1. 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) 


2. 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) 


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


4. 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) 


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


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


7. 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) 


8. Though the couple had been married for three years, they _____ a divorce. (第42期考題) 


9. The angry manager ordered that the mistakes in the report _____ right away and then stormed out of the room. (第36期考題) 


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


11. 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) 


12. University fees in many countries _____ and many people cannot afford them. (第41期考題) 


13.

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


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


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


16. Be patient. The longer you wait, _____ you are to meet the superstar. (第36期考題) 


17. Ned is determined to go to college _____ he has very little support from his family. (第39期考題) 


18. You should take the _____ and create chances for yourself instead of waiting passively. (第32期考題) 


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


20. To Mandy's -----, she forgot to bring her wallet with her and couldn't pay. She didn't know what to do. (第38期考題) 


21. 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) 


22. The supervisor plans to talk to his team _____ the meeting. He thinks a pre-discussion is needed to facilitate the meeting. (第42期考題) 


23. 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) 


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


25. 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) 


26. 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) 


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


28. To cut costs, Veronica suggested _____ her apartment for shooting the scene. (第39期考題) 


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


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


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


32.

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


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


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


35. This young man was left paralyzed from the neck down _____ a serious car crash, which also claimed three lives. (第37期考題) 


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


37. 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) 


38.   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) 


39. 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) 


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


41.   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? (第37期考題) 


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


43. Due to the heavy rain, the citizens couldn't drive their cars, ----- take buses because the roads were flooded. (第38期考題) 


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


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


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


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


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


49. A new iPhone will be awarded to _____ comes up with the best name for the new fragrance. (第39期考題) 


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