1. Lucy _____ temptation and ate the last piece of chocolate. (第33期考題) 


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


3. Technological and industrial development not only led to economic growth and _____ but also posed a threat to the ecological system. (第32期考題) 


4. 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) 


5. The police are _____ a tall, middle-aged man who was seen outside the bank just before the robbery. (第39期考題) 


6. It is said that the MRT line will be extended to this town, and the townspeople are ----- it earnestly. (第38期考題) 


7. So far the spending on this project is still on -----. We have to be careful not to spend more than planned. (第38期考題) 


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


9. If the world's rain forests continue to disappear at their present rate, many species _____ extinct. (第39期考題) 


10.

Based on your understanding of the article, what does the Fourth Amendment protect the people against? (第38期考題) 


11. 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) 


12. These backpackers forgot to make hotel reservations in advance, so they _____ having nowhere to stay. (第39期考題) 


13. 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) 


14.

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


15. Mackenzie Narbonne is a _____ athlete who has excelled in softball, soccer, floor hockey, powerlifting, and athletics. (第41期考題) 


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


17. Ever since Larry’s best friends betrayed him, he has had trouble _____ close relationships with others. (第36期考題) 


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


19. 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) 


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


27. _____ the more money you spend on lunch dates, birthday parties and gifts. (第41期考題) 


28. When Javier gets angry, he will sit down and _____ the feeling beneath the anger to help himself calm down. (第41期考題) 


29. The U.S. presidential ----- is more than a year away, but more than 20 people are ready to join the race. (第38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.   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) 


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


33.

※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) 


34. The more you work, the more you gain. The money you receive will be _____ the amount of work that you accomplish. (第36期考題) 


35. Flammable liquids, knives, and toy guns are _____ on board the aircraft. (第32期考題) 


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


37. Children s hould avoid eating too many candies because they contain _____ flavors and colorings that are bad to their health. (第36期考題) 


38. The tires of your car are _____. You should replace them now so that they won't burst on the road. (第39期考題) 


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


40. Tourism is Egypt’s _____ lifeline, representing almost 12% of its national income. (第34期考題) 


41. Out of intense curiosity, Linda _____ the temptation and opened her sister’s letter. (第36期考題) 


42. 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) 


43. 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) 


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


45. A girl saw two thieves _____ her neighbor’s house. She called the police immediately. (第32期考題) 


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


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


48.

What doesn't happen to the brain when it gets old? (第39期考題) 


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


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