35. According to the passage, which of the following is true? (A) Trunks send water to the roots. (B) Birds use seeds to build nests. (C) We use wood to make pieces of paper. (D) Wood is used to build fireplaces. Passage D Thomas and Louis Border founded Borders Book store in 1971. They were brothers in their 20s at the time and opened a small used-book shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They managed to work out an inventory management system, serving independent booksellers, and by 1988 their business had grown to include four stores. They recruited Robert DiRomualdo to run the business and subsequently sold Borders to Kmart in 1990. Since then, Kmart has been selling the company to the public, and Robert DiRomualdo is currently the CEO. Borders now operates over 225 Borders superstores, with one in Singapore and two in Britain. Its major competitor is Barnes & Noble. Despite Wall Street’s obsession with Borders’ Internet competitor, Amazon.com, which has a market capitalization of over $4 billion, Borders has remained committed to its brick and mortar approach. Borders has annual profits of over $100 million, while Amazon is still struggling to get itself out of the red. Although Internet wonders such as Amazon have defied the traditional laws of the market, Borders’ investors are betting that people will always want to go browse and drink coffee at stores like Borders and its competitor Barnes & Nobel.

40. Which of the following types of business would Borders consider a direct competitor? (A) Internet companies such as Amazon.com. (B) Other small used-book stores started by students in their 20s from An Arbor, Michigan. (C) Superstores that let readers browse and drink coffee. (D) Stores such as K-mart that have book sections. 第 3 頁，共 3 頁 Passage E When early European explorers traveled to the western part of North America, they came across a group of tribes known as the Oasis people, who lived in what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Since the region is hot and dry, these people had to live near water sources. They had their own local governments and often lived in towns and villages, so Spanish explorers called them the Pueblo, which means “village” in Spanish. The Oasis people farmed the land and grew corn and cotton. They didn’t eat much meat, but they sometimes ate rabbits. They ate little fish, because their desert habitat had few lakes or rivers for fishing. The Oasis people were the first Americans known to make clothes from cotton. The men and women both wore long hair. These people were great builders. They used sandstone and a type of sandy clay called adobe to build rectangular home. The rooms were built next to or on top of each other, like modern apartments. Although the desert area where they lived is now part of America and Mexico, descendants of the Oasis people continue to live there and follow their ancestors’ customs and beliefs.

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