3. Please _____ yourself from smoking and spitting in public places since the law forbids them.
(A) restrain
(B) hinder
(C) restrict
(D) prohibit
(E) control

59. Which detail of the pyramid’s design BEST showed Pei’s ideal of urban renewal? (A) The pyramid was built with high-tech materials. (B) The designer of the pyramid was a Chinese-American, not a Frenchman. (C) Part of the Louvre was demolished when the pyramid was added to it. (D) Besides being an entrance, there are convenient passageways and modern services housed under the pyramid. (E) The symbolic significance of pyramid in Egyptian culture is rebirth.

60. Which statement serves best as the main idea of the passage? (A) Pei’s glass pyramid is the first modern addition to the Louvre. (B) Pei brought the past into the present by building a large pyramid like the ancient Egyptians but with modern materials and processes. (C) The pyramid had been criticized by some people because it doesn’t fit in with the surrounding buildings. (D) Pei’s pyramid is the new main entrance to the Louvre. (E) Pei displays his cosmopolitism by integrating the ideas of French, Egyptian, and Chinese cultures into the glass pyramid.

I. Vocabulary and Usage. Part A : Choose the best answer to complete each sentence. 20 points 【單選題】每題 1 分，共 20 題，答錯 1 題倒扣 0.25 分，倒扣至本大題零分為止，未作答，不給分亦不扣分。 1. More than one third of the Chinese in the United States live in California, ______ in San Francisco. (A) profoundly (B) persistently (C) practically (D) permanently (E) predominantly

2. The returns in the short ______ many be small, but over a number of years the investment will be well repaid. (A) interval (B) range (C) span (D) term (E) rank

4. The most successful teaching programs are those that __________ the affective as well as the cognitive aspects of language learning. (A) take a fancy of (B) take into account (C) take a grip on (D) take in hand (E) take task to

5. I was unaware of the critical points involved, so my choice was quite _____. (A) arbitrary (B) rational (C) mechanical (D) unpredictable (E) sensible

6. In days gone by, advertisements were __________ as they told customers what a product was and how to use it. (A) self-deceptive (B) segmentalizing (C) stradivarius (D) straightforward (E) subterraneous

7. Some psychiatrists believe buried memories of childhood bullying experiences tend to _________ males than females in their adulthood. (A) hanker (B) harass (C) haunt (D) heal (E) hunt

8. Conference of Genoa 1922, in Genoa, Italy, was the first conference after World War I in which Germany and the Soviet Union were accepted __________ other nations. (A) below par for (B) on a par with (C) up to par against (D) as par for (E) par value with

9. Proverbs are the popular sayings that brighten so much Latin American talk, the boiled-down wisdom that you are as __________ hear from professors as from peasants. (A) accessible to (B) admitted to (C) advisable to (D) apt to (E) available for