38. Which of the following is closest to the proprietary in meaning in the second paragraph?
(A) Empirical.
(B) Fragmented.
(C) Heuristic.
(D) Patented.

複選題34.(AB)getting advanced degrees (AC)occupying mental skills and player development roles (AD)seeing some of them able to kind of bear the fruits of that labor (AE)hiring a greater diversity of people with a wider variety of skills (BC) busting through barriers in almost every profession for decades (BD)chipping away at the glass walls around men’s professional leagues (BE)bringing greater diversity to one of the last bastions of male-dominated culture (CD)happening in business, or politics, and all of these other places where we’re seeing more

複選題35. (AB)getting advanced degrees (AC)occupying mental skills and player development roles (AD)seeing some of them able to kind of bear the fruits of that labor (AE)hiring a greater diversity of people with a wider variety of skills (BC) busting through barriers in almost every profession for decades (BD)chipping away at the glass walls around men’s professional leagues (BE)bringing greater diversity to one of the last bastions of male-dominated culture (CD)happening in business, or politics, and all of these other places where we’re seeing more

36. What is the passage mainly about? (A) Illustrating the importance of latest educational technologies. (B) Requesting for investigation into learning immersed in technologies. (C) Proposing a theory of employing technologies in classroom learning. (D) Modifying theories of emerging technologies for adolescent learning.

37. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT claimed by popular press authors? (A) Digital natives are not receiving instructions matching their needs. (B) Digital natives may be incapable of deep learning and productive work. (C) Digital natives are learning efficiently with a linear and predictable fashion. (D) Digital natives should be encouraged to develop skills from interacting with digital media.

39. According to the passage, which of the following is the major criticism against the popular press authors’ claims? (A) Lack of empirical evidence supporting the idea of digital natives. (B) Indifference to adolescent digital immigrants marginalized by digital media. (C) Ambition to persuade school authorities to subscribe to their media channels. (D) Haughtiness of inventing a term leading to implementation of classroom technologies.

40. Why is neural plasticity mentioned in the last paragraph? (A) To defend the traditional values of experimenting two opposite views of education. (B) To propose a research area not being explored, namely, digital media and classroom technologies. (C) To elaborate a need of conducting empirical studies on the relationships between technologies and learning. (D) To comment on the unnecessity of public funding research into cognitive psychology and learning technologies.

41. What is this passage about? (A) An unresolved issue in sports science. (B) An ordinary skill in professional baseball. (C) An increasing demand for baseball players. (D) An infamous duel between pitchers and batters.

42. Which of the following is closest in meaning to controls in the second paragraph? (A) Subjects used for making comparisons. (B) Control panels for playing baseball games. (C) Abilities for demonstrating non-athletic skills. (D) Baseball players knowing little about eye-tracking.

43. Why is the study by Classes et al. (1997) cited in the third paragraph? (A) It is cited because the study was the only one using tachistoscpic tests. (B) It is cited as the findings are contradictory to those in previous studies. (C) It is cited for the reason of studying the largest number of professional baseball players. (D) It is cited to substantiate the correlations between visual skills and baseball performance.

44. What is the ongoing debate discussed in the last paragraph? (A) The sense, either visual or perceptual, that influences athletes’ performance most directly. (B) Which of the two, computing hardware or program software, is needed for training baseball batters. (C) Whether athletic expertise is acquired by improving visual skills or by enhancing cognitive abilities. (D) The technology, hardware or software, that improves eyesight of baseball players, including pitchers.