【新托福阅读词汇150题(136)：assisted&initiated】新托福TPO阅读中，词汇题是重要托福阅读题型。托福阅读词汇题做题需要考生掌握一定的词汇量和做题技巧。本文中新东方在线托福网汇总了新托福阅读词汇150题：assisted&initiated。

　　Paragraph 1: We all know that many more people today are right-handed than left-handed. Can one trace this same pattern far back in prehistory? Much of the evidence about right-hand versus left-hand dominance comes from stencils and prints found in rock shelters in Australia and elsewhere, and in many Ice Age caves in France, Spain, and Tasmania. When a left hand has been stenciled, this implies that the artist was right-handed, and vice versa. Even though the paint was often sprayed on by mouth, one can assume that the dominant hand assisted in the operation. One also has to make the assumption that hands were stenciled palm downward—a left hand stenciled palm upward might of course look as if it were a right hand. Of 158 stencils in the French cave of Gargas, 136 have been identified as left, and only 22 as right; right-handedness was therefore heavily predominant. 【TPO12- Which Hand Did They Use?】

　　1. The phrase “assisted in” in the passage is closest in meaning to

　　○ initiated

　　○ dominated

　　○ helped with

　　○ setup

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