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1(B).

You ask me what is poverty? Listen to me. Here I am, dirty, smelly, and with no “proper” underwear on and with the stench of my rotting teeth near you. I will tell you. Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your pity. Listen with understanding. _____1_____ Poverty is getting up every morning from a dirt-and-illness-stained mattress. The sheets have long since been used for diapers. _____2_____ This is a smell of urine, sour milk, and spoiling food sometimes joined with the strong smell of long-cooked onions. _____3_____ It is the smell of the outdoor privy. It is the smell of the milk which has gone sour because the refrigerator long has not worked, and it costs money to get it fixed. It is the smell of rotting garbage. _____4_____ Shovels cost money.
【題組】4
(A)I can call for help, but who should I call?
(B)I could bury it, but where is the shovel?
(C)If you have smelled this smell, you did not know how it came.
(D)Put yourself in my dirty, worn out, ill-fitting shoes, and hear me.

2(B).

Does using pictures instead of letters for writing sound like fun to you? That’s what the people in Egypt did a long time ago. This ancient system of writing is called hieroglyphics. In the old Egyptian system, each picture stood for an idea. These picture words were carved on temple walls and in other places where people gathered. They told stories about the Egyptian gods and rulers. They told stories about animals. The picture words were also used to keep records of taxes and other business information. You might find it hard to read Egyptian hieroglyphics even if you understood the pictures, because the picture words were written from right to left.
【題組】Unlike the ancient Egyptians, the English speaking people write words from ______ .
(A) right to left
(B) top to bottom
(C) bottom to top
(D) left to right

3(B).

Millions of people are using cell phones today. In fact, in many places it is actually considered unusual _____ use one.
(A) not
(B) don’t
(C) to not
(D) not to

4(B).

After several visits, ______.
(A) he not only liked the girl but the family too
(B) he not only liked the girl, and liked the family too
(C) he liked not only the girl but the family too
(D) not only the girl, and the family liked him too

5(B).

Let’s have all these newspapers ______ on our way to the shopping mall.
(A) recycle
(B) to recycle
(C) recycled
(D) recycling

6(B).

33 The judge decided to______ their marriage when she found out the groom had already had a wife.
(A) nullify
(B) multiply
(C) liquefy
(D) petrify

7(B).

This math class is very ______; I have to spend at least two hours every day doing the assignments.
(A) confidential
(B) logical
(C) demanding
(D) resistant

8(B).

32 Planting trees has _____ the community. Thanks to the change, people can have picnics under the trees and the air is much fresher now.
(A) disturbed
(B) invaded
(C) prospered
(D) transformed

9(B).

1 On a hot summer day, a glass of iced water can _____ your thirst immediately.
(A) quench
(B) arouse
(C) conquer
(D) yearn

10(B).

5 Richard wished to make his engagement _____ to all the people at the party.
(A) knowing
(B) to know
(C) known
(D) know

11(B).

8 I was exhausted. Otherwise, I ______ to the party with you last night.
(A) went
(B) would go
(C) had gone
(D) would have gone

12(B).

Gene therapy may be in its infancy, but great hopes for its potential to treat everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s to heart disease are forcing it to grow up fast. After two decades of lab research, gene treatments are increasingly making their way into human clinical trials. The bulk of research so far has focused on getting a gene to its destination and coaxing it to turn on once inside a cell. On their own, genes can’t pass through cell membranes, and much effort has been spent to trick cells into accepting foreign genes. The most efficient couriers are so-called viral vectors: viruses whose genomes have been swapped out for therapeutic genes. Like Trojan horses, they slip genes into target cells undetected. But as scientists are learning, there is no safe way to hijack a virus. The vectors sometimes trigger immune reactions. And once the genes are inside a cell, there is no way to be sure they will function as intended. Case in point: a Paris gene therapy trial to treat SCIDs, or the “bubble boy disease,” restored immune function in nine of 10 patients. But it was later revealed that two of them had developed leukemia.
【題組】47 “Viral vectors” are _____ .
(A) ways with which viruses genomes are changed
(B) viruses used for carrying genetic material into cells
(C) the paths through which viruses move
(D) immune reactions triggered by viral infection

13(B).

22 The foundation has_____ a campaign against smoking and appealed to public support.
(A) discouraged
(B) prohibited
(C) launched
(D) mourned

14(B).

15 My wife enjoys purchasing all kinds of kitchen gadgets. However, sometimes the things she buys are more of a _____ than a help.
(A)facility
(B)foresight
(C)hindrance
(D)hindsight

15(B).

請依下文回答第46 題至第50 題

Drinking coffee has become a crucial part of the daily routine of 110 million Americans. Over the past 20 years, over 19,000 studies have been conducted to examine the impact of coffee on one’s health. There appears to be both benefits and potential hazards associated with this drink. Some studies have shown that coffee may reduce the risk of diabetes. After analyzing data on 120,000 people over an 18-year period, researchers at Harvard have concluded that drinking 1 to 3 cups of coffee each day can reduce diabetes risk by several percentage points, compared with not drinking coffee at all. Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffees provide similar results, which suggests that a coffee component other than caffeine may have beneficial effects on blood sugar levels. Researchers also find that coffee can lower the risks of Parkinson’s disease, colon cancer, and gallstones. On the other hand, some researchers have found that coffee is not for everyone. In excessive amounts－meaning more than whatever one’s body can tolerate－coffee can decrease the flow of blood to the heart, increase blood pressure, and cause rapid heartbeat. In addition, pregnant women should limit their caffeine intake because fetuses are sensitive to caffeine.

【題組】49 Which statement about the Harvard research is true?
(A) The research included 12 thousand subjects.
(B) The research lasted over 18 decades.
(C) The research finds that it is caffeine that can control blood sugar level.
(D) The research suggests that moderate amount of coffee is good for health.

16(B).

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication.47And women and men have different past experiences. From the time they are born, they are treated differently, talked to differently, and talk differently as a result. 48 And when they become adults, they travel in different worlds, reinforcing patterns established in childhood. These cultural differences include different expectations about the role of talk in relationships. Everyone knows that as a relationship becomes long-term, its terms change. 49 Many women feel, “After all this time, you should know what I want without my telling you.＂ Many men feel, “After all this time, we should be able to tell each other what we want.＂ These incongruent expectations capture one of the key differences between men and women.50 Though everyone has both these needs, women often have a relatively need for independence. Being understood without saying what you mean gives a payoff in involvement, and that is why women value it so highly.
【題組】47.
(A)But women and men often differ in how they expect them to change.
(B) Boys and girls grow up in different worlds, even if they grow up in the same house.
(C) Culture is simply a network of habits and patterns gleaned from past experience.
(D) Different habits have repercussions when men and women talk about their relationship.

17(B).

40 It took me a while to _____ in a big city.
(A) get used to live
(B) get used to living
(C) be used to live
(D) used to live

18(B).

請依下文回答第 44 題至第 46 題。

A great deal of gender-role socialization takes place in the home. Fathers engage in 44 “rough-housing” play withtheir sons than with their daughters, even in infancy. As children grow, boys and girls are encouraged to play withdifferent types of toys. 45 gender differences are found in toy preferences. In general, boys have less flexibility to playwith “feminine” toys than girls 46 with “masculine” toys. Many studies have demonstrated the influence ofgender-role socialization.

【題組】46
(A) do
(B) are
(C) have
(D) can

19(B).

第 17 題至第 20 題為篇章結構，各題請依文意，從四個選項中選出最合適者，各題答案內容不重複 Delegates from the six Southern states met at Montgomery, Alabama, to form a new union, called the Confederate States of America, and drew up a provisional constitution, which formally signaled the secession of the Southern states. 17 They assumed that the North would permit the Confederate States to secede in peace and establish friendly relations with their government. Further, they calculated that, if permission was denied and war came, the South would win its independence by arms. At that time, the Southern states were outnumbered by the Northern states in population, wealth, and all the great industries necessary to provide the sinews of wars. 18 It was expected that Great Britain would need cotton to keep her mill wheels turning and would intervene in support of the Confederacy. 19 In addition, it was widelybelieved in the South that Northern farmers and mechanics would not fight; or, if they did, that they would be outmatched by Southern valor. 20 In the opening months of 1861 few, if any, Confederates could foresee how vain such expectations would turn out to be.
【題組】19
(A) The secessionists based their actions on two theories.
(B) The fate of the Union was dependent upon several uncertainties surrounding the rapid development of secession in the South.
(C) It was also believed that France would sympathize with the planting aristocracy and cooperate with Britain in aiding the Confederate government.
(D) A proposal was made that the old Missouri Compromise line be drawn through the Western territories—with slavery on one side and freedom on the other.

20(B).

46 Sara: Sam, do you want to come to the mall with me? Sam: _____Sara: So am I, but I like window-shopping the fashion stores there.
(A) I’d love to, but I’m broke.
(B) Sure, but I am not ready.
(C) I am on my way to dump the garbage.
(D) No, thank you. I am a computer illiterate.

21(B).

347. Be careful when you walk past Josh’s house because his dog is very _____.
(A) critical
(B) psychological
(C) savage
(D) controversial

22(B).

406. The_________ that the world is round once surprised people.
(A) revelation
(B) inspiration
(C) indigestion
(D) misconception

23(B).

434. There is mounting scientific evidence that global warming is already having _____ effects on birds, broader biodiversity, wildlife habitat, and ecosystems.
(A) suppressive
(B) profound
(C) obscure
(D) transparent

24(B).

556. Rick _____ into bed for fear that he might disturb his sleeping wife.
(A) flickered
(B) migrated
(C) crept
(D) drifted

25(B).

請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題：
In the four minutes it probably takes to read this review, you will have logged exactly half the time the average 15- to 24-year-old now spends reading each day. That is, if you even bother to finish. If you are perusing this on the Internet,the big block of text below probably seems daunting, maybe even boring. Who has the time? Such is the kind of recklessly distracted impatience that makes Mark Bauerlein fear for his country. “As of 2008,” the 49-year-old professor of English at Emory University writes in “The Dumbest Generation,” “the intellectual future of the United States looks dim.”The way Bauerlein sees it, something new and disastrous has happened to America’s youth with the arrival of the instant gratification go-go-go digital age. The result is, essentially, a collective loss of context and history. The problem is that instead of using the Web to learn about the world, young people mostly use it to gossip about each other and follow pop culture, relentlessly keeping up with the ever-shifting linguafranca of being cool in school. Social life is a powerful temptation and most teenagers feel the pain of missing out.
And all this feeds on itself. Increasingly disconnected from the “adult” world of tradition, culture, history, context and the ability to sit down for more than five minutes with a book, today’s digital generation is becoming insulated in its ownstultifying cocoon of bad spelling, civic illiteracy and endless postings that hopelessly confuse triviality with transcendence.
At fault is not just technology but also a newly indulgent attitude among parents, educators and other mentors, who,Bauerlein argues, lack the courage to risk “being labeled a curmudgeon and a reactionary.”
【題組】 47 According to the passage, how much time does the average 15- to 24-year-old spend on reading each day?
(A) 4 minutes.
(B) 8 minutes.
(C) 12 minutes.
(D) 16 minutes.