1. 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) 


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


3. I lost my wallet on the MRT. It _____ stolen. (第42期考題) 


4. _____ all the detailed guidelines printed on the box, everyone is capable of operating the device with ease. (第36期考題) 


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


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


7. Jim is afraid of making mistakes. _____ this fear that prevents him from making progress. (第39期考題) 


8. 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) 


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


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


11. 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) 


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


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


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


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


16. It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech; immediately on attaining power each dictator has _____ all free speech except his own. (第41期考題) 


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


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


19. 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) 


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


21. Did Penelope tell you _____? (第40期考題) 


22. 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) 


23. Since the building has tilted sideways after the earthquake, it has to be ----- to ensure public safety. (第38期考題) 


24. 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) 


25. 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) 


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


27. Bullying will leave a lifelong mental scar that _____ affects children into adulthood. (第32期考題) 


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


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


30. Feeling like an outsider in the family, John doesn’t know how to chat with his siblings easily and always has a sense of _____. (第42期考題) 


31. 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) 


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


33.

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


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


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


36.

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


37. 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) 


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


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


40. 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) 


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


42. 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) 


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


44. The competition has to be postponed ----- some problems with the rules, which may still have to be revised. (第38期考題) 


45. Singing a _____ while rocking a baby to sleep can help early language development.  (第40期考題) 


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


47. 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) 


48. If they _____ about your difficulty, they _____ a different decision. Yet, it is all too late now. (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. I have made up my mind. _____ hard you persuade me, I won’t change my decision. (第36期考題)