32 Actor Pierce Brosnan may play the deadly super boy in the movies, but in real life he is a father and a________loving husband.
(A)devastated (B)deserved (C)desperate (D)devoted
33 Given the lack of printing, stocking and shipping costs for ebooks, the prices for ebooks should be less expensive and more ________ to the readers.
(A)entertaining
(B)affordable
(C)costly
(D)amiable
34 After searching for his lost father for many years, Jeffery can ________go to America to meet up with his father.
(A)eventually (B)essentially (C)extremely (D)enormously
38 The best currency exchange deals are given at the private bureaus around town, which don’t charge________ .
(A)bribery (B)commission (C)fraud (D)suspicion
請依下文回答第 39 題至第 41 題：
Leonardo da Vinci spent many unfruitful years, 39 his first stay in Milan and his second period in Florence,
experimenting with a flying machine. The attempt to support and move the human body in the air 40 because, in
the absence of an internal combustion engine, Leonardo could not create mechanisms of propulsion capable of
providing the necessary upward lift. Nevertheless, based on this understanding of air currents pressure, and resistance,
he 41 designs for machines that anticipated the modern glider, parachute, and helicopter. Related to these studies
were notes concerning the cosmos, later developed by Galileo. 【題組】39 (A)up
(B)during
(C)for
(D)due to
請依下文回答第 42 題至第 45 題：
There are thousands of species of animals in the Amazon rainforest, each colored 42 . Most rainforest animals use
their colors for 43 . Some animals use color to protect themselves from their predators. An example is the
green iguana. Young iguanas are bright green and hide among the bright green lower leaves of the trees where
they live. As they get older, their colors become duller. Older iguanas live higher in trees, where the colors all around
are 44 . Other animals are predators which use color to hide from their prey. The boa constrictor snake is a
good 45 . The emerald boa is green and white, so it can easily hide in the leaves. A boa hides in a tree and waits
for a bird to fly by. When one does, the boa grabs the bird from the air and then squeezes it to death before eating it.
【題組】42 (A)similarly
(B)differently
(C)quickly
(D)negatively
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題：
The feeling that clouds and rain seem more likely to occur on weekends may be more than just a myth. Weekend
weather does differ from weekday weather in certain places, according to researchers who studied more than 40 years
of daily temperature readings from 10,000 weather stations worldwide. In their study, the researchers focused on
temperature differences between daytime highs and nighttime lows. This difference measurement is called the diurnal
temperature range, or DTR.
Part of the study involved 660 weather stations in the continental United States. At more than 230 of these sites,
the researchers found that the average DTR for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday was different from the average DTR for
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Although the difference was small—only several tenths of a Celsius degree, the
pattern was striking enough to make the scientists take notice. That is, the DTR changes on a 7-day cycle.
This sort of weekly rise and fall doesn’t line up with any natural cycles, the researchers say. Instead, it is the
human activities—possibly air pollution caused by those activities—that are responsible for these weather effects. For
example, tiny particles in the polluted air could effect the amount of cloud cover, which would in turn affect daily
temperatures. Accordingly, tiny windborne particles from the western part of the United States, generated on weekdays,
might first affect weather close to home in the southwest, and then later influence mid-western weather. So, stop
feeling like the weekend weather is out to get us. It simply has a lot do with which way the wind blows and where it
comes from. 【題組】46 According to the passage, which of the following is true about weekend weather?
(A)It has its own highs and lows.
(B)The nights are cooler on weekends.
(C)It gets warmer as the week progresses.
(D)The conditions remain the same all week long.
【題組】47 How did the researchers conduct their research?
(A)Visiting weather stations around the world.
(B)Gathering weather forecasts from TV stations.
(C)Studying the weather data recorded around the world.
(D)Collecting the myths passed down through generations.
【題組】48 In what way can the finding of the research be considered important?
(A)It helps us better understand what DTR means.
(B)It provides evidence of human impact on climate.
(C)It shows how mysterious natural cycles are.
(D)It explains why temperature drops when night comes.
【題組】49 According to the passage, what would the weather be like on a normal Monday?
(A)Similar to that of the following week.
(B)Similar to that of the previous weekend.
(C)Different from that of the following weekend.
(D)Different from that of the previous weekend.
【題組】50 Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
(A)Never Trust the Weather Forecast.
(B)An Open Debate Over the Weekend Effect.
(C)Climate Change and Global Warming.
(D)Weekend Weather Is Really Different.
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