Of all the patients in intensive care units who are at of dying, some 20 percent present difficult ethicalchoices—whether to keep trying to save the life.
(A)price
(B)risk
(C)rim
(D)attempt
In summertime, higher standards of personal are necessary to prevent disease.
(A)aspiration
(B)commodity
(C)hygiene
(D)routine
The peace rally is gaining every hour. By now, thousands of people have gathered in front of the parliamentbuilding.
(A)consolidation
(B)momentum
(C)radiation
(D)ultimatum
In the Seoul Olympics of 1988, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won a 100-meter gold medal in 9.79 sec.His came almost as fast, after it was revealed that he had used steroids to achieve his world-beatingperformance.
(A)basket case
(B)nom de plume
(C)fall from grace
(D)standing on his head
Call-in surveys sometimes misrepresent public opinion because people who tend to call may be a small amount ofpeople with strong ideas or certain attitudes; thus the “silent ” might often be ignored.
(A)majority
(B)maximum
(C)minimum
(D)minority
Tourists are often accused of being loud and rude, but they may in fact help traditional cultures.
(A)abuse
(B)impede
(C)hinder
(D)sustain
It is an excellent plan on paper, but from a practical point of view, it just isn’t _____.
(A)feasible
(B)visible
(C)gullible
(D)vulnerable
These companies claim deeper seawater contains more and fewer pollutants than surface water.
(A)cankers
(B)nutrients
(C)incentives
(D)utilities
At the airport, the customs officials usually open our bags to the contents.
(A)expect
(B)retrospect
(C)prospect
(D)inspect
We cannot say that men’s characters improve in proportion their knowledge increases, nor can we say theopposite.
(A)to
(B)for
(C)as
(D)with
Rather than sailing smoothly into a crucial financial summit in December, the EU seems to be cruising for abruising.
(A)The EU financial summit, though bruised, is expected to have a crucial sailing in December.
(B)The EU financial summit, in spite of its smooth sailing, is likely to be cancelled in December.
(C)The EU financial summit, though scheduled to be held in December, is faced with crucial financial problems.
(D)The EU financial summit, to be held in December, is proceeding with difficulties.請依下文回答第42-46 題Division does not always require that classification follow it. Your purpose in classifying, however, is to showhow things in a group are similar. 42 division and classification do work together. If you emptied the contents of apocketbook onto a table, you would begin to divide those contents into groups. 43 division, you would identifyobjects relating to finances, objects relating to personal care, objects relating to school work. Once you had the divisionsclear, you would place objects in each category: money, checks, and credit cards in the first; cosmetics, a comb, andperfume in the second; pencils and a notebook in the third.When you divide and classify for writing, you have to keep several things in mind. You have to think carefullyabout the division of the topic so that you limit the 44 from group to group. That is best achieved by creatingcategories different enough from each other so there is no blending. Since, you, the writer, have to establish the groups,you need to use a principle of classification that is sensible, accurate and complete. Do not force categories just 45making groups. You have to show how things in a group relate to each other, and this you must do without 46 theirdifferences and without making them stereotypes. If you stereotype objects in a group, you will be oversimplifying them,taking away their individuality, and forcing them to fit your categories.
(A)Yet
(B)So
(C)Hence
(D)Meanwhile
(A)Across
(B)Without
(C)Through
(D)Between
(A)overlap
(B)outlook
(C)extension
(D)extremity
(A)for the sake of
(B)in case of
(C)as a result of
(D)by dint of
(A)noticing
(B)ignoring
(C)arranging
(D)measuring請依下文回答第47-50 題You ask me what is poverty? Listen to me. Here I am, dirty, smelly, and with no “proper” underwear on andwith the stench of my rotting teeth near you. I will tell you. Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your pity.Listen with understanding. 47Poverty is getting up every morning from a dirt-and-illness-stained mattress. The sheets have long since been usedfor diapers. 48 This is a smell of urine, sour milk, and spoiling food sometimes joined with the strong smell oflong-cooked onions. 49 It is the smell of the outdoor privy. It is the smell of the milk which has gone sour because therefrigerator long has not worked, and it costs money to get it fixed. It is the smell of rotting garbage. 50 Shovels costmoney.
(A)Poverty is living in a smell that never leaves.
(B)Even the cheapest soap has to be saved for the baby’s diapers.
(C)If you have smelled this smell, you did not know how it came.
(D)Put yourself in my dirty, worn out, ill-fitting shoes, and hear me.
(A)I can call for help, but who should I call?
(B)Poverty is living in a smell that never leaves.
(C)Even the cheapest soap has to be saved for the baby’s diapers.
(D)Put yourself in my dirty, worn out, ill-fitting shoes, and hear me.
(A)I can call for help, but who should I call?
(B)I could bury it, but where is the shovel?
(C)If you have smelled this smell, you did not know how it came.
(D)Even the cheapest soap has to be saved for the baby’s diapers.
(A)I can call for help, but who should I call?
(B)I could bury it, but where is the shovel?
(C)If you have smelled this smell, you did not know how it came.
(D)Put yourself in my dirty, worn out, ill-fitting shoes, and hear me.