As an accomplished popular science writer, Richard Rhodes brings his _____ to bear and provides an accessiblebut detailed history of energy use since about 1600.
(A)execution✕ 你選的
(B)expectancy✕ 你選的
(C)explosion✕ 你選的
(D)expertise✓ 正解✕ 你選的
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The beer market currently faces its fifth consecutive year of overall volume losses, and the sales of light beers havebeen consistently _____.
(A)dwindling✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(B)expanding✕ 你選的
(C)manipulating✕ 你選的
(D)speculating✕ 你選的
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Lung cancer deaths _____ a quarter of all American cancer deaths, killing more people every year than prostate,breast, and colon cancer combined.
(A)account for✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(B)emerge as✕ 你選的
(C)are due to✕ 你選的
(D)are damaged by✕ 你選的
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The U.S. has hiked the tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods from 10% to 25% overnight, _____ the battlebetween the two economic powers.
(A)colluding✕ 你選的
(B)debilitating✕ 你選的
(C)corrupting✕ 你選的
(D)escalating✓ 正解✕ 你選的
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The victim said, “If the police want to keep me in jail, they will _____ a case of keeping a weapon without a licenseor just anything.”
(A)turn up✕ 你選的
(B)trump up✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(C)petition for✕ 你選的
(D)plan on✕ 你選的
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This case is said to be the most insulting instance of attempting to abuse the very machinery of justice for anindividual's own _____ end.
(A)novel✕ 你選的
(B)lofty✕ 你選的
(C)fair✕ 你選的
(D)evil✓ 正解✕ 你選的
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Some academic conference events were attended because of their potential for _____ rather than as an imperativefor research.
(A)leisure✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(B)boycott✕ 你選的
(C)treasury✕ 你選的
(D)measure✕ 你選的
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To improve the air quality of the city, it is _____ that all residents join hands to cut down air pollution by 20% inthe next five years.
(A)adaptable✕ 你選的
(B)eccentric✕ 你選的
(C)imperative✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(D)outrageous✕ 你選的
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The long-run Broadway musical Cats in New York city has featured many of the most _____ performers to attractmillions of viewers each year.
(A)liberated✕ 你選的
(B)pronounced✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(C)reconciled✕ 你選的
(D)speculated✕ 你選的
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If Erica invited his ex-wife to the party, Ted would _____ a believable excuse for non-attendance.
(A)accommodate✕ 你選的
(B)incorporate✕ 你選的
(C)fabricate✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(D)replicate請依下文回答第41題至第45題：Collaborative online international learning (COIL) is a recently developed form of education that promotes globallearning between colleges and universities from different countries around the world. With the aid of modern technologysuch as the Internet and videoconferencing, students from schools in different countries can✕ 你選的
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their learning withpeers of different cultural and language backgrounds. This is also an affordable way of international learningthrough
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students can establish friendship with people of similar age and learn together without having to spendmuch money going abroad in order to do so. As the word, collaborative, indicates, this is a pedagogy that focuses ona student-centered approach of learning with teachers playing merely the role of
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. They need to build up asounding collaboration by developing
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learning strategies and activities that can boost students' motivationin learning and their willingness to learn with and through each other. Through modern technology such asvideoconferencing, students could discuss topics that are of interest to them and communicate with each other cross-culturally. This is one fruitful way of gaining one's own global literacy and cross-cultural
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. That is the reasonwhy some universities in both the United States and Japan play an active role in encouraging this kind of learningworld-wide.41
(A)apply for✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(B)embark on✕ 你選的
(C)iron out✕ 你選的
(D)own up42✕ 你選的
(A)whom✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(B)what✕ 你選的
(C)which✕ 你選的
(D)where43✕ 你選的
(A)controllers✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(B)remainders✕ 你選的
(C)narrators✕ 你選的
(D)facilitators44✕ 你選的
(A)advantageous✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(B)bureaucratic✕ 你選的
(C)charitable✕ 你選的
(D)defensible45✕ 你選的
(A)competence✓ 正解✕ 你選的
(B)diligence✕ 你選的
(C)emergence✕ 你選的
(D)indifference請依下文回答第46題至第50題：The origin of cursive script is one which intertwines technology and efficiency. We get the word “cursive” from the Latincurrere--✕ 你選的
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“to run.” It distinguishes writing in which the pen lifts from the page between words,
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between eachindividual letter. Cursive developed out of typeface and print technologies, but more importantly it came from the need to writewell and to write quickly.But, cursive is fading. There is a debate over whether it has value in the classroom, but that debate extends further thansimply a matter of cursive--it's about writing itself. Many curricula are even favoring typing lessons
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teachinghandwriting.The battle for cursive reaches deeper than questions of whether your letters “connect.” The pen--even morethan the text--might say something about us. Our handwriting might indicate our nationalities and educationalbackground,
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Adrienne Bernhard's “What Your Handwriting Says About You.” Yet, Bernhard's article alsoindicates that the proliferation of typing--via emails, text messages, etc--might in fact undermine the distinctness ofour handwritings. The battle for cursive has always been a battle for the uniqueness of our handwriting andourselves, verses and the evolution of technology and push towards efficiency.Not too long ago, cursive--Spencerian script to be specific--“was the de facto standard writing style for businesscorrespondence before the widespread adoption of the typewriter.” With the development of the typewriter, cursive
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outof business usage into the usage of personal correspondence; technology supplanted cursive's original purpose, but cursiveremained an act of self expression.46
