1、托福TOEFL考试阅读模拟题（含答案）托福阅读文本： The Native Americans of northern California were highly skilled at basketry, using the reeds,grasses, barks, and roots they found around them to fashion articles of all sorts and sizes not only trays, containers, and cooking pots, but hats, boats, fish traps, baby carriers
2、, and ceremonial objects. Of all these experts, none excelled the Pomo a group who lived on or near the coast during the 1800s, and whose descendants continue to live in parts of the same region to this day. They made baskets three feet in diameter and others no bigger than a thimble. The Pomo peopl
3、e were masters of decoration. Some of their baskets were completely covered with shell pendants; others with feathers that made the baskets surfaces as soft as the breasts of birds. Moreover, the Pomo people made use of more weaving techniques than did their neighbors. Most groups made all their bas
4、ketwork by twining the twisting of a flexible horizontal material, called a weft, around stiffer vertical strands of material, the warp. Others depended primarily on coiling a process in which a continuous coil of stiff material is held in the desired shape with tight wrapping of flexible strands. O
5、nly the Pomo people used both processes with equal ease and frequency. In addition, they made use of four distinct variations on the basic twining process, often employing more than one of them in a single article. Although a wide variety of materials was available, the Pomo people used only a few.
6、The warp was always made of willow, and the most commonly used weft was sedge root, a woody fiber that could easily be separated into strands no thicker than a thread. For color, the Pomo people used the bark of redbud for their twined work and dyed bullrush root for black in coiled work. Though oth
7、er materials were sometimes used, these four were the staples in their finest basketry. If the basketry materials used by the Pomo people were limited, the designs were amazingly varied. Every Pomo basketmaker knew how to produce from fifteen to twenty distinct patterns that could be combined in a n
8、umber of different ways. 托福阅读题目： 1. What best distinguished Pomo baskets from baskets of other groups? (A) The range of sizes, shapes, and designs (B) The unusual geometric (C) The absence of decoration (D) The rare materials used 2. The word fashion in line 2 is closest in meaning to (A) maintain (
9、B) organize (C) trade (D) create 3. The Pomo people used each of the following materials to decorate baskets EXCEPT (A) shells (B) feathers (C) leaves (D) bark 4. What is the authors main point in the second paragraph? (A) The neighbors of the Pomo people tried to improve on the Pomo basket weaving
10、techniques. (B) The Pomo people were the most skilled basket weavers in their region. (C) The Pomo people learned their basket weaving techniques from other Native Americans. (D) The Pomo baskets have been handed down for generations. 5. The word others in line 9 refers to (A) masters (B) baskets (C
11、) pendants (D) surfaces 6.According to the passage , a weft is a (A) tool for separating sedge root (B) process used for coloring baskets (C) pliable maternal woven around the warp (D) pattern used to decorate baskets 7.According to the passage , what did the Pomo people use as the warp in their bas
12、kets? (A) bullrush (B) willow (C) sedge (D) redbud 8. The word article in line 17 is close in meaning to (A) decoration (B) shape (C) design (D) object 9. According to the passage . The relationship between redbud and twining is most similar to the relationship between (A) bullrush and coiling (B) w
13、eft and warp (C) willow and feathers (D) sedge and weaving 10. The word staples in line 23 is closest in meaning to (A) combinations (B) limitations (C) accessories (D) basic elements 11. The word distinct in lime 26 is closest in meaning to (A) systematic (B) beautiful (C) different (D) compatible
14、12. Which of the following statements about Pomo baskets can be best inferred from the passage ? (A) Baskets produced by other Native Americans were less varied in design than those of the Pomo people. (B) Baskets produced by Pomo weavers were primarily for ceremonial purposes. (C) There were a very limited number of basketmaking materials available to the Pomo people. (D) The basketmaking production of the Pomo people has increased over the years. 托福阅读模拟题答案： BDCBB CBDAD CA
