Where Darwin had traced man’s animal ancestry, Freud revealed the animal drives which still hisbehaviour. (A)classified (B)governed (C)hijacked (D)lamented
Derek was caught stealing money at school; the principal told him that he was not allowed to go back toschool his behavior improved.
(A)since
(B)only if
(C)until
(D)provided that
A multiple murder on Friday night left two people dead. The police did not release the names of the victimsout of _____ for their family members.consideration
(A)disclosure
(B)fulfillment
(C)prudence
(D)
Dr. James Lin his entire career to the research of food safety.explored
(A)devoted
(B)imposed
(C)resisted
(D)
When presenting information, good presenters try to be as ____ as possible. They usually speak effectively and gettheir point across. (A)adjacent
(B)rampant
(C)stormy
(D)succinct
the brave general who sacrificed his life in the war, the city built a statue of him and placed it in front of theCity Hall.By means of
(A)At the cost of
(B)In time of
(C)In memory of
(D)
Online courses are higher education, creating new opportunities for the best and huge problems for the rest. (A)denouncing (B)humiliating (C)legitimating (D)transforming
The approval of film reviewers can be _____ to a film’s success and can actually determine its future at the boxoffice. (A)critical
(B)flexible
(C)potential
(D)striking
Maggie’s musical tastes are very . She has CDs ranging from classical piano performances to rock concerts,jazz, African music, and even Chinese opera.
(A)diverse
(B)tranquil
(C)opposite
(D)partial
Since first impressions are so important, it is necessary that we deliver a _____ and positive one every timewe make a new professional or social acquaintance.deliberate
(A)favorable
(B)proficient
(C)suggestive
(D)
Due to global warming and deforestation, many animals and plants are on the brink of . (A)instruction (B)distinction (C)extinction (D)tension
The official was held in when he was found to be involved in the bribery.custody
(A)territory
(B)infirmary
(C)reservoir
(D)
I couldn’t go to the movies with my friends this afternoon because I had to run some such as taking mail tothe post office and doing grocery shopping.
(A)assignments
(B)errands
(C)missions
(D)routines
The residents finally stopped and caught the drunk man after he had ______ more than ten cars in theneighborhood.penalized
(A)scandalized
(B)tantalized
(C)vandalized
(D)
Steven was not able to finish his assignment on time, and, instead of being honest about it, he _____ an excuse inorder to gain more time to complete it. (A)contemplated
(B)dedicated
(C)fabricated
(D)stipulated
Every employee in the company has the rights to use the inside, including gym and library. (A)faculty (B)facilities (C)factories (D)fraternity
Because of the of two major roads, there is always a traffic problem.
(A)convergence
(B)perception
(C)reminiscence
(D)optimism第35 題至第39 題為題組After terrorists struck New York City on September 11, 2001, airport videotapes from Boston revealed a lostopportunity. One of the 35 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, was captured on the security cameras at Boston’s LoganAirport just before boarding his flight. What if that camera 36 a computer database with Atta’s picture in it? Couldsecurity personnel have identified him as a risk and removed him from the plane? 37 of face-recognitiontechnology say yes. It is technically possible, they say, to build a reliable system to pick suspicious people out of a crowdby digitally photographing their faces. The possibility of preventing a terrorist attack by spotting the bad guys is 38 .Face-recognition sweeps have been used at football stadiums, in crowded streets, and at airports in the hope of doing justthat. The world’s best face-recognition device is the human brain. You may wonder, 39 , how a mother or father cantell the difference between identical twins. The two children may look exactly the same to you, but the parent has notrouble telling one from the other. Somehow, the parent has focused on small combinations of features that distinguisheach child. No matter how hard you try, you cannot see the same patterns.
As the misty moonlight gradually covered the night with a sheet of white veil, a couple sat down by the quiet lakeenjoying the moment of .
(A)indifference
(B)serenity
(C)heritage
(D)exploration
It is not until you become initiated into something and gain knowledge that your interest seriously awakens.Your interest will drive you to initiate yourself into something and gain knowledge.
(A)You will not truly realize your interest until you gain knowledge from what
(B)you have taken to.Whether you become initiated
(C)into something depends on whether you gain knowledge from it or not.You will never truly become initiated into something and gain knowledge until your interest seriously
(D)awakens.
Kevin never liked cats before taking care of his sister’s cat Lily. The kitten just ______ Kevin, and he actuallyenjoyed her company. (A)advocated
(B)enchanted
(C)patronized
(D)retrieved
Be careful when moving the porcelain vase, or you may break it. (A)delicate (B)sophisticated (C)complicated (D)definite請依下文回答第36 題至第40 題:The speech of every group of people has developed differently. One reason for this is that each group often lived inisolation. Another reason is that each language grew up 36 under different conditions. Gradually, over manycenturies, some groups came in contact with other groups. When this happened, their languages grew more and more37 . In other cases, however, a group would break apart, and new languages would grow from the original one. Thenew languages, though distinct in many ways, would 38 similarities to one another.There are many different countries in the world today. One might conclude that each country has its own languageand that languages are only as numerous as countries. Actually, there are many more languages than there are countries.39 , in the United States, we have considered English the one language of the people. Yet at one time, on the GreatPlains alone, more than 22 native American languages were spoken.In addition, a single language may have two or more dialects, or varieties. 40 is estimated that there are severalthousand languages and dialects spoken in the world today.36 (A)similarly (B)seemingly (C)frequently (D)separately37 (A)alike (B)likable (C)likely (D)unlike38 (A)attain (B)obtain (C)maintain (D)detain39 (A)On the contrary (B)For example (C)By degrees (D)On the spot40 (A)There (B)It (C)That (D)What請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題:Ken Aston is an internationally known soccer referee. He came from England. Aston began playing soccer when hewas a young boy. In 1936, when he was 19 years old, he hurt his ankle and stopped playing soccer. He decided to becomea referee and qualified as one in the same year. In 1946, he became the first referee to wear the black uniform with whitetrim that later became the standard for referees.As a soccer referee, Aston made an important contribution to the sport. He invented the card system. In modernsoccer competitions, referees give cards to players who break rules. A yellow card is a warning. A red card means that theplayer is out of the game. According to Aston, the card system prevents language problems. The cards are an internationallanguage. Every player understands what the yellow and red cards mean.Aston said he got the idea while stopping at a traffic light. He was driving home from a 1966 World Cup match. Inthat game, a German-speaking referee didn’t make his disciplinary calls clear. Some of the players could not understandhim and had confusion in mind even after the game. So Aston came up with and pushed for the idea of showing a yellowcard for an official warning and a red card for an ejection. The card system was introduced at the 1970 World Cup finalsand are now used universally. Today all soccer players understand the meaning of the cards.41What is this passage mainly about? (A)The history of soccer.
(B)Ken Aston’s career and contribution. (C)How Aston got the idea for the card system. (D)The meaning of a red or yellow card in soccer.42Which of the following statements about Ken Aston is true? (A)He used to be a famous soccer player in England. (B)He became a referee when he was about thirty years old. (C)He designed the white uniform with black trim for referees. (D)He created the card system to avoid language problems in soccer games.43Which of the following statements about the card system in soccer is true? (A)It was invented at the 1970 World Cup finals. (B)It was first used by a German-speaking referee. (C)It was created by Aston while he was observing the traffic signal. (D)It was used as an international language to replace English.44Why did Aston push for the card system in soccer games? (A)It could avoid soccer players’ confusion over the calls by referees. (B)He could make a lot of money by inventing the system. (C)He wanted to become a well-known soccer referee. (D)It was one of his dreams as a young boy.45Which of the following best explains the phrase “disciplinary calls” in this passage? (A)Informative remarks.
(B)Encouraging phone calls. (C)Strange but interesting calls. (D)Corrective or punishing rulings.請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題:Owning closets of shoes may seem superficial, but in reality women are merely paying homage to the bricklayers ofmodern civilization. The history of shoes dates back to 4000 B.C. when they appeared on the walls of Egyptian templesand tombs. While women today fancy a pair of stylish heels, in 1500, it was men, descendants of European nobility, whobegan to wear heeled shoes. Since then “well heeled” suggests being wealthy or able to afford costly shoes.In 1533, the wedding of an Italian lady with a French nobleman brought high heels in vogue for women. The brideinsisted on having heels made for her wedding, which set the rage for the new shoes in Paris. High heels stayed in style untilthe late 18th century, as during the French Revolution, it was considered in bad taste to show any sign of wealth. Finally,high heels emerged again in Europe in the late 19th century and continued to spread their enchantment around the world.46What is this passage mainly about? (A)The reasons why women wear high heels. (B)Fashions of shoe styles in different countries. (C)The history of high heels. (D)The defense for men who wear high heels.47What did a pair of heeled shoes suggest in the sixteenth-century Europe? (A)High education. (B)Respectable ancestry. (C)Outstanding taste. (D)Great wealth.48According to this passage, where can we find the earliest appearance of shoes in human history? (A)Egypt. (B)France. (C)Italy. (D)China.49When did women start to wear high heels? (A)As soon as heels were invented. (B)After a noble wedding in Paris. (C)After the French Revolution. (D)After the late nineteenth century.50Which of the following statements is true? (A)The author thinks women’s craze for heels is superficial. (B)A French nobleman designed a pair of heels for his bride. (C)The first pair of heels for women did not gain much attention. (D)Heels fell out of favor during the French Revolution.
The antifraud tools of the time could not keep up with the crooks.The crooks are always at the mercy of the antifraud operations.
(A)The
(B)law against deception can hardly prevent swindlers.The swindlers fail to keep pace
(C)with the operations against fraud.With the antifraud tools
(D), it is time to keep up with what the crooks are trying to do.
The new law enforces severe on people who do not fasten their seat belts while riding in the backseat of acar.
(A)criticism
(B)reaction
(C)dispute
(D)penalty
When small businesses start to grow, they move into bigger ______ and take on extra staff. (A)assemblies (B)liabilities
(C)overheads
(D)premises
being linked to
(A)has been linked to
(B)had been linked to
(C)was linked to
(D)
In Taiwan, red flowers can be seen in many weddings and parties because red is considered the most______ among all colors in Taiwanese culture.auspicious
(A)congruent
(B)impulsive
(C)platonic
(D)
The on-going protests and demonstrations against the ruling party have made some foreign investors toinvest further in the country.
(A)circular
(B)hesitant
(C)various
(D)tolerant
I insisted upon confidentiality and the “right to _____”—people were free not to participate if they feltuncomfortable about any particular investigation. (A)perceptibility
(B)reticence
(C)senility
(D)unanimity
Mr. Johnson is survived by his wife of 30 years, Ann, and two sons, David and Bill.Mr. Johnson is still alive; his wife, who was 30 years old, and sons are all dead.
(A)Mr. Johnson’s wife has been dead for 30 years; he and his two sons are alive.
(B)Mr. Johnson
(C)has been dead for 30 years; his wife and two sons are all alive.Mr. Johnson is dead while his wife of 30 years
(D)and two sons remain alive.
Writers often use graphs and drawings to help them concepts which are too complicated to be expressedwith words only.
(A)associate
(B)eliminate
(C)illustrate
(D)upgrade
Vertical gardens are cropping up all over cities these days, transforming drab urban ______ into vibrant jungles ofcolor. (A)facades
(B)interiors
(C)peasants
(D)securities
(A)dubiousexaggerative
(B)remote
(C)tempting
(D)
Steve Jobs was to technology like John Lennon was to music. They both revolutionized their respectivefields and both were taken from the world far too soon.People consider Jobs and Lennon
(A)as the two greatest people of the century.Jobs and Lennon
(B)would be remembered for leaving their fields far too soon.With the time they had, both
(C)Jobs and Lennon took their professions to a new level.Technology and music are often revolutionized within a short period of time.
(D)
The doctor applied some antibiotic cream to the wound on Sara’s head to help her pain and speed thehealing.
(A)clench
(B)devour
(C)soothe
(D)forbid
When the singer started to sing, all her fans were ______ by her beautiful voice. (A)camouflaged (B)demolished (C)mesmerized (D)perpetuated
by
(A)contrastfor example
(B)however
(C)in addition
(D)第40 題至第44 題為題組Cave men did not live in caves. But some died in them and their 40 thus protected from scavengers and theelements, lasted long enough for palaeontologists to discover and examine them. 41 between 600,000 and 300,000years ago, quite a few died in La Sima de los Huesos near Burgos, in Spain. The Bone Pit, as the name translates intoEnglish, has yielded 6,500 pieces of human skeletons, 42 at least 28 individuals.Who those people were is a matter of 43 --one that shows the difficulty of popping fossils neatly into boxesmarked “species.” They are usually 44 as Homo heidelbergensis, the name given to the first humans who lived inEurope, starting about 600,000 years ago. But they also have features of Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthal man), ayounger species believed to have evolved from heidelbergensis.
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another withouthelping himself.When you sincerely hel
(A)p others, you are bound to receive a beautiful compensation in the future.No one can sincerely help others without feeling the beauty of getting compensations in return.
(B)Those who sincerely help others will for sure compensate themselves with kind help
(C)from others.The beautiful compensation for sincerely helping others is that you are helping yourself as well.
(D)
The detective was so careful and that he left no part of the crime scene unexamined.
(A)meticulous
(B)descriptive
(C)legendary
(D)noticeable第40 題至第43 題為題組Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642. His father had passed away a few months earlier. Three years later,his mother remarried and moved to a neighboring village, 40 Isaac in the care of his grandmother at Woolsthorpe,an estate that had been in the family for two hundred years. When Newton was fourteen, his mother, widowed a secondtime, returned to Woolsthorpe with the three children of her second marriage. Soon afterwards she brought Isaac homefrom school to learn to manage the estate, which did not appeal to him 41 . He divided his time between reading andingenious tinkering; he built dolls’ houses for his little sisters, a model windmill, and a water clock that continued to runfor years. What he did failed to meet his mother’s expectation; 42 , his mother decided to send him back toschool. At eighteen he was admitted to Trinity College at Cambridge University. He had just completed his studieswhen the plague forced him to go back home. He set off for the peace and quiet of his rural English birthplace,where he 43 spend a year. This period was so rich in discovery that future historians would refer to it as the“miraculous year.”
An addiction is anything that has more power over you than you do. (A)Being addicted to something makes you weak.
(B)The power of any addiction excels your will to control it.
(C)Addiction is something strong, but you can always control it. (D)You always know whether you get addicted to something
Chinese medicine offers a different vision of health and disease; it refuses to see the individual as an entityseparate from his or her environment.A different system, Chinese medicine has
(A)its strengths and weaknesses.Chinese medicine does not produce side effects because
(B)it is balanced to reflect a patient’s entireenvironment.Chinese medicine is often criticized for the absence of scienti
(C)fic research support.Chinese medicine seeks to locate illness within the context involving an individual and his or her
(D)environment.
(A)leaving
(B)leave
(C)left
(D)had left
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (A)The spethat respond are not only the most intelligent but also the strongest. (B)The species that survive are not the str
(C)The strongestare the species that are the most intelligent and most responsive to survival. (D)The most intelligent arethe species that are the most responsive to strong change and survive.第41 至第43 題為題組To a great extent, we owe our current high standard of living to biological advances in food production. Plant andanimal breeders have developed organisms that provide better sources of food than the original varieties. Corn is a grassthat produces its seeds on a cob. The original corn plant had very small ears that were perhaps only three or fourcentimeters long. Through selective breeding, varieties of corn with much larger ears and more seeds per cob plant havebeen adapted to produce other kinds of corn, such as sweet corn and popcorn.Animal breeders also have had much success. The pig, chicken, and cow of today are much different animals fromthose available even 100 years ago. Chickens lay more eggs, dairy cows give more milk, and beef cattle grow faster. Allof these improvements raise our standard of living. One interesting example is the change in the kind of hogs that areraised. At one time, farmers wanted pigs that were fatty. The fat could be made into lard, soap, and various other products.As the demand for fat products of pigs declined, animal breeders developed pigs that gave a high yield of meat andrelatively little fat. Today, plant and animal breeders can produce plants and animals almost to specifications.
Some time
(A)Some timing
(B)Sometime
(C)Sometimes
(D)
The writer is looked after by a very competent secretary. The routines of life are lifted from him, thusaccentuating his inwardness.Thanks to the effort of the secretary, the introverted writer can concentrate on his work and thus become
(A)highly praised.The inner life of the writer remains secret. Only his secretary knows why he focuses on his writing.
(B)The tedious rout
(C)ine life is too much for the writer to bear, so he needs a secretary to help him.The writer becomes even more
(D)concentrated because everything in life has been taken care of by hissecretary.請回答第42 題至第46 題:In the summer of 1964, the well-known writer and editor Norman Cousins became very ill. He consulted hisphysician, who did many tests. Eventually he was diagnosed as having ankylosing spondylitis, a very serious anddestructive form of arthritis. His doctor told him that he would become immobilized and eventually die of thedisease.Despite the diagnosis, Cousins was determined to overcome the disease and survive. He had always beeninterested in medicine and had read the work of the organic chemist Hans Selye, The Stress of Life (1956). Thisbook discusses the idea of how body chemistry and health can be damaged by emotional stress and negativeattitudes. Selye’s book made Cousins think about the possible benefits of positive attitudes and emotions. Hedecided to concentrate on positive emotions as a remedy to heal some of the symptoms of his ailment. In additionto his conventional medical treatment, he tried to put himself in situations that would elicit positive emotions.“Laugh therapy” became part of his treatment. He scheduled time each day for watching comedy films, readinghumorous books, and doing other activities that would bring about laughter and positive emotions. Within eightdays of starting his “laugh therapy” program, his pain began to decrease and he was able to sleep more easily. Hisbody chemistry even improved. Doctors were able to see an improvement in his condition. He was able to returnto work in a few months’ time and actually reached complete recovery after a few years.
(A)in the least
(B)at last
(C)at least
(D)by no means
Which of the following statements about corn is NOT true? (A)The original corn ears were three or four centimeters long.
(B)We have corn with large ears because of selective breeding
(C)Biological advances help produce varieties of corn. (D)Corn can hardly adapt itself.