The old man had the to save money during his teaching career so as not to be dependent on irregular SocialSecurity checks after his retirement.
(A)foresight
(B)initiation
(C)stinginess
(D)thrift
The of the candidate expressed itself in his extreme and unrealistic isolationism.
(A)acrophobia
(B)homophobia
(C)photophobia
(D)xenophobia
China has never what it says its right to take Taiwan by force if peaceful blandishments fail.
(A)announced
(B)denounced
(C)pronounced
(D)renounced
The tribal elders for three hours before banishing the two offenders.
(A)deliberated
(B)delivered
(C)depicted
(D)deported
The judge decided to their marriage when she found out the groom had already had a wife.
(A)nullify
(B)multiply
(C)liquefy
(D)petrify
Pope Benedict XVI has into the evolution debate in the United States, saying the universe was made by an“intelligent project.”
(A)disappeared
(B)ascended
(C)involved
(D)waded
Marlon expects to successfully his boxing title in the next Olympics.
(A)acquit
(B)defend
(C)forsake
(D)match
One is often amazed by the speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies , and social structures dissolveonce the autocrat is removed.
(A)abdicate
(B)accelerate
(C)vibrate
(D)fabricate
There can be scarier experience than to be chased by wild animals.
(A)no
(B)such
(C)any
(D)not
Disputes between Taiwan and Japan over who should have over Diaoyutai Islands have become heatedrecently.
(A)bureaucracy
(B)conspiracy
(C)solidarity
(D)sovereignty
The drought has set off “water wars”, pitting farmers against city dwellers and one state against another.
(A)Water shortage has triggered quarrels between farmers and city dwellers and between states.
(B)In many states, farmers and city dwellers have had different opinions about what might have caused the drought.
(C)A series of droughts in one state after another have caused the wars between farmers and city dwellers.
(D)In one state after another, farmers started a series of campaigns against city dwellers in order to solve the droughtproblem.
Despite the of excellent children’s books in recent years, reading is increasingly unpopular amongchildren.
(A)deterioration
(B)fabrication
(C)proliferation
(D)transaction
Rather than walling off the neighborhoods surrounding them, structures of modern shopping malls welcome in thenatural terrain and relate to local history.
(A)Modern shopping malls are welcomed in natural as well as historical sites.
(B)Modern shopping malls are not isolated structures; they blend naturally and historically into their surroundings.
(C)Without high walls blocking modern shopping malls from their neighborhoods, they are welcomed in variousareas.
(D)To welcome people in all areas, modern shopping malls do not build high walls around them.
Genetic discoveries will trigger a flood of new , including drugs that aimed at the causes of disease ratherthan the symptoms.
(A)therapies
(B)diagnoses
(C)stethoscopes
(D)pharmaceuticals
I don’t think John would support us. He was just paying us service.
(A)lip
(B)air
(C)civil
(D)expressEvery year when April 14 rolls around we like to acknowledge Noah Webster, who published the first AmericanDictionary of the English Language on this date in 1828. Webster considered American English not a poor cousin of themother tongue of British English, 39 a legitimate body worth respecting, recording, and, yes, reforming. TheAmerican lexicographer attempted to 40 a number of spelling reforms. Noah Webster’s efforts were part of a longhistory of attempts to reform the quirky English orthography. In 1876, on the centennial of the American Declaration ofIndependence, and almost half a century after the American Dictionary of the English Language was first published, acommittee of the American Philological Association (APA) recommended serious spelling reform. Ten years after that,the members of the APA produced a list of 3,500 words whose spellings, they felt, should be changed. But 41 almost200 years of lists, announcements, and pronouncements, it is still safe to say that more lasting changes in Americanspelling have been the result of actual use by the people, not of decrees from on high.請依上文回答第39 題至第41 題。
Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of the bread to eachshareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
(A)Like a company, society may deprive individuals of their bread in order to maintain the liberty and culture ofeach shareholder.
(B)Like a company, society may operate at the expense of individuals’ liberty and culture to ensure the profits foreach shareholder.
(C)Society operates like a joint-stock company that generates profits for shareholders to sustain each individual’sliberty and culture.
(D)Society would produce profits as a joint-stock company for each shareholder when its members agree to giveaway their bread.
(A)and
(B)as
(C)but
(D)or
Out of the barren earth of their homeland, the farmers are able to create a lush landscape.
(A)The farmers manage to create a rich landscape despite the barren soil.
(B)By getting out of the barren earth, the farmers are able to create a rich landscape.
(C)Outside the poor territory of their homeland, the farmers succeed in creating a lush landscape.
(D)Away from the barren earth of their homeland, the farmers manage to create a rich landscape.
Because of the belief that a woman generally does not provide the sole financial support for her family as a mandoes, she often fails to receive equal pay for equal work.
(A)Women often do not make as much money as men do because it is generally believed that a woman receivesother financial support in her family.
(B)Women and men often do not get equal pay for equal work because a woman’s paycheck is generally considereda secondary income for her family.
(C)Women often fail to receive equal treatment at work because they believe they do not make as much money asmen do.
(D)Women and men often fail to get equal pay for equal work because a woman’s income is generally moreimportant than a man’s.請依下文回答第41~45 題We measure our lives in months and years. The wood mouse’s life is measured in hours and days. This tiny mammal,a member of the rodent family, has a childhood lasting only for three weeks.Survival is a difficult task for such a small creature. The wood mouse ventures out mainly at night, using its whiskersto feel its way through the darkness. It has good sight and hearing, and an excellent sense of smell. However, the woodmouse is relatively defenseless, and many fall prey to owls, hawks, crows, foxes, and other predators.The mouse’s main survival strategy is to breed at speed. A single mother may have several litters of babies, totally 25to 30 offspring in a year. With so many babies, the chances are that only one or two will survive.The wood mouse has many similarities to its close cousin, the house mouse. For both, life starts in a cozy nest. Thenew babies are pink and furless. Their eyes are closed, and there is no sign of the typically large mouse ears. They dependcompletely on their mother. She suckles them with her milk, licks them clean, removes their droppings, and keeps the nestclean. If they wriggle too far, she picks them up in her mouth and returns them to the nest.
(A)despite
(B)because of
(C)in addition to
(D)for the sake ofMy mother was 82 and living in Keoluk when, unaccountably, she insisted upon attending a convention of oldsettlers of the Mississippi Valley. All the way there, and it was some distance, she was young again with excitement andeagerness. At the hotel she asked immediately for Dr. Barrett of St. Louis. He had left for home that morning and wouldnot be back, she was told. She turned away, the fire all gone from her, and asked to go home. Once there she sat silentand thinking for many days, then told us that when she was 18 she had loved a young medical student with all her heart.There was a misunderstanding and he left the country; she had immediately married, to show him that she did not care.She had never seen him since and then she had read in a newspaper that he was going to attend the old settlers’convention. “Only three hours before we reached that hotel he had been there,” she mourned.She had kept that pathetic burden in her heart 64 years without any of us suspecting it. Before the year was out, hermemory began to fail. She would write letters to schoolmates who had been dead for 40 years and wonder why theynever answered. Four years later she died.請依上文回答第42 題至第46 題。
How long does it take a wood mouse to grow into maturity?
(A)Less than one week
(B)Less than one month
(C)More than one month
(D)More than one year
Why did the author’s mother insist on going to a hotel where a convention was held?
(A)The convention was run by her old schoolmates.
(B)She was one of the old settlers of the Mississippi Valley.
(C)Her former lover would attend the convention.
(D)Dr. Barrett of St. Louis could cure her memory problem.
How does the wood mouse move around in darkness?
(A)With the help of whiskers
(B)With the help of ears
(C)With the help of eyes
(D)With the help of the nose
Why didn’t the author’s mother meet with Dr. Barrett at the hotel?
(A)Dr. Barrett refused to meet with her.
(B)Dr. Barrett was not the person she looked for.
(C)Dr. Barrett had left a few hours before she arrived.
(D)Dr. Barrett had been dead for years before she arrived.
What is the way for the wood mice to survive?
(A)They run very fast.
(B)They produce their young in big quantity.
(C)They scare away their enemies.
(D)They don’t go out in the daytime.
How old was the author’s mother when she died?
(A)64
(B)82
(C)83
(D)86
According to the passage, what makes a difference between a wood mouse and a house mouse?
(A)The size of the ears
(B)The size of the eyes
(C)The color of the fur
(D)The color of the nose
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How did the author’s mother know that Dr. Barrett would attend the convention?
(A)She knew it from a letter sent by one of her old schoolmates.
(B)She learned it from the newspaper she read in Keoluk.
(C)She was informed of it by the correspondence she had with Dr. Barrett.
(D)She recalled it from the memory she had hidden for more than six decades.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
(A)The wood mice have no predators.
(B)The house mouse is a member of the rodent family.
(C)The baby wood mouse is independent.
(D)The mother wood mouse drops her babies outside the nest when she cleans it.請依下文回答第46~50 題Psychologists have long known that people can solve their problems at work and home by “sleeping on it.” Dr.Deirdre Barrett advises individuals to ponder questions just before falling asleep (Should I take this job? Should I marrythat guy?) and then let the subconscious provide the answers. “I’ve known artists looking for inspiration who simplydream up a future show of their art and wake up with plenty of new painting ideas,” says Barrett. “More and more peopleare learning these techniques to control their dreams.”Dr. Stephen LaBerge, for example, has pioneered a way of directing the sleeping mind through “lucid dreaming,” inwhich a sleeping person realizes he or she is dreaming while it is happening. In “lucid dreaming,” your dreams are likeprivate movies where you are the star, director, and writer all at once. Lucid dreamers can use the experience for a varietyof purposes: problem solving, developing creative ideas, and healing. A person may use lucid dreaming for everythingfrom talking to his/her long-dead father to gorging on sweets. Moreover, a weak swimmer in the waking life may dreamof diving to the bottom of the dream ocean without worrying about breathing (or his/her swimming skills). Mostimportantly, lucid dreaming is free and available to everybody.
Which of the following statements about the author’s mother is true?
(A)She became pathetic because none of her schoolmates answered her letters.
(B)She was very excited on her way home from the convention.
(C)She remained unmarried after breaking up with her lover at 18.
(D)She still cared about Dr. Barrett at the age of 82.Advertising affects a consumer’s perception of value by contributing to the symbolic value and the social meaningof a brand. Symbolic value refers to what a product or service means to consumers in a non-literal way. 47 Otherwise,they would not be brands, but unmarked commodities. Social meaning refers to what a product or service means in asocietal context. 48 Often, the product’s connection to a social class shows a need within consumers to move up inclass.Researchers have long argued that objects are never just objects. 49 It is important to remember that thesemeanings often become just as much a part of the product as some physical features. Since advertising is an essential wayin which the image of a brand is developed, it influences consumers’ perception of the value of the brand. 50 In otherwords, if the image of a product is valued by consumers, then consumers will pay to buy the product.請依上文回答第47 題至第50 題。
Why does Dr. Barrett suggest people ponder questions before falling asleep?
(A)To remember the questions clearly when waking up
(B)To come up with creative ideas from dreams
(C)To solve the problems before falling asleep
(D)To give the subconscious a good rest
(A)Advertising means different things to different people.
(B)In reality, all branded products rely on symbolic value.
(C)For example, social class is marked by products that signify class membership, such as cars, wines, and clothes.
(D)Most people like some of the ads they see or hear, but they don’t like advertising in general.
According to the passage, which of the following can help us solve problems?
(A)Sleeping without dreams
(B)Interpreting others’ dreams
(C)Forgetting our dreams
(D)Directing our dreams
(A)Advertising means different things to different people.
(B)In reality, all branded products rely on symbolic value.
(C)For example, social class is marked by products that signify class membership, such as cars, wines, and clothes.
(D)Most people like some of the ads they see or hear, but they don’t like advertising in general.
Which of the following statements is NOT a benefit of lucid dreaming?
(A)It is free of charge.
(B)It has healing power.
(C)It induces sound sleep.
(D)It generates creative ideas.
(A)They take on meaning from culture, society, and from consumers.
(B)The more value consumers see in a brand, the more they are willing to pay to acquire the brand.
(C)For example, social class is marked by products that signify class membership, such as cars, wines, and clothes.
(D)Most people like some of the ads they see or hear, but they don’t like advertising in general.
What does the author try to prove with the example of the weak swimmer?
(A)Dreams reinforce illusions.
(B)Dreams introduce new ideas.
(C)Dreams are different from reality.
(D)Dreams satisfy subconscious desires.
(A)They take on meaning from culture, society, and from consumers.
(B)The more value consumers see in a brand, the more they are willing to pay to acquire the brand.
(C)For example, social class is marked by products that signify class membership, such as cars, wines, and clothes.
(D)Most people like some of the ads they see or hear, but they don’t like advertising in general.
Which of the following statements about “lucid dreaming” is true?
(A)“Lucid dreaming” is available to those able to both direct and act in movies.
(B)Movie stars can enjoy “lucid dreaming” more than movie directors.
(C)People both act in and direct their dreams in “lucid dreaming.”
(D)Sleeping persons are more like movie stars than like movie directors in “lucid dreaming.”