1. I have made up my mind. _____ hard you persuade me, I won’t change my decision. (第36期考題) 


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


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


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


5. As a result of all the efforts the local government has been making, this small town _____ a large industrial city. (第37期考題) 


6.

※請依上文回答問題※ The paragraph following the passage most likely discusses (第40期考題) 


7. _____ others will you learn how to help yourself. (第41期考題) 


8. She was _____ during the surgery, so she didn’t feel any pain. (第33期考題) 


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


10. Leo decided to get divorced, _____. (第40期考題) 


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


12.

What is the best title for this article? (第39期考題) 


13. Japanese people _____ bowing even when they talk on the phone. (第33期考題) 


14. Many people find _____ impossible to lose weight without the help of a professional. (第41期考題) 


15. 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) 


16. 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) 


17. German _____ power was restricted after World War II. The entire army was restricted to just 100,000 men, and the navy was reduced to just 15,000 men. (第40期考題) 


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


19.   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) 


20. The benefits of vitamins are too numerous to _____, but taking massive amounts of vitamins may do us harm. (第34期考題) 


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


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


23. An intelligent discussion can quickly _____ into a battle if the two parties allow it. (第41期考題) 


24. When traveling solo in a foreign country, you cannot be _____ careful about any stranger getting close to you; that person may be a pickpocket. (第37期考題) 


25. I am sorry, but you can't order beef noodles. We have _____ beef. (第39期考題) 


26. _____ Hemingway's inspiration for the book, The Old Man And The Sea, was the Cuban fisherman Gregorio Fuentes, who was also Hemingway's friend. (第40期考題) 


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


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


29. Apparently, Mr. Flately has _____. He does not drink anymore and is helping her wife run the grocery store. (第32期考題) 


30. Peter got promoted again because he had shown great _____ in dealing with tough challenges and tasks. (第36期考題) 


31. Firefighters are _____ heroes, who risk their lives to help others. (第33期考題) 


32. The woman is new in our neighborhood. Do you know _____? (第39期考題) 


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


34. 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) 


35. 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) 


36. _____ diseases, such as the flu or colds, spread from person to person in several ways. (第40期考題) 


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


38. _____ online video games, Paul has very little physical activity and spend less time with family and friends. (第32期考題) 


39. A huge parade is held on the _____ of the 1959 revolution. It is one of the biggest annual events of the city. (第33期考題) 


40.

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


41. The building plan ----- by Frank Lin, who has no idea what the clients need. (第38期考題) 


42. The hotel Oliver was talking about _____ but I couldn’t remember where I had read about it. (第41期考題) 


43. Pressured by public anger, the mayor finally admitted his mistake and _____ for his rude remarks. (第36期考題) 


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


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


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


47. It is good manners to dress formally at such an important international ----- where world leaders meet. (第38期考題) 


48. 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) 


49. 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) 


50. There is a sign saying “No trespassing.” This area is a private place, so people cannot enter this place without the owner’s _____. (第42期考題)