資訊處理 111 年英文考古題

Tesla, amaker of electric cars, is going into the tunneling business. The goal of the Boring Company, as he dubs hisnew enterprise, is to

into tunnels faster and more cheaply than is possible at the moment.

thepit in the car park, Mr. Musk says he has also begun a series of test tunnels for a project that will, if it comesto

, carry cars under Los Angeles on high-speed sledges. In this way, people can

. A Harvard graduate hasno reason at all to suppose that he will manage more effectively than a less instructed contemporary. TheHarvard man can only claim that he is more highly educated; and high education and high achievement inpractical affairs don’t necessarily go together. John F Kennedy found that assembling America’s brightestbrains in Washington neither got bills

Congress nor avoided the Bay of Pigs; and many companieshave discovered that business school diplomas are a thin

against incompetence.An overwhelmingly large proportion of the highest and best American executives did study business. Allthis proves that an overwhelmingly large proportion of business-minded undergraduates got the real message,which is that a diploma will be good for their careers, starting with starting salaries. It does not follow that theeducation was of any other direct benefit either to the executive or his firm.

, of course, that theschooling was wasted. As a general rule, the wise man recruits the finest intelligence he can find; and goodminds are far better for good training. The question is only whether academic training in subjects that seem tohave some connection with management

of Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, a staunchenvironmentalist who hoped to provide unity to the grassroots environmental movement and increaseecological awareness. “The

was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environmentso large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy,” Senator Nelson said, “and,finally,

this issue permanently onto the national political agenda.” Earth Day indeed increasedenvironmental awareness in America, and in July of that year the Environmental Protection Agency wasestablished by special executive order to

and enforce national pollution legislation.On April 22, 1990, the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, more than 200 million people in 141countries

pets or pigs in factory farms,most animals must spend a large fraction of their waking hours locating food and extracting it from theirenvironment.

the case of herbivores, this may seem simple at first thought, but it is seldom an easymatter of wandering about nibbling whatever

is encountered. Not all plants are equally nutritious, andsome contain distasteful or even

substances. Even grazing animals that need only abundant grass dopick and choose which patches are most worth

the name of a relative she rarely sees. Many women experience “mommy brain”as a(n)

, the lost ability to remember people’s names or keep their attention undivided.

sciencereminds us that if we look at the changes without judgment, we may find that they come with advantages. Astudy found that even two years

pregnancy, women had brain changes in regions involved in theability to understand what is going on in the mind of another person, strengthening a mother’s ability to pickup on a baby’s