1. _____ that the leader of the labor union decided to protest against the unfair treatment to the workers. (第42期考題) 


2. When Sebastian fainted, we quickly laid him down on his back. Fortunately he _____ before we called 911. (第40期考題) 


3. After a series of tests, Brian proved to be the most competent among all the _____ , the one everyone could look to. (第37期考題) 


4. Michael regrets when he was young, he _____ day by day without making good use of his time and now he still hasn't yet accomplished anything. (第37期考題) 


5. _____ makes life worth living is not what you can get but what you can give. (第33期考題) 


6. _____ they knew the typhoon had hit the island that they started to panic. (第33期考題) 


7. Jason and Billy are my twin brothers, who are over 40 now and living in New York and London, _____. (第36期考題) 


8. Many find it difficult to buy a(n) _____ affordable apartment in a big city because housing prices have been rising. (第37期考題) 


9. Kids usually _____ Christmas and New Year. That's when they have a lot of fun eating and playing. (第39期考題) 


10. There is evidence that there _____ water on Mars a long time ago. Observer show signs of dried up lake beds, past floods and old river channels. (第33期考題) 


11. It is important to be logical and clear when you write. You have to make yourself ----- by your readers. (第38期考題) 


12. On Christmas Eve, all flights were cancelled _____ the heavy snowstorm. Many tourists were disappointed about the delay of their family reunion. (第42期考題) 


13. Don’t lose faith in yourself; keep trying and someday your efforts will _____. (第32期考題) 


14. The _____ of the company’s service has been greatly improved, and there are now fewer customer complaints. (第36期考題) 


15. Benjamin Franklin once said, “Don’t _____ until tomorrow what you can do today.” We should not delay doing anything we can do today. It’s good advice for all of us. (第41期考題) 


16. The angry manager ordered that the mistakes in the report _____ right away and then stormed out of the room. (第36期考題) 


17. Identity theft, the _____ use of someone else’s personal information, is a criminal act and should be reported to the police. (第41期考題) 


18. In the Indian culture, cows are thought to be _____ animals. They are respected in religious activities. (第42期考題) 


19. Dying to lose weight, some people _____ by eating nothing at all the entire day. (第36期考題) 


20. Though the solution sounds perfect, it is not _____ because we don’t have enough time and money. (第36期考題) 


21.

※請依上文回答問題※ Which of the following will most likely benefit from the research mentioned in the passage? (第40期考題) 


22. The young couple, unable to bear children, chose to _____ a child to expand their family. (第40期考題) 


23. The customer service manager asked all the staff to be _____ in responding to complaints. (第39期考題) 


24. Due to the serious knee injury, the tennis player had no choice but to _____ from the tournament. (第39期考題) 


25. Due to the heavy rain, the citizens couldn't drive their cars, ----- take buses because the roads were flooded. (第38期考題) 


26.

Based on the context, what is the meaning of "abused"? (第38期考題) 


27. The disadvantage of this job is that the heavy workload and long working hours _____ of my family life. (第42期考題) 


28. Brian was depressed for a long time because he couldn’t find a job. When he finally received a job offer, he was _____. (第41期考題) 


29. The entire old town is designated as a pedestrian zone and free of cars. No _____ are allowed in this area. (第33期考題) 


30. The restaurant in Taipei _____ I had my first Taiwanese meal was a small and cozy place with great service. (第39期考題) 


31. To live a better life, _____ is learn from our past mistakes. (第41期考題) 


32. My grandparents have difficulty _____ used to the fast pace of city life. (第32期考題) 


33. The students had a heated _____ over the issue of the death penalty in their civics class. (第34期考題) 


34. Maggie considers that hustle and bustle of New York annoying as she _____ in the tranquil countryside. (第37期考題) 


35. Anderson hasn’t made up his mind _____. (第32期考題) 


36. With so many cases of murder and mass shootings in the city, the government must take drastic _____ to reduce crime. (第36期考題) 


37. To cut costs, Veronica suggested _____ her apartment for shooting the scene. (第39期考題) 


38.

What was the California Supreme Court's decision on Diaz's appeal? (第38期考題) 


39. Tina _____ when Tim offered to sell her the house at such a low price. She knew that something was not right. (第36期考題) 


40. Anne will never let anything _____ her from pursuing her dream despite all the difficulties she's likely to encounter. (第37期考題) 


41. Some people _____ that spiders are insects. But in fact, they are relatives of insects. (第40期考題) 


42. Paris has long been _____the most romantic city in the world. (第32期考題) 


43. The plot of the novel was so _____ that Mary couldn’t help but read on and finish it within one day. (第34期考題) 


44. Whatever you say, I will _____ my principles and won’t change my opinions. (第33期考題) 


45. _____, he was killed together with his whole army. (第40期考題) 


46. Some young people _____ about having a job that is well-paid and easy to do. (第32期考題) 


47. When the curtain _____ at the end of the play, the audience sat in stunned silence for at least three or four minutes. (第41期考題) 


48. Reading novels is great mental exercise because it stimulates your _____ as well as improves your brain power. (第39期考題) 


49.   Facial recognition technology is coming of age. The new iPhone can be unlocked simply by looking at it, and accessing your smartphone is just one of many ways that facial recognition will change our daily lives. Soon we'll be using our faces to pay for groceries, catch trains, pass through airport security, and more.
  In China, you can already use your face to gain access to office buildings and authorize ATM withdrawals. In Europe, high-end hotels and retailers use it to identify celebrity customers to make sure they get special treatment. Australian airports are installing a system that lets airline passengers glide through security without passports--and facial recognition systems are beginning to appear in U.S. airport too.
  "Everybody's face is slightly different, so it's almost like a 3D fingerprint," says Lyndon Smith, professor of computer simulation and machine vision at the University of the West of England. According to him, we can even differentiate between identical twins when we're applying this kind of technique. Smith is developing a system that he believes could replace train tickets. Like the new iPhone, it uses infrared scanning to recognize patterns in facial features and then compares them against a database of known facial patterns. He claims the system would work well in stores and banks as well as train stations, so wherever we go in the world, we could, rather than carrying a card around with a PIN and all the complexity, just simply use our faces.
  Experts say facial recognition systems can be extremely reliable. Apple claims its new iPhone has no trouble telling a real face from a photo--and can even recognize individuals if they grow a beard or wear eyeglasses. And researchers in the U.K. and India have developed a system that they say can peer through disguises--including fake beards and scarves that obscure part of the face. It uses 14 key landmarks around the eyes, nose, and lips. That is, if some factures are hidden, it uses others to make the identification.
  The system is intended to "take a lot of criminals off of the streets," says Amarjot Singh, a graduate student and one of the researchers in engineering the University of Cambridge. He is excited that the system can function well as an X-ray to look into people's identity. Excitement aside, Singh is among those who worry that the rise of facial recognition technology raises privacy concerns. Some worry governments could abuse the systems to assert inappropriate control over their citizens and stifle protests. Others worry that facial recognition systems will reveal information that individuals might wish to keep private. Last year, Stanford University researchers sparked a controversy when they published research suggesting that facial recognition can predict an individual's sexual orientation.
  The bottom line? Facial recognition technology is already out there, although how to use it without putting people at risk invading their privacy remains a hot debate topic. Smith insists that their intention is certainly not to have some kind of Big Brother thing going on; they wouldn't want this system to be used by anybody who didn't want to use it. He reassures the public that they're not trying to monitor people--they're trying to help people in their everyday lives.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the uses of facial recognition technology?

What can we infer from the passage? (第37期考題) 


50. The mother starts to feel worried and anxious, because her daughter _____ her there hours ago. (第36期考題)