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1(B).

Hong Kong has lost its sky. The city is frequently _____6_____ in a noxious smog, and many days the only place you can see a clear shot of the famously picturesque skyline is in ads for luxury apartments. Urban esthetics _____7_____ , the damage to Hong Kong residents’ lungs may be worse. “The only safe conclusion is that air pollution is having a very serious _____8_____ effect on the health of people of all ages,” says Dr. Anthony Hedley, chairman of the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. The only good news is that air pollution has become so severe that Hong Kongers are finally ready to force their leaders to act. And the city’s business community is pushing for solutions. The answers are out there: the government’s Council for Sustainable Development in early May 2006 released a number of smart anti-pollution _____9_____ , such as restricting vehicle use on high-pollution days, and asking electricity producers to use only clean coal or low-polluting natural gas by 2010. In the meantime, many experts doubt whether Hong Kong’s bureaucracy has the imagination or the will to implement those ideas. Christine Loh, CEO of the local think tank Civic Exchange, says that they just do not have the kind of political leadership now.
【題組】7
(A)apart
(B)aside
(C)besides
(D)combined

2(B).

7 Arriving for an appointment with his old friends, Grandpa, at age 75, strode in with the bounce of a man half his age.
(A)Grandpa was making an appointment with a friend half his age.
(B)My 75-year-old grandpa strode and bounced with an old friend half his age.
(C)My 75-year-old grandpa, being healthy and energetic, walked like a man half his age to meet his old friends.
(D)Grandpa was so excited to have an appointment with a young man half his age.

3(B).

A big goal of advertising is to increase your consumption. Everyone needs to consume; we all need to eat, drink and buy basic necessities. But a lot of advertising is aimed at convincing us that we should have much more than we need. This involves encouraging us to throw out possessions that are still good or which could be recycled, _____39_____ extra things we may never use. This excess consumption not only _____40_____ the world’s resources but also increases pollution and waste. Children born today in London or New York, for example, will consume, pollute, and waste fifty times more than children born in a developing country. It’s estimated that more than 1.7 billion people make up the world’s consumer society: people who have more money to spend than _____41_____ to cover their basic needs. This number is increasing every year. But these 1.7 billion do not spend _____42_____ . A fifth of the world’s population, mostly people in Japan, North America, and Europe, are responsible for 90 percent of consumption.
【題組】41
(A)have required
(B)are requiring
(C)required
(D)requiring

4(B).

38 The first comprehensive system for nationwide ______ was instituted by France for the Napoleonic wars that followed the French Revolution.
(A) conscription
(B) description
(C) inscription
(D) prescription

5(B).

A variety of preventive measures are now _____ in order to minimize the potential damage caused by the deadly disease.
(A) by birth
(B) at will
(C) in place
(D) on call

6(B).

31 The danger of heart disease is a family affair. Women whose husbands suffer a heart attack often_____ to share many of their husbands’ cardiovascular risk factors.
(A) turn out
(B) make sense
(C) lose out
(D) take pains

7(B).

62 Where a company that publicly issues shares or corporate bonds suspends its business or there is an expectation that such company will suspend its business due to financial difficulty, but there remains a possibility for such company may be re-constructed or rehabilitated, such company or any of the interested parties may apply to the court for_________ .
(A) liquidation
(B) consolidation
(C) dissolution
(D) reorganization

8(B).

31 Gold has a _______ beauty that is resistant to corrosion; therefore, it is suitable for making jewelry.
(A)lush
(B)lucid
(C)lustrous
(D)luscious

9(B).

請依下文回答第 25 題至第 27 題 As California psychologist Wendy Mogel points out in The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, today’s parents seemto care a great deal about their children feeling good—and often forget to teach them about being good. Onestriking characteristic of children who have been given too much is a blunted sense of empathy for others,although they have finely tuned concern for themselves. Indulged children make bad roommates and even worsespouses. The guiding principle of parenting here—that the child has to be happy no matter what, and the corollarythat more will make them happier—has become well ingrained. The result is an entitled and petulant set of adultchildren and an increasingly resentful group of parents. Erik Erikson, the late psychologist who described thestages of development over a person’s life span, characterized late childhood as one of industry versus inferiority.Children learn both who they are and who they are not by trying, and then either succeeding or failing. They alsodevelop resilience—the invaluable ability to bounce back from the inevitable slings and arrows of life. Too oftentoday, parents’ largesse deprives the child of this sense of exerting his or her own power.
【題組】26 According to the passage, what is the priceless ability that children develop by trying to solve problems?
(A)Diligence
(B)Elasticity
(C)Stability
(D)Resistance

10(B).

31 Please read the author’s____ on pages i-iii before beginning to read the novel.
(A) prologue
(B) epilogue
(C) dialogue
(D) catalogue

11(B).

40 Tom: Hey, Jane. How’re you doing?

Jane: I’m okay, Tom, thanks____.

Tom: Not much. I’ll be glad when final exams are over.
(A) How are you?
(B) How do you do?
(C) What’s new?
(D) Why are you happy?

12(B).

24 The city has made great strides in tourism:_________ its abundant historical sites, temples, and religious festivals, it boasts a myriad of local culinary delights.
(A) because of
(B) despite
(C) in addition to
(D) just as

13(B).

7 What___________ an environment disaster is fortunately prevented because the newest detecting machine proves to be working.
(A) do we call
(B) should be
(C) shouldn’t have been
(D) could have been

14(B).

33 The ATA carnet is an international Customs document that a traveler may use temporarily to import certain goods into a country. It also serves as a security that participating countries accept as a________ against the payment of Customs duties may be due for temporary admission.
(A)deposit
(B)guarantee
(C)mortgage
(D)warranty

15(B).

請依下文回答第 44 題至第 47 題

Some 66m years ago Earth was hit by a space rock reckoned to have been 10km across. The resulting chaos caused the extinction of dinosaurs and many other species, opening the way for the age of mammals－and ultimately humans. It also left a big hole in what is now southern Mexico. That hole is one of only three known of similar dimensions (the other two are Vredefort in South Africa and Sudbury in Canada). And this is odd. For, during the billions of years that Earth has had a solid crust, many more than three big asteroids might have been expected to have hit it.

That thought led Brandon Johnson of the MIT and Timothy Bowling of Purdue University in Indiana, to wonder how many other craters have vanished, either by erosion or by being swallowed into Earth’s interior as its crust moves around, and therefore whether it is likely that some have survived and been overlooked. They have just published their analysis in Geology.

Earth’s crust formed more than 4 billion years ago, but the oldest surviving blocks of it large enough to harbor craters date back only 3.5 billion years. What is known of the sizes and orbits of modern asteroids suggests that, if things have not changed over the aeons, about 14 big asteroids (defined as having a diameter of more than 7.4km, which would cause a crater at least 85km in diameter) should hit Earth every billion years. That means 49, give or take seven, over the past 3.5 billion years. Such impacts may have been more common in the past, when more big asteroids were around. Allowing for this, Earth would have been hit by 113, give or take 11, of them. Either way, a lot of craters are missing.

【題組】44 How large is the crater created in southern Mexico by the asteroid 66m years ago?
(A)10km across in diameter.
(B)85km in diameter.
(C)7.4km in diameter.
(D)Not mentioned in the article.

16(B).

63. I’m busy now. I’m sorry I can’t help _____ the flowers. 　　
(A) watering 　　　　　
(B) watered　　
(C) waters 　　　　　　
(D) to water

17(B).

174. According to government regulations, if employees are unable to work because of a serious illness,they are ______ to take an extended sick leave.
(A) adapted
(B) entitled
(C) oriented
(D) intimidated

18(B).

6 El Niño has helped _____ drought in many parts of the world, leaving millions hungry.
(A)trigger
(B)sustain
(C)energize
(D)instigate

19(B).

20. The old computer system was fairly complicated to operate _____ the new one is very simple.
(A)however
(B)despite
(C)while
(D)compared to

20(B).

38 If you _____ to your sister, she might have forgiven you.
(A) apologize
(B) apologized
(C) had apologized
(D) have apologized

21(B).

40 The suspect said that he was innocent and should be ________ from the lawsuit.
(A) disputed
(B) disgusted
(C) disinfected
(D) dismissed

22(B).

請依下文回答第 16 題至第 20 題
Issues concerning women’s bodily integrity and autonomy, such as abortion, rape, and sterilization, are subject to strong opinions that give rise to equally charged political policies. As with other issues pertaining to women’s bodies, prostitution discourse is largely concerned with determining whether this social practice is exploitative, empowering, or a consequence of immorality.
Prostitution is here defined as a social practice by which men gain sexual access to the bodies of predominantly women, children, and sometimes other men, through the exchange of money, goods, or housing.Prostitution, as a social construct, arises from “men’s dominance and women’s subordination.”
Most people take one of three salient positions on prostitution. The first position argues that prostitution is a consequence of deficient moral character. This position draws heavily from patriarchal and religious traditions that equate female sexuality with temptation and male sexuality with dominance and sanctioned insatiability. The second position, the “sex work” position, asserts that prostitution is a valid form of labor and argues that prostitution is not inherently harmful to women. This position further contends that women have aright to decide what they will do with their bodies and that sex work, though oppressive for some, is potentially both lucrative and empowering for other women. The third position asserts that prostitution is a consequence of social, political, and economic inequality and argues that women are predominantly conscripted into prostitution because of their social vulnerability. Political regulation of prostitution activity varies according to each nation’s underlying economic and social justice commitments.
【題組】20 Why may prostitution be argued to empower women?
(A) Prostituted women could endure extensive sexual and physical violence.
(B) Sex work is potentially harmful in that it is lucrative.
(C) Women could liberate their body as they please.
(D) Prostitution reflects women’s demand for social justice.

23(B).

44 I was entrusted to_______ to a local newspaper article analyzing the stock market.
(A)divert
(B)relate
(C)convert
(D)contribute

24(B).

49 After a long time of strike, the corporation finally _____ the wage increase to the workers.
(A) confessed
(B) conceded
(C) concluded
(D) succeeded

25(B).

39 Firearms ______ nearly 19% of childhood deaths in 2021, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
(A) counted against
(B) accounted by
(C) counted down
(D) accounted for