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
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)
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
John is not a brilliant student who can only make progress at school.
(A)holistic
(B)graphic
(C)gradual
(D)abrupt
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
He enlivens his lecture by introducing amusing anecdotes to the subject.forgetful
(A)plausible
(B)germane
(C)guilty
(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
these employees can get their pay raised, they will still go on strikes.
(A)Whereas
(B)As if
(C)Unless
(D)Once
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
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.
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.
(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.
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.
(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.
display
(A)tendency
(B)exposure
(C)objection
(D)
According to this article, what is damaging to the sewer pipe’s fabric?hydrogen sulphide
(A)bacteria
(B)sulphuric acid
(C)sticking plasters
(D)
Which of the following statements is true?The underground sewers have saved more lives than any medical procedure.
(A)Many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
(B)Dr. Hernandez and his colleagues made cultures from
(C)the mixture of bacteria found in sewer pipes.The
(D)DNA screening of the samples was focused on bacteria only.
in order that
(A)so that
(B)as long as
(C)as though
(D)
What did Dr. Hernandez and his team look for to detect signs of trouble in sewers ?hydrogen
(A)hydrogen sulphide
(B)carbon dioxide
(C)hydrogen dioxide
(D)
(A)postpones
(B)refutes
(C)specializes
(D)recalls
with regard to
(A)in comparison to
(B)by means of
(C)in spite of
(D)
Which of the following statements about bacteria in sewer pipes is true?They are of one species.
(A)They could all be cultured.
(B)They have undergone mass DNA screening in Dr. Hernandez
(C)’ experiment.They helped
(D)reduce sulphuric acid in sewer pipes.
raged
(A)eased
(B)gazed
(C)scared
(D)請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題:In 1962, Shintaro Tsuji, founder of Sanrio Company, began selling rubber sandals with flowers painted on them. Henoted the profits gained by adding a cute design to the sandals and hired cartoonists to design cute characters for hismerchandise. The company produced a line of character merchandise around gift-giving occasions. Hello Kitty, designedby Yuko Shimizu, was added to the lineup of early Sanrio characters in 1974, and had her first appearance on a vinylcoin purse. Since then, she has become a global phenomenon.One part of Hello Kitty’s design has sparked some controversy surrounding it. That is, she is not given a mouth. Aspokesperson for Sanrio says that Hello Kitty is not normally given a mouth because “without the mouth, it is easier forthe person looking at Hello Kitty to project their feelings onto the character” and that “the person can be happy or sadtogether with Hello Kitty.” Some people were particularly concerned about this. They felt that this showed Hello Kitty asbeing meek and unspeaking. They thought young girls could be made to feel as if they had no voice. Other people,however, believe that leaving a blank facial expression stimulates imagination in young girls. They believe that leavingthe mouth off will allow young girls to imagine what the kitty is going through and imagine that she understands whatthe girls are telling her.In May 2008, Japan named Hello Kitty the ambassador of Japanese tourism in both China and Hong Kong, whichare two places where the character is exceptionally popular among children and young women. This marked the firsttime Japan’s tourism ministry had appointed a fictional character to the role.
Which of the following statements about sewer pipes is true?They are a product of the
(A)20th century.The acidity of the sewage
(B)does no damage to the pipes.They are underground.
(C)Their repair always comes in time.
(D)請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題Research into behavioral economics has shown that our assessment of what something is worth to us can bedirectly, and predictably, influenced. This is the illusion of the free lunch, something humans are known 46 evenwhen economic theory would clearly suggest we select a more valuable option at a small cost. Researchers also foundhow we sometimes operate on social norms, while other times we fall into market norms. The difference is in whetherthere is a price attached to something. If a friend invites you over for dinner, she will probably appreciate it if you bringa nice bottle of wine along (social norms). However, if instead you throw $20 (the price of a nice bottle of wine) incash on the table and say “thanks for a lovely dinner,” she would most likely 47 (market norms). Mixing socialnorms and market norms inappropriately often leads to irrational behavior and, possibly, even to conflict or 48 .Our irrational behavior is not just random though. The scientific experiments are 49 . Each time we are faced witha similar situation, we tend to behave in a similarly irrational way. So, next to the bad news that we are not nearly asrational as we might have thought (or hoped), there is also good news in that we can understand and 50 ourirrational behavior, at least to some extent. This, in turn, can help us improve our decision-making and change ourbehavior for the better.
(A)Instead
(B)As
(C)Otherwise
(D)Accordingly請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題Las Vegas is a good restaurant town. It offers respectable culinary and ethnic diversity, served dependably. Hoteldining in Las Vegas is relatively homogeneous in style and cuisine, while proprietary restaurants try hard to be different.The restaurant business in Las Vegas is as much a psychological as a culinary art. In Las Vegas you can have the samemeal in an astounding variety of environments for an unbelievable range of prices.Left to its own devices, Las Vegas would be a meat and potatoes town. Owing to the expectations of its manyvisitors, however, Las Vegas restaurants make things extra special. There are dozens of designer restaurants, gourmetrooms as they are known locally, where the pampered and the curious can pretend they are dining in an exclusive Frenchor Continental restaurant while enjoying the food they like most: meat and potatoes.There are two kinds of restaurants in Las Vegas: restaurants which are an integral part of a hotel/casino operation,and restaurants which must make it entirely on the merits of their food. Gourmet rooms in the hotels are usuallyassociated with the casinos. Their mission is to pamper customers who are giving the house a lot of gambling action. Atany given time, most of the folks in a hotel gourmet room are dining as guests of the casino. If you are paying customersin the same restaurant, the astronomical prices you are charged help subsidize the feeding of all these complimentaryguests. Every time you buy a meal in a gourmet room, you are helping to pay the tab of the strangers sitting at the nexttable. This is not to say the gourmet rooms do not serve excellent food. On the contrary, some of the best chefs in thecountry cook for hotel/casino gourmet rooms. The bottom line, however, if you are a paying guest, is that you are takingup space intended for high rollers, and the house is going to charge you a lot of rent.Restaurants independent of casinos work at a considerable disadvantage. First, they do not have a captive audienceof gamblers. Second, their operation is not subsidized by gaming, and third, they are not located where you will juststumble upon them. Finally, they not only compete with the casino gourmet rooms, but also go head-to-head with thenumerous buffets and bulk-loading meal deals which casinos offer as loss-leaders to attract the less affluent gambler.
What is the first paragraph mainly about?
(A)What Hello Kitty might symbolize.
(B)Why and how Hello Kitty was invented.
(C)When and how Hello Kitty got her name.
(D)How popular Hello Kitty has been.
to be called
(A)to fall down
(B)to fall for
(C)to call out
(D)
According to the passage, which of the following describes a gourmet room restaurant in Las Vegas?
(A)They are not part of a casino.
(B)They serve only meat and potatoes.
(C)They are creative and individual.
(D)They are crowded and scattered all over town.
According to the passage, which of the following is true about Hello Kitty?
(A)She is Yuko Shimizu’s brainchild.
(B)She first appeared on women’s shoes.
(C)She was created and designed by Tsuji.
(D)She smiles with a big mouth.
be welcomed
(A)be ready
(B)be congratulated
(C)be offended
(D)
According to the passage, why do casino restaurants have an advantage over independent restaurants?
(A)Without rent, they are able to charge lower prices.
(B)Their operations are subsidized by gambling revenues.
(C)They offer room deals which include food at a considerable discount.
(D)They are usually located in remote areas.
Which of the following is a reason for people to believe that Hello Kitty should be given a mouth?
(A)To help display her posture more vividly.
(B)To create the image of being a good listener.
(C)To send out the message that she is a real cat.
(D)To reveal that she can speak out what she thinks.
According to the passage, how can food in Las Vegas be generally described?
(A)Traditional American
(B)Very inexpensive
(C)Expensive and unpleasant
(D)Attractive and competitive
What is the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?
(A)To express disapproval towards Hello Kitty characters.
(B)To show appreciation to Hello Kitty fans.
(C)To introduce Hello Kitty and her design.
(D)To predict the future sale of Hello Kitty products.
According to the passage, what is true about the gourmet rooms?
(A)They serve French and Continental cuisine only.
(B)They are pricy, but reasonable.
(C)They serve food to high rollers only.
(D)They are staffed by some of the best chefs.
Which of the following is true about the last paragraph?
(A)Hello Kitty is perceived mainly as a kids’ brand in Asia.
(B)Hello Kitty is the first tourism ambassador in Japanese history.
(C)Hello Kitty has been better received in Hong Kong than in China.
(D)Hello Kitty was appointed tourism ambassador for her popularity.
predict
(A)proc
(B)urepretend
(C)provide
(D)
Which of the following is closest in meaning to ‘pampered’?
(A)seduced
(B)approved
(C)indulged
(D)complimented