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
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
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 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
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
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
Father Johnson is the kindest person I have ever heard of. He made efforts to help the poor during hislifetime.
(A)unbearable
(B)unceasing
(C)undesirable
(D)unflattering
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
We sometimes forgot some of the little problems like filling out customs forms, which big nightmares.
(A)turned out to be
(B)acted as
(C)imposed as
(D)seemed
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 didn’t begin to take the subway until my driver’s license was .
(A)revoked
(B)evoked
(C)provoked
(D)invoked
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
In developing countries, where three-fourths of the world’s population lives, women more than half of thefood.
(A)induce
(B)produce
(C)refuse
(D)expose
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
David fell off a ladder last night, but he was all right. He is lucky—he himself badly.
(A)could not hurt
(B)had been hurt
(C)has hurt
(D)could have hurtWe stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are notequally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which weprogress with great speed, but at its end lies 41 . The other fork of the road—the one “less traveledby”—offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the 42 of our earth.The choice is ours to make. If, having endured much, we have at last asserted our “right to know,” and43 , knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then weshould no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals;we should look about and see what other course is open to us.A truly extraordinary variety of 44 to the chemical control of insects are available. Some are alreadyin use and have achieved brilliant success. Others are in the stage of laboratory testing. Still others are littlemore than ideas in the minds of imaginative scientists, waiting for the opportunity to put them to the test.
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