1. I’d love to get a job in journalism, but it’s not easy without [ ].


2. In a dispute between siblings, parents usually take the side of the younger child [ ].


3. Let us hope Mike doesn’t become a sailor because he couldn’t tell the difference between latitude and longitude in our [ ] class.


4. Charisma is a personal attractiveness that enables one to influence others. [ ], the standards of good leadership tend to differ from culture to culture.


5. Hospitals are so afraid of dissatisfied patients and their families suing them for medical negligence that they have to take out insurance.


6. My two brothers seldom talk to each other because they are not [congenial.]


7. In the last few months, bottled water, like plastic bags, has been increasingly portrayed as an environmental [ ] by political leaders, activist groups, and media.


8. Oprah Winfrey turned public opinion around by [ ].


9. If the drunken driver kills someone in an accident, his license shall be [ ].


10. English is written from left to right [ ].


11. The actress demanded an [ ] from the newspaper for an untrue report about her personal life.


12. Judy does not like to attend Bill’s birthday party, so she asked me to go [ ] her.


13. No one could understand why he committed [ ]. He seemed to have everything to live for.


14. Middle children often feel less important than their older or younger [ ].


15. Some studies show that birds find their way home [ ].


16. The glaciers in the Arctic are disappearing rapidly because of global warming, [ ], the weather around the world has become unpredictable.


17. At the airport, the customs officials usually open our bags to [ ] the contents.


18. Roger: When did you come to this country? Wen-hua: [ ] Roger: I asked when you came to this country. Wen-hua: Oh, I see. I came here two years ago.


19. Pluto and other objects like it will


20. According to research, good leaders are made, not [ ]; one learns to be a leader by observing other leaders.


21. The patient recovered from her illness after a long stay in the mountains. [The country air was good for her health].


22. [ ] how the splendid Maya Culture disappeared all of a sudden from the earth, it remains a mystery hard to solve.


23. The film The Last Emperor [ ] the leading actor international fame.


24. Most of the major strands of mainstream, modern Western psychological thought tend to reinforce the alienation of the psyche from nature.


25. We conjectured that she would run for the presidency sooner or later, and what she said last night[ ] our assumption.


26. Planting trees has [ ] the community. Thanks to the change, people can have picnics under the trees and the air is much fresher now.


27. The United States is _____ with an energy, a can-do ambition and an entrepreneurial spirit that can only be described as distinctly American.


28. Vocational high school students should have greater [ ] in themselves in order to learn English well.


29. Harry Potter, the hero created by J. K. Rowling, is the most famous _____in modern English literature.


30.
Steven was not able to finish his assignment on time, and, instead of being honest about it, he _____ an excuse in order to gain more time to complete it.


31. Companies publish [annual] reports to inform the public about the previous year’s activities.


32. She [ ] down for a nap this morning.


33. “My sister always worries about how much things cost. Sometimes she doesn’t even want to spend money on food.”


34. A saying goes: “A fool and his money are soon [ ].”


35. Which of the following sentences is correct?


複選題規則:
  1. 所有選項均答對,得該題全部分數
  2. 答錯一個選項,得題分的3/5
  3. 答錯兩個選項,得題分的1/5
  4. 答錯超過兩個選項或沒作答,該題以0分計算

1. Those who work hard ________ succeed.


2. He studied hard ________ get better grades.


3. ________ get anywhere if we don’t work hard.


4. A pair of small earthquakes ________ in the central United States during the week.


5. What you just said was great, but it was still ________.


6. These measures have been taken ________ increasing the company’s profits.


7. ________ in his room, he didn’t know what happened outside.


8. You need time and money. ________, you need diligence.


9. We may never discover what ________ that night.


10. Walk faster, ________ the train.