1. I’d be obliged if you’d treat this matter as strictly confidential.


2. When companies cannot raise money to solve their cash-flow problem, they may become [ ] and even go out of business.


3. The jury has been [ ] on a verdict in what has proven to be one of the toughest cases so far this century.


4. Man: Excuse me. [ ] Woman: Sure. It's a quarter to eight. Man: Thanks.


5. What is the weather forecast for the coming weekend?


6. My father ______ your show for years now.


7. His speedy recovery from a fatal car accident still remains [ ] for a lot of people.


8. [ ] very careful enquiries, the police still have no idea who the murderer is.


9. I bought my mom a box of chocolates because I know she has [ ].


10. As human beings, we often vacillate between selfish and [ ] desires.


11. I'd rather ______ the movie. It's supposed to be good.


12. Singapore has steadily been adding about 100,000 [ ] annually since 1990, census data shows.


13. It’s not raining cats and dogs; it’s just ______.


14. Lin Mei-hsiu won a Golden Horse for her [ ] in Here Comes the Black Dog.


15. In the writing class, the teacher encouraged students [ ].


16. Candy companies want to create more sales so they are trying anything they can to make their chocolate bars as crunchy and delicious as they can be.


17. To fight against the inflation, the US government takes every measure to maintain the _____ of the dollar on the world’s money markets.


18. Mary felt stressed out after working hard for two [ ] weeks.


19. A [ ] film won the Oscar Award last year for its explicit exposure of corruption in our society.


20. Do you remember the old [ ]: “If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen”?


21. I had always assumed that my father and my mother had a happy relationship. When I learned that they were actually getting a divorce, it seemed [ ] to me.


22. To keep birds from eating seeds, soak [ ] in the green food coloring.


23. The number of people without jobs [ ] at the moment.


24. The ability to [ ] your emotions in the workplace may be more important than technical or organizational skills.


25. We need to get up a plant to [ ] big trucks.


26. The fact that the young lady was so welcome was due, in part, [ ] her vivacious personality.


27. The ambassador’s offensive remarks have _____ widespread criticism and storms of protests in the country.


28. Of all the patients in intensive care units who are at [ ] of dying, some 20 percent present difficult ethical choices—whether to keep trying to save the life.


29. Organizational ability is an essential attribute for a good manager.


30. This year [ ] was the US drug-czar Barry McCaffery who came to celebrate America's successful drug policy.


31. The early immigrants had the [ ] that New York was a city paved with gold everywhere.


32. After getting home from school, [ ].


33. Technology has [ ] many changes in the way we live.


34. It is a _____ that the kid fell from the tenth floor and survived with only some abrasions.


35. If we say someone has a big mouth, we usually mean that this person [ ].


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. When the president retires, his son will ________ the company.


2. She got up early ________ she might miss the first train.


3. ________ as freely in the sky as a bird!


4. 請選出翻譯正確的句子:他一到辦公室就打開電腦查看電子郵件。


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


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


7. Although he was badly injured, he ________ the pain as long as he could.


8. 請選出翻譯正確的句子:對世界各地的中國人來說,春節是最有意義的節日。


9. 請選出翻譯正確的句子:他雖然年輕且沒經驗,但充滿熱誠又有責任感。


10. It’s ________ to be sunny again tomorrow.