【官方真题Official托福阅读】官方真题Official3托福阅读词汇真题练习——pales&significance
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Paragraph 6: Ecologists are especially interested to know what factors contribute to the resilience of communities because climax communities all over the world are being severely damaged or destroyed by human activities. The destruction caused by the volcanic explosion of Mount St. Helens, in the northwestern United States, for example, pales in comparison to the destruction caused by humans. We need to know what aspects of a community are most important to the community’s resistance to destruction, as well as its recovery. 【官方真题Official3- The Long-Term Stability of Ecosystems】
10. The word “pales” in the passage is closest in meaning to
○increases proportionally
○differs
○loses significance
○is common
答案:(3)