23.
(A) raises
(B) lessens
(C) excludes
(D) questions

19. I _______ in Taipei for five years by the end of this month. (A) am living (B) have lived (C) will live (D) will have lived

20. Elvis Presley is a famous American singer and actor, _______ is known to everyone. (A) as (B) it (C) so (D) what

21. Many international students like to study at National Taiwan University, _______ the faculty and facilities are top-notch. (A) that (B) which (C) whose (D) of which

22. Which of the following sentences is grammatically CORRECT? (A) Vegetarian meals have few calories, they are also healthy. (B) The flavor of the Dutch chocolate ice cream is better than the white chocolate. (C) While driving into town, it suddenly occurred to Mark that he had forgotten his suitcase. (D) Dr. Grabe's article, which I think everyone should read, is optimistic about the future use of alternative energy. III: Rational Cloze (40%) Choose the best answer for each missing word or phrase in the following excerpted passages. Passage 1: Questions 23-26 Scientists in Washington University School of Medicine have shown that treating the parasite reduces lung damage seen in mice that also are infected with tuberculosis, thereby eliminating the vulnerability to tuberculosis (TB) that the parasite is known to cause. The study _______ (23) the possibility of using inexpensive and widely available anti-parasitic drugs as a preventive measure in places where the parasite and TB are common. Public health experts estimate that one-third of the world's population is infected with TB. Most of these infections are not active and cause no symptoms because individuals' immune systems are effective at (24) it. According to the researchers, people with latent tuberculosis infections have a 10 percent lifetime risk of developing active TB. And that risk may go up when people are infected with a type of parasitic worm called helminths, which are common in parts of the world (25) TB is also widespread. Shabaana A. Khader and her colleagues recently found that the parasite activates a type of immune cell that drives inflammation rather than (26) the immune response that protects against active TB. They also found that individual genetics play a role in the type of immune response - protective or inflammatory - the body mounts against TB, even in the absence of the parasite. Their findings are informing efforts to produce a TB vaccine.

24. (A) containing (B) convicting (C) consenting (D) confounding

25. (A) why (B) that (C) where (D) how

26. (A) detesting (B) enchanting (C) inhibiting (D) assimilating Passage 2: Questions 27-31 Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in (27) with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid and teach himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything (28) is (29) the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story and doomed — love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. The writer's duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him (30) the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely (31) the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

27. (A) contact (B) conflict (C) conformity (D) connection

28. (A) or (B) and (C) but (D) with

29. (A) ephemeral (B) expedient (C) eccentric (D) efficacious