Simon goes through the same whenever he makes a mistake.—First he says he didn’t do it, and then he triesto blame it on someone else.
(A)destination
(B)speculation
(C)loophole
(D)routine
The old man had the to save money during his teaching career so as not to be dependent on irregular SocialSecurity checks after his retirement.
(A)foresight
(B)initiation
(C)stinginess
(D)thrift
As the greenhouse effect is getting worse, many people start to worry whether they could the heat in thesummer.
(A)deduce
(B)fulfill
(C)derive
(D)survive
The of the candidate expressed itself in his extreme and unrealistic isolationism.
(A)acrophobia
(B)homophobia
(C)photophobia
(D)xenophobia
After lengthy discussions and debates, the jury finally reached a . They found the defendant not guilty.
(A)convict
(B)declaration
(C)jurisdiction
(D)verdict
China has never what it says its right to take Taiwan by force if peaceful blandishments fail.
(A)announced
(B)denounced
(C)pronounced
(D)renounced
The avian flu is highly , so be sure to wear a mask when you go out.
(A)contaminated
(B)contagious
(C)influential
(D)recommended
Because the singer was too nervous, she was in the third round of the competition and could not competefor the championship.
(A)eliminated
(B)participated
(C)maintained
(D)endangered
The way the teacher presented it leaves us with no but to do what she said.
(A)allowance
(B)alternative
(C)condemnation
(D)contradiction
The tribal elders for three hours before banishing the two offenders.
(A)deliberated
(B)delivered
(C)depicted
(D)deported
I want to join the club, but its fee is so high that I can’t afford it.
(A)attention
(B)anticipation
(C)adaptation
(D)membership
The judge decided to their marriage when she found out the groom had already had a wife.
(A)nullify
(B)multiply
(C)liquefy
(D)petrify
The soup tastes a little . Let’s add some salt and pepper into it.
(A)bland
(B)positive
(C)fragile
(D)thrifty
Pope Benedict XVI has into the evolution debate in the United States, saying the universe was made by an“intelligent project.”
(A)disappeared
(B)ascended
(C)involved
(D)waded
An employment involves the buying and the selling of labor hours.
(A)transaction
(B)transcription
(C)transformation
(D)transliteration
If we impose a heavy on littering, no one will dare to throw away their garbage at will.
(A)charity
(B)obstacle
(C)reputation
(D)penalty
Marlon expects to successfully his boxing title in the next Olympics.
(A)acquit
(B)defend
(C)forsake
(D)match
the victims who died in the terrorists’ attack last month, the city is going to hold a series of music concerts.
(A)In need of
(B)In search of
(C)In memory of
(D)In footsteps of
Travelers may be spooked, delayed or detoured, but not . Despite a chain of calamities, more and morepeople leave home on holidays.
(A)deferred
(B)deterred
(C)discriminated
(D)disseminated
One is often amazed by the speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies , and social structures dissolveonce the autocrat is removed.
(A)abdicate
(B)accelerate
(C)vibrate
(D)fabricate
The fans were very disappointed when they learned that the outdoor concert was due to the comingtyphoon.
(A)repeated
(B)failed
(C)canceled
(D)closed
There can be scarier experience than to be chased by wild animals.
(A)no
(B)such
(C)any
(D)not
She was reading the story with tears down her cheeks.
(A)rolled
(B)roll
(C)rolling
(D)to roll
The new legislation will not solve the problem; in fact, it will do the opposite.
(A)accurately
(B)barely
(C)precisely
(D)specially
Disputes between Taiwan and Japan over who should have over Diaoyutai Islands have become heatedrecently.
(A)bureaucracy
(B)conspiracy
(C)solidarity
(D)sovereignty
The government has decided to take a series of measures to help the wildlife native to our land.
(A)conceal
(B)conceive
(C)condemn
(D)conserve
The drought has set off “water wars”, pitting farmers against city dwellers and one state against another.
(A)Water shortage has triggered quarrels between farmers and city dwellers and between states.
(B)In many states, farmers and city dwellers have had different opinions about what might have caused the drought.
(C)A series of droughts in one state after another have caused the wars between farmers and city dwellers.
(D)In one state after another, farmers started a series of campaigns against city dwellers in order to solve the droughtproblem.
he will come or not is still open to question.
(A)The fact that
(B)That
(C)What
(D)Whether
I began to think about alternative models of agricultural development.
(A)It was 1976
(B)In 1976 when
(C)Not until 1976 when
(D)It was in 1976 that
Despite the of excellent children’s books in recent years, reading is increasingly unpopular amongchildren.
(A)deterioration
(B)fabrication
(C)proliferation
(D)transaction
If our insurance agency does not improve the way our complaints are dealt with, we will seriously consider theircontract and finding a more reliable service carrier.
(A)illuminating
(B)discriminating
(C)nominating
(D)terminating
Rather than walling off the neighborhoods surrounding them, structures of modern shopping malls welcome in thenatural terrain and relate to local history.
(A)Modern shopping malls are welcomed in natural as well as historical sites.
(B)Modern shopping malls are not isolated structures; they blend naturally and historically into their surroundings.
(C)Without high walls blocking modern shopping malls from their neighborhoods, they are welcomed in variousareas.
(D)To welcome people in all areas, modern shopping malls do not build high walls around them.
The you work, the chance you will have to win promotion.
(A)hardly . . . good
(B)hardly . . . better
(C)harder . . . good
(D)harder . . . better
The teacher students hand in the assignment before they left the classroom.
(A)did
(B)made
(C)told
(D)talked請依下文回答第38 題至第42 題What to write about is the first problem of a student who must periodically submit a theme or an essay. This questionarises not from actual lack of material but from 38 to take the right view of the material one has. A short reflectionshould convince the student that he or she thinks about many things; and a solution to the problem will be found partly atleast in an examination of what he or she already has in mind. One of the great 39 of education comes when weperceive that there is no such thing as a naturally uninteresting subject. Anything can be interesting if one knows enoughabout it. A certain amount of imagination is required and a certain focusing of the view, of course, but there is no reasonwhy a small thing should be of small interest, or why a familiar one should be 40 rich possibilities. The automobileis an exceedingly commonplace object in American life, yet with the right approach it becomes a subject of commandinginterest to the economist, to the engineer, or to the prospective vacationer. Perhaps few things arouse so little thought asthe table salt, yet when salt is considered in relation to living organisms, in connection with certain historical movements,or with regard to its industrial uses, it is 41 transformed into a subject of extraordinary interest. These are examplesof ordinary objects capable of 42 treatment, and it is precisely this kind of connection that the student must makebetween his stock of knowledge and its opportunities for development and interpretation.
Genetic discoveries will trigger a flood of new , including drugs that aimed at the causes of disease ratherthan the symptoms.
(A)therapies
(B)diagnoses
(C)stethoscopes
(D)pharmaceuticals
Pizza _____ came from Italy. Italian immigrants brought this food to the United States in the 1890s.
(A)deliciously
(B)gradually
(C)originally
(D)eventually
I don’t think John would support us. He was just paying us service.
(A)lip
(B)air
(C)civil
(D)expressEvery year when April 14 rolls around we like to acknowledge Noah Webster, who published the first AmericanDictionary of the English Language on this date in 1828. Webster considered American English not a poor cousin of themother tongue of British English, 39 a legitimate body worth respecting, recording, and, yes, reforming. TheAmerican lexicographer attempted to 40 a number of spelling reforms. Noah Webster’s efforts were part of a longhistory of attempts to reform the quirky English orthography. In 1876, on the centennial of the American Declaration ofIndependence, and almost half a century after the American Dictionary of the English Language was first published, acommittee of the American Philological Association (APA) recommended serious spelling reform. Ten years after that,the members of the APA produced a list of 3,500 words whose spellings, they felt, should be changed. But 41 almost200 years of lists, announcements, and pronouncements, it is still safe to say that more lasting changes in Americanspelling have been the result of actual use by the people, not of decrees from on high.請依上文回答第39 題至第41 題。
Jack cannot understand why Bob said that, and .
(A)Tim can, too
(B)so can Tim
(C)nor does Tim
(D)Tim can’t, either
(A)access
(B)failure
(C)resort
(D)success
Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of the bread to eachshareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
(A)Like a company, society may deprive individuals of their bread in order to maintain the liberty and culture ofeach shareholder.
(B)Like a company, society may operate at the expense of individuals’ liberty and culture to ensure the profits foreach shareholder.
(C)Society operates like a joint-stock company that generates profits for shareholders to sustain each individual’sliberty and culture.
(D)Society would produce profits as a joint-stock company for each shareholder when its members agree to giveaway their bread.
The Mexican woman who was denied the job opportunity was believed to be a victim of against both herrace and gender.
(A)temptation
(B)stimulation
(C)resolution
(D)discrimination
(A)and
(B)as
(C)but
(D)or
Sam: I’ve just got my bank statement and I’m afraid I’m in the red.Josh:Sam: I mean, would you please lend me some?
(A)How dare you waste so much money on those video games?
(B)So? What on earth are you going to say?
(C)Do you mean you cannot put up with the red tape?
(D)You really must earn as much money as possible to make ends meet.
Out of the barren earth of their homeland, the farmers are able to create a lush landscape.
(A)The farmers manage to create a rich landscape despite the barren soil.
(B)By getting out of the barren earth, the farmers are able to create a rich landscape.
(C)Outside the poor territory of their homeland, the farmers succeed in creating a lush landscape.
(D)Away from the barren earth of their homeland, the farmers manage to create a rich landscape.
Thousands of workers were laid off in the economic of the early 1980s.
(A)recession
(B)evolution
(C)compensation
(D)recovery
Sam: Alex, can I talk to you about something?Alex:Sam: You know, last night I couldn’t study because of all the noise. And I couldn’t sleep, either. You guys kept meup till 3:00 a.m.
(A)Sure, what’s up?
(B)Sorry, I’m busy.
(C)Never mind.
(D)No, thank you.
Because of the belief that a woman generally does not provide the sole financial support for her family as a mandoes, she often fails to receive equal pay for equal work.
(A)Women often do not make as much money as men do because it is generally believed that a woman receivesother financial support in her family.
(B)Women and men often do not get equal pay for equal work because a woman’s paycheck is generally considereda secondary income for her family.
(C)Women often fail to receive equal treatment at work because they believe they do not make as much money asmen do.
(D)Women and men often fail to get equal pay for equal work because a woman’s income is generally moreimportant than a man’s.請依下文回答第41~45 題We measure our lives in months and years. The wood mouse’s life is measured in hours and days. This tiny mammal,a member of the rodent family, has a childhood lasting only for three weeks.Survival is a difficult task for such a small creature. The wood mouse ventures out mainly at night, using its whiskersto feel its way through the darkness. It has good sight and hearing, and an excellent sense of smell. However, the woodmouse is relatively defenseless, and many fall prey to owls, hawks, crows, foxes, and other predators.The mouse’s main survival strategy is to breed at speed. A single mother may have several litters of babies, totally 25to 30 offspring in a year. With so many babies, the chances are that only one or two will survive.The wood mouse has many similarities to its close cousin, the house mouse. For both, life starts in a cozy nest. Thenew babies are pink and furless. Their eyes are closed, and there is no sign of the typically large mouse ears. They dependcompletely on their mother. She suckles them with her milk, licks them clean, removes their droppings, and keeps the nestclean. If they wriggle too far, she picks them up in her mouth and returns them to the nest.
(A)responsible for
(B)subordinate to
(C)devoid of
(D)confined to