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Seeing is not always believing. In this age of digital photo 41 it can be hard to tell what’s real and what’s not. It’s common to get forwarded e-mails with attached photos of everything from freakishly large fruits to gruesome accidents. 42 some look obviously fake (a shark coming out of the water to attack an army helicopter), others make you wonder if they could possibly be real: a grown man swallowed whole by a snake or former US president George W. Bush reading a book 43 down.
But these fake photos are not just a by-product of the Photoshop era. They’ve been around since the early 1900s and they’ve fooled 44 people in the last few decades. Admittedly, those were far simpler times and people had more faith in what they saw and were a lot less 45 • Nowadays people are aware of what technology can do.
【題組】43. (A) downside (B) outside (C) inside (D) upside
upside down 顛倒的;倒立的;倒掛著 president (常大寫)總統[(+of)];會長;校長;大臣;長官;(會議)主席[(+of)] ========= others make you wonder if they could possibly be real: a grown man swallowed whole by a snake or former US president George W. Bush reading a book 43 down. 另一些則讓你懷疑它們是否可能是真的:一個成年人被一條蛇吞下整個身體,或者美國前總統喬治·布希(George W. Bush)正在倒立著看書。 ======================= 【題組】43. (A) downside (B) outside (C) inside (D) upside 上部;上面;上方[C] 答案:D (A) downside 下邊;底側;不利;下降趨勢 (B) outside 外面,外部[the S];外側[the S] (C) inside 內部,裡面[C];(人行道,道路的)內側[the S] (D) upside 上部;上面;上方[C];好的一方面;有利的一面 答案:D