1. Despite his [ ] to be on time, he is always late.


2. John Smith was the number one killer. So he was sentenced [ ] life imprisonment.


3. The police officer went out to patrol, [ ] being quite ill.


4. I am reading a history of the Internet. Did you know it ______ in the 1960's?


5. The military government arrested religious leaders for disobeying their orders, [which was unheard of]. No government had ever done so.


6. To avoid mixed-proficiency groups, the school used an English placement test to ensure that students in each English class were _____ in their English proficiency.


7. When Tom called me last night, [ ].


8. When [ ] to pathogens, healthy animals will normally mount an immune response to fight off the infection.


9. 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.


10. “Who is Carol yelling at?”“She is trying to talk [ ] in order to be heard over the noise of the crowd.”


11. There is little evidence to suggest that security cameras [ ] crime or terrorists.


12. We were [ ] for two hours in the traffic and so we arrived late for the board meeting.


13. After four attempts, Mike finally passed his driving test and started to drive happily to work right away.


14. Woman: The bed was dirty, the TV didn’t work, and there was no hot water. Man: [ ], ma’am, I will speak to the manager and try to return your money. Woman: You also charged me for some drinks I never drank.


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


16. I couldn’t sleep, [ ] being very tired.


17. I don’t think educational reform will work. I am so [ ] about it.


18. We tend to [ ] our horoscopes in newspapers and magazines, and to take an interest in what they tell us.


19. Call-in surveys sometimes misrepresent public opinion because people who tend to call may be a small amount of people with strong ideas or certain attitudes; thus the “silent [ ]” might often be ignored.


20. Anyone accused of a crime has a right to a lawyer.


21. One difference between the theater and the movie is that the audience in the theater [ ] at the end of the performance.


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


23. The deeper reasons why word knowledge correlates with comprehension cannot be determined satisfactorily without improved methods of estimating the size of people's vocabularies.


24. On a hot summer day, a glass of iced water can [ ] your thirst immediately.


25. Smoking or drinking during pregnancy can cause a child to be born ______.


26. Last month, fifty couples, who were married for fifty years and more, [ ] their golden anniversary in the city hall.


27. The senators reached a [ ] agreement and they will work out a final resolution later.


28. Jean usually goes to the dentist [ ] six months.


29. Because of the poor economy, reducing taxes has now become a [ ] for the new government.


30. Have you been to this new restaurant?


31. A: Would you like some cereal for breakfast?B: [ ]


32. Lester: What do you think of Professor Thompson's speech? Sylvia: [ ] Lester: Well... but I enjoyed it a lot.


33. A fire [ ] in the hospital last night and killed 24 people.


34. There is a lot of talk nowadays about [ ] Rights.


35. In the heart of the western Pacific [ ] a chain of tiny islands that seems part of another world and time.


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. We may never discover what ________ that night.


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


3. She would donate a large amount of money to poor people ________, but she can barely support herself now.


4. Nuclear power plants have long been ________ extremely dangerous especially after the catastrophic events that plagued Japan.


5. All meetings had to be cancelled ________ the heavy snowstorm.


6. I enjoy playing sports. ________, I play basketball, baseball and tennis.


7. 身心健康的重要性再怎麼強調也不為過。


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


9. She flatters a person and speaks ill of the person behind his/ her back, so I won’t believe ________.


10. 我們直到年紀變長,才能體悟青春的短暫。