The woman sued her company for gender because she was laid off for her pregnancy.
(A)distinction
(B)discrimination
(C)inspection
(D)examination
Lucy has a memory; she can remember many details for a long time.
(A)geographic
(B)photographic
(C)biological
(D)biographic
The land is a storehouse of for all kinds of plants, and its reserve of nutrients is essential to any successfulagriculture.
(A)facilities
(B)fertility
(C)nuance
(D)pesticides
With support from all the trustees, the motion was _____ approved at the annual board meeting.
(A)acrimoniously
(B)homogeneously
(C)meticulously
(D)unanimously
Mike started a slow recovery process to _____ at home after being hospitalized for a serious stroke for two months.
(A)conciliate
(B)proliferate
(C)rehabilitate
(D)scintillate
It is a that the kid fell from the tenth floor and survived with only some abrasions.
(A)misery
(B)muscle
(C)medal
(D)miracle
My brother borrowed some clean shirts from me because he was too busy to do the .
(A)dishes
(B)packing
(C)grocery
(D)laundry
The United States is with an energy, a can-do ambition and an entrepreneurial spirit that can only bedescribed as distinctly American.
(A)invested
(B)compatible
(C)consistent
(D)infused
Many people took surgery to make themselves look prettier.
(A)electric
(B)historic
(C)realistic
(D)plastic
Color photographs will _____ damage even if we use proper materials and keep the prints in temperature- andhumidity-controlled environments.
(A)incur
(B)launch
(C)manipulate
(D)peruse
The five-star is so popular that it is difficult to make reservations in advance.
(A)report
(B)resort
(C)resource
(D)result
The movie was recommended for mature audiences only because there were many scenes of intense violence whichwould be too for children.
(A)authentic
(B)contagious
(C)disturbing
(D)embarrassing
It is customary that Chinese red color with good luck.
(A)associate
(B)communicate
(C)operate
(D)resolve
Football and baseball may be considered the national pastimes, but rodeo _____ the legacy of the American West.
(A)embodies
(B)foresees
(C)integrates
(D)legitimates
Cindy her fright at last and stepped onto the stage to deliver her speech.
(A)commuted
(B)cherished
(C)convinced
(D)conquered
The restaurant’s advertisement was a bit . It said all of the drinks were free, but actually wines were notincluded.
(A)cautious
(B)pretending
(C)suspicious
(D)misleading
Although the company did not make profits this season, the manager is still about the prospect.
(A)imaginative
(B)optimistic
(C)realistic
(D)objective
At the age of 22, Yani Tseng became the youngest golf player to win five major championships. She was said to_____ the golf world.
(A)clench
(B)dominate
(C)engage
(D)humiliateAnimal studies confirm that the relief some of us get from eating sugar is not just psychological—it is an actualbrain-chemistry reaction. In one experiment, Blass and colleagues studied two groups of baby mice who were separatedfrom their mothers and left alone for six minutes. Their resulting “isolation distress” was considered to be a kind ofanimal equivalent to our human version of depression. The depressed mice who were given sugar water cried onlyseventy-five times during their isolation—as compared to the more than three hundred cries that came from the mice leftalone with no sweet treat to alleviate their emotional pain. Apparently, the young mice were literally “medicating” theirdepression with sugar.Why did sugar have this remarkable effect? Researchers thought that perhaps the sweet food stimulated the releaseof extra beta-endorphin molecules. Since these molecules help us cope with physical and emotional pain, the sugar had aliterally soothing effect. Researchers confirmed their theory by giving both groups of mice Naltrexone, a drug that blocksbeta-endorphin receptors. If you take Naltrexone, it does not matter how many beta-endorphins you release—you will notget any relief from pain. Sure enough, when the sugar-fed mice were given Naltrexone, they lost all interest in the sweetsubstance, suggesting that their only reason for their sweet tooth had been to stimulate the release of beta-endorphins.Numbed by Naltrexone, both groups of mice cried equally often. The poor baby mice were still depressed—but noweven sugar could not make them feel better.請依上文回答第36 題至第39 題
The guests are likely to come early, so we should up and get everything ready before their arrival.
(A)check
(B)dig
(C)speed
(D)pop
Smartphones seem to have a market since they are getting more and more popular around the world.
(A)burgeoning
(B)languishing
(C)perplexing
(D)squandering
Jewish teaching says that at death the body returns to God, so funerals take place within 24 hours to get thethere all the quicker.
(A)adherent
(B)deceased
(C)eccentric
(D)veteran請依下文回答第37 題至第40 題:Robert Frost (1874-1963) is one of the most well-known 20th century American poets. People like to talk about hisnature poems, which seem to show a spontaneous love of nature and simple little pleasures in life. But little do mostpeople know about the 37 side of the great poet’s life. Robert Frost lost his first son and second daughter when theywere little. And in his sixties, two years after his beloved wife’s death, his son, long 38 from depression andsuspiciousness, committed suicide with a deer hunting rifle. In his last years, 39 still keeping a terribly busy andactive public life, he was tortured by pneumonia, cancer, and embolism. Having learned about the 40 of the poet,we can finally fully appreciate the death wish shown in one of his famous poems of his last years, “Stopping by Woodson a Snowy Evening.”
What is the passage mainly about?
(A)People can medicate their depression with sugar.
(B)Baby mice suffered so much from isolation that they should be given some sweet food to relieve their pain.
(C)The soothing effect of sugar is not just something psychological but has a lot to do with an actual chemicalreaction.
(D)The result of the mice experiment suggests that people should take more sweet substances to cope withdepression.
The hotel’s goodnight gift, a chocolate bar in gold paper, was placed on the pillow.
(A)heaped
(B)wrapped
(C)smashed
(D)converted
The Colosseum in Rome and sites in the historic walled town of Urbino have suffered damage due tosnow-fall.
(A)indispensable
(B)minuscule
(C)picturesque
(D)unprecedented
(A)organic
(B)optimistic
(C)symbolic
(D)traumatic
Which of the following statements about the experiment is true?
(A)“Isolation distress” was caused by lack of sweet treat.
(B)Sugar helped the depressed mice to cope with isolation distress.
(C)The depressed mice who were given no sugar water all died of depression.
(D)The depressed mice who were given sugar water cried hundreds of times.
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Mary, your assignment is the day after tomorrow, and so you should not waste any more time daydreaming.
(A)due
(B)late
(C)finished
(D)punished
Basic like greeting people and saying please to show politeness are becoming less common among theyouth.
(A)customs
(B)courtesies
(C)gestures
(D)situations
(A)refraining
(B)issuing
(C)suffering
(D)coming
According to the article, why does sugar have a soothing effect?
(A)Sweet food can block beta-endorphin receptors.
(B)Sweet food can numb the mice so that they feel no pain.
(C)Sweet food can stimulate the release of beta-endorphins, which help alleviate physical and emotional pain.
(D)Sweet food can stimulate the release of Naltrexone, which helps alleviate physical and emotional pain.
Janet is very . Everyone expects that she’s bound to score high in the exam.
(A)doubtful
(B)inferior
(C)superficial
(D)intelligent
The first comprehensive system for nationwide was instituted by France for the Napoleonic wars thatfollowed the French Revolution.
(A)conscription
(B)description
(C)inscription
(D)prescription請依下文回答第39 題至43 題:A study at the University of New South Wales in Sydney found that around a quarter of people have a 39 sense oftaste, making foods like broccoli taste bitter and rich foods 40 . These “supertasters” tend to be slim and have alower risk of heart disease. To determine if you are a supertaster, 41 a dot of blue food coloring on yourtongue and look in the mirror. If you see a densely spotted area, there is a good chance you are a supertaster. If the spotsare 42 distributed, you are not. The study also found 15 percent of people, 43 men, were “non-tasters”—theywill devour anything put in front of them. They get the benefits of a broad diet, but risk overdoing it.
(A)as
(B)while
(C)yet
(D)because of
How did researchers confirm their theory about the remarkable effect of sugar?
(A)They stopped feeding both groups of mice any more sugar.
(B)They found that both groups of mice lost interest in the sweet food.
(C)They gave both groups of mice a drug that blocks the release of beta-endorphins.
(D)They measured the amount of beta-endorphins released in the blood of the mice.
The passengers with relief when the plane landed safely.
(A)sighed
(B)boarded
(C)littered
(D)labored
(A)myths
(B)morals
(C)misfortunes
(D)mistakes請依下文回答第41 題至第45 題:Many people feel jealous from time to time. Jealousy is easy to deal with, once you understand what it’s teachingyou. Here are some pointers on working through your feelings of jealousy.First of all, you should understand your emotions. Jealousy is a combination of fear and anger; a fear of losingsomething, and anger that someone is “moving in on” something that you feel belongs only to you. When you startfeeling jealous, ask yourself: is it more fear based, or more anger based? If you feel a dropping or clutching sensation inyour stomach, it’s probably fear. If you feel a burning, tight sensation in your shoulders and jaw, then you’re likelyfeeling anger. You might also feel a combination of those sensations.Secondly, understand that jealousy can alert you to what you want, and what is important to you. If you’re jealous ofsomeone talking to a friend of yours, personal relationships may be important to you. If you’re jealous about money, youmay have an underlying need for security. When you begin to understand what makes you jealous, you can begin to takepositive steps to maintain those things, without the cloud of negative emotion that accompanies jealousy.
With the unemployment rate rising, the President has appointed an _____ committee to deal with the problem.
(A)ad hoc
(B)ad infinitum
(C)adjacent
(D)adjunct
While we were waiting for the train, we to help two tourists who seemed to lose their direction in thestation.
(A)offered
(B)cautioned
(C)hesitated
(D)introduced
What is the best title for this passage?
(A)The Consequences of Jealousy
(B)How to Better Understand Jealousy
(C)The Importance of Personal Relationships
(D)Understanding What You Want
After the disastrous flooding in Thailand, the dead poultry and the messy environment are now a _____ threat ofinfectious disease.
(A)flattering
(B)caculating
(C)looming
(D)yielding
The exam turned out to be a big and hardly anybody in our class passed.
(A)victory
(B)disaster
(C)triumph
(D)defect
(A)notice
(B)delete
(C)put
(D)remove
Which of the following is true about jealousy?
(A)Fear is the primary reason for jealousy.
(B)Jealousy can cause stomachache.
(C)It is not possible to figure out why we are jealous.
(D)People are jealous about the things they dislike.
The government officials promised to find out who should have been held _____ for the 250 deaths in the planecrash tragedy.
(A)accountable
(B)discernable
(C)indispensable
(D)vulnerable
Jack pursues his wealth and fame at the of his health and family.
(A)extension
(B)expansion
(C)expense
(D)experienceFor many, summer is the time to shed the extra pounds piled on all winter. But for some of those trying to loseweight, there’s often this one spot on their body that just won’t let go of that fat. It turns out there’s a genetic reason forthis and the information is proving helpful to researchers trying to learn who is at risk for diabetes.Dr. Ronald Kahn, president of Boston’s Joslin Diabetes Center, says the research stems from basic questions peopleask of him. He explains, “People ask me as a diabetes and obesity expert, … ‘Doctor, why is it that when I gain weight italways goes to my belly?’ Or, ‘When I lose weight my face gets thin and my hips stay big?’”Kahn and his team have identified genes that match up to where our bodies store fat. Kahn said fat location is animportant risk factor in developing diabetes. He said, “When fat is inter-abdominal—that is, inside our bellies, theso-called beer belly type of obesity—this fat creates more insulin resistance. And remember that insulin is the majorhormone that controls our blood sugar.” He said doctors might one day be able to analyze someone’s genes and warnthose with the greatest disposition for large bellies.閱讀上文,回答第43 題至第46 題
What is a symptom of anger-based jealousy?
(A)Coldness in the stomach.
(B)A burning heart.
(C)Lack of appetite.
(D)Tightness in the shoulders.
The photo awards are not so much about the award winners as about the power of a photograph, simple andunadorned, to tell a story in ways that words cannot.
(A)The photo awards are given to the winners who can inspire the power of pictures they take.
(B)The photo awards are more a celebration of the power of photographs than the talents of photographers.
(C)The photo awards are given to those who can tell simple and straightforward stories.
(D)Those who cannot tell a story in ways that words cannot will be the winners in the photo contest.
What is the main idea of this passage?
(A)Diabetes comes from extra pounds.
(B)Your weight can be genetically determined.
(C)The belly is where your fat is stored.
(D)Prepare for the summer while you are in the winter.
A study has shown that a messy environment could make people long for order and inspire them to hastily simplifyand classify things in their minds, which could often lead to discrimination.
(A)Eliminating discrimination can be done by living with a simple and neat mind.
(B)Inspiring simplicity and order is the key to preventing discrimination from happening.
(C)Discriminating against the people living in a messy environment could inspire them to improve.
(D)Rushing to create order in a messy environment could sometimes lead to discrimination.
What does the author suggest for dealing with jealousy?
(A)Earn more money to be secure.
(B)Talk to an important friend about your jealousy.
(C)Take medicine to deal with fear-based jealousy.
(D)Understand what contributes to your jealousy.
Poetry is as universal as language and almost as ancient.
(A)Poetry is as universal as language and is almost as old as language.
(B)Poetry is almost as universal as an ancient language.
(C)Poetry is almost as old as a universal language.
(D)Poetry is as old as language and is almost as universal as language.
According to this passage, who has the greatest chance of getting diabetes?
(A)People with big hips.
(B)People with too much insulin in their bodies.
(C)People with beer bellies.
(D)People with too much hormone that controls the blood sugar.
If you are jealous of someone talking to your good friends, which of the following statements may be true?
(A)You value this relationship greatly.
(B)You do not have financial security.
(C)You are not sociable.
(D)You do not understand your emotions.請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題:A young woman went to her mother and told her how life was so hard for her. She did not know how she was goingto make it and wanted to give up. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each ona high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last sheplaced ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She ladled outthe carrots, the eggs, and the coffee and placed each in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me what yousee.” “Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied.Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She noted that they were soft. The mother then askedthe daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the motherasked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, “Whatdoes it mean, mother?”Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacteddifferently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, itsoftened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sittingthrough the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were inthe boiling water, they had changed the water.“Which are you?” she asked her daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you acarrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
Museums should not only be a place to see art but, thanks to their architectural quality, should be an aestheticexperience in themselves.
(A)More than a place to display art, museums themselves are recognized as a piece of art.
(B)People can experience a trip of beauty if they know the value of architectural quality.
(C)Items displayed in museums are installed in the buildings by skillful architects.
(D)Architecture is by nature a form of art that is part of museum collections.
What does “disposition” in the last sentence mean?
(A)Tendency.
(B)Defense.
(C)Discrimination.
(D)Inheritance.
Investors and the public are demanding increasingly detailed information on nonfinancial metrics that definesustainability.
(A)In terms of financial metrics, investors and the public are never satisfied with the sustainable business.
(B)Detailed information on monetary metrics plays a more important role for sustainable investors and the public.
(C)Other than financial reports, investors and the public are asking for more details about factors indicatingsustainability.
(D)Investors and the public keep inquiring detailed information on nonfinancial metrics to sustain the validity of thecontract.
What is this story mainly about?
(A)How to cook carrots, eggs, and coffee beans.
(B)The importance of cooking for a woman.
(C)A mother’s affection for her daughter.
(D)Different attitudes when facing difficulties.
It is considered common knowledge that rocks are stationary objects that have stayed put for thousands of years.
(A)It is commonly known that rocks are things staying unmoved at the same place for ages.
(B)It is well known that stationery which is made with stones can stay and last for a very long time.
(C)As we have studied rocks for so many years, knowledge of rocks is considered to be ordinary and general.
(D)It is shocking to find that so many big stones have been piled up in the area for thousands of years.
According to this passage, what determines where a person stores his or her fat?
(A)The kind of food this person consumes.
(B)The amount of food one consumes.
(C)Whether one has an inclination for diabetes or not.
(D)The genes inherited from one’s family.Most visitors land at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and drive to Taipei, where they spend a few days in thecity’s perpetual gray haze. But Taipei and the industrial west coast are only a small part of Taiwan. The rest of the islandis 47 with remote, forested mountains, which are laced with hundreds of hiking trails.Trekking in Taiwan is not for the fainthearted. The Central Mountain Range is steep and wild. Summerthunderstorms rise unseen, temperatures can drop below zero, and facilities are few and far between. But for those willingto carry their own gear, the treks are 48 the most beautiful in Asia. The top hikes in Taiwan—on Chilai Ridge andYushan—require a reasonable level of 49 and the proper equipment, including a tent and a stove, food and water, asleeping bag, good boots and warm clothes.It sounds ideal—get out of Taipei, see the mountains, and spend a few days in the fresh air. However, there is onething you have to attend to. The government requires hikers to have mountain 50 , which in turn necessitates a groupof three and a guide.閱讀上文,回答第47 題至第50 題
What great horror movies do is that they show us our fears and make them so beautiful that we can't take our eyesoff the screen.
(A)Great horror movies catch our eyes by showing us our fears in an irresistibly beautiful way on the screen.
(B)Great horror movies force us to examine our fears through frightening but beautiful scenes on the screen.
(C)Great horror movies amaze us by showing us frightening scenes about our beauty on the screen.
(D)Great horror movies allow us to transform our fears in an irresistible way into beautiful scenes on the screen.請依下文回答第47 題至第50 題:In 1349 it resumed in Paris, spread to Picardy, Flanders, and the Low Countries, and from England to Scotland andIreland as well as to Norway, where a ghost ship with a cargo of wool and a dead crew drifted offshore until it ranaground near Bergen. From there the plague passed into Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Iceland, and as far as Greenland.Leaving a strange pocket of immunity in Bohemia and Russia unattacked until 1351, it had passed from most of Europeby the mid-1350s. Although the mortality rate was erratic, ranging from one-fifth in some places to nine-tenths or almosttotal elimination in others, the overall estimate of modern demographers has settled—for the area extending from India toIceland—around the same figure expressed in Froissart’s casual words: “A third of the world dies.” His estimate, thecommon one at the time, was not an inspired guess but a borrowing of St. John’s figure for mortality from the plague inRevelation, the favorite guide to human affairs of the Middle Ages.
How did the mother cook carrots, eggs, and coffee beans?
(A)She mixed and boiled them in one pot.
(B)With a pot, she cooked each in order.
(C)She boiled them in separate pots.
(D)She placed them directly above the oven.
With the company struggling for many years, Mr. Smith finally sold it to a competitor at a fire-sale price.
(A)Though the business was in trouble, Mr. Smith would not sell his company to another competitor.
(B)In spite of having made efforts to improve his business, Mr. Smith sold it to another company at a very low price.
(C)The competitor set a fire to burn down Mr. Smith’s company, but he worked hard and managed to save it.
(D)Mr. Smith worked so hard for the company; despite this, he was fired in the end due to slow economy.We are taught not to judge a book by its cover. But studies of brain seem to suggest that this is exactly what we do inour everyday life; our default cognitive system is configured to choose novel things over the old ones and beautiful thingsover plain-looking ones.Bianca Wittmann, a British neuroscientist, scanned the brains of 20 video game players while they played a game inwhich the goal was to accumulate money. In each trial of the game, four pictures were presented to the participants, witheach featuring a different mountain view. The participants were then asked to choose one picture. After the game had goneon for a while, the participants would realize that one of the four pictures, if chosen, would grant the participants a cashpayoff. Wittmann observed that every time the participants selected an image that would lead to a monetary reward, theneurons or brain cells in a region in their brain called “the striatum”—known to process feelings of pleasure andreward—were activated in anticipation of their cash prize. At one point of the game, Wittmann added new pictures ofsimilar mountain views to each trial. Interestingly, instead of choosing the “old” images that would grant them the cashreward, the participants, including the known moneymakers, chose the novel images over the old ones nearly in all cases.Furthermore, the neurons in the striatum were activated as they chose the novel images.According to Wittmann, this means that the participants treated these novel images with the same degree ofexcitement, suggesting that our desire to explore new experiences and things perks up the reward system of our brains. So,what is the implication of this finding for marketers of a given product? Well, marketers may be able to bolster the salesof the product simply by repackaging it. Wittmann also warned marketers that although novelty may temporarily boostthe sales, they would go down once the customers learn that nothing but the packaging has changed.請依上文回答第48 題至第50 題
What does the underlined “it” in the first line refer to?
(A)The ghost ship
(B)The mortality
(C)The immunity
(D)The plague
What lesson would the daughter learn from the eggs?
(A)Birds of a feather flock together.
(B)God helps those who help themselves.
(C)The harder the life is, the stronger one becomes.
(D)Don’t bite off more than you can chew.
What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
(A)Never judge a book by its cover.
(B)Do not deceive your consumers.
(C)Our brains like new things.
(D)There is an alternative way to look into our consumption behaviors.
(A)at
(B)during
(C)between
(D)among
Which of the following countries was NOT affected by the disease at first?
(A)Denmark
(B)France
(C)Russia
(D)United Kingdom
According to the story, which of the following is NOT true?
(A)Like the carrots, one may surrender in a tough situation.
(B)Like the eggs, one may be still as fragile as the shell even after struggling for a long time.
(C)Like the ground coffee beans, one may change the circumstance that brings the pain.
(D)Like the carrots, one may become weaker after a series of adversities.
What does the underlined word “bolster” in the last paragraph mean?
(A)Promote
(B)Control
(C)Supplement
(D)Boycott
(A)height
(B)fitness
(C)appetite
(D)hobby
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
(A)The number of deaths given by Froissart is not reliable.
(B)The disease described in the passage broke out first in 1349.
(C)The mortality rates of the affected countries differ greatly.
(D)An infected ship landing on Bergen started the spread of the disease in Norway.
What does “adversity” mean in the third paragraph?
(A)Hardship.
(B)Value.
(C)Failure.
(D)Luck.
Which of the following statements best captures the author’s view on repackaging old products as a marketingstrategy?
(A)It will not help promote the products at all.
(B)The author has contradictory ideas about the effect of this marketing strategy.
(C)It is a great strategy that can perfectly exploit consumers’ fascination with things they consider fresh.
(D)It is an effective way to boost the sales of products, but it can only attract the consumers’ interest for a short term.
(A)permits
(B)traces
(C)incentives
(D)approvals
What is the sequence in which the plague reached the countries or cities?
(A)Paris—Bergen—Iceland—Russia
(B)Picardy—Iceland—Greenland—Flanders
(C)The Low Countries—Prussia—England—India
(D)Russia—Picardy—the Low Countries—Norway