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)
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
The official was held in when he was found to be involved in the bribery.custody
(A)territory
(B)infirmary
(C)reservoir
(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
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.
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
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)
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
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)
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.
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
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)
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.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? (A)Farmers have nothing to do with raising our standard
(B)Thanks to selective breeding, animal breeders raise mor
(C)Biological advances in food production give us a higher standard of living. (D)Sweet corn and popcorn add variety to our l
fact
(A)mis
(B)takedebate
(C)decree
(D)
According to the passage, what is the new trend in raising pigs? (A)To raise pigs for a high yield of meat and a high yield of
(B)To raise pigs for a low yield of meat and a high yield of fat. (C)To raise pigs for a high yield of meat and a low yield of fa
(D)To raise pigs for producing more piglets.第44 題至第46 題為題組Horror movies are more than a genre produced for commercial and entertaining reasons. There are good and badhorror movies, and a good horror movie is easily distinguished from a bad one. A good horror movie, first of all, has bothmale and female victims. Both sexes suffer terrible fates at the hands of monsters and maniacs. Therefore, everyone in theaudience has a chance to identify with the victim. Bad horror movies, on the other hand, tend to concentrate on women,especially half-dressed ones. These movies are obviously prejudiced against half the human race. Second, a good horrormovie inspires compassion for its characters. For example, the audience will feel sympathy for the Wolfman’s victims andalso for the Wolfman, who is shown to be a sad victim of fate. In contrast, a bad horror movie encourages feelings ofaggression and violence in viewers. For instance, in the Halloween films, the murder scenes use the murderer’s point ofview. The effect is that the audience stalks the victims along with the killer and feels the same thrill he does. Finally, everygood horror movie has a sense of humor. In Dracula, the Count says meaningfully at dinner, “I don’t drink wine,” as hestares at a young woman’s juicy neck. Humor provides relief from the horror and makes the characters more human. Abad horror movie, though, is humorless and boring. One murder is piled on top of another, and the characters are justcardboard figures. Bad horror movies may provide cheap thrills, but the good ones touch our emotions and live forever.
(A)declassifiedclassified
(B)catered
(C)cared
(D)
What is this passage mainly about? (A)The history of horror movies
(B)The production of a good horror movie
(C)The experience of wa
(D)The distinction between good and bad horror movies
The city council wants traders to sign up to a voluntary code of conduct agreeing not to sell lagers and cidersstronger than 5.5 percent in a bid to stamp out drink-fuelled anti-social behavior.
(A)The city council wants traders to voluntarily limit the sale of lagers and ciders to 5.5 percent of their dailybusinesses in order to reduce cases of anti-social behavior in the city.
(B)The city council has asked traders in the city to agree to a proposal that no more than 5.5 percent of lagers andciders can be sold through bidding for the sake of social order.
(C)The city council wants traders to sign a voluntary contract limiting the sale of lagers and ciders that areoverpriced so as to reduce anti-social behavior.
(D)The city council has made a plan with traders to clear higher-strength lagers and ciders from shop shelves aroundthe city so as to curb anti-social behavior.第46 題至第50 題為題組Are you a Mac user? For many, home computers have become synonymous with Windows and Bill Gates, but therehas always been a loyal band of Apple and Macintosh users whose devotion to the Apple brand and its co-founder StevenJobs is almost religious.Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak dropped out of college and got jobs in Silicon Valley, where they founded theApple Computer company in 1976, the name based on Jobs’s favorite fruit. They designed the Apple I computer in Jobs’sbedroom, having raised the capital by selling their most valued possessions—an old Volkswagen bus and a scientificcalculator. The later model, the Apple Macintosh, introduced the public to point and click graphics. It was the first homecomputer to be truly user friendly, or as their advertisements put it, "the computer for the rest of us." When IBM releasedits first PC in 1981, Jobs realized that Apple would have to become a more grown-up company to compete effectively. Hebrought in John Sculley, the president of Pepsi-Cola, to do the job, asking him, "Do you want to just sell sugared water,or do you want to change the world?" Sculley and Jobs began to argue bitterly, however, and after a power struggle, Jobswas reluctantly forced to resign.By 1996 Apple was in trouble due to the dominance of Windows software and the increasing number of PC clonesthat used it. Jobs, having had great success with his animation studio Pixar, was brought back to the ailing firm for anannual salary of $1, and the company gradually returned to profitability.Apple’s computers cost more than most PCs and have a more limited range of software available for them, but theirgreat appeal has been the attention to design, making Apple the cool computer company. The launch of the stunningmulticolored iMac in 1997, followed by the sleek new iMac in 2002, marked the end of the computer as an ugly,utilitarian machine and brought the home computer out of the study and into the lounge. As Steve Jobs put it, "Othercompanies don’t care about design. We think it’s vitally important."Apple’s fortunes were transformed again with the development of the iPod in 2003 and the iPhone in 2007, whichsoon became must-have gadgets that brought about a boom in Internet music sales and transformed the cell phoneindustry. And, of course, they were beautifully stylish.
How would the audience feel when watching a good horror movie? (A)The audience will be thrilled all the time.
(B)The audience will sympathize with the victims.
(C)The audience will follow the murderer’s point of view.
(D)The audience will have a prejudice against female victims.
Where did the Apple Computer company begin?New York
(A)Chicag
(B)oSilicon Va
(C)lleySeattle
(D)
According to this passage, who tends to be the victims in a bad horror movie? (A)Men
(B)Women
(C)Both men and women
(D)Monsters and maniacs第47 題至第50 題為篇章結構,各題請依文意,從四個選項中選出最合適者,各題答案內容不重複The lesson of comparative advantage is that while anything we do is worth doing well, not everything we do well isworth doing. A CEO who is a great cook still orders take-out, even take-out that is not as good as what the CEO can make.The cost of cooking is not just the grocery bill. 47Consider Jane Galt, the pseudonym of an accomplished journalist who blogs on economics and policy. 48 Sherecently blogged on the best kitchen gadgets. Her descriptions made us want to buy all of them—Jane writes very welland her passion for cool stuff is contagious. A visitor to the site commented, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that the failure ofJane to be hired as a copywriter for a kitchenware catalog was proof that markets do not work well. 49 Jane remains ajournalist precisely because markets do work well—as good as she is at writing catalog copy, she is even better atjournalism. For Jane to become a copywriter for a catalog would be very costly even though she is very good at it. Ipresume the kitchenware makers cannot pay her enough to bid her away from her day job as a journalist.50 Just because America could make fabulous televisions does not mean we should have a television industry. Thecost of producing televisions means less of something else. It might be better to make that something else and trade withforeigners for televisions. Letting people outside the United States sell us televisions and cars and watches and steel andshoes frees up resources that allow us to make more of other things we value.47 (A)However, the most productive use of one’s time depends on the skills that others can provide. (B)What is even more valua
(C)The existence of prices and wages mak
(D)The same lesson applies to a country.48 (A)Evidently, she loves to cook. (B)However, the mostproductive use of one’s time depends on the skills that others can provide. (C)The same lesson applies
(D)But of course, just the opposite is true.49 (A)What is even more valuable is the time taken away from managing the company. (B)However, the most productive use of one’s time depends on the skills that others can provide. (C)The existence of prices a
(D)But of course, just the opposite is true.50 (A)The same lesson applies to a country. (B)But of course, just the opposite is true. (C)What is even more valuable is the time taken away from managing the compan
(D)The existence of prices and wages mak
According to the article, what best describes Jobs’s character?vengeful
(A)forgetful
(B)conservative
(C)visionary
(D)
According to the article, what is the main feature that sets Apple computers apart from PCs?An attention to design
(A)A broader
(B)range of applicable softwareA more manageable filing system
(C)A lower price
(D)
According to the article, why did Jobs leave his job?Because he was tired of his job.
(A)Because he had a better offer.
(B)Because he could not get along with Sculley.
(C)Because he c
(D)ould not deal with the stress of running a company.
According to the article, which statement best describes Jobs’s return to the company?It was welcome by Pepsi
(A)-Cola.He came back to save the ailing company.
(B)He came back to found Pixar.
(C)It was irresp
(D)onsible and damaging to his career.