17.
(A) adaptability
(B) accessibility
(C) discerning
(D) adversity

13. The 62-year-old Richard Slayman is the first patient to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig successfully, the procedure of which has been _______ as a historic milestone in transplantation, bringing the prospect of xenotransplantation, or animal-to-human organ transplants, significantly closer to reality, said Dr. David Klassen, the chief medical officer for the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages the organ transplant system in the U.S. (A) confiscated (B) disseminated (C) heralded (D) procrastinated

14. Unlike ________ who believe choices are inherently good or bad, the disgraced mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, generally known as SBF, was an altruist and consequentialist who held not only that donating lots of money to philanthropies that had strong evidence for their effectiveness was altruistic but also that the outcome of an action determined whether it was good or bad. (A) deontologists (B) orthopedists (C) transcendentalists (D) paleontologists

15. To address the issue of curbing carbon emissions, Taiwan has decided to adopt a carbon “fee” rather than a carbon “tax” approach starting in 2025 to encourage businesses and industries to reduce their output of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, where a carbon “tax” will be collected by the Ministry of Finance, with the tax revenues going into state _______ for use in the general budget, while a carbon “fee” would be collected by the Ministry of Environment with the fee revenues designated for specific uses, depending on which government authority collects the fee. (A) coffers (B) embezzlers (C) chauffeurs (D) grumblers

16. (A) gig (B) failure (C) objective (D) luxury

18. (A) credits (B) credited (C) to credit (D) crediting

19. (A) variables (B) variety (C) varies (D) variations

20. (A) emancipate (B) suffocate (C) inoculate (D) proliferate

21. (A) tainted (B) suctioned (C) eviscerated (D) scrutinized

22. (A) forbearance (B) surveillance (C) vengeance (D) repugnance

23. (A) Brush up on (B) Cut to the chase (C) Run up against (D) Steer clear of