34 One is often amazed by the speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies____ , and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed.
(A)abdicate
(B)accelerate
(C)vibrate
(D)fabricate
2 Justin is an ______ tennis player. He can hit the ball equally well with both his right hand and left hand from the baseline.
(A) ambidextrous (B) ambiguous (C) ambivalent (D) amphibian
15 To cut down on the man power, the company offered a golden _____ to many of their senior employees for early
retirement.
(A)cold shoulder (B)hand shake (C) head count (D)face lift
5 Michael Jackson had become a worldwide _____ since he was a kid, and everything he did or said would make
front-page news all over the world.
(A) appearance (B) masterpiece (C) phenomenon (D) uniqueness
12 The Country Museum has constantly inducted new members into the museum—sharing their talents and
dedication to the preservation and _____ of country arts.
(A) discrimination (B) indignation (C) manipulation (D) perpetuation
31 Montreal International Jazz Festival, now in its 35th year, was originally an _____to summer boredom.
(A) anecdote (B) antidote (C) antibiotic (D) antibody
45 Besides being a tonal language, thousands of characters and a complex writing system make learning
Chinese a_______ task.
(A) formidable (B) humanitarian (C) lucrative (D) prestigious
7 The government has actively invited_________ for construction projects to improve the investment environment.
(A) amends (B) bids (C) grins (D) outbreaks
453. Judging from his initial _____ attitude toward our proposal, we might have been over-optimistic about winning his approval.
(A) conserved
(B) preserved
(C) reserved
(D) deserved
36 As the________ of Mr. Roald Dahl’s (1916-1990) birth approaches, the author’s estate is developing at least 23
projects based on his works.
(A)anecdote (B) centennial (C) epidemic (D)missionary
35 Being the first female CEO of the company, Ellen believes that the secret to success is a long-term
commitment to working _______ because there’s no such thing as overnight success.
(A) arduously (B) furtively (C) inherently (D) marginally
38 In some African countries, scarring is considered a rite of _____, symbolizing a child turning into an adult.
(A) anniversary (B) passage (C) compassion (D) regression
37. Some academic conference events were attended because of their potential for _____ rather than as an imperative
for research.
(A)leisure (B)boycott (C)treasury (D)measure
9 When traveling along the coast, we _______ across the ruins of an old fort and enjoyed the historical
site. (A) sneaked (B) skipped (C) scrambled (D) stumbled
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】34 What is hinted at the end of the passage?
(A) The author had the same tattoo as his dead brother. (B) The predator on the author’s brother was a relative of the tattoo artist. (C) The predator was tattooed by the same artist who patterned the rose for the author. (D) The revenge is done in a way that the author was needled with the same color as the victimizer.