單選題 每題2分

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1. Samuel was late again. He _____ up earlier this morning, but he didn't.　(第40期考題)　

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

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

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4. _____, Owen stormed out of the room and banged the door behind him.　(第40期考題)　

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5. As more and more species are faced with extinction, how to sustain biodiversity is _____ great significance to human beings.　(第37期考題)　

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6. Rebecca didn’t show up last night; she _____ about our date.　(第32期考題)　

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

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8. 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)　

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9.

What can influence the effectiveness of the research mentioned in this article?　(第39期考題)　

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10. The capable student was _____ the chairperson of the Student Association. He will be in charge of the coming school anniversary.　(第42期考題)　

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11. Before Kelly and Jasmine go back home, they ----- some friends in Paris.　(第38期考題)　

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12. 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)　

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13. Mount Jade（玉山）is taller than ----- mountains in Taiwan.　(第38期考題)　

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14. 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)　

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

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16. Don't push yourself too hard; taking a vacation _____ enables one to restore energy, so stop being tense all the time.　(第37期考題)　

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17. Even though every smartphone has a clock on it, wrist watches are still _____.　(第33期考題)　

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18. Charlotte _____ a shower when the power suddenly went out.　(第41期考題)　

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19. It is said that the key word for this year is AI, which stands for ----- intelligence.　(第38期考題)　

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20. What bad luck! Most of his luggage ----- stolen.　(第38期考題)　

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

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

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23. It is likely _____ she is just jealous seeing you talking to other girls.　(第33期考題)　

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24.

What is the best title for this article?　(第38期考題)　

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25. _____ as Jason was, he tried hard to repress his overwhelming joy for fear that his opponents thought him arrogant.　(第37期考題)　

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26. Tim _____ mad at others easily. However, ever since he took the course of anger management, he has seldom lost his temper.　(第36期考題)　

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27. Emma took part in the beauty _____ and won the title of “Miss Tri-City of 1948.”　(第41期考題)　

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28. You will get sunburned if you are _____ to the scorching sun for too long without applying sunscreen.　(第42期考題)　

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

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30. The clever device _____ on the wall makes the room dry and comfortable even during humid days.　(第36期考題)　

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31. _____ graduating from college, I went off to look for a job.　(第33期考題)　

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32. By the time Amy arrived at the airport, her boyfriend’s plane _____ already.　(第36期考題)　

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33. Sarah _____ the cat that had fallen onto the MRT tracks and prevented it from getting hurt.　(第33期考題)　

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

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

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36. Thirty years later, I can still identify several people in the photo -----. They haven't changed that much.　(第38期考題)　

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

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38. The Greek national _____ has been played at every Olympics closing ceremony to honor Greece’s role as the birthplace of the Olympic Games.　(第41期考題)　

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39. A perfectionist such as Daniel always ----- to make sure nothing goes wrong. He is obsessed with details.　(第38期考題)　

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40. The boxing legend inspired his fans to never give up. When he got _____, he got back up again and kept fighting.　(第33期考題)　

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41. _____ the wind blowing so hard, I don’t think the seas will calm down.　(第33期考題)　

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42. While the election campaign was filled with fake news, important public issues were often _____.　(第39期考題)　

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43. Hazel’s boyfriend bossed her around _____ she were his slave.　(第41期考題)　

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44. A: Lance has been ----- all day today. B: Yes, he has an allergy to particles in the air and that's why.　(第38期考題)　

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45. From time to time criticism is unavoidable, which we can use in a positive way to improve, or in a negative way that may lower our _____ .　(第37期考題)　

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46.

※請依上文回答問題※ All the following words can be used interchangeably in the passage except for　(第40期考題)　

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

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48. You can't see the CEO now. She ----- dinner and nobody should disturb her mealtime.　(第38期考題)　

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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?

Where are we most likely to find this article?　(第37期考題)　

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

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