Gold has a beauty that is resistant to corrosion; therefore, it is suitable for making jewelry.
(A)lush
(B)lucid
(C)lustrous
(D)luscious
Upon seeing the police car behind him, the suspect _____ his pickup truck and disappeared into a gravel road.
(A)accelerated
(B)alleviated
(C)allocated
(D)authorized
Some doctors have been criticized for being insensitive; they seem to be the suffering of their patients.
(A)condemned to
(B)intimate with
(C)devoted to
(D)detached from
Falling greenbacks used to induce economic panic. Now, it seems the dollar’s _____ may actually be a good thingfor America and the rest of the world.
(A)auction
(B)publication
(C)elimination
(D)depreciation
The mastery of basic reading skills is the most important goal in primary education since reading is thebasis for much of all learning.
(A)sufficient
(B)subsequent
(C)adjacent
(D)frequent
The new president of the university strives for efficiency and democracy. His plan is to eliminate unnecessary _____ oncampus.
(A)bureaucracy
(B)commotion
(C)diplomacy
(D)liquidation
They have developed some new sweet and juicy tomatoes which will not become as fast as old ones.
(A)hard
(B)rough
(C)fresh
(D)rotten
I am an accounting major, but I have no _____ for accountancy. Maybe I should consider changing my career path.
(A)altitude
(B)attitude
(C)archive
(D)aptitude
When the famine took place in the mid-forties in the nineteenth century, the Irish had to the goodwill ofother countries except Britain, their colonizer.
(A)rely on
(B)carry out
(C)withdraw from
(D)fall off
Students around the world are demanding _____ to higher education. But it is not always easy to provide.
(A)access
(B)resistance
(C)bonus
(D)reward
Distance is not a problem in the world of the Internet, which is why many local stores with its help havebecome popular throughout Taiwan.
(A)Many popular stores have solved the problem of the Internet by shortening the distance in Taiwan.
(B)Many local stores offer free Internet service throughout Taiwan to solve the problem of distance.
(C)Many local stores using the Internet to do business have become popular throughout Taiwan.
(D)Many in-store Internet services become popular in Taiwan because they solve the problem of distance.閱讀下文回答37~41 題We are all aware of the damage that modern industry can cause to the world’s ecology, but few people areaware of the 37 widely spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life. English has spread all overthe world. Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi have become powerful languages as well. As these languagesbecome more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increases. As this happens, hundreds oflanguages that are spoken by a few die out all over the world.Scholars believe there are around 6,000 languages around the world, but more than half of themcould 38 within the next 100 years. Aore is the language native to Vanuatu, located in the Pacific Ocean. LikeCatawba before Red Thunder Cloud’s death, it is spoken by that island’s only remaining native inhabitant; so it,too, will soon be gone. A large number of Ethiopian languages are used by 39 numbers of people. Twospeakers of the Ethiopian language Gafat were fine until a researcher took them out of their native jungle, at whichpoint they caught a cold and died. In New Guinea, more than 100 languages could die out.When a plant, insect, or animal species dies, it is easy to understand what has been lost. 40 , language isonly a product of the mind. To be the last remaining speaker of a language must be a peculiarly lonely destiny,almost as strange and terrible as being the last surviving member of a dying species. When a language vanishes,we lose the possibility of a 41 way of seeing and describing the world.
The bloody acts _____ by terrorists got on the nerves of the public.
(A)acted
(B)made
(C)committed
(D)did
As human beings, we often vacillate between selfish and _____ desires.
(A)benevolent
(B)eloquent
(C)prevalent
(D)salient
(A)degenerate
(B)plummet
(C)disappear
(D)thrive
If revenge is so sweet that people crave it like candy, then what chance do societies have of rising above it?
(A)The more people wish to have their revenge, the more chance societies will have to free them from revenge.
(B)People feel so satisfied with the sweetness of revenge that they give societies little chance to encourage revenge.
(C)If people crave the sweetness of revenge so much, they will rarely show their forgiving nature valued bysocieties.
(D)If people feel so tempted to have their sweet revenge, societies will have little chance to make them forgiveothers.
(A)vast
(B)tiny
(C)mixed
(D)special
The job requires its applicants to be literate in English and be _____ with several computer software packages.
(A)competent
(B)satisfied
(C)compatible
(D)satiated
Of all the different topics of controversy, from religion to the environment, nothing appears to get people _____ asthe topic of politics.
(A)so inflamed
(B)with anger
(C)being furious
(D)more outrageous
(A)unique
(B)uniform
(C)unanimous
(D)universal
The past decade has seen the rise of something Mao sought to stamp out forever: a Chinese middle class.
(A)The Chinese middle class has been rising for ten years; Mao had never thought of this before.
(B)Contrary to Mao’s expectation, the Chinese middle class has been growing in the last decade.
(C)The Chinese middle class, which Mao had tried to eliminate, has thrived in the past ten years.
(D)Mao aimed to totally destroy the Chinese middle class in ten years; yet it was getting stronger.請依下文回答第42-45 題Stereotypes are a kind of gossip about the world, a gossip that makes us pre-judge people before we ever lay eyes onthem. 42 Explore most prejudices and you will find a cruel stereotype at the core of each one.Why is it that we stereotype the world in such irrational and harmful fashion? In part, we begin to typecast people inour childhood years. 43 Some years ago, a social psychologist showed very clearly how powerful these stereotypesof childhood vision are. He secretly asked the most popular youngsters in an elementary school to make errors in theirmorning gym exercises. Afterward, he asked the class if anyone had noticed any mistakes during the gym period. “Oh,yes,” said the children. 44 .We not only grow up with standardized pictures forming inside of us, but as grown-ups, we are constantly havingthem thrust upon us. 45 Still other stereotypes are perpetuated by the advertisements we read, the movies we see, andthe books we read.
As the ability to travel over great distances becomes easier, the spread of communicable diseases becomeseasier.
(A)Transferable diseases will stop spreading if human beings’ ability to traverse oceans and mountainsincreases.
(B)The extent to which people move across places is not necessarily related to the increase of infectiousdiseases.
(C)The higher the ability of people to go from one place to another, the less likely is the spread oftransmissible diseases.
(D)Human mobility seems to increase the possibility of spreading diseases.
(A)We tend to stereotype because it helps us to make sense out of the highly confusing world.
(B)Hence it is not surprising that stereotypes have something to do with the dark world of prejudice.
(C)Surprisingly, most children could hardly wait to turn in their popular classmates—the “good guys”—who fouled.
(D)Some of them, like the stereotypes of mothers-in-law or cops, are dinned into us by the stock jokes we hear andrepeat.
Over time I have realized that the ideal novel that deeply stirs everyone will never be written; the onlytranscendence is achieved by the entire family of writers who, together, manage to move us all.
(A)I have finally realized a time-honored truth that there will never be an ideal novel that says it all; however,many good writers, collectively, can touch our heart.
(B)I have finally realized a time-honored truth that no writer can really write a perfect novel, and yet so manywriters still attempt to create an ideal novel that may move everyone.
(C)I have finally realized a time-honored truth that as long as writers intend to create something that can gobeyond their present condition, they can after all achieve the goal of composing an ideal novel.
(D)I have finally realized a time-honored truth that readers do not need an ideal novel but they do need goodwriters to make their lives full and richer.
(A)Early in life, we learn to spot the Good Guys from the Bad Guys on TV shows or in movies.
(B)We tend to stereotype because it helps us to make sense out of the highly confusing world.
(C)But it was the unpopular members of the class—the “bad guys”—they remembered as being out of step.
(D)Some of them, like the stereotypes of mothers-in-law or cops, are dinned into us by the stock jokes we hear andrepeat.
Eight kinds of beer and freshly shucked oysters make the hotel an oasis for travelers trekking through theremote area.
(A)Travelers receive eight kinds of beer and freshly shucked oysters at the hotel for free.
(B)The hotel is not the only place with cold beer and fresh oysters in the remote area.
(C)Because the area is so remote, travelers are extremely satisfied with the beer and fresh oysters the hoteloffers.
(D)Because the hotel has beer and oysters, travelers come from all over the world to try them out.
(A)We tend to stereotype because it helps us to make sense out of the highly confusing world.
(B)Early in life, we learn to spot the Good Guys from the Bad Guys on TV shows or in movies.
(C)But it was the unpopular members of the class—the “bad guys”—they remembered as being out of step.
(D)Surprisingly, most children could hardly wait to turn in their popular classmates—the “good guys”—who fouled.
The writer’s infectious enthusiasm toward wild life sparks in urbanites a renewed appreciation for nature’scomplexity.
(A)The writer, passionately influenced by the new insight into the intricate pattern of urban life, triggers cityfolks’ admiration.
(B)The city folks’ rekindled admiration of the intricacy of nature is activated by the writer’s contagiouspassion for wild life.
(C)The renewed admiration of the urban people toward the writer’s contagious passion for wild life isappreciated.
(D)Being passionately infected by urban life, the writer influences people’s complicated appreciation ofnature.
(A)Hence it is not surprising that stereotypes have something to do with the dark world of prejudice.
(B)But it was the unpopular members of the class—the “bad guys”—they remembered as being out of step.
(C)Surprisingly, most children could hardly wait to turn in their popular classmates—the “good guys”—who fouled.
(D)Some of them, like the stereotypes of mothers-in-law or cops, are dinned into us by the stock jokes we hear andrepeat.請依下文回答第46-50 題Johnson Kinyago, a sun-dried Masai herder, has two sons. “One is a genius—he can identify every animal and findwater anywhere. So he’s with the goats,” he says proudly. “The other is stupid so he’s in school.” At a cattle market inLaikipia in northern Kenya, other Masai elders nod their approval. Herding is for bright sparks, school for “thickies,” allof them say. Only 35% of Masai children attend school. The reason is that pastoralists depend on their children’s labor, soeven if persuaded of the merits of school, few could spare their ablest offspring. The result is an illiteracy rate of over90%, leaving the Masai vulnerable to abuse from their more worldly neighbors.With their stretched ear lobes, their ochre-stained warriors, and gap-toothed brides, the Masai live much as they havefor centuries, but in a world which has changed radically. When their—illiterate—forebears made peace with the firstBritish settlers, they unwittingly signed away 90% of their land. The remaining arid patch no longer supports theirswollen population. During a recent three-year drought, more than 89% of their animals died, and the proud Masai arenow humiliatingly dependent on food aid.
Certain beverages are laden with empty calories.
(A)Some juices might not contain calories at all.
(B)Alcohol might burn calories, thus emptying your fat.
(C)Some drinks might contain lots of calories, but these calories are of no use to your body.
(D)Mineral water might be able to provide you with only needed calories.47~50 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 Sears Tower, completed on May 3, 1973, rises to a height of 1,450 feet and is one of the mostrecognizable landmarks in the Chicago skyline and in the world. The Sears Tower held the record for the world’stallest building for 25 years until the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were built in 1998. 47 ButSears Tower guides are keen to inform people that, including its antennas, the total height of the Sears Towerincreases to 1,725 feet and it is still the world’s tallest building. 48 Once at the top, if the weather is clear, theviews reach up to 80 km away.49 Each floor of the building is divided into 75-foot, column-free squares, which provide maximumplanning, flexibility, and efficiency. Large windows provide maximum light and views, and the use of the finestmaterial throughout the building’s common areas provides an environment consistent with the prestige of theproperty. 50 The building is the preeminent office address in Chicago, and the address means business.
According to the Masai tradition, who is considered smart?
(A)One who knows much about animals and water
(B)One who goes to school
(C)One who can work part-time to make money
(D)One who can talk business with the British settlers
(A)Every year, 1.5 million visitors come to take the 70-second ride in the elevator.
(B)It then became the third in height when Taipei 101 was completed in the fall of 2004.
(C)The Sears Tower has four distinctively different floorplates that appeal to various types of tenants.
(D)Moreover, the Sears Tower is strategically located on Wacker Drive in the heart of the West Loop,Chicago’s leading market to its largest corporations and commuter rail stations.
What does “thickies” mean in the passage?
(A)Those who are sloppy
(B)Those who are stupid
(C)Those who are heavy
(D)Those who are dark
(A)Every year, 1.5 million visitors come to take the 70-second ride in the elevator.
(B)It then became the third in height when Taipei 101 was completed in the fall of 2004.
(C)The Sears Tower is a 110-story office tower containing a total enclosed area of approximately 4.56million gross square feet.
(D)Additionally, this famous 110-floor city landmark is one of the most efficient office buildings indowntown Chicago as well.
Which of the following statements is related to the high illiteracy rate of the Masai?
(A)The schools do not teach Masai tradition.
(B)There are too few schools in Laikipia, Kenya.
(C)Most Masai children are slow in learning.
(D)Most Masai children have to help with herding.
(A)Every year, 1.5 million visitors come to take the 70-second ride in the elevator.
(B)It then became the third in height when Taipei 101 was completed in the fall of 2004.
(C)Additionally, this famous 110-floor city landmark is one of the most efficient office buildings indowntown Chicago as well.
(D)Moreover, the Sears Tower is strategically located on Wacker Drive in the heart of the West Loop,Chicago’s leading market to its largest corporations and commuter rail stations.
What immediate effect does the high illiteracy rate have on the Masai?
(A)Foreign countries change Masai’s fighting strategies.
(B)The Masai change their life style and their ideas of beauty.
(C)The Masai believe in their tradition even more.
(D)The Masai are easily taken advantage of.
(A)The Sears Tower has four distinctively different floorplates that appeal to various types of tenants.
(B)The Sears Tower is a 110-story office tower containing a total enclosed area of approximately 4.56million gross square feet.
(C)Additionally, this famous 110-floor city landmark is one of the most efficient office buildings indowntown Chicago as well.
(D)Moreover, the Sears Tower is strategically located on Wacker Drive in the heart of the West Loop,Chicago’s leading market to its largest corporations and commuter rail stations.
Which of the following statements is NOT related to why the Masai are now dependent on food aid?
(A)It had not rained for 3 years.
(B)The Masai do not have fertile land.
(C)The Masai are proud.
(D)Most of the animals died.