請依下文回答第6－9題
You ask me what is poverty? Listen to me. Here I am, dirty, smelly, and with no “proper” underwear on and with the stench of my rotting teeth near you. I will tell you. Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your pity. Listen with understanding. (6)
Poverty is getting up every morning from a dirt-and-illness-stained mattress. The sheets have long since been used for diapers. (7) This is a smell of urine, sour milk, and spoiling food sometimes joined with the strong smell of long-cooked onions. (8) It is the smell of the outdoor privy. It is the smell of the milk which has gone sour because the refrigerator long has not worked, and it costs money to get it fixed. It is the smell of rotting garbage. (9) Shovels cost money.
【題組】6、
(A) Poverty is living in a smell that never leaves.
(B) Even the cheapest soap has to be saved for the baby’s diapers.
(C) If you have smelled this smell, you did not know how it came.
(D) Put yourself in my dirty, worn out, ill-fitting shoes, and hear me.
32 Jesus Christ in the West and Confucius in the East both had a lot of _____who were influenced by their teachings and tried to follow their good examples.
(A)descendants
(B)offsprings
(C)siblings
(D)disciples
One of Jane's finest qualities is that she takes the ＿＿＿. She always takes the necessary action and does not wait foe orders
(A)initiative
(B)charity
(C)vision
(D)advantage
請依下文回答第 36 題至第 38 題：
The development of seawater agriculture has taken two directions. Some investigators have attempted to breed salt
tolerance into conventional crops, such as barley and wheat. For example, Emanuel Epstein’s research team at the
University of California at Davis showed as early as 1979 that strains of barley propagated for generations in the presence
of low levels of salt could produce small amounts of grain when irrigated by comparatively saltier seawater.
Unfortunately, subsequent efforts to increase the salt tolerance of conventional crops through selective breeding and
genetic engineering─in which genes for salt tolerance were added directly to the plants─have not produced good
candidates for seawater irrigation. The upper salinity limit for the long-term irrigation of even the most salt-tolerant
crops, such as the date palm, is still less than five part per 1,000(ppt)─less than 15 percent of the salt content of seawater.
Normal seawater is 35 ppt salt.
Our approach has been to domesticate wild, salt-tolerant plants, called halophytes, for use as food, forage, and
oilseed crops. We reasoned that changing the basic physiology of a traditional crop plant from salt-sensitive to
salt-tolerant would be difficult and that it might be more feasible to domesticate a wild, salt-tolerant plant. After all, our
modern crops started out as wild plants. Indeed, some halophytes─such as grain from the saltgrass Disticblis Palmeri─
were eaten for generations by native peoples, including the Cocopah, who live where the Colorado River empties into the
Gulf of California.
【題組】38 Where do you think the Cocopah live?
(A)At the origin of the Colorado River
(B)At the mouth of the Colorado River
(C)Along the Colorado River
(D)At the dried part of the Colorado River
33 I couldn’t go to the movies with my friends this afternoon because I had to run some _____such as taking mail to
the post office and doing grocery shopping.
(A)assignments (B)errands (C)missions (D)routines
43.Underemployment is ____ ; a physicist working in a customs house is a
symbol of national stagnation, not advancement.
(A) ambiguous (B)demoralizing (C) optimistic (D)invaluable
32 _____ the driving habits of the two groups of drivers, the researcher hopes to find out ways to enhance road safety.
(A)Comparing with (B)In comparison (C)As compare (D)By comparing
35 Opposite those people we idolized were those who represented a way of acting, looking, living that we _____
and swore we would never imitate.
(A)occupied (B) hated (C) created (D)admired
11 The paper presents several findings, but none are explained in detail, as _____ in a professional report.
(A) they would be (B) they do (C) it would be (D) it does
9 Nothing could _____ me to sing in public. I won’t do it even if you give me a free plane ticket to Hawaii.
(A) intend (B) insure (C) inquire (D) induce
6 In accordance with the Enforcement Rules of the R.O.C. Patent Act, the____ shall mean the technical
feature(s) which define(s) a contribution which each of the claimed inventions, considered as a whole,
makes over the prior art.
(A)single general inventive concept (B) special technical features (C)inventive steps (D) novelty
393. It’s commonly believed that doing ______ exercise right after a meal might cause a stomachache or indigestion. Therefore, do not go jogging or play basketball shortly after a meal.
(A) durable
(B) thorough
(C) vigorous
(D) drastic
633. More explanations and examples are required to make your argument less _____ in your second draft.
(A) fearful (
(B)feminine
(C)flawless
(D)feeble
11 People are horrified at the treatment of the _____ immigrant children who were separated from their
parents at the US-Mexico border. (A) detained (B) attained (C) departed (D) aborted
34 The employer was forced to negotiate with their employees for a 7-day strike, ______he expected the negative
impact of this incident.
(A) as if (B) despite that (C) so that (D) what if
35 Many successful leaders believe that a _____ approach should be taken in order to solve complex problems, with
feasible solutions often being preferred over more idealistic ones.
(A) resilient (B) resistant (C) pragmatic (D) precarious
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