1.

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


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


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


4. _____ it was raining, Jason still insisted on his camping plan. (第42期考題) 


5. If they _____ about your difficulty, they _____ a different decision. Yet, it is all too late now. (第39期考題) 


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


7. Kate Middleton, _____ marriage to Britain’s Prince William made her Duchess of Cambridge, has played a key role in softening the royal image. (第32期考題) 


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


9. A Syrian boy, who attempted to reach Greece along with other refugees, was found lying dead on a Turkish beach, which _____ global refugee crisis. (第37期考題) 


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


11.

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


12. 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) 


13. My grandparents have difficulty _____ used to the fast pace of city life. (第32期考題) 


14.

※請依上文回答問題※ What is this passage mainly about? (第40期考題) 


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


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


17. 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) 


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


19. 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) 


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


21. Some people _____ that spiders are insects. But in fact, they are relatives of insects. (第40期考題) 


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


23. Dying to lose weight, some people _____ by eating nothing at all the entire day. (第36期考題) 


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


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


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


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


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


29. The teddy bear looks old and tattered, but it is the most ----- thing in Kay's room, She loves it dearly. (第38期考題) 


30. 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) 


31. Hotel Plaza de Toros has a modern cafeteria _____ you can enjoy from the typical Andalusian breakfast to an English breakfast. (第41期考題) 


32. 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) 


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


34. A: Are you familiar with the please _____ in the TV show?
B: No, I don't know any of them. (第39期考題) 


35. 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) 


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


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


38. Much of Ethan's house had already been destroyed before the firemen finally _____ the fire. (第40期考題) 


39. The disadvantage of this job is that the heavy workload and long working hours _____ of my family life. (第42期考題) 


40. Even though he seems _____ most of the time, none can be more careful than he in terms of handling thorny situations. (第37期考題) 


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


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


43.

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


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


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


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


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


48. Astronauts will experience loss of appetite at the beginning of their time in space because their bodies are trying to _____ the new environment. (第42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?

Which of the following statements is true about the technology? (第37期考題) 


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