If there is one thing I dislike, it is dogs that bark late at night. An example is my neighbor’s dog across the street from me. My neighbor lets her dog out for about a half hour every night around midnight. ( 14 ) her dog hits the night air, his automatic response is to howl and bark, which he does for a full half hour. He does not seem to bark at anything in particular. ( 15 ) , barking seems to be his form of nightly exercise. I want to be a good neighbor, so I try not to ( 16 ) too much, but I’m getting very tired of that midnight serenade. 【題組】
14 (A) As soon as (B) Because (C) As a result (D) Even though
The food, eating, and nutrition practices and patterns of a society have been discussed in many ways, each of which offers different perspectives for analyses of social dynamics. Foodways is a term often used by ( 10 ) who seek to portray the traditional food and eating patterns in a society. Foodways typically denote such traditional societal practices ( 11 ) are informally transmitted and may be difficult to modify. More recently, the term food culture has been used to denote the components of a larger culture ( 12 ) food, eating, and nutrition. Both foodways and food culture have specific connotations, with foodways having more specific historical and geographical referents ( 13 ) food culture offers more universalistic and scientific connotations. To avoid the past images conjured up under foodways (and related terms such as food habits or cuisine), food culture will be used here to ( 14 ) the food, eating, and nutrition-related categories, rules, and plans used in a particular society. 【題組】14 (A)take as (B)judge from (C) refer to (D) depend on
A major deterrent to recycling is that the prices of local garbage disposal rarely reflect the actual cost of disposal. Most collection systems are controlled or owned by governments, which assess a flat sum for garbage collection, sometimes as part of municipal taxes. The trash collector picks up whatever waste people leave at the curb, and people are not rewarded for discarding only a small amount or penalized for discarding a lot. __37__ In contrast, privately owned systems, operating without municipal price regulation, would have to accurately price garbage disposal to stay profitable. __38__
Unfortunately, recycling has not taken the form of privatization or freeing up of municipal controls. __39__ A few cities, such as Seattle, have, however, experimented with charging for each trash can that has to be picked up. This has led 70 percent of Seattle residents to cut down on their waste. __40__ And it means that those who choose not to reduce their waste pay the full cost of the burden they place on the collection system. 【題組】40 (A)Such “per-can” charges provide an inducement to reduce waste, whether through recycling or other means.
(B)Recycling is the process of converting waste products into reusable materials.
(C)Instead, more and more local governments have mandated curbside separation.
(D)Thus, they have no incentive to reduce their waste.
41 Employees of the police department shall not _______ in personal business while on duty and shall avoid all activities not relating directly to their departmental responsibilities.
(A)enjoy (B)engulf (C)involve (D)engage
Starting January 1, 2012, one of the Taipei City Government uses to encourage childbirth is to offer families a one-time payment of NT$20,000 per child.
(A)formulas (B)guidelines (C)measures (D)provisions
Loneliness is not the same as being alone. A person can be just as lonely in a group of people as when home alone.
Loneliness is a feeling of being unconnected with other people, or wanting to be with someone who isn’t there, or having
no one to turn to who can affirm one’s essential human qualities. From time to time, loneliness afflicts nearly everyone. It is usually provoked by a lost connection with significant
people in one’s life. This loneliness is usually temporary and eases off with time as one discovers that one can still enjoy
life despite the loss. But chronic loneliness comes more from within individuals than it does from circumstances imposed
from outside. This kind of lonely people tend to blame their loneliness on themselves, on their personality and appearance.
Besides, lonely people tend not to like the people they meet and assume those people don’t like them. They also lack the
skills needed to establish meaningful, caring contact with others. Other surveys showed that lonely people know and interact with other people as the non-lonely do, but the lonely
tend to have unrealistic standards or expectations about the relationships that get in the way of forming close friendship.
Surveys have shown the loneliest people tend to be adolescents and young adults. Contrary to popular belief, the elderly
are less lonely than people in other age groups, perhaps because the elderly have more realistic expectations.
【題組】26 Which of the following words may have the similar meaning as the phrase “get in the way of”?
(A)Prevent. (B)Encourage. (C)Produce. (D)Suppose.
. With the worsening of global economic conditions, it seems wiser and more _____ to keep cash in the bank rather than to invest in the stock market.
(A) sensible (B) portable (C) explicit (D) anxious
The helicopters _____ over the sea, looking for the divers who had been missing for more than 30 hours.
(A) tackled (B) rustled (C) strolled (D) hovered
編號第 47 題至第 50 題，請依據下文文意，從四個選項中選出最合適者。
At the beginning of the 16th century, laborers working near the Colosseum penetrated a buried building whose
vaults were adorned with frescoes and stuccos. This was the Domus Aurea or Golden House, a huge palace built by the
Emperor Nero over the remains of a building that had burned down. The Domus Aurea had burned in its turn and had
been covered over by the baths of Trajan.
The Domus Aurea galleries, which were thought to have been underground from the very beginning, were called
“grottoes,” and their mural paintings of ornamental designs and mythological figures were called “grotesques.” The
discovery of the grotesques was to have a profound influence on the artists of the Renaissance, who began to
redecorate palaces with imitations of them. Raphael (1483-1520), one of the greatest, also drew inspiration from them
when decorating the Logge in the Vatican palace. Even more important was the fact that the frescoes provided the first
color illustrations of antiquity; the mural paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum were not discovered until two
centuries later.
【題組】49 What was the subject of the paintings in the galleries of the Golden House?
(A)Ancient caves (B)Historical figures (C)Imaginary creatures (D)Natural landscapes
Even by the brutish standards of Tasmanian devils, Rosie, Harry, and Clyde have
led a lamentable life. A year ago, when the three were each the size of a sesame
seed, they wriggled out of their mother’s birth canal and undulated their way to
her pouch. There, each locked onto a teat and grew quickly. But within months, their
mother developed devil facial tumor disease—a mysterious malady that in the last
three years has killed nearly half of all the world’s devils, marsupials that are
found only in Tasmania. Shortly after she died, the baby devils, grown to the size
of tiny puppies, were found dangling from their mother’s pouch, starving to death.
Rescued and reared by hand, Rosie, Harry, and Clyde recently joined six similarly
orphaned devils at the Launceston Lakes and Wildlife Park, all in strict quarantine.
The fate of their exotic species—Sarcophilus harrisii—may lie in what happens to
these rambunctious youngsters in the next 12 to 18 months. “If they contract the
disease, devils may be headed for extinction in the wild,” said a wildlife
biologist. Right now, wildlife experts are struggling to comprehend the nature of
the fast-moving epidemic. Moving at a rate of 10 to 16 kilometers a year, it is 100
percent fatal. Only the west coast, isolated by mountain ranges inhospitable to
devils, is disease free. Nearly half of the estimated 150,000 devils in Tasmania are
now dead.
【題組】49.What happened to Rosie, Harry, and Clyde after their mother’s death?
(A)Killed by hunters (B)Contracting the disease
(C)Reared by humans (D)Being dead from starvation
40 Tom: What’s wrong with your motorbike, Jenny?
Jenny: Oh, it’s out of order and I’m in a hurry. Would you mind fixing my motorbike?
Tom: I’ll fix it for you right now.
(A) Certainly not. (B) Yes, I will. (C) I would. (D) I don’t care.
4 The spring water, fed by mountain snow, percolates through the ground for 15 years before it _____ in the
town.
(A) contracts (B) emerges (C) implicates (D) renovates
33 This _____ device enables people to feed pictures, photos, or documents into a computer system, and shows the
cleverness of its inventor.
(A) biological (B) cohesive (C) explicit (D) ingenious
63 A director of a listed company learns material non-public information regarding the possible huge loss of
the company, and prior to the disclosure of such information, the director sells shares of the company. Such
an act is a violation of the rule against__________ .
(A) short swing (B) related party transaction
(C) insider trading (D) misrepresentation
60 Brian travels from Taipei to San Francisco. There is a statement on his electronic ticket which provides:
“The Airline’s liability to the passenger for any cause or combination of causes shall be, in the total amount,
no more than the fees paid under this contract or NT$50,000, whichever is greater.” This kind of clause is
commonly referred to as a _________.
(A) warranty clause (B) limitation clause
(C) indemnification clause (D) exclusion clause
64 “During 1990, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) traded 39.7 billion shares, while the National
Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) traded 33.4 billion shares.
NASDAQ’s phenomenal growth was not envisioned by its founders, who intended it primarily as a
quotation system to provide information with respect to securities not considered sufficiently seasoned to
list on a securities exchange.” The word “seasoned” can be BEST replaced by the word_________ .
(A) flavored (B) experienced (C) salty (D) unprofessional
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