所屬科目:(甄試)警大◆英文
1. The ______ of the "Cry Wolf" story is that dishonesty will never pay. (A) moral (B) morale (C) mortgage (D) mortal
2. The Duke was obsessed by the fear that he might be ______ at any moment. He was afraid that he might be killed by someone. (A) admired (B) achieved (C) conspired (D) assassinated
3. Since we cannot reach any agreement now, let's ______ the meeting for a month. (A) adjust (B) relay (C) adjourn (D) recess
4. The American government's policy is to never pay ______ to terrorists. (A) rally (B) ransom (C) refund (D) revenue
5. The woman became ______ and started screaming at the top of her lungs when she found a cockroach in her clam chowder. (A) artificial (B) hysterical (C) unconvincing (D) innovative
6. In the wake of September 11, ______ in the USA, many airline employees have been laid off. (A) breakdowns (B) defeats (C) knocks (D) attacks
7. The U.S. government is looking for a few good men and women who happened to be computer hackers, not to ______ them in the fight against computer crime. (A) recruit (B) reinforce (C) suspend (D) reject
8. Scientists and forensic specialists provide a critical service for local law-enforcement officials by analyzing DNA, ballistics and other physical evidence that could make or ______ a case. (A) present (B) offer (C) break (D) cancel
9. Since there are many political parties in Taiwan, it is hard to reach a ______ on this political issue. (A) conversion (B) conference (C) constipation (D) consensus
10. Someone ______ left a note on my desk, but I had absolutely no trouble telling whose handwriting it was. (A) obediently (B) anonymously (C) superficially (D) coherently
11. Even after excruciating ______ the special agent refused to reveal any of the details of his mission to his foreign captors. (A) solitude (B) diversity (C) flattery (D) torture
12. The ______ were thrown into jail because they pushed for an all-out political reforms. (A) dissidents (B) dictators (C) donors (D) descendants
13. The hired killer ______ the gambler with a piece of rope. (A) stuttered (B) stammered (C) smuggled (D) strangled
14. The death ______ from the MAS plane crash was expected to rise. (A) throne (B) toll (C) total (D) proportion
15. The policeman ______ us when we asked for help. He did me a big favor to find the MRT station. (A) accommodated (B) replied (C) retorted (D) retreated
16. We can't use any of the public telephones round here; they've all been ______. All of them were broken. (A) vanished (B) emerged (C) verified (D) vandalized
17. In present-day Taiwan, there are at least fourteen different ______ groups. None of these is large enough to form a majority of the population. (A) ethical (B) ethnic (C) emphatic (D) empathic
18. She went in person to the office which ______ the forms and got what she wanted. (A) dissuaded (B) sprinkled (C) patrolled (D) issued
19. The government has ______ an investigation into the murder in which three people were killed. They will look into every clue they have found. (A) contended (B) concluded (C) conducted (D) confirmed
20. The bullet-proof vests were ______ to the policemen who were assigned to arrest the escaped convict. (A) deployed (B) dispatched (C) equipped (D) distributed
21. Work hard, ______ you can earn more money to support your family. (A) but (B) or (C) and (D)than
22. Smoking is no longer allowed in indoor public places, and universities must ______ smoke-free policies on their campuses. (A) debark (B) enact (C) delay (D) than
23. Food prices have ______ to record-high levels since bad weather in many parts of the world led to crops damage. (A) floated (B) glided (C) plunged (D) soared
24. To ______ how sexual -polices is defined in the workplace, companies need to hold institution-wide conversations on what constitutes sexual harassment. (A) permit (B) forbid (C) prevent (D) determine
25. The illegal drug trade is a global black market dedicated to ______ manufacturing, distribution and sale of drugs which are subjected to drug prohibition. (A) abbreviation (B) cultivation (C) jurisdiction (D) provocation
26. Human trafficking is a ______ industry. It is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable illegal industry in the world. (A) lucrative (B) mediocre (C) pertinent (D) transient
27. The jury reached a ______ of " Not guilty." (A) sentence (B) verdict (C) charge (D) lawsuit
28. Ignorance of children’s unusual behavior over time may lead to juvenile ______ (A) caution (B) diligence (C) delinquency (D) devotion
29. A ceremony was held in memory of the firefighter who ______ his life for a little girl last year. (A) saved (B) endured (C) sacrificed (D) commemorated
30. The spy was ______ from the country after he was caught and arrested. (A) relieved (B) banished (C) hibernated (D) involved
31. (A) wreck (B) incident (C) event (D) disaster
32. (A) without a question (B) without a doubt (C) without a scratch (D) without an accident
33. (A) extend (B) extensive (C) exclusive (D) excessive
34. (A) fluttered (B) flattered (C) flirted (D) flared
35. (A) fading out (B) wearing off (C) going off (D) pulling out
36. What is the main idea of the passage? (A) After two decades of lab research, gene therapy in humans has been successful in treating everything from cancer to Alzheimer's to heart disease. (B) A lot of research in gene therapy has focused on getting a gene to its destination and coaxing it to turn on once inside a cell. (C) Although research has been done on how gene therapy can help treat serious diseases, such a treatment may cause irreversible side effects and unknown consequences. (D) Viral vectors like Trojan horses slip genes into target cells undetected.
37. "Viral vectors" are _______. (A) ways with which viruses genomes are changed (B) viruses used for carrying genetic material into cells (C) the paths through which viruses move (D) immune reactions triggered by viral infection
38. What does the word "trigger" mean in the passage? (A) Activated (B) Shoot (C) Turn off (D) Plug
39. According to the passage, which of the following statement is NOT correct? (A) Genes are unable to move across cell membranes on their own. (B) Gene therapy is still in its early stages. (C) Scientists have made significant progress in taking control of viruses that carry therapeutic genes. (D) Much effort in gene therapy has been spent to deceive cells into accepting foreign genes.
40. "Leukemia" is a kind of _______. (A) cell (B) virus (C) disease (D) horse