1. Without proper guidance, new workers often ----- themselves clueless and frustrated in this big company. (第38期考題) 


2.

Under what circumstances do some people consider it legal to search through someone's cellphone?  (第38期考題) 


3. The latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says _____ is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of diseases and infections. (第41期考題) 


4. Chen Shu-Chu is a person of _____ character. Although she is just a vegetable vendor, she donates lots of money to the charitable organizations without expecting anything in return. (第42期考題) 


5. _____ you believe it or not, I have witnessed the terrible car crash. (第42期考題) 


6. When doing an experiment, we should always _____ that safety is of the utmost importance. (第39期考題) 


7. In all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants, you can eat _____. (第33期考題) 


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


9. It is _____ that there are ups and downs in one’s life. (第32期考題) 


10. _____, this basketball player still had excellent performances and got the MVP of the match. (第42期考題) 


11. Maria, my German friend, considers the dishwasher an indispensable home ----- and wonders why it is not common in Taiwan. (第38期考題) 


12. A: I don't feel like cooking today.
B: _____ ordering a pizza instead? (第39期考題) 


13. The novelist _____ many speech invitations to concentrate on writing his next new novel. (第42期考題) 


14. We have to cancel tonight’s concert because neither you nor I _____ prepared. (第32期考題) 


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


16. His arrogance and vanity stopped him _____ what really mattered to him. (第32期考題) 


17. The famous fashion designer, Jason Wu, preferred to play with dolls and dressed them up, _____ play sports when he was a little boy. (第42期考題) 


18. Astronauts will experience loss of appetite at the beginning of their time in space because their bodies are trying to _____ the new environment. (第42期考題) 


19. We have to _____ the connection between these two events in order to solve the problems they have caused. (第40期考題) 


20. I advise you to visit the Modern Art Museum, ----- there are always great exhibitions and events going on. (第38期考題) 


21.   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?

Which of the following statements is true about the technology? (第37期考題) 


22. To pay his way through college, Allen takes a couple of part-time jobs, one of _____ is tutoring elementary school students. (第37期考題) 


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


24. He _____ his friend by telling lies about her behind her back. (第33期考題) 


25. 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) 


26. After the cruel murder, all the elementary schools should take measures to _____ anyone suspicious from entering the campus. (第42期考題) 


27. Bob’s nickname was “Beckham,” a _____ to the way he styled his hair. (第33期考題) 


28.

※請依上文回答問題※ According to the passage, which of the following is true? (第40期考題) 


29. Liam got a letter from his girlfriend and he knew she was not happy. She didn’t say anything but Liam could tell by _____ that something was upsetting her. (第41期考題) 


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


31. Faced with the immense power of natural disasters like earthquakes or typhoons, humans, more often than not, appear _____ vulnerable. (第37期考題) 


32. It is the _____ moment for him, so instead of feeling depressed, he'd better pull himself together and try his upmost. (第37期考題) 


33. Tina has to work two part-time jobs after school to _____. (第32期考題) 


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


35. I make plenty of lifelong friends in my high school, _____ give me mental support when I feel down. (第42期考題) 


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


37. There are some easy ways to _____ water. For example, we can turn off the water while we are shaving or brushing our teeth. (第40期考題) 


38. Although it is possible nowadays to have apps ----- many expressions into another language for us, it is still important to learn to speak a foreign language. (第38期考題) 


39. Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the U.S. It _____ in 1872. (第40期考題) 


40. People say he is _____ incompetent _____ does not care, but for me, he is just a hopeless idealist. (第33期考題) 


41. Keep the painting indoors because the colors will fade if they are _____ to sunlight. (第36期考題) 


42. The blind lawyer was rejected by over twenty law firms because of his disability, _____ he had a Harvard Law degree. (第42期考題) 


43. During tourism seasons, this coastal town is _____ with visitors who expect to relax and enjoy the breathtaking scenery to their heart's content. (第37期考題) 


44. Though I don't _____ of many of my colleague's proposals, I have to admit that his ideas are very creative. (第39期考題) 


45. The reason millennials are called "strawberry generation" is _____ they are believed to be "easily bruised." (第37期考題) 


46. It is dangerous for us to _____ without grasping the whole picture. We need to clarify all the uncertain points before we make decisions. (第42期考題) 


47. The corpse was _____ on the basis of dental records. That is, by examining the teeth of the dead, we can find out who the body is. (第33期考題) 


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


49. Dyscalculia is a learning difficulty that impacts student's ability to do math. Children with dyscalculia usually have difficulty _____ numbers, symbols, and related concepts. (第40期考題) 


50. Our homeroom teacher was _____ when she knew two students skipped class and smoked on campus. (第42期考題)