說明：第 16 至 25 題，請依照段落上下文意，選出最適當的答案。
London is the most diverse city in the world, with more than 300 languages 16 in the city and
people of 50 nationalities 17 there. What are the causes underlying London’s ethnic diversity? One
is that London is a business center so that people all over the world come here to find jobs and 18 money. But the cause that makes people 19 in London is language, because they want their children
to build up the 20 in English, which is a great gift and advantage in the global context. 21 cause is surprising. Londoners tend to leave people 22 , and this gives newcomers much space to
live their own lives. Finally, food is also an important cause bringing people all over the world to London.
Londoner’s 23 for foreign food creates 24 of job for new communities, which invites more
foreigners, and at the same time more foreign 25 , into the city.
【題組】23.
(A) refusal
(B) depression
(C) enthusiasm
(D) happiness
13. Before you ______ your salary with the potential employer, you need to ensure that you have an
official written job offer.
(A) elaborate (B) unveil (C) disclose (D) negotiate
※說明：第21至25題，請依照下列文章，選出最適當的答案。
In the medical profession, technology is advancing so fast that questions of law and ethics cannot be
discussed and answered fast enough. Most of these questions involve ending or beginning a human life.
For example, we have the medical ability to keep a person technically “alive” for years, on machines,
after he or she is “brain dead,” i.e., after the “new brain” has stopped functioning. But is it ethical to do
this? And what about the alternative? In other words, is it ethical not to keep a person alive if we have the
technology to do so? And there are many ethical questions involving the conception of a human baby. In
vitro fertilization, for example, is becoming more and more common. By this method of conceiving a
baby outside a woman’s body, couples who have difficulty conceiving a child may still become parents.
This possibility brings joy to many families, but it also raises important questions. A fertilized human egg
might be frozen for a long time—perhaps decades—before it is implanted in the mother’s body. Is this
fertilized egg a human being? If the parents get a divorce, to whom do these frozen eggs belong? And
there is the question of surrogate mothers. There have been several cases of a woman who is paid to carry
(for the nine months of development) the baby of another woman who is medically unable to do so. After
delivering the baby, the surrogate mother sometimes changes her mind and wants to keep the baby.
Whose baby is it? Is it the surrogate’s because she gave birth? Or is it the biological parents’? 【題組】23. According to the paragraph, what is true about In vitro fertilization?
(A) It involves ending a human life.
(B) It may take decades to conceive a baby outside a woman’s body.
(C) It makes it possible to become parents for couples who have difficulty having a child.
(D) It becomes an important technology because infertility is more and more common.
四、閱讀測驗
Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg was born on July 4th 1883 in San Francisco. By the end of his lifetime in
December 7th 1970, he was known as an inventor, sculptor, author, engineer and cartoonist. At a young age, he
loved drawing, tracing and being creative, but this was discouraged by his parents. In 1904, he graduated with a
degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He was then hired as an engineer by the city
of San Francisco but eventually quit to become a sports cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1907 he
moved to New York where he worked for several newspapers. He soon became famous as an artist.
His cartoon strips were popular, but the work that gave him unforgettable lifelong fame was the character
he created—Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. Using the character, he would illustrate inventions that later
became known as the “Rube Goldberg Machine”. A “Rube Goldberg Machine” is an extremely complicated
device that performs a very simple task in a complex, indirect way. This is now used as an expression to describe
any system that's confusing or complicated and came from Goldbergʼs illustrations of ridiculous machines. The
first illustration showing a “Rube Goldberg Machine” was an Automatic Weight Reducing Machine in 1914
using components such as a donut, bomb, wax, balloon and hot stove to trap an overweight person in a sound
and food proof prison. The overweight person had to lose weight before freeing himself. He used many simple
subjects and made them humorous yet very complicated. This included scratching insect bites, scrubbing your
back in a bath, opening a window, collecting mail and finding a ball.
Throughout his career, Goldberg was fascinated by the advancement of technology and thought it
humorous that people either embraced the benefits technology brought or were unwilling to accept new
technology as it seemingly increased dependency and laziness. He personally believed people preferred
choosing a more difficult route instead of completing a goal simply and directly. As he said, “the machines are a
symbol of manʼs capacity for making maximum effort to achieve minimal results”. His inventions were
interesting because he did the complete opposite of what most machines do—instead of making difficult things
easy, he made easy things difficult. 【題組】25. Why did Reuben Goldberg draw the interesting machines?
(A) To express his distrust of modern technology.
(B) To make fun of a certain professor in his university.
(C) To show how men often made simple things more complicated.
(D) To mirror his childhood life as an overweight boy.
22. The billionaire is happy to donate one million to the charity because it’s just ______ for him.
(A) a drop in the bucket (B) a pipe dream
(C) the lion’s share (D) a long shot
19. It was a haunted house. As he stepped into the building, he heard some
frightening sounds and started to________.
(A)breathe (B)complain (C)signal (D)shiver
42. The pilot made the announcement that the plane could not leave the gate_________ all passengers were seated and security belts were fastened.
(A)unless (B)because (C)even though (D)while
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