George emailed me and I replied. We began to, both of us were cautious at first.correspond
(A)
(B)commit
(C)comply
(D)compress
To reduce the risk that someone mightembarrassing data from the USB flash drive you ditched, you canrun a disk wipe utility to make sure that no data is left on the flash drive.
(A)salvage
(B)investigate
(C)reduce
(D)temper
If I file a complaint against a doctor, will my identity be keptso that my name won’t be revealed?unambiguous
(A)
(B)unconscious
(C)comprehensive
(D)confidential
The Pope held a mass to address peace andbecause the Korean Peninsula is divided.
(A)reconcilation
(B)recommendation
(C)diagnosis
(D)sanitation
Everyone is supposed to be equal but I’ve heard a great many men make unfavorable comments to embarrassorwomen.accommoda
(A)te
(B)subordinate
(C)intimidate
(D)eliminate
The school has held a number of talks and workshops on the topic of peer support and peer respect totheidea of a bully-free campus.
(A)boycott
(B)denounce
(C)reinforce
(D)trespass
Pasteur attended a famous school in Paris and soonwith his research.lost sight of himself
(A)
(B)made a name for himself
(C)caught up with himself
(D)took advantage of himself
It was quite a scene at the party that Jerry spoketo Martin in every possible way trying to make a fool ofhim in front of the pretty woman they were both interested in.
(A)courteously
(B)provisionally
(C)sarcastically
(D)cordially
The taxi driver was obviouslyby going through the red light, and caused an accident.buckled up
(A)
(B)in the wind
(C)geared up
(D)in rush
The tendonitis in my wrists and shoulders starts toafter I work on computer for long periods of time. Itcan be very painful.
(A)act up
(B)sit up
(C)catch up
(D)go up
Tim doesn’t know English, so he has to rely on his wife toeverything for him while travelling inAmerica.transfer
(A)
(B)transform
(C)translate
(D)transport
Nowadays kids are playing sports more _____ at younger ages; they are pushing their bodies to the limit,practicing sports too hard for too long.
(A)aggressively
(B)defensively
(C)elegantly
(D)persuasively依下文回答第37 題至第40 題The lexicon of oncology is filled with military metaphors: the war on cancer, aggressive tumors, magic bullets.And although these are indeed only metaphors, they do reflect an underlying attitude--that it is the clinician's job toattack and destroy his patient's tumor directly, with whatever weapons that come in handy.
My father had to work outside all night, and the whipping bitter wind made his hands red and.chapped
(A)
(B)spoiled
(C)tainted
(D)wrecked
There is even talkof biological agents, in the form of viruses specifically tailored to seek out and eliminate their tumorous targets.
A majority of unemployed families depend for their survival on the financialthat was offered by thelocal government.shortage
(A)
(B)souvenir
(C)subsidy
(D)surcharge
But as Sun Tzu observed, the wisest general is not one who wins one hundred victories in one hundredbattles, but rather one who overcomes the armies of his enemies without having to fight them himself. And one way todo that is to get someone else to do your fighting for you.
Even though Jason is complaining about his current job, he isto quit until he finds a new one.reluctant
(A)
(B)reverence
(C)reminisce
(D)reciprocal
Instead of attacking cancer directly, immunotherapy recruits a patient's immune system to do theattacking. The latest way of doing so is by removing the controls which keep the immune system in check during timesof bodily peace, let it damage the person it is supposed to be protecting. Now, as a series of papers presented in June2013 to the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago shows, its range is beingextended.
Like human beings, stars have a full life cycle. Born out of interstellar clouds, stars go on to have calmandlives as adults, and then die quietly.steep
(A)
(B)stable
(C)strange
(D)staring請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題:More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year — and a disturbing amount ends up in theocean, with much of it
The treatment of melanoma that started the ball rolling employed a particular drug calledipilimumab, a monoclonal antibody.37
(A)The troops on the front will be no untested conscripts, experienced marines and special forces.
(B)But so far the patient has no clear sense of the cancer, its treatment and recovery.
(C)As in real warfare, those weapons may be conventional, chemical or nuclear.
(D)But some tumors prove unknowable and unconquerable.38
(A)They all suffer from the same drawback.
(B)This is all well and good as strategies go.
(C)In the original trials, all proved inefficient.
(D)Among the aforementioned weapons, the best are viruses.39
(A)This is bad news for all cancer patients.
(B)Sun Tzu would surely have approved.
(C)If such approaches are confirmed, cancers will be nowhere to find.
(D)That, in an oncological context, is where immunotherapy comes in.40
(A)More Chinese herbs are being brought in to treat all cancers.
(B)More effective versions are being brought to bear on melanoma.
(C)More viruses are being brought in to treat melanoma.
(D)More warriors are being brought in to treat melanoma.依下文回答第41 題至第45 題Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles is a graded reader of made-up Latin stories, which the author Francis Ritchie wrote inorder to give students additional practice before they began reading Julius Caesar’s Gallic War. The text includes themyths of Perseus, Heracles, Jason and the Argonauts, and Ulysses; and the entire volume is divided into 100 sectionsof Latin, which are roughly a paragraph in length. Although Ritchie assumes that readers know all five declensions,pronouns, and active and passive verbs from the beginning of the Perseus readings, he does not introduce thesubjunctive mood until the middle of the Heracles selections or indirect discourse and ablative absolutes until Jasonand the Argonauts. Ritchie’s purpose is to provide readers with an opportunity to master simple Latin grammar andmorphology before they encounter more complex constructions in the later stories, and he does so while presentingstudents with an informative and thoroughly engaging storyline.This Latin text was first published by Ritchie in 1884 in a volume called Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader.In 1903, John Kirtland produced a revised edition of the book under the title Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles: A First LatinReader. Kirtland modified Ritchie’s Latin text, added grammatical notes, and eliminated a section of drill exercisesfound in the original volume. Kirtland’s book remained the standard edition until 1991, when another revised volumewas prepared by Gilbert Lawall, Stanley Iverson, and Allan Wooley, entitled Fabulae Graecae: A Revised Edition ofRitchie’s Fabulae Faciles. While the first two books are out of copyright and can be downloaded for free, the FabulaeGraecae remains available in paperback. The aim of this current edition(2012) is to make Ritchie’s myths even moreaccessible to intermediate-level Latin readers.
in places like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area measuring more than 1.6 million square kilometers.Researchers from the Ocean Cleanup foundation conducted a survey of plastic in the area, using planes to
According to the passage, who are the target readers of Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles?
(A)Beginning students of Latin.
(B)Intermediate students of Latin.
(C)Advanced students of Latin.
(D)Native speakers of Latin.
fromthe sky and boats to trawl the water. They found that the amount of plastic there seemed to be increasing exponentiallyand that there could be 16 times as much as previously thought.There’s far too much plastic in the world’s oceans, and the problem continues to
How many editions of Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles are there?
(A)One.
(B)Two.
(C)Three.
(D)Four.
. Every little bit ofplastic that gets tossed into the ocean or swept downstream out to sea either sinks or is picked up by currents. Much ofit is eventually carried into one of five massive ocean regions, where plastic can be so
Which of the following statements about Fabulae Faciles is NOT true?
(A)It is a graded Latin reader.
(B)It was first published in the nineteenth century.
(C)It consists of roughly 100 paragraphs.
(D)It is intended be read after Caesar's Gallic War.
that areas havegarnered names like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.There may be more than 16 times as much plastic in the patch than previous studies have
Which of the following statements about Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles is true?
(A)Its section about Perseus introduces the use of the subjunctive mood.
(B)It helps readers learn basic Latin grammar.
(C)It was first published in 1903.
(D)Its 1901 edition can be download for free from the Internet.
, according tothe researchers behind the study. An aerial view of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch might at first appear to be openwater. But inside there is debris from all over the world — debris that traps or is eaten by marine animals, filling uptheir bodies to the point of being fatal and tainting our food supply.41accumulating
(A)
(B)commuting
(C)astonishing
(D)communicating42preserve
(A)
(B)reserve
(C)observe
(D)conserve43put away
(A)
(B)build up
(C)go down
(D)take off44continued
(A)
(B)conducted
(C)consumed
(D)concentrated45affected
(A)
(B)adopted
(C)estimated
(D)eliminated請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題:Researchers at Vanderbilt University decided to find out how intelligent various animals are. To rightly compare brainpower in species, it isn’t enough to weigh brain tissue. You must take into account the brain relative to the organism’ssize. But this may fall short of evaluating actual intelligence.Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel said, “I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has determined therichness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based onpast experience.” She and her colleagues found that meat eaters have about the same number of neurons as plant eaters.That means plant eaters need as much brain power to escape from predators as meat eaters need to catch them.How do cats and dogs measure up? Previous findings had cats ahead at 300 million neurons to dogs roughly 160million. In this latest study, however, dogs were on top, with 530 million neurons to cats 250 million. Just forcomparison, humans have around 16 billion such neurons. Even so, dogs were way above other meat eaters in the brainpower department.Having a bigger brain has a downside, researchers have found. “Meat eating is largely considered a problem-solver interms of energy,” Herculano-Houzel said, “but in retrospect, it is clear that meat eating animals must impose a delicatebalance between how much brain and body a species can afford.” This may be why you often see large predators likelions and bears dozing.
Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?
(A)This 2012 edition can only be purchased from the Internet.
(B)It is still possible to find the first two editions online now.
(C)The 1991 edition is out of print now.
(D)The new edition is more suitable for all levels of Latin learners.依下文回答第46 題至第50 題Acknowledging that traditional passwords are no longer secure, some of the largest banks in the world areincreasingly using voices, fingerprints, facial scans and other types of biometrics to safeguard bank accounts.Through their mobile phones, millions of banking customers routinely use fingerprints to log into their bankaccounts. This feature, which some banks have introduced since the second decade of the 21st century, enables a hugeshare of banking customers to verify their identities with biometrics. The move reflects deep concerns that so manyhundreds of millions of email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and other personal identifiers havefallen into the hands of criminals, rendering those identifiers increasingly ineffective at protecting accounts. “We believethe password is dying,” said Tom Shaw, vice president for enterprise financial crimes management at USAA. “Werealized we have to get away from personal identification information because of the growing number of data breaches.”Long regarded as the stuff of science fiction, biometrics have been tested by big banks for decades, but have onlyrecently become sufficiently accurate and cost effective to use on a large scale. It has taken a great deal of trial anderror: With many of the early prototypes, a facial scan could be foiled by bad lighting, and voice recognition could bescuttled by background noise or laryngitis.Before smartphones became ubiquitous, there was another obstacle: To capture a finger image or scan an eyeball, abank would have to pay to distribute the necessary technology to tens of millions of customers. A few tried, but theirefforts were costly and short-lived. On top of all these, there is an even bigger problem: As criminals have found theirways to break the traditional banking passwords, they could eventually find ways to steal biometric data as well.
Which of the following phrases is closest in meaning to the word “species”?Various food.
(A)
(B)Various eaters.
(C)Various animals.
(D)Various brain power.
Which of the following words best describes the author's attitude toward the use of biometrics to safeguard bankaccounts?
(A)optimistic
(B)pessimistic
(C)picky
(D)skeptical
What is the main idea of this passage?The ratio of the brain size relative to the body size of an animal is a good measure of intelligence.
(A)
(B)The number of neurons is an absolute measure of an animal’s intelligence, be it a plant eater or a meat eater.
(C)The number of neurons reveals that plant eaters are generally smarter than meat eaters.
(D)The ratio of the number of neurons relative to the size of an animal’s body can indicate how smart the animal is.
Which of the following statements about the banking password is NOT true?
(A)The banking password may be about to expire forever.
(B)The banking password has been replaced by biometrics for two decades.
(C)The banking password is not secure anymore.
(D)The data breaches of banking are increasing.
According to the latest study, which of the following statements is true?Dogs are much smarter than most meat eaters, including cats.
(A)
(B)Cats have more neurons in their brain than other meat eaters, including dogs.
(C)The number of a cat’s neurons can double that of a dog’s, and that makes cats better pets for humans.
(D)Dogs are quite intelligent and they have as many neurons as humans do.
According to the passage, which of the following is most likely to endanger the system of biometrics tosafeguard bank accounts?
(A)Smartphones are not to become ubiquitous.
(B)A facial scan could be foiled by bad lighting.
(C)Voice recognition could be scuttled by background noise or laryngitis.
(D)Criminals could eventually find ways to steal biometric data.
According to the passage, why do plant eaters need to have strong brain power?To find sufficient food to maintain their brain power.
(A)
(B)To predict possible danger to prevent themselves from being eaten up.
(C)To predict possible food sources to support their relatively larger body size.
(D)To find safe places to rest to conserve their energy.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
(A)Banking customers' psychological reactions to the use of biometrics.
(B)Some banks have tried the use of biometrics.
(C)To use the biometrics, a great deal of trial and error must be undergone.
(D)The distribution of the biometrics technology to the banking customers is costly.
Which of the following statements can be inferred from this passage?Ca
(A)ts are more intelligent than dogs.
(B)Large size meat eating animals tend to sleep a lot.
(C)Plant eating animals tend to have a larger brain size.
(D)Dogs and cats are suggested to live on a vegetarian diet.
When was the use of fingerprints to log into bank accounts first introduced?
(A)Before the 2000s.
(B)During the 2010s.
(C)After the 2020s.
(D)During the 2030s.