請依下文回答第 31 題至第 35 題
For most of its history, America was precisely the “polyglot boardinghouse” Teddy Roosevelt once worried it wouldbecome. That history has turned out very well not just for America, but for English—the most successful language in thehistory of the world. __31__ with American power, English has spread around the globe. At home, wave after wave ofimmigrants to America have not only learned English but __32__ the languages their parents brought with them.Today the typical pattern is that the arriving generation speaks little English, or learns it __33__ ; the first children born inAmerica are __34__ , but English-dominant, and their children hardly speak the __35__ language. This is as true of Hispanicsas it is of speakers of smaller languages. 【題組】
31 (A) Along (B) Down (C) Toward (D) Up
36 After discovering that a migrant has provided fake and false documents for extending his stay in the country, an
immigrant officer has decided to ______ the illegal migrant. (A) dazzle (B) deduct (C) defect (D) deport
37 When Pamela moved with her husband from Germany to the United States, she didn't feel like ______ there until
they had their first son a few years later. (A) putting down roots (B) bringing to heel (C) calling the tune (D) cracking the whip
38 In a forced migration, a person ______ moves to another country for the sake of political, economic or
environmental reasons. (A) immensely (B) implicitly (C) involuntarily (D) inefficiently
39 Jeff first came to Australia as a tourist and became a(n) ______ immigrant because he didn't actually leave the
country before his visa was expired. (A) perpetual (B) substantial (C) unrestricted (D) undocumented
40 An executive action signed by the president allowed as many as five million living in the country to illegally stay
and also to significantly reduce the ______ rates. (A) inflation (B) implication (C) deportation (D) exportation
41 The British pound has ______ against the US dollar considerably in recent weeks due to the result of the Brexit
referendum. That is, the pound has become cheaper. (A) deflated (B) decreased (C) despaired (D) depreciated
42 Migration statistics reports often underestimate the level of migration due to illegal or ______ immigration.
(A) clandestine (B) delusive (C) submissive (D) legitimate
43 When the time comes for your relative to immigrate, you must agree to be his or her financial ______ by filing
Form I-864, Affidavit of Support. (A) presenter (B) inheritor (C) beneficiary (D) sponsor
44 Millions of refugees have ______ the Mediterranean Sea in the last few years to apply for asylum in the European
Union. (A) traversed (B) infused (C) invaded (D) distressed
45 At times a visitor visa issued from the Taiwan consulate has to be extended and later ______ to a resident visa.
(A) condemned (B) converged (C) converted (D) condensed
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題 How an iceberg travels across the sea is sometimes unpredictable. When an iceberg breaks off from a glacier, it
can __46__ for thousands of miles, traveling freely across the open ocean. But last week, an iceberg’s journey was
interrupted when it got stuck on a __47__ part of the seafloor along Greenland’s western coast. In other words, the icebergwas grounded—and it had __48__ itself right beside the small island village of Innaarsuit. Such grounded icebergs areactually pretty common, says Fiamma Straneo, who has traveled about 20 times to Greenland’s ice sheet for her work atthe Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. What’s unique about the iceberg by Innaarsuit is both its sizeand its __49__ to the village. A grounded iceberg experiences ocean water pushing at it in one direction and the seafloorpushing in another—a __50__ that makes it easy for limbs to break off with a splash that can rock boats or flood coasts.The iceberg might even do an entire somersault in the water. Across the world, from the Canadian Arctic to Patagonia inArgentina, that shedding is both a tourist attraction and an issue of concern. The larger the iceberg, the larger the wavesit causes if it breaks apart. 【題組】
46 (A) drill (B) drizzle (C) drift (D) draft