This document is highly , inaccessible to anyone except the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself.
(A)descriptive
(B)confidential
(C)indispensable
(D)optimistic
As the deadline was approaching, he worked hard on the project .
(A)around the clock
(B)from the cradle to the grave
(C)on and off
(D)every now and then
One of our great is how we need to talk more freely and openly about sex.
(A)achievements
(B)quotations
(C)challenges
(D)ambitions
A committee students, faculty, staff and alumni was appointed by the president of the university to helpselect a commencement speaker for the 2004 graduation.
(A)excluded from
(B)expelled from
(C)consisted in
(D)composed of
The wedding was held in an elegant hall with the glitter of the crystal that hung from the ceiling.
(A)chandelier
(B)felicity
(C)shimmer
(D)translucence
On hearing the bad news about his wife, the old man and cried badly.
(A)broke down
(B)broke out
(C)passed out
(D)blew up
My cell phone doesn’t work. I forgot to the battery.
(A)receive
(B)return
(C)release
(D)recharge
A short trip to another country is an opportunity to sample other cultures. But having to live away from home as ancan make you feel sad.
(A)archery
(B)expatriate
(C)insulator
(D)ottoman
You have missed a lot of lessons. You may find it difficult to with the rest of the class.
(A)get along
(B)come up
(C)catch up
(D)put up
Jane never gave up, no matter how bad the situation was. Her was incredible.
(A)captivity
(B)publicity
(C)tenacity
(D)vanity
I can’t wait to my old car because it has been causing me a lot of trouble.
(A)put off
(B)get rid of
(C)count on
(D)drop out of
After being lost in the sea for six days, John began to . He saw things that weren’t really there.
(A)hallucinate
(B)fascinate
(C)intervene
(D)reincarnate
Unlike his classmates who stop by Internet cafes very often, John always goes home after school.
(A)scarcely
(B)generally
(C)directly
(D)intrinsically
The audience should be encouraged to enjoy rather than the movie.
(A)analyze
(B)have analyzed
(C)analyzing
(D)analyzed
John proposed to May, but she kept him in for several days before she said that she would marry him.
(A)abundance
(B)compassion
(C)irritation
(D)suspense
Eddie has been the best player on the basketball team since last year, but he used to Nick.
(A)get a load of
(B)have the edge over
(C)hit it off with
(D)play second fiddle to
She is a person. She always works hard, has excellent self-control, and takes great care to follow moralgoodness.
(A)conscientious
(B)generous
(C)greedy
(D)vicious
Jane to meet me at 2 o’clock. She’s an hour late.
(A)supposed
(B)was supposed
(C)would suppose
(D)was supposing
The key to a successful school environment does not lie in having a smaller class size, but in creating a pleasantof the school.
(A)atmosphere
(B)attention
(C)objection
(D)obstacle
When I saw my roommate with my girlfriend, I felt worried, angry, and .
(A)embarrass
(B)embarrassed
(C)embarrassing
(D)embarrassment
No visit to Taipei would be complete a panoramic view of the city from the top of Taipei 101. In otherwords, Taipei 101 is a must-go place.
(A)unless
(B)because
(C)for
(D)without
Hahn and Meitner used to work as a team at the same lab. During the 1920s, Hahn continued developingradiochemical techniques, Meitner entered the new field of nuclear physics.
(A)whereas
(B)unless
(C)until
(D)if
A dog with will often scratch itself so vigorously that the bites on its skin become worse.
(A)ashes
(B)cubs
(C)moths
(D)fleas
Jean usually goes to the dentist six months.
(A)all
(B)each
(C)every
(D)any
The club demands a membership of NT$1,000 a year.
(A)fare
(B)fee
(C)salary
(D)toll
Charisma is a personal attractiveness that enables one to influence others. , the standards of good leadershiptend to differ from culture to culture.
(A)So
(B)Then
(C)However
(D)Although
Learning that the war had taken away his beloved wife and three children, we all felt for him.
(A)innocent
(B)offensive
(C)sympathetic
(D)tense
The train runs than 120 km per hour.
(A)no faster
(B)not fast
(C)not faster
(D)no fast
Neither the students nor the teacher ready when the principal came in.
(A)was
(B)were
(C)has been
(D)have been
Random testing of cold refreshments at fast food chains showed a number of outlets failing healthstandards.
(A)serve
(B)served
(C)serving
(D)having servedNo wonder the rich get richer. They have 39 that the rest do not. Their wealth gives them 40 to eager-to-pleaseprivate bankers, bespoke money-management services, and sophisticated investment vehicles that are out of reach for themerely solvent. But when it 41 investing, does membership of the supposed elite truly provide an edge worthy ofenvy? 42 , the rich can buy kid-glove professional guidance, but they pay dearly for it, with no guarantee of superiorperformance. Investing is sufficiently difficult that the most talented private bankers and brokers often make costly mistakes.They can also be tempted to sell their clients investment products that generate the highest fees rather than those with thehighest returns.
We need your here on the last page, and then we can open the account for you.
(A)money
(B)author
(C)discovery
(D)signature
As opposed to the extrovert, who craves excitement and takes chances, the introvert .
(A)is good at mathematics
(B)seldom loses his or her temper
(C)likes a well-ordered mode of life
(D)learns more slowly but remembers more
Many countries, Taiwan , are facing the problem of low birth rate and aging population.
(A)include
(B)inclusive
(C)included
(D)including
Billionaire Mr. Chen is, he still works long hours every day.
(A)like
(B)as
(C)such
(D)so
You don’t need to steal from others! I would have given you the money you told me earlier about yourfinancial problem.
(A)if not
(B)if only
(C)what if
(D)as if
Anna had a fight with her boss yesterday, and that’s .
(A)why did her boss fire her
(B)why she quit the job
(C)how was she fired by her boss
(D)when did she decide to quit
(A)access
(B)leeway
(C)keys
(D)solutions
If it last Saturday, my students would have gone to the concert.
(A)didn’t rain
(B)wasn’t raining
(C)shouldn’t rain
(D)hadn’t rained編號第41 題至第44 題為題組Try to accept that your teenager has to “belong” to the group of friends and that being forced to be different cancause great distress. You may think that a certain hairstyle or sensible shoes are ideal, but you probably don’t want yourchild to be made fun of as a result. As far as possible, let your teenager make his/her own choices about these things, even ifthey’re not your 41 .Permanent changes 42 tattoos or piercings are different, though, as they can’t simply be removed when fashionsmove on. Explain to your teenager that these require much more careful thought than 43 your hair orange or evenshaving your head. If you’re completely 44 it, you do have a parent’s right to insist that your teenager shouldn’thave it done. Teenagers still need some boundaries.
He’s by far the best player on the school team; there is no question about it.
(A)His being the best player on the school team is far from being true.
(B)It is certain that he is the best player on the school team.
(C)That he is the best player on the school team is open to question.
(D)It is likely that he is the most qualified for the school team.The development of information technology—computers and electronic communication devices—isanother factor currently influencing organizational structures. Automatic data-processing systems have beenwidely 41 in a range of settings. Anyone who draws money out of a bank, or buys an airline ticket, dependson a computer-based communication system. Since data can be processed 42 in any part of the worldlinked to such a system, there is no need for physical proximity between those involved. However, afully-fledged “electronic office,” in which the bulk of the work is carried out by machines rather than humans,is still 43 , and there are many problems in the way of its realization. 44 , there is a strong trendtowards the transplant of many office activities to electronic machinery. Word-processors, computer networks,teleprinter links, and other electronic systems have already 45 the nature of much office work. In someleading American banks, the trust department, where stock transfers are made, has been completely automated.
It is discouraging to visit a potential employer that he is more interested in your appearance than yourqualification.
(A)only to find out
(B)to have found out
(C)finding out
(D)only finding out
(A)costs
(B)is
(C)comes to
(D)goes with
(A)children
(B)purposes
(C)stress
(D)taste
(A)introduced
(B)intruded
(C)invited
(D)invaded
Bobby lied to me yesterday. I wish that he me the truth then.
(A)tells
(B)has told
(C)would tell
(D)had told
(A)No way
(B)Sure
(C)Unfortunately
(D)On the one hand
(A)in addition to
(B)so as to
(C)as much as
(D)such as
Rebecca, a person with strong self-confidence, never worries about other people think of her.
(A)who
(B)what
(C)which
(D)thatAbout forty percent of all email traffic in the United States is spam, and this figure is climbing rapidly. Spam isusually defined as unsolicited, mass commercial email. It is often 44 advertisements for pornographic websites,drugs, or surgery that can enhance your sex life. Within another year or so, industry experts 45 , half of all emailmessages will be unsolicited.The flood of email marketing causes headaches for email users. 46 , it costs corporations billions of dollars andreduces employee productivity. According to a recent study, the average employee spends almost seven minutes per dayhandling an average of 13 spam messages. This 47 to major corporate losses. The annual cost of spam has reached$9 billion for US corporations alone.
With the effort of environmental protection groups, some of the once contaminated rivers now teem with life.
(A)Environmental protection groups team up to save the contaminated rivers on earth.
(B)Environmental protection groups sacrifice their lives to clean up the contaminated rivers on earth.
(C)The once polluted rivers still show no sign of life regardless of the effort of environmental protection groups.
(D)The once polluted rivers are now full of life because of the effort of environmental protection groups.
(A)dye
(B)dyeing
(C)to dye
(D)to have dyed
(A)a way of life
(B)a way out
(C)the right way up
(D)a long way off
(A)confused with
(B)associated with
(C)rejected by
(D)replaced by
Over the decades, a few psychological researchers have ventured out of the dark realm of mental illness into thesunny land of the mentally hale and hearty.
(A)Some psychologists have focused their research on what makes people happy and healthy than on what makespeople mentally ill.
(B)A few psychologists have recovered from mental illness and resumed their health.
(C)A few psychologists like to take more care of the problems of healthy people than those of sick people.
(D)Some psychologists have discovered how to make the mentally ill find their happiness again.
(A)satisfied with
(B)enthusiastic about
(C)ignorant about
(D)opposed to
(A)decide
(B)contradict
(C)predict
(D)deny
Some English structures unacceptable a generation ago may have become established usages.
(A)Different concepts of English usage result in generation gap.
(B)Judgments of the grammaticality of English sentences change all the time.
(C)Old people do not accept the English expressions used by young people.
(D)People tend to use some English structures adopted by the general public.For the last decade, Pennebaker has pioneered research on the role of confession in health. He found that not onlytalking but also writing about traumas can be healing. “Just putting upsetting experiences into words,” he explains, “hasprofound psychological and physical benefits for our participants.”Trauma, it seems, is the great leveler. Few of us escape it, even in our first two decades of life. Moreover, the recoverymovement of the 1980s and 1990s has taught us that we as a society have kept a smothering blanket of secrecy over ourtraumas, covering up the truth in order to protect others and protect ourselves from pain. We’re learning that speaking outoften ends the cycle of abuse and liberates us from both pain and isolation. Pennebaker’s writing method, while not a publicform of confession, is a personal form of acknowledgment, emotional expression, and completion. Pennebaker says thatthe writing method works because people confide both to others (namely, the psychologists who read the essays) and tothemselves. In fact, he believes that confiding one’s deepest thoughts and feelings to one’s self is perhaps the most healingaspect of his technique.
Waiter: Excuse me, may I take your order now?Customer:Waiter: No problem. You can take your time, and I will come back in a few minutes.
(A)Oh, no, sorry, not yet. We haven’t decided what to eat.
(B)How delicious it looks! I can’t wait to eat it!
(C)Yes, I’d like to say you are a polite waiter.
(D)Could you bring us the bill?
(A)altered
(B)mystified
(C)diluted
(D)offeredGene therapy may be in its infancy, but great hopes for its potential to treat everything from cancer toAlzheimer’s to heart disease are forcing it to grow up fast. After two decades of lab research, gene treatments areincreasingly making their way into human clinical trials. The bulk of research so far has focused on getting a gene toits destination and coaxing it to turn on once inside a cell. On their own, genes can’t pass through cell membranes, andmuch effort has been spent to trick cells into accepting foreign genes. The most efficient couriers are so-called viralvectors: viruses whose genomes have been swapped out for therapeutic genes. Like Trojan horses, they slip genes intotarget cells undetected. But as scientists are learning, there is no safe way to hijack a virus. The vectors sometimesimmune reactions. And once the genes are inside a cell, there is no way to be sure they will function asintended. Case in point: a Paris gene therapy trial to treat SCIDs, or the “bubble boy disease,” restored immunefunction in nine of 10 patients. But it was later revealed that two of them had developed leukemia.
According to the passage, trauma is “the great leveler,” because _____.
(A)it makes people calm down
(B)it is a common experience
(C)it leaves painful memory
(D)it can never be predictable
A: I can’t make it this Friday. I have a doctor’s appointment.B: Is something wrong?A: It’s just a regular check-up.
(A)I believe so.
(B)I doubt it.
(C)I hope not.
(D)I think so.編號第47 題至第50 題為題組What happens to you when you take a drink? Alcohol, unlike other things you eat or drink, passes quickly into yourbloodstream. Once there is one drop of alcohol to every 1,500 drops of your blood, you’re drunk. Continued drinking afterthat can soon make you pass out. In other words, it takes only a few drinks to get drunk.Many people think alcohol peps you up. That’s not true. Alcohol really slows you down. The more you drink, themore you slow down.But alcohol often does make you act jovial and happy. That’s because alcohol loosens your self-control. Sometimesyou do things you would never do when sober. You take chances. That can be dangerous, especially when you’re driving.Alcohol can be bad for your health. That’s because it makes you delay eating, or forget to eat all together. The moreyou drink, the less likely you are to eat the food your body really needs. Thus, many people who die from drinking reallystarve to death!
What is the main idea of the passage?
(A)After two decades of lab research, gene therapy in humans has been successful in treating everything fromcancer to Alzheimer’s to heart disease.
(B)A lot of research in gene therapy has focused on getting a gene to its destination and coaxing it to turn on onceinside a cell.
(C)Although research has been done on how gene therapy can help treat serious diseases, such a treatment maycause irreversible side effects and unknown consequences.
(D)Viral vectors like Trojan horses slip genes into target cells undetected.
(A)interprets
(B)expresses
(C)means
(D)translatesA very strong element of our cultures is context. This refers to our environment, particularly how much of it issignificant during communication.In terms of context, there are two types of cultures, i.e., high context cultures and low context cultures. High contextcultures assign a lot of importance to the environment surrounding a message. Some cultures usually put into thiscategory include the Japanese, Han Chinese, and Gulf Arab. High context speakers may not state a message very directly.The meaning of the message is implied, not expressed. In order to understand what is being said, the listener mustunderstand the situation and his or her relationship to the speaker. In different situations, a given statement could havevery different meanings.In contrast, low context cultures (such as German and American cultures are said to be) place the highest importanceon the message itself, which is often quite explicit. External factors like interpersonal relationships or family histories donot usually alter the message very much. In such cultures, it is common to send a message to a large number of peopleand expect them all to understand the message in the same way.
The traditional treatment of traumas is to _____.
(A)provide warm blankets for victims
(B)seek help from family and friends
(C)discuss the pain privately
(D)avoid talking about it
This passage is mainly about .
(A)various ways to care for our health
(B)some negative effects of alcohol intake
(C)the importance of using self-control when you are drunk
(D)why drunken people are happy and jovial
“Viral vectors” are .
(A)ways with which viruses genomes are changed
(B)viruses used for carrying genetic material into cells
(C)the paths through which viruses move
(D)immune reactions triggered by viral infection
What does the word “explicit” mean in this passage?
(A)Ambiguous
(B)Meaningful
(C)Clear
(D)Flexible
Which of the following statements about the writing method is NOT true?
(A)By making a confession, people are forgiven.
(B)It is a psychological curing method.
(C)It helps people examine and admit the fact.
(D)People going through the process feel better.
What effect of alcohol is NOT mentioned by the author?
(A)It causes people to act happy.
(B)It causes people to do things they wouldn’t do otherwise.
(C)It keeps people from eating the food they need.
(D)It causes people to gain weight.
What does the word “trigger” mean in the passage?
(A)Activate
(B)Shoot
(C)Turn off
(D)Plug
According to this passage, which of the following is true about low context cultures?
(A)A statement is often expected to be understood by most people.
(B)External factors often influence the meaning of a statement.
(C)Speakers usually fail to state a statement straightforwardly.
(D)The same message may be interpreted differently.
Pennebaker thinks that the best way for people to heal trauma is to _____.
(A)forgive themselves
(B)forget the experience
(C)confess to themselves
(D)participate in group discussion
According to the last paragraph, people who drink alcohol .
(A)might not remember to eat
(B)are causing mass starvation in poor countries
(C)eat sooner because they get hungry more easily
(D)often worry too much about their health
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT correct?
(A)Genes are unable to move across cell membranes on their own.
(B)Gene therapy is still in its early stages.
(C)Scientists have made significant progress in taking control of viruses that carry therapeutic genes.
(D)Much effort in gene therapy has been spent to deceive cells into accepting foreign genes.
According to the passage, which of the following is true about high context cultures?
(A)People place the highest importance on the statement itself.
(B)The meaning of a statement is always explicitly expressed.
(C)The environment surrounding a statement does not alter the meaning very much.
(D)Part of the meaning of the statement depends on the situation and the interpersonal relation.
The author writes the passage to _____.
(A)introduce a healing method
(B)tell people how to avoid trauma
(C)acknowledge Pennebaker’s contribution
(D)explain the evolution of recovery movement
Which of the following statements would the author be LEAST likely to agree with?
(A)Despite its bad effects on our health, alcohol helps us to develop self-control.
(B)People may enjoy drinking alcohol at the risk of their health.
(C)It’s mistaken that alcohol gives people energy.
(D)Alcohol slows people down in reaction when driving.
“Leukemia” is a kind of .
(A)cell
(B)virus
(C)disease
(D)horse