1. 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) 


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


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


4. The novelist _____ many speech invitations to concentrate on writing his next new novel. (第42期考題) 


5. 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) 


6. I know this discussion is an uncomfortable one, but please don't _____. Let's come straight to the point and get over with it. (第40期考題) 


7. James asked his father to drive him to the airport early; he wanted to _____ two hours before the flight. He was afraid to miss the flight. (第41期考題) 


8. 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) 


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


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


11. 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) 


12. 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) 


13. 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) 


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


15. Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the U.S. It _____ in 1872. (第40期考題) 


16. Isabella doesn't like to discuss her personal problems publicly; she prefers to talk about them _____. (第40期考題) 


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


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


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


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


21. 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) 


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


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


24. Mr. Lee was fortunate enough to make a full _____ from the stock market before this recession. (第33期考題) 


25. 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) 


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


27.

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


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


29. Love, respect, trust, and acceptance are important _____ in a happy and lasting marriage. (第34期考題) 


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


31. 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) 


32.

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


33. The ingredient labels on the food package aim to provide accurate information to _____ consumers’ safety. (第32期考題) 


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


35. 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) 


36. Rebecca didn’t show up last night; she _____ about our date. (第32期考題) 


37. Try to stay calm. Under no circumstances can we _____ violence to settle conflicts. (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?

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


39. 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) 


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


41. The benefits of vitamins are too numerous to _____, but taking massive amounts of vitamins may do us harm. (第34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. To live a better life, _____ is learn from our past mistakes. (第41期考題) 


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


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


46. 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) 


47. In the Indian culture, cows are thought to be _____ animals. They are respected in religious activities. (第42期考題) 


48. To pay his way through college, Allen takes a couple of part-time jobs, one of _____ is tutoring elementary school students. (第37期考題) 


49. _____ 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) 


50.

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