請依下文回答第 36 題至第 40 題
If you want to know where Google is headed, look through Google Lens. The artificially intelligent,
augmented reality feature seemed to generate the most interest at Google’s developer conference. Of all
announcements, it best encapsulated what Google’s transition to an “AI first” company means. Google’s CEO
Sundar Pichai underscored the tool as a key reflection of Google’s direction. “All of Google was built because we
started understanding text and web pages. So the fact that computers can understand images and videos has
profound implications for our core mission,” he said so in his introduction of Lens.
During a demo, Google showed off how you could point your camera at something and Lens would tell you
what it is－like, it could identify the flower you’re preparing to shoot. In another example, Pichai showed how
Lens could do a common task－connecting you to a home’s Wi-Fi network by snapping a photo of the sticker on
the router. A third example was a photo of a business’s storefront－and Google Lens could pull up the name,
rating and other business listing information in a card that appeared over the photo.
The technology basically turns the camera from a passive tool that’s capturing the world around you to one
that’s allowing you to interact with what’s in your camera’s viewfinder. Later, during a Google Home
demonstration, the company showed how Lens would be integrated into Google Assistant. Through a new button
in the Assistant app, users will be able to launch Lens and insert a photo into the conversation with the Assistant,
where it can process the data the photo contains. To show how this could work, Google’s Scott Huffman holds his
camera up to a concert marquee for a Stone Foxes show and Google Assistant pulls up info on ticket sales. “Add
this to my calendar,” he says－and it does. The integration of Lens into Assistant can also help with translations.
Huffman demonstrates this by holding up his camera to a sign in Japanese, tapping the Lens icon and saying “What
does this say?” Google Assistant then translates the text.
Pichai said in his founders’ letter a year ago that part of this shift to being an AI first company meant
computing would be less device-centric. Lens is an example of being less device-centric, on mobile. The
technology behind Lens is essentially nothing new, and that also tells us something about where Google is going.
This is not to say that Google is done coming up with new technologies, but that there are a lot of capabilities the
company is still putting together into useful products.
【題組】40 According to this passage, why does Google Lens represent Google’s future direction?
(A) Google Lens serves as a great search engine for text and web pages.
(B) Google Lens serves as an active tool that captures the world around us.
(C) Google Lens utilizes artificial intelligence to retrieve data from images.
(D) Google Lens is a new device that provides translation with AI technology.
請回答下列第46題至第50題
Two years ago, a group of elders in a village in north-western Uganda agreed to lend their land to refugees from
South Sudan. About 120,000 are now in the surrounding area. Here they live in tarpaulin shelters and mud-brick
huts on a patch of scrub where cows once grazed. Kemis Butele, a gravel-voiced Ugandan elder, explains that
hosting refugees is a way for a remote place, long neglected by the central government, to get noticed. He hopes for
new schools, clinics and a decent road – and “that our children can get jobs.”
There are more than 20 million refugees in the world today, more than at any time since the end of the second world
war. Nearly 90% reside in poor countries. In many, to preserve jobs for natives, governments bar refugees from
working in the formal economy. Uganda has shown how a different approach can reap dividends. The government
gives refugees land plots and lets them work. In some places, the refugees boost local businesses and act as a magnet
for foreign aid. Mr. Butele and many other Ugandans see their new neighbors as a benefit, not a burden. Sadly, such
attitudes are still the exception.
Refugees are “brothers and sisters,”say many Ugandans. Mr. Butele was once one himself. But the welcome is also
a pragmatic one. Northern Uganda is so poor that some locals pose as refugees to receive food aid. Others see
refugees as buyers for local goods. Elsewhere in Uganda has indeed seen such positive spillover. One study from
2016 found that the presence of Congolese refugees in western Uganda had increased consumption per household.
Another estimates that each new refugee household boosts total income, including that of refugees, by $320-430
more than the cost of the aid the household is given. That rises to $560-670 when refugees are given cash instead
of rations.
【題組】48 Which of the following words is closest in meaning to “spillover”?
(A) Dividend. (B) Magnet. (C) Presence. (D) Excess.
請依下文回答第 12 題至第 16 題
The Buddhist attitude towards death is fundamentally conditioned by a belief in reincarnation. 12 Hindus, Buddhists believe that, after death, the soul is reborn in another body. The kind of body and the station of life into which the individual is reborn 13 upon the kind of life he or she led previously. Those who led virtuous lives and attained merit are reborn into conditions that allow them to practice even greater virtue and to achieve a yet more 14 incarnation. The 15 also holds true; those who lead depraved lives can suffer a series of rebirths, each lower and more wretched than the last. This process is not endless, however. The soul seeks the upward path, and after innumerable incarnations can, through meditation and contemplation, become aware of the universal meaning of things. The Buddha is released from the cycle of death and rebirth, 16 the forms and changes of the material universe, and dwells forever in a timeless, formless, and unchanging state known as Nirvana. 【題組】12 (A) In addition to (B) In common with (C) Likewise (D) Same of
請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題：
Your bed could be watching you! If you have any of a variety of smart beds or sleep apps, it knows when you fall asleep and __41__ . A manufacturer says the bed collects more than 8 billion biometric data points every night, __42__ sent
to the company’s servers via an app. According to the company, analyzing all the personal data not only helps them
inform the consumers about their health, but also aids the company’s efforts to make better products. Still, consumerprivacy __43__ are increasingly raising concerns about the fate of personal health information, which is potentially
valuable to companies that collect and sell it. __44__ , consumers are flocking to sleep tracking devices and undermattress sensors that claim to quantify sleep. But do consumers really need an app to tell them how rested they feel in
the morning? One unexpected __45__ is that people who become too attuned to their data may experience anxiety and
an inability to sleep. People get all this data and get upset about having a perfect number. 【題組】
41 (A) turn in (B) turn up (C) toss down (D) toss and turn
請依下文回答第 6 題至第 10 題 A big hole in the car park at SpaceX’s headquarters in Los Angeles is the first visible evidence of another of Elon Musk’s ventures. Mr. Musk who, besides leading SpaceX, a rocket company, also __6__ Tesla, a maker of electric cars, is going into the tunneling business. The goal of the Boring Company, as he dubs his new enterprise, is to __7__ into tunnels faster and more cheaply than is possible at the moment. __8__ the pit in the car park, Mr. Musk says he has also begun a series of test tunnels for a project that will, if it comes to __9__ , carry cars under Los Angeles on high-speed sledges. In this way, people can __10__ the dreadful traffic jams above. More ambitiously, he claims to have official support for a 320 km (200-mile) tunnel that would, in half an hour, whisk peopole between New York and Washington, DC, in magnetically propelled capsules, using a technology he has dubbed the hyperloop. 【題組】8 (A) Apart from (B) According to (C) In view of (D) In spite of
請依下文回答第 11 題至第 15 題 The clever fool syndrome would explain why one controversial study of Harvard Business School students found that, after a flying start, the alumni (presumably among the ablest young men of their day)gradually slipped back to the general level inside their chosen management __11__ . A Harvard graduate has no reason at all to suppose that he will manage more effectively than a less instructed contemporary. The Harvard man can only claim that he is more highly educated; and high education and high achievement in practical affairs don’t necessarily go together. John F Kennedy found that assembling America’s brightest brains in Washington neither got bills __12__ Congress nor avoided the Bay of Pigs; and many companies have discovered that business school diplomas are a thin __13__ against incompetence. An overwhelmingly large proportion of the highest and best American executives did study business. All this proves that an overwhelmingly large proportion of business-minded undergraduates got the real message,which is that a diploma will be good for their careers, starting with starting salaries. It does not follow that the education was of any other direct benefit either to the executive or his firm. __14__ , of course, that the schooling was wasted. As a general rule, the wise man recruits the finest intelligence he can find; and good minds are far better for good training. The question is only whether academic training in subjects that seem to have some connection with management __15__ the best education for managing, and that is something that nobody can prove either way. 【題組】14 (A) It is not followed (B) Nor does it follow (C) One follows (D) What follows
請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題 In business or in daily life, when dealing with the things we know, we can plan accordingly and expect them to go as planned. However good business or personal plans may be, they can sometimes __41__ because of unexpected events or circumstances, which are often called contingencies. Success sometimes reflects the number of calculated risks we are willing to take, both personally and professionally. That is why contingency planning is so important for it allows active risk management and __42__ preparation rather than reactive decisions when faced with an emergency, which can result in failure. In business a contingency, either externally or internally, is generally negative, and it may influence the financial health, professional image, or market share of a company. __43__ , such unexpected development can likewise be a surprising windfall, for example, a giant order. Anything __44__ that upsets a company’s normal operation can hurt the company regardless of the possibility that the interruption is a direct result of a windfall. It should, therefore, be a normal part of the business planning process to __45__ potential threats and opportunities. Seeing to this can ensure that specific contingency plans and resources are well-prepared to deal with them.
【題組】44 (A) across the board (B) in due course (C) out of the blue (D) up in the air
13 Most migrants were not treated fairly in the American society in the 19th century when the _____ of
Asians was widespread throughout the Western society. (A) oppression (B) elevation (C) inclination (D) assumption
34 The meeting finally came to an end when the committee members reached a ______ on adding an additional prize
winner. (A) consultant (B) consensus (C) collision (D) competition
請依下文回答第 46 至第 50 題： Soon after ChatGPT debuted in 2022, researchers tested what the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot would write afterit was asked questions peppered with conspiracy theories and false narratives. The results — in writings formatted asnews articles, essays and television scripts — were so troubling that the researchers minced no words in their criticismof the new technology. Researchers predict that generative technology like ChatGPT could make disinformation cheaperand easier to produce for an even larger number of conspiracy theorists and spreaders of disinformation. Personalized,real-time chatbots could share conspiracy theories in increasingly credible and persuasive ways, researchers say,smoothing out human errors like poor syntax and mistranslations and advancing beyond easily discoverable copy-pastejobs. And they say that no available mitigation tactics can effectively combat it. Predecessors to ChatGPT, which was created by the company OpenAI, have been used for years to pepper onlineforums and social media platforms with comments and spam. Microsoft had to halt activity from its Tay chatbot within 24 hours of introducing it on Twitter in 2016 after trolls taught it to spew racist and xenophobic language. ChatGPT isfar more powerful and sophisticated. Supplied with questions loaded with disinformation, it can produce convincing,clean variations on the content within seconds, without disclosing its sources. Recently, Microsoft and OpenAI introduceda new Bing search engine and web browser that can use chatbot technology to plan vacations, translate texts or conductresearch. OpenAI researchers have long been nervous about chatbots falling into villainous hands. In a 2019 paper, they voicedtheir concern about their chatbot’s capabilities to lower costs of disinformation campaigns and aid in the malicious pursuitof monetary gains, particular political agendas, and/or desires to create chaos or confusion. OpenAI uses machines andhumans to monitor content that is fed into and produced by ChatGPT. The company relies on both its human AI trainersand feedback from users to identify and filter out toxic training data while teaching ChatGPT to produce better-informedresponses. OpenAI’s policies prohibit use of its technology to promote dishonesty, deceive or manipulate users or attemptto influence politics; the company offers a free moderation tool to handle content that promotes hate, self-harm, violenceor sex.
【題組】46 What is the main idea of this passage?
(A) ChatGPT should not be used by conspiracy theorists and fake news spreaders. (B) ChatGPT developers believe their chatbot can help users discern misinformation. (C) Newly developed chatbots like ChatGPT can produce well-formatted news articles. (D) Misinformation is a serious problem with ChatGPT, which is hard to solve.
【非選題】 三、英文作文：（20 分）
In a composition of no less than 200 words, name the most useful quality
with which a millennial can thrive in the 21st century and offer your reasons
why you think so.
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