托福答案解析

托福答案解析

TOEFL（The Test of English as a Foreign Language，简称TOEFL）是（ETS）举办的英语能力考试，全名为“检定非英语为母语者的英语能力考试”，中文音译为“托福”。TOEFL有三种，分别是： pbt—paper based test 纸考 677, cbt—computer based test 机考 300, ibt—internet based test 网考 120, 新托福满分是120分。TOEFL考试的有效期为两年，是从考试日期开始计算的。例如：2003年1月18日参加考试，这次考试成绩的有效期是从2003年1月18日到2005年1月18日。

1. While play is important at all levels ofhuman development， _________takes on particular significance when children are five and six years old.

2. During the second and third years oflife， childrengain _________ over their bodies.

3. All brass instruments use a mouthpiece_________ into a long cone-shaped tube.

4. By the mid-twentieth century， United States presidential staffs， _________ had numbered fewer thanten a century earlier， numbered in the hundreds.

5. In 1966 only 60 percent of all five yearolds in the United States attended kindergarten， _________ in 1985 almost 82 percent did so.

6. _________ industries， inventions， and communal endeavors of theShakers， the bestknown is their fine furniture.

7. Most fishes and many reptiles have ribsalong most of the spine， but in mammals _________ only in the ch hest area.

8. Although the habitat of the Americanbeech tree is now confined to the eastern United States and southeastern Canada， _________ extended as far west asCalifornia.

9. Most of North America receives _________some form of continuous plant cover except in the arid and semiarid Southwest.