38. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) Court.
(B) Dispute.
(C) Fact.
(D) Legend.

39. According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true? (A) If the dispute is too complicated, it should be settled in a court. (B) Courts have changed as society has changed. (C) There have been no significant changes in courts over the centuries. (D) People cannot avoid having disputes no matter where they live.

40. About the so-called “trial by ordeal” in the Middle Ages, which of the following statements is not true? (A) There are four forms of ordeal: cold water, hot water, hot iron, and morsel. (B) In the cold water ordeal, the accused is declared innocent if he sinks. (C) In the hot water ordeal, the accused has to pull out a stone from boiling water. (D) The morsel ordeal is as painful as the other three but the easiest one to pass.

41. In the first sentence of this passage, “disputes are bound to arise.” What does the boldfaced phrase “bound to” most likely mean in the context? (A) Heading for. (B) Certain to. (C) Unlikely to. (D) Limited by.

42. What is the passage mainly about? (A) Psychiatry. (B) Education. (C) Economics. (D) Geography.

43. According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true about critical literacy? (A) The critical reader moves beyond the passive acceptance of knowledge. (B) The critical reader questions the author of the text when reading. (C) The critical reader questions what the author wants him to believe. (D) The critical reader does not care about the author’s perspective.

44. In the sentence, “We were passive recipients of knowledge.” What does the boldfaced word “recipients” most likely mean? (A) Receivers. (B) Explorers. (C) Constructors. (D) Distributors.

45. What is the main idea of this passage? (A) The reader should know who was determining what we should read. (B) The reader never questioned the author of the text that he was reading. (C) The reader should take a critical stance in the reader-author relationship. (D) It was wrong to believe what we read in school.

46. What is the passage mainly about? (A) Linguistics. (B) Political Science. (C) Social Science. (D) Geography.

47. In the first sentence of this passage, what does the boldfaced word “which” refer to? (A) Population. (B) Taiwan. (C) Ethnic groups. (D) Various provinces.

48. According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true about the Southern Min people? (A) The Southern Min people immigrated to Taiwan from southern Fujian several centuries ago. (B) The Southern Min people speak about a dozen different Malayo-Polynesian languages. (C) Many of the Southern Min people over the age of fifty speak Japanese as a second language. (D) The Southern Min people speak the Southern Min dialect of Chinese.

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