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　　242. Its peoples became toeflat traders, bartering jewellery, pottery,  animal pelts, tools, and other goods along extensive trading networks that  stretched up and down eastern North America and as far west as the Rocky  Mountains.

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

　　(A) producing

　　(B) exchanging

　　(C) transporting

　　(D) loading

　　243. Over the next centuries, it was supplanted by another culture, the  Mississippian, named after the river along which many of its earliest villages  were located.

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

　　(A) conquered

　　(B) preceded

　　(C) replaced

　　(D) imitated

　　244. Most of these towns boasted at least one major flat-topped mound on  which stood a temple that contained a sacred flame. Only priests and those  charged with guarding the flame could enter the temples.

　　The phrase "charged with" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) passed on

　　(B) experienced at

　　(C) interested in

　　(D) assigned to

　　245. Printmaking is the generic term for a number of processes, of which  woodcut and engraving are two prime examples.

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

　　(A) principal

　　(B) complex

　　(C) general

　　(D) recent

　　246. Engraving, which toeflw out of the goldsmith's art, originated in  Germany and northern Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. It is an  intaglio process (from Italian intagliare, "to carve") . The image is incised  into a highly polished metal plate, usually copper, with a cutting instrument,  or burin.

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

　　(A) burned

　　(B) cut

　　(C) framed

　　(D) baked

　　247. Both woodcut and engraving have distinctive characteristics. Engraving  lends itself to subtle modeling and shading through the use of fine lines.

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

　　(A) unique

　　(B) accurate

　　(C) irregular

　　(D) similar

　　248. Both methods can yield several hundred good-quality prints before the  original block or plate begins to show signs of wear.

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

　　(A) imitate

　　(B) produce

　　(C) revise

　　(D) contrast

　　249. But not all animal parents, even those that tend their offspring to  the point of hatching or birth, feed their young.

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

　　(A) sit on

　　(B) move

　　(C) notice

　　(D) care for

　　250. Few insects feed their young after hatching, but some make other  arrangement,provisioning their cells and nests with caterpillars and spiders  that they have paralyzed with their venom and stored in a state of suspended  animation so that their larvae might have a supply of fresh food when they  hatch.

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

　　(A) supplying

　　(B) preparing

　　(C) building

　　(D) expanding

　　251. For animals other than mammals, then, feeding is not intrinsic to  parental care. Animals add it to their reproductive strategies to give them an  edge in their lifelong quest for descendants.

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

　　(A) opportunity

　　(B) advantage

　　(C) purpose

　　(D) rest

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