This company has been. It makes products ranging from aircraft engines to insurance, medicaltechnology and plastics.diversified
(A)shortened
(B)summoned
(C)vaporized
(D)
George emailed me and I replied. We began to, both of us were cautious at first.correspond
(A)
(B)commit
(C)comply
(D)compress
To reduce the risk that someone mightembarrassing data from the USB flash drive you ditched, you canrun a disk wipe utility to make sure that no data is left on the flash drive.
(A)salvage
(B)investigate
(C)reduce
(D)temper
The mortgage market has been in thesince the financial crisis crippled the banking industry last year.excursion
(A)celebrity
(B)doldrums
(C)incidence
(D)
If I file a complaint against a doctor, will my identity be keptso that my name won’t be revealed?unambiguous
(A)
(B)unconscious
(C)comprehensive
(D)confidential
The Pope held a mass to address peace andbecause the Korean Peninsula is divided.
(A)reconcilation
(B)recommendation
(C)diagnosis
(D)sanitation
There was so muchin the streets that travel was slow.compression
(A)combustion
(B)congestion
(C)confiscation
(D)
Everyone is supposed to be equal but I’ve heard a great many men make unfavorable comments to embarrassorwomen.accommoda
(A)te
(B)subordinate
(C)intimidate
(D)eliminate
The school has held a number of talks and workshops on the topic of peer support and peer respect totheidea of a bully-free campus.
(A)boycott
(B)denounce
(C)reinforce
(D)trespass
This coffee is too strong. Pleaseit by adding some water.digest
(A)dilute
(B)revise
(C)pacify
(D)
Pasteur attended a famous school in Paris and soonwith his research.lost sight of himself
(A)
(B)made a name for himself
(C)caught up with himself
(D)took advantage of himself
It was quite a scene at the party that Jerry spoketo Martin in every possible way trying to make a fool ofhim in front of the pretty woman they were both interested in.
(A)courteously
(B)provisionally
(C)sarcastically
(D)cordially
Using a(n)thermal ice storage system, the device keeps cool with the equivalent of 13,000 tons of ice.na
(A)iveinnovative
(B)retarded
(C)overestimated
(D)
The taxi driver was obviouslyby going through the red light, and caused an accident.buckled up
(A)
(B)in the wind
(C)geared up
(D)in rush
The tendonitis in my wrists and shoulders starts toafter I work on computer for long periods of time. Itcan be very painful.
(A)act up
(B)sit up
(C)catch up
(D)go up
A recent study found that a positive attitude towards learning in early grades isto success.anxious
(A)crucial
(B)insecure
(C)romantic
(D)第37 題至第40 題為篇章結構題組,各題請依文意,從四個選項中選出最合適者,各題答案內容不重複:Is bedtime just a time for dreaming? Do our brains turn off for the night? What if I told you that scientists recentlydiscovered that our brains may be just as busy at night as they are during the day?
Tim doesn’t know English, so he has to rely on his wife toeverything for him while travelling inAmerica.transfer
(A)
(B)transform
(C)translate
(D)transport
Nowadays kids are playing sports more _____ at younger ages; they are pushing their bodies to the limit,practicing sports too hard for too long.
(A)aggressively
(B)defensively
(C)elegantly
(D)persuasively依下文回答第37 題至第40 題The lexicon of oncology is filled with military metaphors: the war on cancer, aggressive tumors, magic bullets.And although these are indeed only metaphors, they do reflect an underlying attitude--that it is the clinician's job toattack and destroy his patient's tumor directly, with whatever weapons that come in handy.
Researchers at theUniversity of Rochester found that the brain may be busy cleaning house -- cleaning out harmful waste materials.As with many studies, the researchers turned to mice for help. They studied mice that had colored dye injectedinto their brains. They observed the mice brains as they slept and when they were awake. The researchers say they sawthat the brains of sleeping mice were hard at work. Dr. Maiken Nedergaard led the study.
My father had to work outside all night, and the whipping bitter wind made his hands red and.chapped
(A)
(B)spoiled
(C)tainted
(D)wrecked
There is even talkof biological agents, in the form of viruses specifically tailored to seek out and eliminate their tumorous targets.
It seems they havedaytime jobs. Later they “moonlight” at a nighttime job. “Moonlighting” is working a nighttime job in addition to aday job. And this study says that is what our brains seem to be doing – working an extra job at night without additionalpay for overtime. Whereas during sleep, they work very, very hard at removing all the waste that builds up when weare awake.“When we are awake, the brain cells are working very hard at processing all the information about oursurroundings. The researchers say that the waste material includes poisons, or toxins, responsible for brain disorderssuch as Alzheimer’s disease. It is not just beauty sleep. The brain needs us to sleep so it can get to work.
A majority of unemployed families depend for their survival on the financialthat was offered by thelocal government.shortage
(A)
(B)souvenir
(C)subsidy
(D)surcharge
But as Sun Tzu observed, the wisest general is not one who wins one hundred victories in one hundredbattles, but rather one who overcomes the armies of his enemies without having to fight them himself. And one way todo that is to get someone else to do your fighting for you.
This shrinking permits waste to be removed more effectively.Dr. Nedergaard says these toxins end up in the liver. There, they are broken down and then removed from thebody. “So our study suggests that we need to sleep because we have a macroscopic cleaning system that removes manyof the toxic waste products from the brain.”The brain’s cleaning system could only be studied with new imaging technologies. The test animal must be alivein order that this brain process may be seen as it happens. Dr. Nedergaard says the next step is to look for the processin human brains.
Even though Jason is complaining about his current job, he isto quit until he finds a new one.reluctant
(A)
(B)reverence
(C)reminisce
(D)reciprocal
Instead of attacking cancer directly, immunotherapy recruits a patient's immune system to do theattacking. The latest way of doing so is by removing the controls which keep the immune system in check during timesof bodily peace, let it damage the person it is supposed to be protecting. Now, as a series of papers presented in June2013 to the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago shows, its range is beingextended.
The research may also one day lead to treatments to prevent or help fight neurologicaldisorders.37They also found that during sleep, the brain’s cells shrink, or become smaller.
(A)While we sleep, our brains are doing much more than getting ready for the next
(B)day.She said the results demonstrate just how important sleep is to health and fighting disease.
(C)The brain expert says our brains perform two very different jobs.
(D)38They also found that during sleep, the brain’s cells shrink, or become smaller.
(A)While w
(B)e sleep, our brains are doing much more than getting ready for the next day.She said the results demonstrate just how important sleep is to health and fighting disease.
(C)The brain expert says our brains perform two very different jobs.
(D)39They also found t
(A)hat during sleep, the brain’s cells shrink, or become smaller.While we sleep, our brains are doing much more than getting ready for the next day.
(B)She said the results demonstrate just how important sleep is to health and fighting disease.
(C)The brain exp
(D)ert says our brains perform two very different jobs.40They also found that during sleep, the brain’s cells shrink, or become smaller.
(A)While we sleep, our brains are doing much more than getting ready for the next day.
(B)She said the results demonstrate jus
(C)t how important sleep is to health and fighting disease.The brain expert says our brains perform two very different jobs.
(D)請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題:It is believed that the color choices you make reflect a deeper meaning about your personality traits. For example,introverts and extroverts are likely to choose different colors – blue and red respectively. The colors you choose towear might also say something about how you are feeling that day. Some days you may feel like wearing somethinglighter, something red, or something blue. These choices are often a reflection of how you are feeling at the moment.Additionally, wearing certain colors may cause you to react differently to certain situations.The research also shows there may be a link between car color and serious injuries as a result of car accidents.From a safe perspective, it is recommended to choose expansive color with bright colors rather than contractive colorwith dark colors. Cars in light colors make lighter and cleaner impression than those in other colors. The study inAustralia identified a clear statistically significant relationship between vehicle color and crash risk. Compared towhite vehicles, a number of colors, generally those lower on the visibility index, were associated with higher crashrisk. The association between vehicle color and crash risk was strongest during daylight hours. The analysis results alsosuggested that vehicle color has an association with crash severity with lower visibility colors having higher risks ofmore severe crashes, although environmental factors can also modify the relationship between vehicle color and crashrisk. Further work is required to quantify this.
Like human beings, stars have a full life cycle. Born out of interstellar clouds, stars go on to have calmandlives as adults, and then die quietly.steep
(A)
(B)stable
(C)strange
(D)staring請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題:More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year — and a disturbing amount ends up in theocean, with much of it
The treatment of melanoma that started the ball rolling employed a particular drug calledipilimumab, a monoclonal antibody.37
(A)The troops on the front will be no untested conscripts, experienced marines and special forces.
(B)But so far the patient has no clear sense of the cancer, its treatment and recovery.
(C)As in real warfare, those weapons may be conventional, chemical or nuclear.
(D)But some tumors prove unknowable and unconquerable.38
(A)They all suffer from the same drawback.
(B)This is all well and good as strategies go.
(C)In the original trials, all proved inefficient.
(D)Among the aforementioned weapons, the best are viruses.39
(A)This is bad news for all cancer patients.
(B)Sun Tzu would surely have approved.
(C)If such approaches are confirmed, cancers will be nowhere to find.
(D)That, in an oncological context, is where immunotherapy comes in.40
(A)More Chinese herbs are being brought in to treat all cancers.
(B)More effective versions are being brought to bear on melanoma.
(C)More viruses are being brought in to treat melanoma.
(D)More warriors are being brought in to treat melanoma.依下文回答第41 題至第45 題Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles is a graded reader of made-up Latin stories, which the author Francis Ritchie wrote inorder to give students additional practice before they began reading Julius Caesar’s Gallic War. The text includes themyths of Perseus, Heracles, Jason and the Argonauts, and Ulysses; and the entire volume is divided into 100 sectionsof Latin, which are roughly a paragraph in length. Although Ritchie assumes that readers know all five declensions,pronouns, and active and passive verbs from the beginning of the Perseus readings, he does not introduce thesubjunctive mood until the middle of the Heracles selections or indirect discourse and ablative absolutes until Jasonand the Argonauts. Ritchie’s purpose is to provide readers with an opportunity to master simple Latin grammar andmorphology before they encounter more complex constructions in the later stories, and he does so while presentingstudents with an informative and thoroughly engaging storyline.This Latin text was first published by Ritchie in 1884 in a volume called Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader.In 1903, John Kirtland produced a revised edition of the book under the title Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles: A First LatinReader. Kirtland modified Ritchie’s Latin text, added grammatical notes, and eliminated a section of drill exercisesfound in the original volume. Kirtland’s book remained the standard edition until 1991, when another revised volumewas prepared by Gilbert Lawall, Stanley Iverson, and Allan Wooley, entitled Fabulae Graecae: A Revised Edition ofRitchie’s Fabulae Faciles. While the first two books are out of copyright and can be downloaded for free, the FabulaeGraecae remains available in paperback. The aim of this current edition(2012) is to make Ritchie’s myths even moreaccessible to intermediate-level Latin readers.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?Colors can expand your personality.
(A)Colors c
(B)an reveal your feeling.Colors can change your mood.
(C)Colors can cause you to react differently.
(D)
in places like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area measuring more than 1.6 million square kilometers.Researchers from the Ocean Cleanup foundation conducted a survey of plastic in the area, using planes to
According to the passage, who are the target readers of Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles?
(A)Beginning students of Latin.
(B)Intermediate students of Latin.
(C)Advanced students of Latin.
(D)Native speakers of Latin.
Which of the following is considered as low on the visibility index?Expansive colors
(A)Contractive colors
(B)Light colors
(C)Transparent
(D)colors
fromthe sky and boats to trawl the water. They found that the amount of plastic there seemed to be increasing exponentiallyand that there could be 16 times as much as previously thought.There’s far too much plastic in the world’s oceans, and the problem continues to
How many editions of Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles are there?
(A)One.
(B)Two.
(C)Three.
(D)Four.
Which of the following might be the safest vehicle color according to the study?black
(A)red
(B)silver
(C)white
(D)
. Every little bit ofplastic that gets tossed into the ocean or swept downstream out to sea either sinks or is picked up by currents. Much ofit is eventually carried into one of five massive ocean regions, where plastic can be so
Which of the following statements about Fabulae Faciles is NOT true?
(A)It is a graded Latin reader.
(B)It was first published in the nineteenth century.
(C)It consists of roughly 100 paragraphs.
(D)It is intended be read after Caesar's Gallic War.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?Vehicles with dark colors have higher crash risk during daylight hours.
(A)Vehicles with ligh
(B)t colors have higher crash risk during daylight hours.Vehicles with dark colors have lower crash risk during daylight hours.
(C)Vehicles with light colors have more severe crashes during daylight hours.
(D)
that areas havegarnered names like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.There may be more than 16 times as much plastic in the patch than previous studies have
Which of the following statements about Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles is true?
(A)Its section about Perseus introduces the use of the subjunctive mood.
(B)It helps readers learn basic Latin grammar.
(C)It was first published in 1903.
(D)Its 1901 edition can be download for free from the Internet.
Which of the following correlative factors has NOT been proven to be significant?Vehicle color and environmental factors
(A)Vehicle color and crash risk
(B)Vehicle color and time of the day
(C)Vehicle color and crash severity
(D)請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題:One of the most dramatic features of the world is the cycle of day and night. Almost all species exhibit dailychanges in their behavior and/or physiology. These daily rhythms are not simply a response to the 24-hour changes inthe physical environment imposed by the earth turning on its axis but, instead, arise from a timekeeping system withinthe organism. This timekeeping system, or biological “clock,” allows the organism to anticipate and prepare for thechanges in the physical environment that are associated with day and night, thereby ensuring that the organism will “dothe right thing” at the right time of the day.The synchrony of an organism with both its external and internal environments is critical to the organism’swell-being and survival; a lack of synchrony between the organism and the external environment may lead to theindividual’s immediate demise. For example, if a nocturnal rodent were to venture from its burrow during broaddaylight, the rodent would be exceptionally easy prey for other animals. Similarly, a lack of synchrony within theinternal environment might lead to health problems in the individual, such as those associated with jet lag, shift work,and the accompanying sleep loss.The mechanisms underlying the biological timekeeping systems and the potential consequences of their failure areamong the issues addressed by researchers in the field of chronobiology. Although no single experiment serves as thedefining event from which to date the beginning of modern research in chronobiology, studies conducted in the 1950son circadian rhythmicity in fruit flies and in humans can be considered its foundation. The area of sleep research,which also is subsumed under the field of chronobiology, evolved somewhat independently, with the identification ofvarious sleep stages around the same time.
, according tothe researchers behind the study. An aerial view of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch might at first appear to be openwater. But inside there is debris from all over the world — debris that traps or is eaten by marine animals, filling uptheir bodies to the point of being fatal and tainting our food supply.41accumulating
(A)
(B)commuting
(C)astonishing
(D)communicating42preserve
(A)
(B)reserve
(C)observe
(D)conserve43put away
(A)
(B)build up
(C)go down
(D)take off44continued
(A)
(B)conducted
(C)consumed
(D)concentrated45affected
(A)
(B)adopted
(C)estimated
(D)eliminated請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題:Researchers at Vanderbilt University decided to find out how intelligent various animals are. To rightly compare brainpower in species, it isn’t enough to weigh brain tissue. You must take into account the brain relative to the organism’ssize. But this may fall short of evaluating actual intelligence.Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel said, “I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has determined therichness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based onpast experience.” She and her colleagues found that meat eaters have about the same number of neurons as plant eaters.That means plant eaters need as much brain power to escape from predators as meat eaters need to catch them.How do cats and dogs measure up? Previous findings had cats ahead at 300 million neurons to dogs roughly 160million. In this latest study, however, dogs were on top, with 530 million neurons to cats 250 million. Just forcomparison, humans have around 16 billion such neurons. Even so, dogs were way above other meat eaters in the brainpower department.Having a bigger brain has a downside, researchers have found. “Meat eating is largely considered a problem-solver interms of energy,” Herculano-Houzel said, “but in retrospect, it is clear that meat eating animals must impose a delicatebalance between how much brain and body a species can afford.” This may be why you often see large predators likelions and bears dozing.
Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?
(A)This 2012 edition can only be purchased from the Internet.
(B)It is still possible to find the first two editions online now.
(C)The 1991 edition is out of print now.
(D)The new edition is more suitable for all levels of Latin learners.依下文回答第46 題至第50 題Acknowledging that traditional passwords are no longer secure, some of the largest banks in the world areincreasingly using voices, fingerprints, facial scans and other types of biometrics to safeguard bank accounts.Through their mobile phones, millions of banking customers routinely use fingerprints to log into their bankaccounts. This feature, which some banks have introduced since the second decade of the 21st century, enables a hugeshare of banking customers to verify their identities with biometrics. The move reflects deep concerns that so manyhundreds of millions of email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and other personal identifiers havefallen into the hands of criminals, rendering those identifiers increasingly ineffective at protecting accounts. “We believethe password is dying,” said Tom Shaw, vice president for enterprise financial crimes management at USAA. “Werealized we have to get away from personal identification information because of the growing number of data breaches.”Long regarded as the stuff of science fiction, biometrics have been tested by big banks for decades, but have onlyrecently become sufficiently accurate and cost effective to use on a large scale. It has taken a great deal of trial anderror: With many of the early prototypes, a facial scan could be foiled by bad lighting, and voice recognition could bescuttled by background noise or laryngitis.Before smartphones became ubiquitous, there was another obstacle: To capture a finger image or scan an eyeball, abank would have to pay to distribute the necessary technology to tens of millions of customers. A few tried, but theirefforts were costly and short-lived. On top of all these, there is an even bigger problem: As criminals have found theirways to break the traditional banking passwords, they could eventually find ways to steal biometric data as well.
What is the best topic of this passage?The Foundation of Chronobiology.
(A)The Feature of Life Cycle.
(B)The Internal and External Environments.
(C)The Overview of Biological Mechanism.
(D)
Which of the following phrases is closest in meaning to the word “species”?Various food.
(A)
(B)Various eaters.
(C)Various animals.
(D)Various brain power.
Which of the following words best describes the author's attitude toward the use of biometrics to safeguard bankaccounts?
(A)optimistic
(B)pessimistic
(C)picky
(D)skeptical
What does the word “subsumed” mean in the last paragraph?Included
(A)Reduced
(B)Downsize
(C)dUnderestimated
(D)
What is the main idea of this passage?The ratio of the brain size relative to the body size of an animal is a good measure of intelligence.
(A)
(B)The number of neurons is an absolute measure of an animal’s intelligence, be it a plant eater or a meat eater.
(C)The number of neurons reveals that plant eaters are generally smarter than meat eaters.
(D)The ratio of the number of neurons relative to the size of an animal’s body can indicate how smart the animal is.
Which of the following statements about the banking password is NOT true?
(A)The banking password may be about to expire forever.
(B)The banking password has been replaced by biometrics for two decades.
(C)The banking password is not secure anymore.
(D)The data breaches of banking are increasing.
Which of the following is the result of an asynchrony of an organism with its internal environment?Daily leaf movements of a plant exposed to sunlight.
(A)Nocturnal animals having a sound sleep during daylight.
(B)People experiencing
(C)difficulty falling asleep at night.People feeling
(D)shocked when witnessing a car accident in the daytime.
According to the latest study, which of the following statements is true?Dogs are much smarter than most meat eaters, including cats.
(A)
(B)Cats have more neurons in their brain than other meat eaters, including dogs.
(C)The number of a cat’s neurons can double that of a dog’s, and that makes cats better pets for humans.
(D)Dogs are quite intelligent and they have as many neurons as humans do.
According to the passage, which of the following is most likely to endanger the system of biometrics tosafeguard bank accounts?
(A)Smartphones are not to become ubiquitous.
(B)A facial scan could be foiled by bad lighting.
(C)Voice recognition could be scuttled by background noise or laryngitis.
(D)Criminals could eventually find ways to steal biometric data.
Which of the following is considered an external environment?An office
(A)setting.A meditative activity.
(B)A biological timekeeping system.
(C)A desir
(D)e to change one’s behavior.
According to the passage, why do plant eaters need to have strong brain power?To find sufficient food to maintain their brain power.
(A)
(B)To predict possible danger to prevent themselves from being eaten up.
(C)To predict possible food sources to support their relatively larger body size.
(D)To find safe places to rest to conserve their energy.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
(A)Banking customers' psychological reactions to the use of biometrics.
(B)Some banks have tried the use of biometrics.
(C)To use the biometrics, a great deal of trial and error must be undergone.
(D)The distribution of the biometrics technology to the banking customers is costly.
According to this passage, which of the following statements is true?Chronobiology
(A)began with the studies on circadian rhythm in fruit flies and humans.All species simply respond to the cycle of day and night.
(B)All species h
(C)ave an internal clock that is crucial for their survival.Jet lag is a failure of a biological timekeeping mechanism.
(D)
Which of the following statements can be inferred from this passage?Ca
(A)ts are more intelligent than dogs.
(B)Large size meat eating animals tend to sleep a lot.
(C)Plant eating animals tend to have a larger brain size.
(D)Dogs and cats are suggested to live on a vegetarian diet.
When was the use of fingerprints to log into bank accounts first introduced?
(A)Before the 2000s.
(B)During the 2010s.
(C)After the 2020s.
(D)During the 2030s.