People with dispositions recover quickly from disappointment.effective
(A)elastic
(B)rigid
(C)reluctant
(D)
Don’t ____ your voice when talking in the office.
(A)exhume
(B)raise
(C)arise
(D)arouse
Studying Latin is helpful for enlarging one's vocabulary in English, since so many English words fromLatin.
(A)bombard
(B)derive
(C)compile
(D)formulate
We have arrived at the airport ______ before the plane leaves. Therefore, we still have plenty of time to browsearound the duty free shop.
(A)at one time
(B)in good time
(C)in no time
(D)of all time
According to American officials and Arab diplomats, the United States is unlikely to _______ any militarystrikes against extremists in Iraq before a new government is formed.
(A)undertake
(B)offend
(C)analyse
(D)overhear
Actor Pierce Brosnan may play the deadly super boy in the movies, but in real life he is a father and aloving husband.devastated
(A)deserved
(B)desperate
(C)devoted
(D)
There is a big cut on your hand. You need medical _____ immediately.
(A)treatment
(B)involvement
(C)treasure
(D)medium
To have access to the confidential documents, one needs special from the headquarters.
(A)authorization
(B)institution
(C)intonation
(D)transmission
Given the lack of printing, stocking and shipping costs for ebooks, the prices for ebooks should be less expensiveand more to the readers.entertaining
(A)affordable
(B)costly
(C)amiable
(D)
Napping is encouraged for night-time workers as 30-minute naps help them feel .
(A)refreshed
(B)overcome
(C)fulfilled
(D)listless
Each country was requested to send a _____ to join the APEC convention.
(A)designation
(B)illustration
(C)denotation
(D)delegation
is the art of narration and expression through body movement.
(A)Anatomy
(B)Pantomime
(C)Traitor
(D)Valor
After searching for his lost father for many years, Jeffery can go to America to meet up with his father.eventually
(A)essentially
(B)extremely
(C)enormously
(D)
The investigation has proved that the Loch Ness Monster is an elaborate ; no such monster exists in the lake.
(A)blur
(B)hoax
(C)kernel
(D)landmark
Parkinson's disease is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that ______ movement.
(A)affects
(B)effects
(C)offends
(D)defends
Christine longed for some breathing space in her relationship because she felt by his nearly 24-hourcompany over the past few weeks.
(A)delighted
(B)dedicated
(C)suffocated
(D)terminated
The Beatles were an band. They created some of the most brilliant albums in music history.amazing
(A)envious
(B)intimate
(C)organic
(D)
The number of the endangered Lowland Gorillas has been dropping due to habitat loss and illegalhunting.
(A)dramatically
(B)scarcely
(C)realistically
(D)smoothly
Hundreds of people are dead as the worst Ebola _____ outbreak in history sweeps through West Africa.
(A)agent
(B)code
(C)formula
(D)virus
The US Supreme Court rules that, barring circumstances like child abduction or a ticking time bomb, the FourthAmendment of the US Constitution requires police to get a warrant before examining a cell phone after an arrest.This ruling makes our digital privacy no "less worthy of the protection for which the Founders of our nationfought."
(A)Under certain extreme conditions, the Fourth Amendment can be temporarily suspended.
(B)The Fourth Amendment is considered a ticking time bomb by the US Constitution.
(C)The police needs to get the authorities' approval to search any suspect's cell phone.
(D)The founders of the USA also fought for their digital privacy.請依下文回答第36 題至第40 題It would be quite naive to expect a life without conflict, naive and boring. After all, as we struggle to find solutions,conflict leads to new ways of thinking. Nothing ever 36 in a world without conflicts. We see this in our lives; wesee this in science. In fact, in science crises are essential: without them there is no 37 . A life lived in harmony38 a life without conflict. It must be a life where conflict leads to growth. Harmony is not the absence of conflict.It is the state in which conflict leads to positive change. Harmony is dynamic, not static. Innovation and growthchallenge the status quo, shaking the very foundations where most base their values. Change only comes when we areready to embrace it; change needs 39 . It is much easier to plant our feet in the traditional, the convenient, in whatdoes not force us to reexamine our views. No one likes to be wrong. This is why great innovation comes with 40 ,often bloody. The blood that is spilled is not always the one coursing through our veins: it is the blood of conviction, ofprejudices, of deep-seated ideas that are abandoned by the inexorable force of reason.
by the sun and the wind, the woman has lost the red from her cheeks and lips.Weathered
(A)Blessed
(B)Harvested
(C)Detected
(D)
When Ofisa Treviranus learned that he was selected to the Rugby World Cup squad, he felt that all the sacrificeshe had made to play rugby had finally .
(A)came off
(B)put off
(C)taken off
(D)paid off
Although the period in which he lived represents the sunset of the Renaissance, Bernini possessed a ______comparable to that of Leonardo or Michelangelo.
(A)chagrin
(B)gusto
(C)penchant
(D)virtuosity請依下文回答第37 題至第40 題The loss of a child through “sudden infant death syndrome,” also known as SIDS or crib death—the suddenand 37 death of an apparently healthy, sleeping infant—is an especially 38 experience. Parents oftendevelop feelings of guilt and 39 , thinking that they somehow caused the child’s death. To 40 such feelings,organizations have been established to help parents accept the fact that they did not cause the death.
(A)forsakes
(B)chooses
(C)changes
(D)reports
A toddler was admitted to the emergency with a wound in his chest.
(A)ward
(B)engagement
(C)drain
(D)isolation
In the beginning of the concert, the audience is to turn off their cell phones.
(A)respected
(B)requested
(C)rejected
(D)released
The best currency exchange deals are given at the private bureaus around town, which don’t charge .bribery
(A)commission
(B)fraud
(C)suspicion
(D)請依下文回答第39 題至第41 題:Leonardo da Vinci spent many unfruitful years, 39 his first stay in Milan and his second period in Florence,experimenting with a flying machine. The attempt to support and move the human body in the air 40 because, inthe absence of an internal combustion engine, Leonardo could not create mechanisms of propulsion capable ofproviding the necessary upward lift. Nevertheless, based on this understanding of air currents pressure, and resistance,he 41 designs for machines that anticipated the modern glider, parachute, and helicopter. Related to these studieswere notes concerning the cosmos, later developed by Galileo.
Rice farming is the of Taiwan’s agriculture industry.
(A)quality
(B)grain
(C)disposition
(D)backbone第39 題至第42 題為題組Emily Brontë, one of the three gifted Brontë sisters, is the author of the famous English novel Wuthering Heights.She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in England, the fifth of six children. In 1820, her family moved toHaworth, 39 her mother died in 1821 and her two elder sisters died in 1825. Her father, a minister, was a stern andsullen man, and the aunt who took over the household was more strict than loving. The four surviving childrenbecame a close-knit group and 40 one another with emotional and creative support. 41 in a small and remotecommunity, the four siblings paired off and used their unusual literary gifts to write about imaginary lands. Emily andher younger sister Anne 42 the imaginary country of Gondal and wrote literature for it that included legends andpoetry. Gondal remains a source of Emily’s later art, providing the setting, characters, and situations for many of herbest dramatic poems and for her novel Wuthering Heights.
(A)alleviate
(B)accelerate
(C)elaborate
(D)substantiate請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題I like any game of chance, but I most enjoy taking part in a lottery. The lottery is 41 an unchanging religiousceremony, and it is perhaps this ritual quality of the lottery 42 people enjoy. Unlike other games of chance, alottery does not require a great deal of paraphernalia. The only equipment 43 is a bowl filled with slips of paper.I enjoy the excitement of watching the official pick the winning number. The moment before the drawing is veryserious. The judge gravely approaches the bowl and looks at the crowd soberly. The crowd is quiet 44 the lowmurmur of excitement. Suddenly the winner is selected. After the lottery is over, everyone but the winner throws awayhis or her piece of paper, and the 45 slips are soon blown away by the wind. People begin to disengagethemselves from the crowd and the lottery is over.
(A)revolution
(B)information
(C)tradition
(D)conjunction請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題E-waste is being produced on a scale never seen before. Computers and other electronic devices 41 obsolete injust a few years, leaving consumers with few alternatives but to catch up by buying newer models. Tens of millions oftons of computers, TVs, VCRs, monitors, cell phones, and other gadgets 42 each year. Unfortunately, in mostparts of the world, the bulk of all this e-waste 43 landfills, where it poisons the environment. This is because itcontains a variety of toxic 44 such as lead, mercury, and arsenic that leak into the ground. In theory, recyclingseems to be a good 45 . However, the problem is that a large percentage of e-waste dropped off for recycling inrich countries is sold to the developing world, where its toxin may threaten the health of people living there.
came up with
(A)bumped into
(B)burst into
(C)plugged in
(D)請依下文回答第42 題至第45 題:There are thousands of species of animals in the Amazon rainforest, each colored 42 . Most rainforest animals usetheir colors for 43 . Some animals use color to protect themselves from their predators. An example is thegreen iguana. Young iguanas are bright green and hide among the bright green lower leaves of the trees wherethey live. As they get older, their colors become duller. Older iguanas live higher in trees, where the colors all aroundare 44 . Other animals are predators which use color to hide from their prey. The boa constrictor snake is agood 45 . The emerald boa is green and white, so it can easily hide in the leaves. A boa hides in a tree and waitsfor a bird to fly by. When one does, the boa grabs the bird from the air and then squeezes it to death before eating it.
(A)destroyed
(B)protected
(C)created
(D)invaded第43 題至第46 題為題組A potato farmer was sent to prison just at the time when he should have been digging the ground for planting thenew crop of potatoes. He knew that his wife would not be strong enough to do the digging by herself, but that she couldmanage to do the planting; and he also knew that he did not have any friends or neighbors who would be willing to dothe digging for him. So he wrote a letter to his wife which said, “Please do not dig the potato field. I hid the money andthe gun there.”Ten days later he got a letter from his wife. It said, “I think somebody is reading your letters before they go out ofthe prison. Some policemen arrived here two days ago and dug up the whole potato field. What should I do now?”The farmer wrote back at once, “Plant the potatoes, of course.”
Why was it a bad time for the potato farmer to go to prison?
(A)It was the time when the policemen found his money and gun.
(B)It was the time when he lost his money and gun.
(C)It was the time for him to dig the ground and plant the new potatoes.
(D)It was the time to harvest potatoes.
less bright
(A)less
(B)dulleven brighter
(C)even duller
(D)
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
(A)The farmer’s wife was not strong enough to do the digging.
(B)The farmer’s wife was not strong enough to do the planting.
(C)The farmer’s friends and neighbors had no will to do the digging.
(D)The policemen dug the potato field for the farmer.
(A)dealing with
(B)anxious about
(C)in search of
(D)except for
prey
(A)example
(B)character
(C)species
(D)請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題:The feeling that clouds and rain seem more likely to occur on weekends may be more than just a myth. Weekendweather does differ from weekday weather in certain places, according to researchers who studied more than 40 yearsof daily temperature readings from 10,000 weather stations worldwide. In their study, the researchers focused ontemperature differences between daytime highs and nighttime lows. This difference measurement is called the diurnaltemperature range, or DTR.Part of the study involved 660 weather stations in the continental United States. At more than 230 of these sites,the researchers found that the average DTR for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday was different from the average DTR forWednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Although the difference was small—only several tenths of a Celsius degree, thepattern was striking enough to make the scientists take notice. That is, the DTR changes on a 7-day cycle.This sort of weekly rise and fall doesn’t line up with any natural cycles, the researchers say. Instead, it is thehuman activities—possibly air pollution caused by those activities—that are responsible for these weather effects. Forexample, tiny particles in the polluted air could effect the amount of cloud cover, which would in turn affect dailytemperatures. Accordingly, tiny windborne particles from the western part of the United States, generated on weekdays,might first affect weather close to home in the southwest, and then later influence mid-western weather. So, stopfeeling like the weekend weather is out to get us. It simply has a lot do with which way the wind blows and where itcomes from.
What did the farmer do to the policemen?
(A)He asked the policemen to do the favor for him.
(B)He exchanged money and gun for the digging.
(C)He wrote a letter to the policemen.
(D)He played a trick on the policemen.
(A)discarded
(B)reflecting
(C)transparent
(D)useful請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題People feel safer behind some kind of physical barrier. Each social occasion involves us in encounters. If a socialencounter is in any way threatening, then there is an immediate urge to set up such a barricade. The more formal theoccasion and the more dominant or unfamiliar our social companions, the more worrying the moment of encounterbecomes. Watching people under these conditions, we can observe the many small movements and postures in whichthey try to “hide behind their mothers’ bodies” as they did in their childhood. It is these that are the barrier signals ofabout life.The most popular form of barrier signals is the body-cross. In this, one arm makes contact with the other acrossthe front of the body. The action is performed unconsciously and, if asked about it immediately afterwards, the personwill not be able to remember having made the gesture. The action is always disguised in some way, and the disguise itwears varies from person to person. For example, a male guest may lift his right hand, reach across his body and makea last-minute adjustment to his left cuff-link or the strap of his wristwatch when he walks toward his host. A female ona similar occasion may reach across her body with her right hand and slightly shift the position of her handbag orreposition a coat held over her left arm. In all case, at the peak moment of nervousness, there is a body-cross toconstruct a barrier between two people.Interestingly, field observations reveal that in a social encounter it is most unlikely that both the greeter and thegreeted will perform such action. Regardless of status, it is nearly always the new arrival who makes the body-crossmovement, because it is he or she who is invading the home territory of the greeters. The greeters are there first andhave at least temporary territorial “rights” over the place. This gives them a self-assured dominance at the moment ofthe greeting. Only if they are extremely subordinate to the new arrival will there be a likelihood of them taking thebody-cross role.
(A)solution
(B)pollution
(C)salutation
(D)population請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題At 16, Maya Angelou became San Francisco’s first black female streetcar conductor. Her first book, I know Why theCaged Bird Sings, tells us her early life. Its unsparing account of black life in the South during the Depression and ofher sexual abuse is not easy reading. But her tough, funny, lyrical voice transforms her story into a hymn of endurancethat influenced later memoirists. Her own obituary sums up her life: “Love is that condition which encourages us tobuild bridges and to trust them and cross them in attempts to reach other human beings.”
According to the passage, which of the following is true about weekend weather?It has its own highs and lows.
(A)The nights are cooler on weekends.
(B)It gets warmer as the week progresses.
(C)The conditions remain the same all week long.
(D)
According to the story, which of the following is true?
(A)The farmer’s friends and neighbors were very helpful.
(B)Potatoes do not grow under the ground.
(C)The farmer was silly and lazy.
(D)The farmer’s letter was read by the policemen.第47 題至第50 題為題組A suspension bridge is a type of bridge that use overhead cables to support its roadway. The design of asuspension bridge is simple and straightforward, and uses several architectural techniques to distribute the weight ofthe bridge safely and evenly.The construction of a suspension bridge starts with its towers, which are usually located on dry land and anchoredto bedrock. Once the towers are built, master cables are strung across them and anchored into the bank at both ends ofthe bridge. Next, suspension cables are strung from the master cables, and then the deck used as roadway is attached tothem. Most of the weight of the bridge is transferred by the cables to the anchorage systems. These are embedded ineither solid rock or huge concrete blocks. Inside the anchorages, the cables are spread over a large area to evenlydistribute the load and to prevent the cables from breaking free.One of the oldest engineering forms, suspension bridges were constructed by primitive peoples using thick vinesfor cables. A much stronger type was introduced in India around 400 A.D. that used cables of braided bamboo. In theearly nineteenth century, suspension bridges used iron chains for cables. Today, the cables are made of thousands ofindividual steel wires bound tightly together. A single steel wire, only 0.1 inch thick, can support over half a ton ofweight without breaking.Light and strong, a suspension bridge could span distances from 2,000 to 7,000 feet, which is much longer thanany other kind of bridge could. Its simple design allows high clearance under the deck, useful when the bridge is builtover a major shipping waterway or a very deep gulf. A suspension bridge is also less subjected to collapse than someother bridge types such as those built on support pillars.
What is the passage mainly about?
(A)Different types of physical barrier.
(B)Barrier signals on social occasions.
(C)Functions of the body-cross movement.
(D)Dominant actions in a social encounter.
What can we infer from the passage?
(A)Growing up in the American South was tough for her.
(B)Her first book was difficult to understand.
(C)She used to be a bird lover.
(D)Streetcars did not welcome black female passengers.
How did the researchers conduct their research?Visiting weather stations arou
(A)nd the world.Gathering weather forecasts from TV stations.
(B)Studying the weather data recorded around the world.
(C)Collecting the myths passed down through generations.
(D)
Which of the following materials have NOT been used as cables for suspension bridges?
(A)Iron.
(B)Wood.
(C)Steel.
(D)Vines.
What is the second paragraph mainly about?
(A)The need for body-cross language in a social setting.
(B)The unconscious performance of body-cross movements.
(C)A comparison of body-cross language of males and females.
(D)Different types of body-cross movements in a social setting .
Why was her first book influential?
(A)Because she sang like a caged bird.
(B)Because her unique voice was inspiring.
(C)Because her style was not easy to follow.
(D)Because she wrote her own obituary.
In what way can the finding of the research be considered important?It helps us bett
(A)er understand what DTR means.It provides evidence of human impact on climate.
(B)It shows how mysterious natural cycles are.
(C)It explains why temperature drops when night comes.
(D)
Which part of a suspension bridge carries most of its weight?
(A)The deck and the master cables.
(B)The bedrocks and the support pillars.
(C)The towers and the suspension cables.
(D)The anchorages and the cables in the ground.
What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
(A)The invading greeter always performs the body-cross movement first in a social setting.
(B)The home-based greeter performs less body-cross movement in a social encounter.
(C)The greeter and the greeted rarely both perform the body-cross movement towards each other.
(D)The greeters perform the body-cross movement if they are subordinate to the greeted.
Who are most likely influenced by her writing style?
(A)tour guides.
(B)memoir writers.
(C)monument builders.
(D)souvenir sellers.
According to the passage, what would the weather be like on a normal Monday?Similar to that of the following week.
(A)Similar to that of the previous weekend.
(B)Different from that of the following weekend.
(C)Different from that of the p
(D)revious weekend.
Which of the following statements describes an advantage of a suspension bridge over some other types ofbridges?
(A)It is easier to complete.
(B)It is stretchable in length.
(C)It is less likely to fall down.
(D)It is less expensive to build.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
(A)People feel an urge to perform body-crossing on a worrying social occasion.
(B)People use the body-cross to impress their greeters.
(C)Males often use clothing-adjustment consciously to disguise their anxiety.
(D)People perform less body-crossing in a formal social event than in other situations.
Which of the following statements is true?
(A)She published her first book at 16.
(B)She liked to build bridges in her free time.
(C)Her last words were pessimistic.
(D)Her attitude toward life was positive.
Which of the following is the best title for the passage?Never Trust the Weathe
(A)r Forecast.An Open Debate
(B)Over the Weekend Effect.Climate
(C)Change and Global Warming.Weekend Weather Is Really Different.
(D)
What’s the main idea of this passage?
(A)To explain how a suspension bridge is built.
(B)To introduce the origin of modern suspension bridges.
(C)To summarize previous findings on suspension bridges.
(D)To compare a suspension bridge with other types of bridges.
What does it in the second paragraph refer to?
(A)occasion
(B)action
(C)barrier
(D)companion
Which statement best paraphrases Angelou's definition of "love"?
(A)Love is irresistible.
(B)Love enables us to connect with others.
(C)Love makes the world sink.
(D)Love is spontaneous.