二、文法測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】 11. It has been raining in Taipei for days. How I wish the rain _______ right now.
(A) stops (B) stopped (C) should stop (D) had stopped
13. No matter how hard the father tries to make his baby daughter laugh, she seems to have _______ interest in what
he does.
(A) a few (B) a little (C) few (D) little
14. For people who are obese and cannot resist the impulse to eat, going on a diet is never something they can
possibly do, _______?
(A) is it (B) isn’t it (C) are they (D) aren’t they
15. About 1100 km east of South Carolina’s coast, Bermuda remains _______ all year round, which makes it a
perfect tourist destination.
(A) temperate (B) temperately (C) temperature (D) being temperate
16. The house on the top of the hill is rumored _______ even before the last owner moved in.
(A) to haun (B) to be haunted
(C) to have haunted (D) to have been haunted
第二篇 Yesterday, reports surfaced that a heat map released by fitness app company Strava showed the locations of US
and other countries’ military. While most of the locations spotted, including Afghanistan and Syria, are known to host
US military bases, it 26 highlights the fact that information the Department of Defense would prefer remain
under wraps could find its way out into the open. It also demonstrates that fitness apps could pose a security threat
27 location information isn’t correctly handled. Now, Reuters reports, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has
ordered a review of the situation. In a statement, the Pentagon said,“We take matters like these very seriously and are reviewing the situation to
determine if any additional training or guidance is required, and if any additional policy must be developed to ensure
the continued safety of DOD personnel at home and 28 .”Colonel Robert Manning said during a news briefing
today that to his 29 , no US bases had been compromised by Strava’s Heat Map.
In the past, the US military has 30 the use of both Kaspersky software and DJI drones as some believed
they raise security concerns. It’s no surprise that the military would want to look into how its personnel use a fitness
app that can collect and broadcast its users locations.
【題組】26. (A) almost (B) hardly (C) often (D) still
四、閱讀測驗【請依照段落上下文意，選出最適當的答案】 第一篇 Some scientists have theorized that music evokes emotion by tapping into deep rooted psychological constructs
that have developed in our psyche as humans evolved over time. In UConn’s Music Dynamics Lab in the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, psychology professor Edward Large and his research team are exploring how music
communicates emotion inside the brain. Neuroscientists like Large believe that music, rather than mimicking some other form of social or primal
communication, speaks to the brain in a language all of its own.“Our hypothesis is that music, because of its unique
structure, oscillations, rhythm, and tempo, is somehow able to directly couple into these oscillating neural systems that
are responsible for emotion,” Large says. Nicole Flaig, a master’s student conducting research on music and emotion in Large’s lab, says:“It’s as if music
speaks at the same level as the brain. You have frequencies coming from either the tone or the rhythm in music and
those frequencies can, we believe, influence the frequencies of the brain. If those frequencies sound good to someone,
it means they are resonating more with the parts of the brain that control emotion.” “So if we have music that is doing this,”Large continues,“then it is literally going to resonate with your happy
place and you are going to feel that feeling.” Of course, Large will tell you the whole process is much, much more
complicated than that, and both he and Flaig are eager to gain access to UConn’s new functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) scanner to probe exactly how the brain’s various underlying neural systems are reacting and
connecting with each other as we perceive and process music stimuli. Large believes that the research could have implications far beyond the music world. Music, as a highly
structured, temporal means of communication, has much in common with language, he says. By studying the neural
processes underlying the perception of musical pitch, rhythm, and tonality, he believes we can gain greater insight into
how our minds process language and speech patterns. “What we’re after is meaning, and how meaning is communicated,”says Large.“We believe music communicates
meaning much more directly than speech. Speech has a lot of these abstract symbols called words, and that gets kind
of complicated. Music doesn’t have that, which is why we believe we are going to understand music and emotion long
before we understand speech and emotion.” 【題組】32. Which of the following words is closest in meaning to probe in the fourth paragraph?
(A) Communicate. (B) Educate. (C) Investigate. (D) Resonate.
【題組】33. Which of the following aspects of the research is NOT mentioned in the passage?
(A) The main purpose of the research.
(B) The expected results of the research.
(C) The researchers and the institutes they belong to.
(D) The brain scanning method the research employs.
第二篇 Most cancers are detected by a cell biopsy, where a sample of the cancerous tissue is examined under a
microscope. However, researchers in the US have reported that they are a step closer to developing a cancer screening
tool that requires just a sample of blood. The test, dubbed CancerSEEK, was developed by Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore. It looks for 16 DNA mutations commonly associated with cancer as well as eight proteins associated with
cancer.
CancerSEEK was tested on 1,000 patients with cancers in the ovary, liver, stomach, pancreas, oesophagus, colon,
lung or breast. The cancers were at stage one to three and had not spread to other parts of the body. The scientists
reported that the test was 70% accurate at spotting people with cancer. Importantly, the test raised few false positives.
In other words, it only“found”cancer in seven out of 812 healthy control subjects. This proof-of-concept study is
important because it proves the feasibility of developing a fairly non-invasive and potentially inexpensive test in blood.
And it is exciting because it confirms the usefulness of simultaneously looking for a combination of different
molecules—such as DNA, RNA, proteins or metabolites—that are complementary and increase the likelihood of
detecting cancer. The drawback of this study is that it is retrospective. Blood samples were taken from patients already diagnosed
with cancer. And, although the test detects tumors that can be removed by surgery, they were not early stage tumors.
Only around 40% of stage one cancers were detected. The test also appear to be least sensitive for two of the most
common cancers (lung and breast), although this is probably due to the selection of biomarkers and can be further
improved on. Another limitation is that the test doesn’t tell where the cancer is located, but this could probably also be
improved in future versions of the test by including of other variables in the model, such as symptoms or additional
biomarkers. As a proof of principle, this is an important and exciting study, but, before the new diagnostic tool is made
available in hospitals and clinics, it will need to satisfy the requirements for any new test: rigorous further evaluation
in large trials that would prove its effectiveness and usefulness as a cancer-screening tool. 【題組】38. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a drawback of the study?
(A) Inability to identify the location of the cancer.
(B) Poor success rate of discovering early stage tumors.
(C) Insufficient funds to afford a more qualitative analysis.
(D) Low sensitivity to detect the most common types of cancers.
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