單選題 每題2分

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

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

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3. 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)　

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4. The mother starts to feel worried and anxious, because her daughter _____ her there hours ago.　(第36期考題)　

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

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6. The use of _____, although a traditional part of the celebration, has over the years led to many injuries and deaths.There have been incidents every year of users being blinded, losing body parts, or suffering other injuries, especially during festivities such as Chinese New Year season.　(第41期考題)　

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7. When Sebastian fainted, we quickly laid him down on his back. Fortunately he _____ before we called 911.　(第40期考題)　

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

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9. Parents have the responsibility to teach their children to draw a clear _____ between right and wrong.　(第39期考題)　

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10. Once someone is suspected to be infected with coronavirus, he or she has to be kept in _____, so that others won't be infected.　(第40期考題)　

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

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12. 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)　

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

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

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15. Kim is _____ going to be furious when she sees the mess you made in the office.　(第33期考題)　

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16. _____ 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)　

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17. 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)　

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18. Dying to pass the upcoming exams with flying colors, all Sarah has to do is _____.　(第37期考題)　

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

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20. 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)　

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21. Michael regrets when he was young, he _____ day by day without making good use of his time and now he still hasn't yet accomplished anything.　(第37期考題)　

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22. 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)　

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23. Anderson hasn’t made up his mind _____.　(第32期考題)　

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

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25. _____ that the leader of the labor union decided to protest against the unfair treatment to the workers.　(第42期考題)　

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

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

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

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29. After a series of tests, Brian proved to be the most competent among all the _____ , the one everyone could look to.　(第37期考題)　

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30. Identity theft, the _____ use of someone else’s personal information, is a criminal act and should be reported to the police.　(第41期考題)　

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31. People say he is _____ incompetent _____ does not care, but for me, he is just a hopeless idealist.　(第33期考題)　

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32.

Judging from the context, what does the word boost mean?　(第39期考題)　

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

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

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35. Try to stay calm. Under no circumstances can we _____ violence to settle conflicts.　(第36期考題)　

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

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

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38. The customer service manager asked all the staff to be _____ in responding to complaints.　(第39期考題)　

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39. 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)　

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

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

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42. Liam got a letter from his girlfriend and he knew she was not happy. She didn’t say anything but Liam could tell by _____ that something was upsetting her.　(第41期考題)　

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43. 　　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?

The word stifle is closest in meaning to _____ .　(第37期考題)　

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

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

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46. In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever when _____ the award at age 17.　(第41期考題)　

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47. 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)　

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48. Emily is _____ the summer because she can pay a visit to her grandparents living in Japan.　(第32期考題)　

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

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

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