49、 rice B) the parts that do not have enough rice C) the parts where rice is grown D) the parts that depend primarily on rice 5. Paragraph 3 mentions all of the following as signs of economic growth in Siam EXCEPT A) an increase in the price of rice B) an increase in the amount of rice leaving Siam C) 。

50、 an increase in the nutritional quality of the rice grown D) an increase in the amount of land used for rice production 6. According to paragraph 3, farming families increased the amount of rice they grew in part by A) growing varieties of rice that produced greater yields B) forming collective farm 。

51、s by joining together with other farm families C) planting rice in areas that had previously remained unplanted D) hiring laborers to help them tend their fields 7. According to paragraph 4, what happened after the government ended the practice of requiring rural people to perform labor for it? A) R 。

52、ural people became more closely connected to the aristocracy. B) Rural people spent more time growing rice for profit. C) The government began to pay the laborers who grew rice for it. D) The government introduced a special tax on rice. 8. Which of the following best describes the relationship betwe 。

53、en paragraphs 3 and 4 in the passage? A) Paragraph 4 provides further evidence of the economic growth of Siam discussed in paragraph 3. B) Paragraph 4 continues the discussion begun in paragraph 3 of farming improvements that led to economic growth. C) Paragraph4 examines a particular effect of the。

54、Bowring Treaty mentioned in paragraph 3. D) Paragraph 4 discusses the second of two factors that contributed to the expansion of rice farming mentioned in paragraph 3. 9. The word “dispersed in the passage is closest in meaning to A) spread out B) gained power C) adapted D) specialized 10. The word。

55、“compulsory in the passage is closest in meaning to A) foreign B) formal C) required D) preferred 11. According to paragraph 5, which of the following was true of Siams rural people during the Fifth Reign? A) They were forced to spend most of the profits from rice growing on registrations required b 。

56、y the government. B) Their lives remained very difficult even though statistics suggest that their quality of life improved. C) The non-farmers among them were helped by the government more than the farmers among them were. D) They were more prosperous when they were ruled by local elites than when。

57、they were ruled by the more modern government of the Fifth Reign. 12. According to paragraph 5, the government bureaucracy intruded in village life by A) requiring the people to register their cattle and land B) requiring the people to buy certain kinds of imported goods C) discouraging the people f 。

58、rom making handicrafts and tools D) encouraging more people to take up farming 13.Look at the four squares that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage. And yet, how is it that the peasants were able to choose to expand their economic activity in response to the market op 。

59、portunities? Where does the sentence best fit? 14. Prose Summary During the late nineteenth century, changes in Siams power structure had important economic consequences. Answer Choices: A) Population movement occurred and rice cultivation intensified because Siam became more actively involved in in 。

60、ternational trade. B) Changes in taxation and the ending of the requirement that people work part-time for the rulers allowed farmers to produce more rice for the marketplace. C) Population increases occurred in part because Siams farmers were able to produce more rice to feed the population. D) Lan 。

61、d became so valuable that villagers had to pay the government for the land that they worked on. E) Although rural living standards may have improved somewhat, prosperity varied from village to village and government bureaucracy played a greater role in village life. F) Government modernization in th 。

62、e early twentieth century resulted in the loss of some freedoms that the rural population had gained from the traditional ruling classes. 托福阅读TPO31真题Part3原文及答案【含翻译】 Distributions of Tropical Bee Colonies In 1977 ecologists Stephen Hubbell and Leslie Johnson recorded a dramatic example of how social。

63、interactions can produce and enforce regular spacing in a population. They studied competition and nest spacing in populations of stingless bees in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica. Though these bees do no sting, rival colonies of some species fight fiercely over potential nesting sites. Stingless bees are abundant in tropical and subtropical environments, where they gather necta 。

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