31 The old man had the ______ to save money during his teaching career so as not to be dependent on irregular Social Security checks after his retirement.
(A) foresight (B) initiation (C) stinginess (D) thrift
32 China has never______what it says its right to take Taiwan by force if peaceful blandishments fail.
(A) announced (B) denounced (C) pronounced (D) renounced
36 The drought has set off “water wars”, pitting farmers against city dwellers and one state against another.
(A) Water shortage has triggered quarrels between farmers and city dwellers and between states.
(B) In many states, farmers and city dwellers have had different opinions about what might have caused the drought.
(C) A series of droughts in one state after another have caused the wars between farmers and city dwellers.
(D) In one state after another, farmers started a series of campaigns against city dwellers in order to solve the drought
problem.
37 Rather than walling off the neighborhoods surrounding them, structures of modern shopping malls welcome in the natural terrain and relate to local history.
(A) Modern shopping malls are welcomed in natural as well as historical sites.
(B) Modern shopping malls are not isolated structures; they blend naturally and historically into their surroundings.
(C) Without high walls blocking modern shopping malls from their neighborhoods, they are welcomed in various
areas.
(D) To welcome people in all areas, modern shopping malls do not build high walls around them.
Every year when April 14 rolls around we like to acknowledge Noah ebster, who published the first American Dictionary of the English Language on this date in 1828. Webster considered American English not a poor cousin of the mother tongue of British English, _____39_____ a legitimate body worth respecting, recording, and, yes, reforming. The American lexicographer attempted to _____40_____ a number of spelling reforms. Noah Webster’s efforts were part of a long history of attempts to reform the quirky English orthography. In 1876, on the centennial of the American Declaration of
Independence, and almost half a century after the American Dictionary of the English Language was first published, a committee of the American Philological Association (APA) recommended serious spelling reform. Ten years after that, the members of the APA produced a list of 3,500 words whose spellings, they felt, should be changed. But _____41_____ almost 200 years of lists, announcements, and pronouncements, it is still safe to say that more lasting changes in American spelling have been the result of actual use by the people, not of decrees from on high.
【題組】39 (A) and (B) as (C) but (D) or
My mother was 82 and living in Keoluk when, unaccountably, she insisted upon attending a convention of old settlers of the Mississippi Valley. All the way there, and it was some distance, she was young again with excitement and eagerness. At the hotel she asked immediately for Dr. Barrett of St. Louis. He had left for home that morning and would not be back, she was told. She turned away, the fire all gone from her, and asked to go home. Once there she sat silent and thinking for many days, then told us that when she was 18 she had loved a young medical student with all her heart. There was a misunderstanding and he left the country; she had immediately married, to show him that she did not care. She had never seen him since and then she had read in a newspaper that he was going to attend the old settlers’ convention. “Only three hours before we reached that hotel he had been there,” she mourned.
She had kept that pathetic burden in her heart 64 years without any of us suspecting it. Before the year was out, her memory began to fail. She would write letters to schoolmates who had been dead for 40 years and wonder why they never answered. Four years later she died.
【題組】42 Why did the author’s mother insist on going to a hotel where a convention was held?
(A) The convention was run by her old schoolmates.
(B) She was one of the old settlers of the Mississippi Valley.
(C) Her former lover would attend the convention.
(D) Dr. Barrett of St. Louis could cure her memory problem.
【題組】43 Why didn’t the author’s mother meet with Dr. Barrett at the hotel?
(A) Dr. Barrett refused to meet with her.
(B) Dr. Barrett was not the person she looked for.
(C) Dr. Barrett had left a few hours before she arrived.
(D) Dr. Barrett had been dead for years before she arrived.
【題組】45 How did the author’s mother know that Dr. Barrett would attend the convention?
(A) She knew it from a letter sent by one of her old schoolmates.
(B) She learned it from the newspaper she read in Keoluk.
(C) She was informed of it by the correspondence she had with Dr. Barrett.
(D) She recalled it from the memory she had hidden for more than six decades.
【題組】46 Which of the following statements about the author’s mother is true?
(A) She became pathetic because none of her schoolmates answered her letters.
(B) She was very excited on her way home from the convention.
(C) She remained unmarried after breaking up with her lover at 18.
(D) She still cared about Dr. Barrett at the age of 82.
Advertising affects a consumer’s perception of value by contributing to the symbolic value and the social meaning of a brand. Symbolic value refers to what a product or service means to consumers in a non-literal way. _____47 _____ Otherwise, they would not be brands, but unmarked commodities. Social meaning refers to what a product or service means in a societal context. _____48_____ Often, the product’s connection to a social class shows a need within consumers to move up in class.
Researchers have long argued that objects are never just objects. _____49_____ It is important to remember that these meanings often become just as much a part of the product as some physical features. Since advertising is an essential way in which the image of a brand is developed, it influences consumers’ perception of the value of the brand. _____50_____ In other words, if the image of a product is valued by consumers, then consumers will pay to buy the product. 【題組】47
(A) Advertising means different things to different people.
(B) In reality, all branded products rely on symbolic value.
(C) For example, social class is marked by products that signify class membership, such as cars, wines, and clothes.
(D) Most people like some of the ads they see or hear, but they don’t like advertising in general.
【題組】48
(A) Advertising means different things to different people.
(B) In reality, all branded products rely on symbolic value.
(C) For example, social class is marked by products that signify class membership, such as cars, wines, and clothes.
(D) Most people like some of the ads they see or hear, but they don’t like advertising in general.
【題組】49
(A) They take on meaning from culture, society, and from consumers.
(B) The more value consumers see in a brand, the more they are willing to pay to acquire the brand.
(C) For example, social class is marked by products that signify class membership, such as cars, wines, and clothes.
(D) Most people like some of the ads they see or hear, but they don’t like advertising in general.
【題組】50
(A) They take on meaning from culture, society, and from consumers.
(B) The more value consumers see in a brand, the more they are willing to pay to acquire the brand.
(C) For example, social class is marked by products that signify class membership, such as cars, wines, and clothes.
(D) Most people like some of the ads they see or hear, but they don’t like advertising in general.
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