When Amy frowned upon Alex's comment on her seemingly overweight body, Alex knew right away thathe had made a social _____ about a woman's weight.blunder
(A)deposit
(B)fragment
(C)heritage
(D)
The parents didn't believe that their son could have committed such a brutal murder and they _____ thejudge to release their innocent son from jail.condemned
(A)importuned
(B)neutralized
(C)obligated
(D)
The intern tries to fulfill the expectations of the boss and _____ her own agenda at the same time.meet
(A)grow
(B)pay
(C)sow
(D)
While Jane is excited about a business trip to Europe, she is also a little _____ since she has never beenabroad.addicted
(A)practicing
(B)apprehens
(C)ivepunctual
(D)
The traveller has no _____ of staying in Australia longer than 3 months.integrity
(A)intensity
(B)intention
(C)intelligence
(D)請依下文回答第36 題至第40 題,並依文意從四個選項中選出最合適者,答案選用不能重覆:A tsunami is unnoticeable in the open ocean-a long, low wave whose power becomes clear only when itreaches shore and breaks. 36 Spotting the wave while it's still crossing the ocean is tricky, which explainswhy so few of us are aware of the one that's approaching. 37 As it does, it will make the computerrevolution look like small change. It will affect everything from the batteries we use to the pants we wear to theway we treat cancer. The main thing to know about nanotechnology is that it's small. Really small. Nano, aprefix that means "dwarf" in Greek, is shorthand for nanometer, one-billionth of a meter. 38 This comma,for instance, spans about half a million nanometers. To put it another way, a nanometer is the amount a man'sbeard grows in the time it takes him to lift a razor to his face. 39 Tear a piece of aluminum foil into tinystrips, and it will still behave like aluminum-even after the strips have become so small that you need amicroscope to see them. But keep chopping them smaller, and at some point-20 to 30 nanometers, in this case-the pieces can explode. 40 With them, scientists can engineer a cornucopia of exotic new materials, suchas plastic that conducts electricity and coatings that prevent iron from rusting.
It
(A)'s a distance that is so minute that comparing it to anything in the regular world is a bit of a joke.Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they
(B)'renanosize.Not all nanosize materials change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon.
(C)Technologic
(D)al revolutions travel with the same stealth.
It
(A)'s a distance that is so minute that comparing it to anything in the regular world is a bit of a joke.Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they
(B)'renanosize.Nanotechnology has been around for two decades, but the first wave of applications is only now
(C)beginning to break.Not all nanosize materials change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon.
(D)
It
(A)'s a distance that is so minute that comparing it to anything in the regular world is a bit of a joke.Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they
(B)'renanosize.Not all nanosize materials can change properties so usefully, but the fact that som
(C)e do is a boon.Technological revolutions travel with the same stealth.
(D)
Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they
(A)'renanosize.Nanotechnology has been around for two decades, but the first wave of applic
(B)ations is only nowbeginning to break.Not all nanosize materials change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon.
(C)Technological revolutions travel with the same stealth.
(D)
It
(A)'s a distance that is so minute that comparing it to anything in the regular world is a bit of a joke.Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they
(B)'renanosize.Nanotechnology has been around for two decades, but the first wave of applications is only now
(C)beginning to break.Not all nanosize materials can change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon.
(D)請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題:The Titanic, designed as the largest ship ever to go to sea, was one of the White Star Line's vessels thatcatered to the most elite passengers. It took three years to build the Titanic and in the end the ship cost $7.5million dollars. More than 3000 men were employed in building the Titanic. In the months, and even years,leading up to the maiden voyage of the ship; the White Star Line published numerous marketing materialsclaiming that the Titanic was designed to be "unsinkable."The construction methods used in the building of the Titanic were considered to be second to none. Sixteencompartments were said to be watertight. Builders of the Titanic had included steel doors that were supposed tohave been capable of shutting in 25 seconds or less, thereby enclosing any water that might have seeped in tothreaten the safety of the ship and her occupants.Of course, we now know from photographs taken of the ship's wreckage, that in all likelihood many of thenearly three million rivets that were employed to hold the ship's hull plates together popped loose when the vesselstruck a massive iceberg. Without the rivets to hold the plating together, they quickly buckled, allowing water toenter the ship. New theories have suggested that the iron used in the Titanic's construction may not have been thebest quality, containing high degrees of sulfur, which made the hull plates particularly susceptible to the icy coldwaters of the North Atlantic. Builders of the Titanic can hardly be blamed for the iron's contribution to the tragicsinking, however. The iron used in the construction of the Titanic was standard for the first part of the 20thcentury. While the high sulfur content in the iron may have played a role in the tragic history of the Titanic, it wasnot the sole reason the ship sank.Reports from surviving crew members indicate that the ship had been ordered to proceed through the watersof the North Atlantic faster than safety permitted. Numerous other vessels had reported the presence of several iceflows in the area on the day the ship sank, yet the Titanic made no effort to slow down. When it became obviousthat the ship was about to collide with a huge iceberg, crew members attempted to turn the ship, hoping to avoidthe berg all together. They were unsuccessful, however, and the ship sustained numerous gashes along the hull.Some theories speculate that had the ship hit the iceberg head-on, the damage would not have been nearly sotraumatic and the Titanic and her passengers would have been able to complete their journey.
According to this passage, which of the following statements is true about the Titanic?It was built by a
(A)small labor force.It was built within a short time frame.
(B)It was viewed as unsafe by the general population.
(C)It aimed to attract passengers with high social status.
(D)
What is the best title for this passage?The Titanic Movie.
(A)Sinking of the Titanic.
(B)Hull Plating on the Titanic.
(C)Celebrities on the Titanic.
(D)
According to this passage, which of the following does NOT explain the destruction of the Titanic?Excessive speed caused the tragedy.
(A)There was no single factor on which to lay blame.
(B)The shut
(C)ting of steel doors brought about the shipwreck.The strike of the iceberg was the major reason for the wreck.
(D)
What does the word "buckled" mean in the third paragraph?Bent.
(A)Rusted.
(B)Defeated.
(C)Fastened.
(D)
Which of following statements is true about the last paragraph?The head
(A)-on strike was the cause of the tragedy.The crew members made no efforts to avoid the iceberg.
(B)The captain gave an order to slow the ship down on sight of an iceberg.
(C)The ship was sailing at a normal speed as permitted in the b
(D)eginning of the voyage.請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題:In the United States, there are about twenty-two million hearing-impaired people; of these, two million areprofoundly deaf (unable to hear any thing) or severely deaf (unable to hear much). Hearing impairment resultsfrom three major factors that are not necessarily exclusive: environmental, hereditary and old age.Environmental causes include noise-induced, accidental, toxic, and viral. Noise-induced deafness is primarilya phenomenon of the modern industrial world, though stonemasons, may have been subject to hearing-loss in theancient world. Permanent deafness resulting from toxicity is also a phenomenon of the modern world. Deafnessfrom accident, such as a blow to the ear, must have resulted from time to time. Viruses, too, were very much partof the ancient world. Of the six main viruses that can cause deafness today—chickenpox, common cold viruses,influenza, measles, mumps, and poliomyelitis—there is evidence for five in ancient Greece. There is alsoevidence for the presence of bacterial meningitis, whose classic complication is hearing loss. In modern,developed countries, preventative medicine reduces the incidence and severity of these viruses, but in the ancientworld, as in third-world countries today, these viruses must have taken their toll.There is no reason to rule out hereditary deafness in the ancient world, and there is some conjecturalevidence for the results of in-breeding, although not specifically for deafness. In addition to inbreeding, otherhereditary factors would have produced deafness. Some families simply have a genetic background that favorsdeafness.
> 答案:?
Compared to the ancient world, what is the chief factor that causes the loss of hearing in the modernindustrial world?virus
(A)noise
(B)measles
(C)inbreeding
(D)
What is the detail given to explain the deafness caused by accident?chickenpox
(A)influenza
(B)a blow to the ear
(C)in
(D)-breeding
What is the reason that modern, developed countries have fewer incidents of viruses-induced deafness?B
(A)ecause of the presence of bacterial meningitis.Because
(B)of the practice of preventative medicine.Because of the severity of viruses.
(C)Because of the existence of mumps.
(D)
According to the passage, which statement about hereidtary deafness in the ancient world is NOT accurate?To understand deafness in the ancient world, we need to take hereditary factors into consideration.
(A)There is clear evidence to show that inbreeding will definitely lead to deafness.
(B)Some families tended to have genes that caused
(C)deafness.It can be inferred that in
(D)-breeding in the ancient world would probably lead to serious consequences.
To fully develop the main idea of the whole article, what do you expect the following paragraph, which isnot presented here, will be about?The
(A)description about the hearing loss in elderly people.The description about the lifestyle of the ancient world.
(B)The comparison between hearing
(C)-impairment and hearing-loss.The
(D)consequences of chickenpox and measles.