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選擇題 (40)

1. Zoe is described as a/an ______ reader of horror and suspense.

(A) epic

(B) avid

(C) civic

(D) arid
2. According to the news report, the ______ effect of the war is a global mass starvation crisis.

(A) dapple

(B) cripple

(C) ripple

(D) grapple
3. Experienced product managers know how to ______ their bright ideas into sellable products.

(A) translate

(B) transpose

(C) transport

(D) transform
4. As Artificial Intelligence becomes more penetrating and prevalent, people are afraid that their working life may become increasingly robotic, ______, and monotonous.

(A) fascinating

(B) exploding

(C) unceasing

(D) alienating
5. The pandemic reveals and worsens existing ______ lines in our society, particularly economic inequality.

(A) fault

(B) vault

(C) rout

(D) bout
6. The authority has urged ______ and promised to step up patrols around public gathering places after the terror attack.

(A) valance

(B) violence

(C) vigilance

(D) virulence
7. Government economists cautioned that the government might face the prospect of collapsing revenues and a/an ______ economy.

(A) imploding

(B) excluding

(C) rewarding

(D) embedding
8. The defense attorney claimed that the case would ______ to testimony about DNA evidence.

(A) bow down

(B) back down

(C) buckle down

(D) boil down
9. Empirical evidence indicates that hospital stays might be longer, and Covid occupancy of ICU beds would start to ______.

(A) build up

(B) creep up

(C) lock up

(D) show up
10. According to research, resistant people have several characteristics that help them ______ life's challenges.

(A) overreact

(B) overcast

(C) overcome

(D) overthrow

# II. Choose the underlined word or phrase that must be changed for the sentences to be correct.(10%)
11. The pandemic (A) hit the (B) economies of this region harder than almost anywhere else in the world, (C) kicked 5 million people (D) out of the middle class in a single year.
12. In (A) the early 1980s, an (B) advocate for the homeless took to (C) say that there were (D) about 2 million homeless Americans.
13. More than (A) a third of parents said they planned to see how the vaccine (B) works in other children, and 27 (C) percents reported they would "definitely not" have their children (D) vaccinated.
14. The (A) announced value of the deals (B) totaled about $21 (C) billion. Bloomberg data (D) shows.
15. People now spend a lower (A) share of their income (B) on clothing than ever before, but the number of items (C) purchased each year (D) have ballooned.



III. Cloze: Choose the most appropriate answer from the four options given.(20%)

# A Cloud-Based Restaurant Revolution: Just Kitchen

An excerpt in Taiwan Panorama by Wu Ching-wen/ tr. By Scott Williams

While Covid-19 has devastated the revenues of dine-in restaurants, it has also facilitated the emergence and rapid growth of cloud kitchens. In the years before the pandemic, most food delivery platforms offered only a limited menu, and few top-tier restaurants provided any kind of delivery option at all. But the pandemic has brought changes to food delivery, greatly expanding the offerings of "order online" platforms.

Surprisingly, even as Taiwan's mid-2021 Covid outbreak _16_ and people returned to restaurant dining rooms, many _17_ chose to retain their online offerings. According to a 2021 whitepaper by iChef, a Taiwanese provider of point-of-sale systems to restaurants, revenues from deliveries grew from only 2.5% of restaurant sales in the fourth quarter of 2019, just before the pandemic started, to 10% of revenues in the fourth quarter of 2021, when Taiwan had very few _18_ Covid cases. The latter figure suggests that consumer behavior has changed, and that food services have now entered the digital era.

# The rise of cloud kitchens

With no physical storefront and no established business reputation, how do cloud kitchens, also known as "ghost kitchens," _19_ members of the public to place orders with them? Food writer Yeh Yilan believes that trust in the brand is _20_. She explains that when an already well-known and well-regarded dine-in restaurant launches a delivery service, the brand's reputation gives consumers the confidence to give it a try. New brands, on the other hand, must create consumer _21_ through their brand's values. For example, "Many cloud kitchens offer low-calorie or low-glycemic-index meals. The key selling point of such meals is their 'healthiness,' a value that _22_ office workers. For these consumers, the meals' taste is a secondary consideration."

Cloud kitchens are hardly the first restaurants to standardize and automate food and beverage production processes. In fact, chain restaurants and fast-food restaurants have been doing so for years. But cloud kitchens have differentiated themselves by _23_ personal service to the _24_ minimum, creating even clearer and more standardized production lines. "While there is a market necessity for this kind of thing," says Yeh, "people expect more from dine-in restaurants, such as when they gather with friends on the weekend." Cloud kitchens aiming to deliver restaurant-quality meals have to _25_ higher standards.
16. (A) awaited

(B) abated

(C) abetted

(D) abutted
17. (A) establishments

(B) endorsements

(C) arrangements

(D) assessments
18. (A) dogmatic

(B) interior

(C) adjacent

(D) domestic
19. (A) allude

(B) dissuade

(C) persuade

(D) elude
20. (A) paragraph

(B) parasite

(C) paramount

(D) parable
21. (A) identification

(B) certification

(C) education

(D) citation
22. (A) adheres to

(B) aims to

(C) adjusts to

(D) appeals to
23. (A) eliminating

(B) decreasing

(C) reducing

(D) confirming
24. (A) rare

(B) bare

(C) fare

(D) hare
25. (A) meet

(B) invent

(C) show

(D) target



IV. Article Completion(10%)

Read the passage. For questions 26-30, choose the most appropriate answer from the given sentence choices ABCD below.

For more than 25 years, Richard Youins struggled to find help with his drug addiction. Youins is from New Haven, Conn., home to both Yale University and a number of less affluent neighborhoods—his community has been shaken by murders and drug-related crimes during the pandemic. 26 The needs "of our community weren't being addressed," says Youins, who is Black. "It wasn't realistic."

27 "After hanging out and spending all my money on a Saturday night, I would feel so ashamed I wanted to go and talk to God," but doing so felt out of reach because he felt unwelcome in church settings, and the services available to him did not cultivate that type of much needed support network, he says. 28 "It's a trying time," he says.

29 As difficult as the pandemic has been, however, it hit some groups far harder than others. 30 Those in rural America, already less likely to receive mental health care than those in urban areas, were particularly hard hit. So were people of color, who are more likely to be hospitalized and die from COVID and are less likely to receive mental health care compared with white people. And for those who were unhoused or formerly incarcerated, the consequences have been profound.

(https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mental-health-care-should-be-available-for-all-not-a-huxury/)
26.(A) Youins felt that traditional mental health care ignores the social, economic, emotional and faith-based needs of underserved communities.
(B) Now sober, Youins works as a peer-support specialist with the Connecticut Mental Health Center and has seen how COVID worsened mental health challenges in his city.
(C) It exacerbated social and economic inequities already known to drive and sustain poor mental health among marginalized communities.
(D) Substance use clinics and treatment sites were available, but he felt the care they provided overlooked who he was as a person.
(E) Rates of mental illness were already high in the U.S., but the pandemic intensified everything: Illness, loneliness, job loss, grief, and other stressors related to COVID induced a nationwide rise in anxiety and depression.
27.(A) Youins felt that traditional mental health care ignores the social, economic, emotional and faith-based needs of underserved communities.
(B) Now sober, Youins works as a peer-support specialist with the Connecticut Mental Health Center and has seen how COVID worsened mental health challenges in his city.
(C) It exacerbated social and economic inequities already known to drive and sustain poor mental health among marginalized communities.
(D) Substance use clinics and treatment sites were available, but he felt the care they provided overlooked who he was as a person.
(E) Rates of mental illness were already high in the U.S., but the pandemic intensified everything: Illness, loneliness, job loss, grief, and other stressors related to COVID induced a nationwide rise in anxiety and depression.
28.(A) Youins felt that traditional mental health care ignores the social, economic, emotional and faith-based needs of underserved communities.
(B) Now sober, Youins works as a peer-support specialist with the Connecticut Mental Health Center and has seen how COVID worsened mental health challenges in his city.
(C) It exacerbated social and economic inequities already known to drive and sustain poor mental health among marginalized communities.
(D) Substance use clinics and treatment sites were available, but he felt the care they provided overlooked who he was as a person.
(E) Rates of mental illness were already high in the U.S., but the pandemic intensified everything: Illness, loneliness, job loss, grief, and other stressors related to COVID induced a nationwide rise in anxiety and depression.
29.(A) Youins felt that traditional mental health care ignores the social, economic, emotional and faith-based needs of underserved communities.
(B) Now sober, Youins works as a peer-support specialist with the Connecticut Mental Health Center and has seen how COVID worsened mental health challenges in his city.
(C) It exacerbated social and economic inequities already known to drive and sustain poor mental health among marginalized communities.
(D) Substance use clinics and treatment sites were available, but he felt the care they provided overlooked who he was as a person.
(E) Rates of mental illness were already high in the U.S., but the pandemic intensified everything: Illness, loneliness, job loss, grief, and other stressors related to COVID induced a nationwide rise in anxiety and depression.
30.(A) Youins felt that traditional mental health care ignores the social, economic, emotional and faith-based needs of underserved communities.
(B) Now sober, Youins works as a peer-support specialist with the Connecticut Mental Health Center and has seen how COVID worsened mental health challenges in his city.
(C) It exacerbated social and economic inequities already known to drive and sustain poor mental health among marginalized communities.
(D) Substance use clinics and treatment sites were available, but he felt the care they provided overlooked who he was as a person.
(E) Rates of mental illness were already high in the U.S., but the pandemic intensified everything: Illness, loneliness, job loss, grief, and other stressors related to COVID induced a nationwide rise in anxiety and depression.


V. Reading Comprehension: Read the following passages and choose the best answer to each question.(40%)

Questions 31-35 are about the following book review :

Book Review - Between the World and Me

An excerpt of a book review by Michelle Alexander

For the past several years, I've greeted Ta-Nehisi Coates's essays and blog posts for The Atlantic with nothing short of gratitude. As an African American, he makes me proud. There is no other way to put it. I do not always agree with him, but it hardly matters. In a media world populated with pundits, so-called experts and public intellectuals driven by ego and familiar agendas, Coates's voice stands nearly alone — a black man raised in the streets of Baltimore who narrowly escaped the violence that lurked around every corner and dodged the clutches of the prisons and jails that were built for him, and who now speaks unpopular, unconventional and sometimes even radical truths in his own voice, unfiltered. He is invariably humble, yet subtly defiant. And people listen.

So when I heard that Coates had been inspired, after rereading James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time," to write his own version for the current era, I was overjoyed. As a civil rights lawyer, activist, legal scholar and mother of three black children, I could not wait to read what Coates had to say to black young people at this moment in our history, a time when many are struggling to make sense of how frequently black lives can be destroyed legally through incessant police violence and mass incarceration. I imagined that Coates's new book would make plain for young people what is truly at stake in the struggle and disabuse them of the prevailing myths that breed complacency, defeatism or inaction.



I had to read "Between the World and Me" twice before I was able to decide whether Coates actually did what I expected and hoped he would. He did not. Maybe that's a good thing.

"The Fire Next Time" was first published in 1963, a time when the prevailing racial order was being challenged by young activists on a scale and with a fervor not seen since the Civil War. The first several pages of the book are styled in the form of a letter to Baldwin's 15-year-old nephew, offering advice about how to navigate the world he has been born into with black skin. Baldwin implores his nephew to awaken to his own dignity, humanity and power, and accept his responsibility to help "make America what it must become."

"Between the World and Me" carries a very different message, though it is also written in the form of a letter to a black teenage boy. The boy is Coates's 15-year-old son, who — like Baldwin's nephew — is trying to make sense of blatant racial injustice and come to grips with his place in a world that refuses to guarantee for him the freedoms that so many others take for granted.

"I write you in your 15th year," Coates states in the early pages. "And you know now, if you did not before, that the police departments of your country have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body. ... I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life, and the pursuit of this question, I have found, ultimately answers itself."

One of the great virtues of both books is that they are not addressed to white people. The usual hedging and filtering and softening and overall distortion that seems to happen automatically — even unconsciously — when black people attempt to speak about race to white people in public is absent.

But here we reach a fork in the road. Baldwin, in writing to his nephew, does not deny the pain and horror of American notions of justice — far from it — but he repeatedly emphasizes the young man's power and potential and urges him to believe that revolutionary change is possible.

Coates's letter to his son seems to be written on the opposite side of the same coin. Rather than urging his son to awaken to his own power, Coates emphasizes over and over the apparent permanence of racial injustice in America, the foolishness of believing that one person can make a change. In what will almost certainly be the most widely quoted passage, Coates tells his son: "Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body — it is heritage."
31. What is the book genre of "Between the World and Me"?

(A) True crime
(B) Historical fiction
(C) Fantasy
(D) Memoir
32. What does the word "incarceration" in paragraph 2 refer to?

(A) Improvement
(B) Enlightenment
(C) Imprisonment
(D) Embodiment
33. Who was "Between the World and Me" addressed to?

(A) The author's nephew
(B) White people
(C) Critics
(D) The author's son
34. What is the theme of the book "Between the World and Me"?

(A) Power relation
(B) Racial injustice
(C) Legal system
(D) Public welfare
35. What is the reviewer's attitude toward the book?

(A) Cautious
(B) Skeptical
(C) Empathetic
(D) Sympathetic



Questions 36-40 are about the following letter:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to express my dismay at the service at your Eden Hill branch on Saturday 14 January.

I often collect prescriptions from the pharmacy on behalf of my grandmother, Mrs Elaine Bingham. On this occasion there were two prescriptions: one for 10 x 50 mg Kendomol and one for 50 x 100 mg Leoprone. I was served quickly even though there appeared to be only one pharmacist on duty. However, as I was leaving I saw that I had been given 500 mg tablets of Kendomol. This is ten times stronger than the prescription called for.

If I hadn't noticed the difference between the prescription and the actual tablets, my grandmother could have taken a dangerous overdose of Kendomol. I would be worried about getting any future prescriptions at Eden Hill.

The pharmacist apologised and corrected the mistake but I wanted to bring it to your attention. I think it happened because there were not enough staff on duty. I understand that mistakes happen but there needs to be a minimum of two pharmacists at all times so all prescriptions can be checked.

I hope you can take steps to make sure this mistake does not happen again.

Yours faithfully,

Roger Bingham

(https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing)
36. What is the purpose of this letter?

(A) To ask for a refund
(B) To file a complaint
(C) To ask for an exchange
(D) To file a lawsuit
37. Who is the recipient of this letter?

(A) The pharmacy owner
(B) The pharmacy supervisor
(C) The pharmacist
(D) None of the above
38. The word "dismay" in this letter is closest in meaning to ______?

(A)angry
(B) scared
(C) unhappy
(D) nervous
39. Which of the following is true based on the letter?

(A) The customer wanted to punish the pharmacist.
(B) The pharmacist refused to correct the mistake.
(C) The actual tablets were ten times stronger than the prescription.
(D) None of the above.
40. Which of the following can be inferred from the letter?

(A) The pharmacy will be closed.
(B) The customer will be sued.
(C) The pharmacist will be fired.
(D) More pharmacists will be on duty.

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