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1(B).

12 Someone once joked that dogs think you're family, _____ cats think you're staff.
(A)nevertheless
(B)whereas
(C) however
(D) likewise

2(B).

23 The Community Charge, also known as a poll tax, is a certain amount of tax_____ on each individual who resides in the community.
(A)issued
(B)levied
(C) approved
(D) registered

3(D).

請依下文回答第 28 題至第 31 題： Michelangelo’s David, the five-hundred-year-old marble statue, is regarded as an example of a perfect male body. However, he is found to have a flaw－having crossed eyes. The 28 was made during an exercise to produce a digital version of all Michelangelo’s sculptures and buildings by scanning them with a laser. The result shows the gaze directions of his eyes diverge. This is shown clearly in the full frontal image of David’s face, which cannot normally be seen because the sculpture is 16ft tall, stands on an elevated base, and is viewed from 29 at an angle at which the face is obscured by the left hand. It is believed that Michelangelo did this 30 , because it provided good profiles of David when seen from all sides. 31 , Michelangelo sculpted with not only human anatomy and common imperfections in mind, but also with the viewing angle of the people on the ground. It wasn’t until science and photography enabled us to look at David in various angles and heights was it discovered that David’s eyes weren’t “perfect.” For non-technological viewing, David’s squinted eyes contribute to his stature and posture from all sides.
【題組】31
(A)On the contrary
(B)By no means
(C)As a result
(D)In other words

4(C).

請依下文回答第 44 題至第 47 題

Some 66m years ago Earth was hit by a space rock reckoned to have been 10km across. The resulting chaos caused the extinction of dinosaurs and many other species, opening the way for the age of mammals－and ultimately humans. It also left a big hole in what is now southern Mexico. That hole is one of only three known of similar dimensions (the other two are Vredefort in South Africa and Sudbury in Canada). And this is odd. For, during the billions of years that Earth has had a solid crust, many more than three big asteroids might have been expected to have hit it.

That thought led Brandon Johnson of the MIT and Timothy Bowling of Purdue University in Indiana, to wonder how many other craters have vanished, either by erosion or by being swallowed into Earth’s interior as its crust moves around, and therefore whether it is likely that some have survived and been overlooked. They have just published their analysis in Geology.

Earth’s crust formed more than 4 billion years ago, but the oldest surviving blocks of it large enough to harbor craters date back only 3.5 billion years. What is known of the sizes and orbits of modern asteroids suggests that, if things have not changed over the aeons, about 14 big asteroids (defined as having a diameter of more than 7.4km, which would cause a crater at least 85km in diameter) should hit Earth every billion years. That means 49, give or take seven, over the past 3.5 billion years. Such impacts may have been more common in the past, when more big asteroids were around. Allowing for this, Earth would have been hit by 113, give or take 11, of them. Either way, a lot of craters are missing.

【題組】47 What can we infer about the missing craters?

(A)They never left any impact on Earth.

(B)They have not been completely eroded.

(C)They were far more than the surviving ones.

(D)They were hit by more than one asteroid.

5(B).

25 Pursuant to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property Art. 4, any filing that is equivalent to a regular national filing under the domestic legislation of any country of the Union or under bilateral or multilateral treaties concluded between countries of the Union shall be recognized as giving rise to ?
(A)the early authority
(B) the right of priority
(C)the right of advancement
(D) the sovereignty

6(A).

請依下文回答第 37 題至第 40 題： The nation’s schools may actually do a better job than parents in keeping children fit and trim. A study found that 5- and 6-year-olds gained more weight over the summer than during the school year, casting doubt on the assumption that children are more active during summer vacation. The findings, which come as the issue of childhood obesity is gaining prominence in the US, do not reveal 37 is behind the out-of-school weight gain. The researchers guess it is because the summer months 38 the structure of the school year with its activities and daily comings and goings. Dough Downey, an Ohio State University sociologist who co-authored the study, said that for many youngsters, the lazy days of summer may offer 39 free time to eat snacks and lounge about watching TV or playing video games. He said the study seems to point to the need for parents to be more involved. It also raises the idea of a longer school year and more after-school programs to 40 children active. And schools should continue their efforts to promote good health, he said. “Clearly the source of children’s obesity problems lies outside of the school.”
【題組】38
(A)lack
(B) demand
(C)reduce
(D) exchange

7(B).

第 47 題至第 50 題為題組

A suspension bridge is a type of bridge that use overhead cables to support its roadway. The design of a suspension bridge is simple and straightforward, and uses several architectural techniques to distribute the weight of the bridge safely and evenly.

The construction of a suspension bridge starts with its towers, which are usually located on dry land and anchored to bedrock. Once the towers are built, master cables are strung across them and anchored into the bank at both ends of the bridge. Next, suspension cables are strung from the master cables, and then the deck used as roadway is attached to them. Most of the weight of the bridge is transferred by the cables to the anchorage systems. These are embedded in either solid rock or huge concrete blocks. Inside the anchorages, the cables are spread over a large area to evenly distribute the load and to prevent the cables from breaking free.

One of the oldest engineering forms, suspension bridges were constructed by primitive peoples using thick vines for cables. A much stronger type was introduced in India around 400 A.D. that used cables of braided bamboo. In the early nineteenth century, suspension bridges used iron chains for cables. Today, the cables are made of thousands of individual steel wires bound tightly together. A single steel wire, only 0.1 inch thick, can support over half a ton of weight without breaking.

Light and strong, a suspension bridge could span distances from 2,000 to 7,000 feet, which is much longer than any other kind of bridge could. Its simple design allows high clearance under the deck, useful when the bridge is built over a major shipping waterway or a very deep gulf. A suspension bridge is also less subjected to collapse than some other bridge types such as those built on support pillars.

【題組】50.What’s the main idea of this passage?
(A) To explain how a suspension bridge is built.
(B) To introduce the origin of modern suspension bridges.
(C) To summarize previous findings on suspension bridges.
(D) To compare a suspension bridge with other types of bridges.

8(C).

請依下文回答第 16 題至第 20 題

When a melting glacier released its hold on a 4,000-year-old corpse in September, it was quite rightly called one of the most important archaeological findings of the century. 16 by a German couple hiking at 10,500 feet in the Italian Tyrol near the Austrian border, the partially freeze-dried body still wore remnants of leather garments and boots that had been 17 with straw for insulation. At his side was a bronze ax of a type 18 in southern central Europe around 2000 B.C. On his expedition he had carried an all-purpose stone knife, a wooden back-pack, a bow and a quiver, a small bag 19 a flint lighter and kindling, and an arrow repair kit in a leather pouch. Such everyday gear gives an unprecedented perspective on life in early Bronze Age Europe. “The most exciting thing is that we genuinely appear to be looking at a man who had some kind of 20 in the course of a perfectly ordinary trip,” says archaeologist Ian Kinnes of the British Museum. “These are not artifacts placed in a grave, but the fellow’s own possessions.”

【題組】20
(A) ache
(B) accent
(C) accident
(D) attraction

9(A).

請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題：

　　Those who doubt the power of human beings to change Earth’s climate should look to the Arctic, and shiver. There is no need to pore over records of temperatures and atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations. The process is starkly visible in the shrinkage of the ice that covers the Arctic ocean. In the past 30 years, the minimum coverage of summer ice has fallen by half; its volume has fallen by three-quarters. On current trends, the Arctic ocean will be largely ice-free in summer by 2040.

　　Climate-change sceptics will shrug. Some may even celebrate: an ice-free Arctic ocean promises a shortcut for shipping between the Pacific coast of Asia and the Atlantic coasts of Europe and the Americas, and the possibility of prospecting for perhaps a fifth of the planet’s undiscovered supplies of oil and natural gas. Such reactions are profoundly misguided. Never mind that the low price of oil and gas means searching for them in the Arctic is no longer worthwhile. Or that the much-vaunted sea passages are likely to carry only a trickle of trade. The right response is fear. The Arctic is not merely a bellwether of matters climatic, but an actor in them.

　　The current period of global warming that Earth is undergoing is caused by certain gases in the atmosphere, notably carbon dioxide. These admit heat, in the form of sunlight, but block its radiation back into space, in the form of longer-wave-length infra-red. That traps heat in the air, the water and the land. More carbon dioxide equals more warming--a simple equation. Except it is not simple. A number of feedback loops complicate matters. Some dampen warming down; some speed it up. Two in the Arctic may speed it up quite a lot.

　　One is that seawater is much darker than ice. It absorbs heat rather than reflecting it back into space. That melts more ice, which leaves more seawater exposed, which melts more ice. And so on. This helps explain why the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet. The deal on climate change made in Paris in 2015 is meant to stop Earth’s surface temperature rising by more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. In the unlikely event that it is fully implemented, winter temperatures over the Arctic ocean will still warm by between 5°C and 9°C compared with their 1986-2005 average.

　　The second feedback loop concerns not the water but the land. In the Arctic much of this is permafrost. That frozen soil locks up a lot of organic material. If the permafrost melts its organic contents can escape as a result of fire or decay, in the form of carbon dioxide or methane (which is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2). This will speed up global warming directly--and the soot from the fires, when it settles on the ice, will darken it and thus speed its melting still more.

【題組】46 Which of the following is the main idea of the second paragraph?
(A) To raise doubts about the optimism that climate-change disbelievers express.
(B) To introduce potential commerce that an ice-free Arctic ocean may bring.
(C) To indicate incomplete knowledge people have of the Arctic’s economy.
(D) To differentiate the views of those who fear climate-change from those who don’t.

10(B).

請依下文回答第 36 題至第 40 題

The Wu family moved to Vancouver, Canada in the early 1990s. As they were living in an English-speaking region of the country and hoped to ___36___ themselves more quickly to the new environment, they made up their mind by stopping using their native language and speaking only English at home. However, when the Wu children grew up and went back to their home country, China, the children had difficulty communicating with relatives there. At that time, they realized that it was a ___37___ for them not to make their children become bilingual. Linguistically speaking,the most ___38___ advantage of being bilingual is that those people will be able to communicate with more people around the world. They are more autonomous and do not need to rely on other people to understand other languages.Apart from this linguistic benefit, bilingual people have got the ___ 39___ over other people because they have a higher level of cultural and social awareness of another group of people. Knowing the vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and even jokes of another language enhances people’s understanding of another culture. One more advantage of being bilingual is that people can gain global awareness. Different regions of the world can be more closely connected if mutual understanding between people of different nations can be achieved. ___40___ , lack of the ability to speak a second or third language can only result in miscommunication and even hostility among people. Since bilingualism offers people many assets at their disposal, it is always wise to learn to speak a second or third language.

【題組】39
(A)margin
(B)edge
(C)corner
(D)angle

11(D).

40 People see the woman in white as rather_______ because she often wanders around the street holding scissors and cutting off the leaves from the trees along the road.
(A) barren
(B) captive
(C) decent
(D) eccentric

12(B).

21 The report has to be redone because it is totally ______ of organization and content.
(A) deployed
(B) devoid
(C) exclusive
(D) excessive

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