Studies have shown that individuals tend to evaluate the implementation of testing programs asless when fair procedures have been used.objectified
(A)objective
(B)ostensible
(C)objectionable
(D)
The two governments organized forums to the possibility of establishing energy efficiency measures.extract
(A)exhibit
(B)explore
(C)extort
(D)
Unlike most other members of the crow family, the magpie is relatively fearless and .excessive
(A)erroneous
(B)i
(C)nvasiveprogressive
(D)
Some scientists fear that there won’t be enough oil in the future to meet global .protection
(A)warming
(B)commission
(C)demand
(D)
I always try hard to imprint features of a new acquaintance on my memory. Yet chances are the next timewhen I into him, I won’t know who he is.knock
(A)slam
(B)bump
(C)smash
(D)請依下文回答第36 題至第39 題The American computer company IBM says it has developed a microprocessor – a computer chip – that works muchlike the human brain. IBM calls the chip True North. It is the 36 of a postage stamp. The chip has 5.4 billion tinyparts that work like the human brain’s neurons and synapses. Neurons and synapses are the cells and electric forcesthat carry messages 37 the brain. True North has 1 million neurons and 256 million synapses. The human brainhas 100 billion neurons and up to 150 trillion synapses. IBM says it can program the new chip to understand difficultproblems and then solve them as humans would. The company says the True North chip could be used as a brainfor 38 robots. It can also be used for controlling new kinds of wheel chairs or for recording conversations 39 severalpeople and then making a printed record of those conversations. True North is still being tested. But IBM says it couldbe available for public use in two to three years. The chip is just one example of machines becoming more and morelike humans. This field of study is called artificial intelligence, or AI. Some experts believe computers will somedaybecome more intelligent than humans.
sign
(A)size
(B)search
(C)sample
(D)
come and go
(A)left and right
(B)good and bad
(C)to and from
(D)
black and white
(A)lost and found
(B)search
(C)-and-rescuelife
(D)-and-death
involving
(A)neglecting
(B)bypassing
(C)excluding
(D)第40 題至第43 題為篇章結構,各題請依文意從四個選項中選出最合適者,答案選用不能重複Research shows that smiling has many positive effects on our health. This might explain why the people in the studieswith bigger smiles had longer lives. 40 It also lowers blood pressure. Smiling can affect the brain in the same wayas exercise. For example, it increases the amount of feel-good hormones such as serotonin and endorphins. 41 Furthermore,recent brain research shows that just the act of smiling can actually make us happier. 42 But then, our smiles senda message back to the brain that makes us feel even happier. Smiling is clearly good for us. 43 It is easy to see thatsmiling is much more than just an expression of happiness. It’s a powerful tool for maintaining both emotional andphysical health.
Endorphins not only make us feel better, but reduce pain as well.
(A)Studies show that smiling reduces stress and stress
(B)-related hormones.We can even get the benefits of smiling just by making ourselves smile.
(C)In other words, we smile because something h
(D)appens that makes us happy.
Endorphins not only make us feel better, but reduce pain as well.
(A)Studies show that smiling reduces stress and stress
(B)-related hormones.We can even get the benefits of smiling just by making ourselves smile.
(C)In other words,
(D)we smile because something happens that makes us happy.
Endorphins not only make us feel better, but reduce pain as well.
(A)Studies show that smiling reduces stress and stress
(B)-related hormones.We can even get the benefits of smiling just by making oursel
(C)ves smile.In other words, we smile because something happens that makes us happy.
(D)
Endorphins not only make us feel better, but reduce pain as well.
(A)Studies show that smiling reduces stress and stress
(B)-related hormones.We can even get the benefits of s
(C)miling just by making ourselves smile.In other words, we smile because something happens that makes us happy.
(D)請依下文回答第44 題至第47 題Some 66m years ago Earth was hit by a space rock reckoned to have been 10km across. The resulting chaoscaused the extinction of dinosaurs and many other species, opening the way for the age of mammals-and ultimatelyhumans. It also left a big hole in what is now southern Mexico. That hole is one of only three known of similardimensions (the other two are Vredefort in South Africa and Sudbury in Canada). And this is odd. For, during thebillions of years that Earth has had a solid crust, many more than three big asteroids might have been expected to havehit it.That thought led Brandon Johnson of the MIT and Timothy Bowling of Purdue University in Indiana, to wonderhow many other craters have vanished, either by erosion or by being swallowed into Earth’s interior as its crust movesaround, and therefore whether it is likely that some have survived and been overlooked. They have just published theiranalysis in Geology.Earth’s crust formed more than 4 billion years ago, but the oldest surviving blocks of it large enough to harborcraters date back only 3.5 billion years. What is known of the sizes and orbits of modern asteroids suggests that, ifthings have not changed over the aeons, about 14 big asteroids (defined as having a diameter of more than 7.4km,which would cause a crater at least 85km in diameter) should hit Earth every billion years. That means 49, give or takeseven, over the past 3.5 billion years. Such impacts may have been more common in the past, when more big asteroidswere around. Allowing for this, Earth would have been hit by 113, give or take 11, of them. Either way, a lot of cratersare missing.
How large is the crater created in southern Mexico by the asteroid 66m years ago?10km across in diameter.
(A)
(B)85km in diameter.
(C)7.4km in diameter.Not mentioned in the article.
(D)
Over the past 3.5 billion years, roughly how many asteroids may have hit Earth?14
(A)85
(B)1
(C)1311
(D)
How many other craters of a dimension similar to the one in southern Mexico are known to people?3
(A)2
(B)1
(C)4
(D)
What can we infer about the missing craters?They
(A)never left any impact on Earth.They have not been completely eroded.
(B)They were far
(C)more than the surviving ones.They were hit by more than one asteroid.
(D)請依下文回答第48 題至第50 題In 1881 a young woman named Mabel Loomis Todd wrote her parents about “the character of Amherst…a lady whomthe people call the ‘Myth’: she has not been outside of her own house in fifteen years…. She dresses wholly in white,and her mind is said to be perfectly wonderful.” So began the legend of Emily Dickinson, one of the greatest poets ofthe nineteenth century, who was for years portrayed by biographers and critics as an eccentric recluse, a “littlehome-keeping person,”a mad spinster who had been disappointed in love. For, four years after this New Englandwoman in white died in 1886, the same Mabel Loomis Todd brought out a volume containing selections from 1,776strange and passionate poems, which had been found, neatly sewed into booklets, in her bureau drawers, and theimagination of the pubic was immediately seized by the mysterious discrepancy between what seemed to be theisolation of Dickinson’s life and the intensity of her art. To many, indeed, the “case” of Emily Dickinson-only eightof whose poems had been published in her lifetime-seemed to offer a crucial model for the situation of the womanpoet. Eccentricity, reclusiveness, and most of all, thwarted romance-these appeared to be the conditions that mightdrive a woman to what was, for women, the perversity of writing verses.
According to the passage, what was the relationship between Mabel Loomis Todd and Emily Dickinson?They are mother and daughter.
(A)T
(B)hey are sisters.They are a lesbian couple.
(C)It is not clearly mentioned.
(D)
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true about Emily Dickinson?She was very popular when she was still alive.
(A)She was colorblind and could only see
(B)white color.Her poetry has
(C)a very unique style.Besides poems, she also wrote novels.
(D)
When did Mabel Loomis Todd find Dickinson’s poems?1886
(A)1890
(B)1776
(C)1881
(D)