1.
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.


2. Anna, would you like another drink?


3. As an international language, English allows people of different countries to converse in a common language.


4. You can certainly improve your English [ ] if you live with native speakers.


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


6. Her parents disapproved of her marriage to Tom, but they went to the wedding [ ].


7. Starting January 1, 2012, one of _____ the Taipei City Government uses to encourage childbirth is to offer families a one-time payment of NT$20,000 per child.


8. This is the book ______ everyone is talking.


9. On hearing the bad news about his wife, the old man [ ] and cried badly.


10. 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.


11. The professor finally issued an [ ] to Tim: retake the examination or fail in the course.


12. Last year if I [ ] enough money, I [ ] a big house.


13. Unlike most sculptors who made a model of their statue first, Michelangelo did not draw on the marble to show [ ] to carve.


14. The table of contents [ ] you information about the scope of the book, the way it is organized, and the main chapters and sections.


15. The money has been recovered without [resorting] to verbal abuse or strong-arm tactics.


16. This new approach to second language learning claims that it can successfully ___the experience of learning your mother tongue: rapid, easy, natural. 


17. Heavy rain fell during the night [but it is clear this morning].


18. Paul’s [ ] pursuit of knowledge is praised highly by his instructor.


19. Eating fruit and vegetables every day is [ ] to your health.


20. Not only [ ] to report the accident, but he also denied that he had been driving the car.


21. Mr. Smith: Are you lost?Miss Lin: [ ] I can’t find Room 105. Mr. Smith: Oh! The even numbers are on this side, so you should look over there.


22. Dina sips the coffee and [ ] the morning paper.


23. For the American anthropologist Margaret Mead, moving and staying at home, [ ], are all of a piece.


24. Millet’s The Cleaners, exhibited in the Salon of 1857, presents [ ] who are fated to bend their backs to gather with clubbed fingers the wisps of overlooked grains.


25. Because the economy hasn’t recovered, people are trying to [ ] their incomes by looking for ginseng.


26. With the effort of environmental protection groups, some of the once contaminated rivers now teem with life.


27. Do you know [ ]?


28. Sally taught the girls [ ].


29. A food [ ] can chop up cabbages for making dumplings.


30. For a meat lover like Andy, keeping to a diet of fresh vegetables, fruits, rice, and milk is a _____ .


31. Why don’t we go to a movie this evening?


32. He lives more [ ] than anyone else I know.


33. To have access to the confidential documents, one needs special     from the headquarters.


34. John said he would avenge Mary’s wronged family.


35. Officials said that the opening of the new highway from Taipei to Kaohsiung will significantly [ ] traffic congestion.


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  2. 答錯一個選項,得題分的3/5
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1. 身心健康的重要性再怎麼強調也不為過。


2. Joe has been determined to study as hard as possible ________ keep up with his classmates.


3. He had an accident ________ careless driving.


4. What would you do ________?


5. 雖然辛蒂只是一個小孩,但是她知道如何取悅他人。


6. Tell me ________ he arrived here yesterday.


7. 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。


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


9. The committee ________ psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers.


10. ________, I will go shopping tomorrow.