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1(B).

Of all Modernism’s tenets, few have been more “revered” than the assembly line. Its crisp efficiency was a template for everything. The new BMW plant in Leipzig serves as an antidote to just that sort of uniformity. A boomerang-shaped industrial shed with rows of cars streaming on curving tracks, it is less a model of efficiency than a machine for voyeuristic pleasure. Moreover, the plant is an attempt at social engineering. Its architect subverts the sequential order of manufacturing by having each car loop back through the central building, where workers can survey their work. Engineers and workers are in constant contact, too, mingling in the corridors and the cafeteria, which breaks down the hierarchy. Because each car is routed on its way from the body shop to the paint shop or final assembly plant, you witness them in all their various stages. At certain points, the cars stop and revolve on enormous turntables before heading off in a new direction. The movements suggest mechanical ballet. Leipzig plant is thus the flagship of BMW that provides customized services. Very subtly, the free flow of information replaces the monotony of the assembly line; individual needs rule over bland repetition; and machines are at the service of man.

【題組】How is the new Leipzig assembly plant also an attempt at social engineering?
(A) By introducing art into manufacture
(B) By constantly focusing on the machines
(C) By bringing down the barrier between workers and engineers
(D) By breaking up the monotonous shape of factory buildings

2(B).

A good teacher is many things to many people. I suppose everyone has his definite ideas about what a good teacher is. As I look back on my own experience, I find the teachers that I respect and think about the most are those who demanded the most discipline from their students. I think of one teacher in particular that I had in high school. I think he was a good teacher because he was a very strict person. He just tolerated no kind of nonsense at all in his classroom. I remember very vividly a sign over his classroom door. It was a simple sign that said, “Laboratory – in this room the first five letters of the word are emphasized, not the last seven.”
【題組】What did the author’s high school teacher stress more?
(A) Labor.
(B) Good speech.
(C) Kindness.
(D) Tolerance.

3(B).

Our Premier Vincent Siew said at a Cabinet meeting, "During my tenure, it will not be ___ for anyone to illegally possess guns. As long as I stay, I will keep acting to wipe out crime."
(A) possible
(B) permissible
(C) invariable
(D) ridiculous

4(B).

This department is responsible for providing the fleet with ___.
(A) munitions
(B) mutations
(C) movements
(D) motions

5(B).

The old man is hard ___ hearing. (=deaf)
(A) of
(B) on
(C) in
(D) at

6(B).

In modern times, many traditional concepts have ________ new ideas.
(A) found a way of
(B) changed the way of
(C) given way to
(D) had a way of

7(B).

Human rights are fundamental rights to which a person is ________ entitled, that is, rights that she or he is born with.
(A) inherently
(B) imperatively
(C) authentically
(D) alternatively

8(B).

14 When his son was caught cheating in the exam, he had to _____ his pride and meet the principal.
(A)surrender
(B)swallow
(C)resign
(D)retire

9(B).

第 42 題至第 46 題為題組 In earlier time periods, the absence of dramatic transition to adult life allowed a more intensive interaction among different age groups within the family and the community, thus providing a greater sense of continuity and interdependence among people at various stages of life. But, as greater differentiation in stages of life began to develop, social and economic functions became more closely related to age, and the ages of family members became more streamlined, a greater segregation between age groups emerged. The major changes that have led to the isolation of older people in society today were rooted not so much in changes in family structure or residential arrangements, as has generally been argued, as in the transformation and redefinition of family functions and values. Under the impact of industrialization, the family surrendered many of the functions previously concentrated within the household to other social institutions. The retreat and growing privatism of the modern middle-class family led to the drawing of sharper boundaries between family and community and intensified the segregation of different age groups within the family, leading to the elimination of older people from visible family roles. The transfer of social-welfare functions, one concentrated in the family, to institutions in the larger society further contributed to the segregation of older people. The care of dependent, sick, delinquent, and elderly members of the community, which had been considered part of the family’s obligation in the pre-industrial period, was gradually transferred to specialized institution such as asylums and reformatories. The family ceased to be the only available source of support for its dependent members, and the community ceased to rely on the family as the major agency of welfare and social control.
【題組】42 Why did people in the earlier period have a better familial interaction and a greater sense of interdependence than people in today’s society?
(A) Because most family functions were not clearly segregated by age.
(B) Because there were more elderly people in the family.
(C) Because each family member had a clearly-defined role to play.
(D) Because there were greater differentiations among age groups.

10(B).

32 Income ______ is a serious social problem worldwide. The gap between the world’s rich and poor is widening drastically.
(A) disparity
(B) indifference
(C) shrinkage
(D) outrage

11(B).

31.The new chemical will 　　　 all the insects in the house.
(A) exterminate
(B) prosecute
(C) quench
(D) stimulate

12(B).

31 Even though this small study in mice shows__________ , researchers still have a long way to go before human trials can begin.
(A) crime
(B) promise
(C) regression
(D) travel

13(B).

24 If I had studied medicine in my school days, I _____ a doctor now.
(A) am
(B) will be
(C) would be
(D) would have been

14(B).

39 In many small offices, office management matters are too trivial ____
the chief executive’s attention, so the responsibility of maintaining office functions should be delegated to the head clerk or secretary.
(A) for
(B) to be
(C) as
(D) about

15(B).

49 After losing his Managing Director job in the company he had worked 15 years for, Alan experienced firsthand that nobody was __________ in his company.
(A) capable
(B) affordable
(C) indispensable
(D) comprehensible

16(B).

9 The landslide in some mountainous areas has_________ in the last few years.
(A) intensified
(B) interrupted
(C) intervened
(D) intrigued

17(B).

32 The authorities concerned investigate banks and brokers_________ of discriminating against minority applicants who need loans to buy houses.
(A)comprised
(B)deprived
(C)reminded
(D)suspected

18(B).

請依下文回答第 44 題至第 47 題：

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now. They hoped that I would take a vocational degree, but I wanted to study English literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents’ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor. I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

【題組】47 What of the following is closest in meaning to the word “compromise”?
(A)expectation
(B)compassion
(C)concession
(D)exploration

19(B).

第 47 題至第 50 題為題組 A suspension bridge is a type of bridge that use overhead cables to support its roadway. The design of asuspension bridge is simple and straightforward, and uses several architectural techniques to distribute the weight ofthe bridge safely and evenly. The construction of a suspension bridge starts with its towers, which are usually located on dry land and anchoredto bedrock. Once the towers are built, master cables are strung across them and anchored into the bank at both ends ofthe bridge. Next, suspension cables are strung from the master cables, and then the deck used as roadway is attached tothem. Most of the weight of the bridge is transferred by the cables to the anchorage systems. These are embedded ineither solid rock or huge concrete blocks. Inside the anchorages, the cables are spread over a large area to evenlydistribute the load and to prevent the cables from breaking free. One of the oldest engineering forms, suspension bridges were constructed by primitive peoples using thick vinesfor cables. A much stronger type was introduced in India around 400 A.D. that used cables of braided bamboo. In theearly nineteenth century, suspension bridges used iron chains for cables. Today, the cables are made of thousands ofindividual steel wires bound tightly together. A single steel wire, only 0.1 inch thick, can support over half a ton ofweight without breaking. Light and strong, a suspension bridge could span distances from 2,000 to 7,000 feet, which is much longer thanany other kind of bridge could. Its simple design allows high clearance under the deck, useful when the bridge is builtover a major shipping waterway or a very deep gulf. A suspension bridge is also less subjected to collapse than someother bridge types such as those built on support pillars.
【題組】 50 What’s the main idea of this passage?
(A) To explain how a suspension bridge is built.
(B) To introduce the origin of modern suspension bridges.
(C) To summarize previous findings on suspension bridges.
(D) To compare a suspension bridge with other types of bridges.

20(B).

21 After the trip to the desert, the car was covered with a layer of dust. It needed_____ .
(A) wash
(B) to wash
(C) to be washing
(D) washing

21(B).

23. The car accident left an ______scar on his face.He has been upset since then.
(A) forever
(B)eternal
(C)everlasting
(D)permanent

22(B).

389. The pilot was applauded for apparently ______ the plane with 53 passengers and five crew members on board away from highly populated areas, preventing more potential deaths and damage.
(A) steering
(B) dominating
(C) hovering
(D) overriding

23(B).

36 Malaria was believed to be on the verge of _____ when people thought that the introduction of insecticides signaled the end of the malaria-carrying mosquito.
(A) persuasion
(B) eradication
(C) domination
(D) contamination

24(B).

請依下文回答第 31 題至第 35 題：
Public demands and cries for vengeance disguised as justice were rampant and harrowing. Signs,rallies in front of the courthouses, editorials—all seemed unassuageable by anything less than the culprit’sbeheading. T. Jackson joined the chorus but was not impressed by so facile a solution. What he wantedwas not the man’s death, but his life afflicted with remorse and pain without end. Wasn’t there a tribe inAfrica that lashed the dead body to the back of the one who had murdered it? That would certainly bejustice—to carry the rotting corpse around as a physical burden as well as public shame and damnation.The rage, the public clamor upon the conviction of the nicest man in the world, shook him as much as hisbrother’s death. The trial itself was not long but the preliminaries seemed eternal to him. Throughout thedays of newspaper headlines, talk radio and neighborhood gossip he struggled to find some way to freezeand individualize his feelings, to separate them from the sorrow and frenzied anger of other families. Hisbrother’s calamity, he thought, was not public fare to be confined to one line in a newspaper’s list of thefew victims. It was private, belonging only to the two brothers. Two years later, a satisfactory and calmingsolution came to him. Reenacting the gesture he’d made at his brother’s funeral, he had a small rosetattooed on his left shoulder. Was this the same chair the predator sat in, the same needle used on his paste-white skin? He didn’t ask. The tattoo artist didn’t have the dazzling yellow of his memory, so they settledfor an orangish kind of red.
【題組】35 How did Jackson react to the death of his brother?
(A) He was confident in the practice of justice for the death of his brother.
(B) He joined the chorus to sing songs for his brother as a solution for his sorrow.
(C) His brother’s calamity caused him to freeze his desire for justice.
(D) He was not easily swayed by public opinions concerning justice and revenge.

25(B).

38 Most companies now rely on search engine optimization to improve visibility of their websites, _____ brand awareness and build relationships with customers and prospects.
(A)bombard
(B)bolster
(C)blunt
(D)bulge