "dominated" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) threatened

　　(B) replaced

　　(C) were developing in

　　(D) were prevalent in

　　180. This meant that wagon freighting, stage coaching and steam boating did not come to an end when the first train appeared; rather they became supplements or feeders.

　　The word "supplements" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) extensions

　　(B) reformers

　　(C) dependents

　　(D) influences

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