The landlord asked for an NT$10,000 on the apartment to let, and it will be returned to the tenant eventually.
(A)savings
(B)budget
(C)allowance
(D)deposit
New headphones, with the ability to _____ and record your heart rate whenever you are wearing them, have beeninvented.measure
(A)press
(B)stimulate
(C)trail
(D)
We chose an day to open our business, which was a success, at least for the last five years.
(A)ominous
(B)elastic
(C)eccentric
(D)auspicious
Mark moved from one city to another every year to work for different companies. He didn’t have a job.permanent
(A)competent
(B)con
(C)currentnegligent
(D)
John is not a brilliant student who can only make progress at school.
(A)holistic
(B)graphic
(C)gradual
(D)abrupt
Korean Air announced it would suspend air travel to Kenya as a _____ to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.closure
(A)pleasure
(B)pressure
(C)measure
(D)
When Lynn’s parents visited her for the very first time in Taipei, they got about all different TaipeiMetro routes and so many exits at each Metro station.activated
(A)befuddled
(B)enlightened
(C)visualized
(D)
It can be hard for people to resist doing what others demand, but sometimes we must be strong pressure.
(A)in face of
(B)in light of
(C)with a view to
(D)despite of
Monica’s ambition is to become a doctor one day; , she is determined to pass the exam so that she can studyin a medical school.
(A)however
(B)moreover
(C)besides
(D)therefore
Because of his irresponsibility, quite a few members have called for his _____.promotion
(A)designation
(B)
(C)convulsionresignation
(D)
This new approach to second language learning claims that it can successfully the experience of learningyour mother tongue: rapid, easy, natural.
(A)reprimand
(B)redeem
(C)replenish
(D)replicate
He enlivens his lecture by introducing amusing anecdotes to the subject.forgetful
(A)plausible
(B)germane
(C)guilty
(D)
these employees can get their pay raised, they will still go on strikes.
(A)Whereas
(B)As if
(C)Unless
(D)Once
If you are a first-time driver, you are required to obtain a driver _____ - especially if you are a teen driver.permit
(A)certificate
(B)credential
(C)record
(D)
The wreckage of the houses manifests the of the typhoon which hit the small village last week.ferocity
(A)latitude
(B)origin
(C)admonition
(D)
Research found that those who slept either too much or too little and from brain-stimulating activities likereading were at increased risk of developing cognitive impairment.
(A)abstained
(B)entertained
(C)maintained
(D)sustained
The book features the extraordinary of how a 12-year-old girl saves her village.
(A)anecdote
(B)eclipse
(C)infant
(D)offspring
Opposite those people we idolized were those who represented a way of acting, looking, living that we _____and swore we would never imitate.occupied
(A)hated
(B)created
(C)admired
(D)
The instant gratification of a photo posted to the Web that can get immediate approval from your followers has adownside.If the number of your followers goes down after you post an instant photo onto the Web, you will immediately
(A)know that you are not popular.Even if you are pleased with the approval you get from your followers, there is still a negative aspect.
(B)The
(C)disadvantage of posting your photo to the Web is that you become so happy that you forget to expressyour gratitude to your followers who like your photo.If you do not get instant approval from your followers about the photo you posted to the Web, you will tell
(D)right away that the number of your followers decline.請依下文回答第36 題至第40 題As Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, a global audience of 500 million people werewatching and listening. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” they heard him say as he droppedfrom the ladder of his spacecraft to make the first human footprint on the lunar surface. It was the perfectquote for such a 36 occasion. But from the moment he said it, people have argued about whether the NASAastronaut got his lines wrong. In the tense six hours and forty minutes between landing on the moon and stepping out ofthe capsule, Armstrong wrote what he knew would become some of the most 37 words in history. He has alwaysinsisted that he wrote “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” which would have been a moremeaningful and 38 correct sentence. Without the missing “a,” the intended meaning of the sentence is lost. Ineffect, the line means, “That is one small step for mankind (i.e., humanity), one giant leap for mankind.” But did hereally say the sentence incorrectly? Until now Armstrong himself had never been sure if he actually said what he wrote.In his biography First Man he told the author James Hansen, “I must admit that it doesn’t sound like the word ‘a’ isthere. On the other hand, certainly the ‘a’ was intended, because that’s the only way it makes sense.” But now, afteralmost four decades, the space explorer has been 39 . Using high-tech sound analysis techniques, Peter ShannFord, an Australian computer expert, has discovered that the “a” was spoken by Armstrong, but he said it so quicklythat it was 40 on the recording that was broadcast to the world.
The life of Abraham Lincoln coincided with dramatic societal that shaped the future of the United States.
(A)elimination
(B)evaluations
(C)reservation
(D)transformations
Alice is such a passionate person that she is always advice, even when you don’t want it.
(A)throwing away
(B)dishing out
(C)breaking down
(D)counting on請依下文回答第37 題至第40 題:Just as the roles and responsibilities of men and women are changing in society, so are the shopping habits of the twogenders. The electronics industry (computers, cellphones, digital cameras, etc.) is one place where gender 37 inpurchasing are rapidly changing.38 , the electronics market consisted mostly of men. Today, however, women are some of the biggest consumersof cellphones and other electronic products. With more and more women working and in control of their own and theirfamily’s money, women now want to have a say in the type of electronics that they have in their homes. Some expertsreport that women are actually buying more electronics than men. A recent study also reports another interestingdevelopment. It states that almost a third of the new and more 39 electronics are sold to women. So, not only arewomen becoming more interested in electronics purchases in general, but they are also increasingly willing to try the 40products.
Mr. Lin has travelled all around Taiwan in the past 40 years. He decided to go next year, probablyvisiting some European countries first.
(A)abroad
(B)abreast
(C)alongside
(D)across
People living near the volcano were _____ from the area when it started to send out ash and smoke.
(A)demandedassaulted
(B)evacuated
(C)launched
(D)
We are doubtful about the of your proposed project.
(A)determination
(B)alleviation
(C)alienation
(D)feasibility請依下文回答第37 題至第40 題An airplane maker, an airline and a biofuel company are working together to make fuel 37 tobaccoplant seed oil. The companies are Boeing, South African Airways and SkyNRG. They are using a new tobaccoplant 38 “Solaris.” The Dutch biofuel company SkyNRG developed the plant. It contains less of the drug nicotinethan traditional tobacco.Julie Felgar works on environmental issues for Boeing. She said the plant also has many more seeds than traditionaltobacco plants 39 . She said only the oil from the seeds will 40 to make biofuel now. But researchers aretrying to develop ways to use the entire plant to make fuel.Ian Cruickshank is an environmental issues specialist for South African Airways Group. He said the special tobaccopermits growth of a marketable biofuel crop without supporting smoking.
Caught in the crowd, we tried to our way through the people into the concert.
(A)elbow
(B)pant
(C)wire
(D)stammer
Working hard day and night for six months, Deborah finally won a pay raise and _____. She is now the salesmanager.emphas
(A)isguardian
(B)promotion
(C)discipline
(D)第38 題為填充題,第39 題及第40 題為代換題Marie had been up on to make some changes in her life for a long time, and she’d been (38) an ambition to bethe boss. She finally found a job where she could run after herself (39) and do things her way. In her new job, a lot ofchanges needed to be made,but Marie had a knack (40) for reorganizing. She thought it would be necessary to keepan open mind over other employees’ complaints. This would take time and that she’d probably be working into the weehours of morning for many weeks.
(A)At this moment
(B)From time to time
(C)In the past few days
(D)Until very recently
Getting on a train without caring about the destination, Jane always has a surprisingly good time. She isquite .
(A)inconsiderate
(B)spontaneous
(C)inherent
(D)patriotic
(A)broadest
(B)latest
(C)farthest
(D)remotest請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題:Seasonal affective disorder is a depression experienced by people particularly during the winter. This kind ofdepression occurs more frequently on people who live in those parts of world where there is less or little 41 to sunlight.People who have this kind of depression will experience a change in their mood when the seasons change. Thisexperience of mood change is most apparent when the winter 42 with less daylight. When contracting this disease,people will have such symptoms as sleeping too much, having little energy, and feeling depressed. But these symptomscan be resolved 43 people receive treatment. One such a treatment includes a light therapy which enables people toreceive daylight or sunlight 44 modern technology. For instance, people can sit before a light box and get as muchlight as they need for curing their disease. Nowadays scientists have made great efforts to discover different ways ofreducing the discomfort this depression may cause to people. Although this kind of disease may be hard to be avoidedto some people, it can be 45 and even cured to allow patients to have a normal life.
The forces of technology have the burden of feeding and clothing ourselves.
(A)eased
(B)enlightened
(C)moved
(D)straightened請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題Virtual reality represents the harnessing of computer and information technology to realize a long-held vision ofhumankind: the creation of a ‘dream machine’. It has often been stated that going to the cinema to watch a filminvolves entering a ‘dream palace’, in which we are encouraged to 41 disbelief and make the leap into anillusionary world. It can be argued that the history of the cinema is one in which the illusion of total immersion hasbeen progressively sought. Cinerama and other forms of large screen or wrap-around cinema such as the experimentswith 3D films in the 1950s, are 42 of this search for technological developments which would provide a strongstereoscopic illusion of the depth of a scene and sense of immersion in ‘reality’. Theme parks such as Disney Worldand Universal Studios also provide sophisticated versions of this film technology coupled 43 experience ridessuch as Star Wars, Back to the future, in which the visual information is co-ordinated with surround sound andmovement of the vehicle.Yet virtual reality is 44 an upgraded version of Cinerama or a theme park ride, as it achieves not only agreater sense of presence, but through the use of computer technology has developed an interface which facilitates‘interactivity,’ the capacity to direct one’s gaze and movements so that one can explore and move around inside theillusory flow of images. It is this 45 between computer technology and movie-making which makes virtualreality possible.
a hunch
(A)a way
(B)a prize
(C)a need
(D)
(A)be using
(B)be used
(C)use
(D)have used請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題Many are the journalists who dream about reporting on the world’s deadliest scenes of strife. Few are the ones whoactually do it. Even fewer are those who do it well. Camille Lepage, a young photographer from France who waseducated in the U.K. but 41 work took her far from Europe, was among the latter.Last fall, Lepage ventured into the Central Africa Republic, where a coup staged by mainly Muslim rebels hadcrumpled the state and prompted largely Christian militias to retaliate with fury. She spent her time 42 the fightersand also those most affected by the turmoil, while learning all she could about its roots. William Daniels, a photographerwho worked with her here, 43 that locals respected her commitment and professionalism. “She was very active,very patient, very passionate about this work,” he says. “Very brave.”On May 13 the office of French President Francois Hollande issued a statement 44 Lepage’s death, at the ageof 26, which it described as murder. French peacekeeping troops had discovered her body after they stopped a car drivenby antibalaka militiamen. On a recent trip to New York City, Lepage admitted to fears about the conflict she wascovering but said that she did not seek out scenes of violence on purpose. 45 , she wanted, in a way typical of her, tofind the humanity in that bleak situation. The pictures she made in her brief life will define how she will be remembered,but the pictures she was going to take will help form her legacy.
accountable
(A)audacious
(B)inaudible
(C)inevitable
(D)請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it awayin underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. But out of sightis out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have beenneglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentiallyhazardous. All this neglect, though, makes it hard to know where best to apply the sticking-plasters. So MarkHernandez of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his team have been looking for an easily measurable signal thatsomething is about to go wrong.A candidate, Dr. Hernandez suspected, is hydrogen sulphide. This is one of the gases that make sewage stink.Though not itself damaging to a pipe’s fabric, it can be converted by certain species of bacteria into sulphuric acid.Pretty well all sewage smells of hydrogen sulphide, though, so for it to be a useful telltale you need to know just howmuch is a sign of trouble. Dr. Hernandez and his colleagues therefore collected samples from 36 sewers in variousstates of decay and started looking.One of their interests was in the mixture of bacteria found in pipes in different states of repair. Rather than culturingthese, a process to which not all species are amenable, they ran them through a mass DNA screening that shows upeverything in a sample. They also measured the acidity of the sewage soaked into the pipe wall near where the samplewas collected and recorded the concentrations in the air there of hydrogen sulphide, methane and carbon dioxide.