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】 “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
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】38 (A)Accurate pricing would encourage people to reduce their waste.
(B)Recycling is the process of converting waste products into reusable materials.
(C)Instead, more and more local governments have mandated curbside separation.
(D)Such “per-can” charges provide an inducement to reduce waste, whether through recycling or other means.
40 A: Why do you carry the portable radios on duty?
B: Portable radios enable two-way _______ between the officer and the department. They usually have a range that is adequate to reach anywhere within the boundaries of the jurisdiction.
(A)cooperation (B)protection (C)connection (D)communication
44 Besides its ability to settle paternity issues, DNA_______ technology can also be used to help solve criminal cases.
(A) fingerprinting (B) jurisdiction (C) morphology (D) retrieval
After retirement, Mr. Wang _____ ice skating, which he had always loved but had not had time for. (A) appealed to (B) took to (C) related to (D) saw to
63 “The laws and rules that govern the securities industry derive from a simple and straightforward concept: all
investors, whether large institutions or private individuals, should have access to certain basic facts about an
investment prior to buying it, and so long as they hold it.” To achieve the above goal, the government
authority will most likely require public companies to __________.
(A) disclose meaningful information (B) abstain from trading shares
(C) avoid self-dealing transactions (D) establish an internal control mechanism
第 47 題至第 50 題為題組 We crave chills. It’s why we get a rush when we see Jason take his axe to some unsuspecting teen in “Friday the
13th” or why we can’t seem to look away when Carrie, dripping with pig’s blood, sets her high-school class on fire.
The real question is: why do we pay for the pleasure of being scared? On this, there are various schools of thought.
Some believe that fans of horror (be it movies or books) don’t actually experience fear, but are excited instead, while
others believe that people are willing to endure the terror because they know there is no real threat, that they are
essentially safe. Still others feel that moviegoers are willing to be scared in order to feel a sense of relief at the end.
Whatever the reason, movie studios like Seven Arts Pictures, a Los Angeles-based indie movie production company,
are counting on customers who are willing to pay to be frightened, by releasing a horror movie like “Night of the
Demons. ” In the movie, three friends attend a party held in a mansion where, years prior, six people disappeared and
the owner hung herself. “We think that people have a fascination with the dark side, ” said Peter Hoffman, CEO of
Seven Arts. “So even though a horror movie might be illogical on an intellectual level, people still like to be
uncomfortable on an emotional level. It’s about people facing their fears,” he added. This explanation makes sense and
explains why we keep creepy haunted houses busy at Halloween, why we tell ghost stories around the campfire and
why we turn out for horror movies like they were giving away free popcorn. It’s because we like it.
【題組】49 What does the statement “we turn out for horror movies like they were giving away free popcorn” imply?
(A) There is a large number of people who go to horror movies.
(B) People consume a large amount of popcorn at the theater.
(C) The level of uncomfortable feelings that the audience experience is amazingly high.
(D) The theater always gives away free food.
21 A_____ person never boasts of his or her strengths; rather, he or she will always seize any possible chances to
learn from others. (A) pessimistic (B) depressed (C) capricious (D) modest
39 In our fast-___ , competitive, and globalizing world, many parents are eager to send their children to learn
English.
(A) paced (B) speed (C) jumping (D) leaping
34 The investigation has proved that the Loch Ness Monster is an elaborate _____; no such monster exists in the lake.
(A) blur (B) hoax (C) kernel (D) landmark
34 The sales manager is leaving this week, _____ to get a higher paid job in an international company.
(A) presumably (B) considerately (C) legally (D) hysterically
3 One of the things that preoccupies test designers and teachers alike is _____ has been called the
washback or backwash effect.
(A)why (B)whom (C)which (D)what
下列32 至 40 題每題各有一處錯誤，請選出錯誤處： 【題組】36 A number of people who came to the concert in honor of Hu De-fu was rather impressiveness.
(A) A number of (B) came to (C) in honor of (D) rather impressiveness
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： Scientists say it could take at least 1,500 years before humans make contact with species of aliens, or for them to communicate with or find us. Astronomers from Cornell University in the USA combined two existing theories about the possibility of life existing on other planets to form a new equation. One of these theories is the Fermi Paradox described by physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. This states that while billions of Earth-like planets exist in our galaxy, not one has made contact with Earth yet. The other is the mediocrity principle, which suggests that because there is life on Earth, it will typically exist on Earth-like planets throughout the universe. Study author Evan Solomonides will soon present a research paper on his theory. He said, “We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place, but that doesn’t mean no one is out there.” According to Solomonides, extraterrestrials could have received signals from Earth. However, he proposes that ET would not have been able to decipher them. He said they would need to decode the light waves into sounds and analyze 3,000 human languages to understand any messages. He said that signals from Earth have only reached about 8,500 stars and that the Milky Way galaxy alone contains 200 billion stars. He added, “If we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we should keep looking.” 【題組】46 According to the passage, what might be preventing extraterrestrials from approaching Earth any time soon?
(A) The difficulty in deciphering human languages.
(B) The long histories of 200 billion stars.
(C) The similarity among human and alien species.
(D) The number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
45 Taiwan’s obsession with milkfish is made all the more _____ by its East Asian neighbors’ reluctance to embrace it.
(A) usual (B) unhappy (C) unique (D) universal
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