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1(B).

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Greeks. The war quickly turned into a stalemate, with both armies at their wits’ end. The Greek general Odysseus finally 111 a clever solution. For the Greeks to triumph, they needed to find a way to enter the city of Troy 112 was protected by high, impregnable walls. Odysseus suggested that a giant wooden horse 113 and 114 they hide inside its hollow belly. The Trojans thought the Greeks had surrendered and retreated, so they wheeled the horse inside unsuspectingly, 115 their victory. As the saying goes, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” The Greek warriors stormed in and seized Troy, with their enemies still 116 in their beds. The war that never seemed to end finally came to a stop. Now, we use this proverb to warn that we 117 an opponent or an enemy who offers presents or favors.
【題組】116.
(A) slept
(B) sleeping
(C) sleep
(D) to sleep

2(B).

96 至 100 題為題組 Road running is one of the most popular and accessible athletic activities in the world. It refers tothe sport of running on paved roads or established paths as opposed to track and field, or cross countryrunning. The three most common 96 for road running events are 10K runs, half marathons (21.1K),and marathons (42.2K).Road running is unique among athletic events because it97 all ages and abilities. In many cases first time amateurs are welcome to participate in the same event as running club members and even current world-class 98 . Sometimes it may also include wheelchair entrants.Road running often offers those 99 a range of challenges such as dealing with hills, sharp bends, rough weather, and so on. Runners are advised to train prior to participating in a race. Another important factor contributing to success is a suitable pair of running shoes. Road running is often a community-wide event that highlights or raises money for an issue or project. 100 , Race for the Cure is held throughout the U.S. to raise breast cancer awareness. This race is also run in Germany, Italy, and Puerto Rico.
【題組】 96.
(A) journeys
(B) distances
(C) destinations
(D) measurements

3(B).

1. She cut herself when she was _____a pencil with a knife.
(A)carving
(B)felling
(C)sharpening
(D)trimming

4(B).

42 題至第 46 題： In the summer of 1964, the well-known writer and editor Norman Cousins became very ill. He consulted his physician, who did many tests. Eventually he was diagnosed as having ankylosing spondylitis, a very serious and destructive form of arthritis. His doctor told him that he would become immobilized and eventually die of the disease. Despite the diagnosis, Cousins was determined to overcome the disease and survive. He had always been interested in medicine and had read the work of the organic chemist Hans Selye, The Stress of Life (1956). This book discusses the idea of how body chemistry and health can be damaged by emotional stress and negative attitudes. Selye’s book made Cousins think about the possible benefits of positive attitudes and emotions. He decided to concentrate on positive emotions as a remedy to heal some of the symptoms of his ailment. In addition to his conventional medical treatment, he tried to put himself in situations that would elicit positive emotions. “Laugh therapy” became part of his treatment. He scheduled time each day for watching comedy films, reading humorous books, and doing other activities that would bring about laughter and positive emotions. Within eight days of starting his “laugh therapy” program, his pain began to decrease and he was able to sleep more easily. His body chemistry even improved. Doctors were able to see an improvement in his condition. He was able to return to work in a few months’ time and actually reached complete recovery after a few years.
【題組】 42 What is the main idea of this passage?
(A)Doctors’ diagnoses may not always be correct.
(B)Mind-body interaction may affect a person’s health.
(C)Laugh therapy is very powerful and can cure all kinds of diseases.
(D)When diagnosed with a serious disease, one should seek alternative treatments.

5(B).

一、詞彙題：請選出各題最適當的英文單字或片語。（24 分）
【題組】2. In 1960s you could buy a ___, four-function calculator for a few hundred dollars.
(A) peevish
(B) huffy
(C) grouchy
(D) portable

6(B).

35 I’m usually quite ______ , but today’s traffic was bad and I was twenty minutes late for work.
(A)contagious
(B)gigantic
(C)punctual
(D)redundant

7(B).

請依下文回答第 31 題至第 35 題

Scientists have genetically modified mice to enable them to sniff out landmines, the explosives buried just below the surface of the ground. They hope the GM mouse, known as MouSensor, could become a useful tool to help deal with the dangerous devices left from past wars.

Although it sounds peculiar, similar efforts have already been made. A Belgian charity uses giant African HeroRats to sniff out the chemical explosive, TNT. Two of these rats can clear an area in less than two hours that would take two people two days to do. One disadvantage of the HeroRat, however, is that it needs nine months’ training before being ready for landmine detection.

Scientists wanted to improve on the HeroRat concept by creating a “supersniffer” mouse, MouSensor. They found that a receptor in the lab mouse’s nose is sensitive to the odor of the chemical elements in TNT and landmines. By altering the genes of the mouse, scientists are able to enhance the capability of its receptor 500 times stronger than before. Besides having super sniffing power, the MouSensor is cheaper to manage and easier to breed than the rats.

When the MouSensor detects the presence of a landmine, it would have some sort of a seizure and faint because of its extreme sensitivity of the explosives. And this change of the mouse’s physical condition would trigger a chip implanted under its skin to send a signal to a computer monitored by scientists. As a result, the location of the landmine could be identified, and a bomb-disposal expert could go in and neutralize it. The mouse itself would be safe from the landmine, since it would be too small to trigger an explosion.

【題組】33 Which part of a MouSensor’s body is most sensitive to the explosives?
(A) The feet.
(B) The skin.
(C) The nose.
(D) The mouth.

8(B).

A: Is there a department store near here? B: Yes, O'Neil's is nearby. A: _________ B: It's about five minutes from here by car.
(A) How to get there?
(B) How long is it?
(C) How long will it be?
(D) How far is it?

9(B).

8 It is unreasonable to have______ against people simply because of their skin color.
(A) confidence
(B) inadequacy
(C) prejudice
(D) vulnerability

10(B).

Christianity is one of the great ___s of the world.
(A) region
(B) resignation
(C) reaction
(D) religion

11(B).

請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： Next time you watch a digital ad in a mall, be aware that the ad could be watching you! Small cameras and special software are installed in the ad’s screen. They track who is looking at the ad and for how long. The software works out age and gender before serving up an ad specifically for that demographic. Men are shown razor ads, women can see cosmetics ads, and teens can learn about the latest video games. This targeted advertising creates a personalized digital city for consumers. Some people don’t like it, though. In Germany, a supermarket chain used loyalty cards implanted with RFID tracking chips to learn about its customers’ shopping habits. The chips let the store know customers’ purchasing histories and even their movements inside the stores. The chips were removed after people complained their privacy was being invaded. These new technologies are raising red flags about how far companies are willing to go to make a profit. Consumers have no idea when they’re being watched, and there’s no regulation in place to deal with these practices. Privacy campaigners urge companies to tell consumers what details are being collected, how it is done, and why. Even though it is meant to make data-analyzing convenient, the spying ends up being a little creepy.
【題組】48 What happened when a German supermarket chain started using RFID chips?
(A) Customers knew about each other’s purchasing histories.
(B) Shopping became more convenient for customers.
(C) Customers moved around the supermarkets more easily.
(D) Customers complained about their privacy being invaded.

12(B).

207. A painkiller will _____ your headache quickly.
(A)receive
(B)repair
(C)greet
(D)relieve

13(B).

請依下文回答第 10 題至第 12 題 In New York City, fast-food restaurants are required to post the calories in their offerings in large type and inreadily 10 positions. The likely shock when customers realize just how many calories they are taking in with their oversized burgers and fries or richly sweetened coffees may urge overweight customers toward ahealthier 11 . The calorie posting requirement 12 to all restaurants that have standardized menus and already list the calorie content of their menu items publicly. These restaurants, including almost all of the well-knownfast-food chains, will soon be required to post the caloric content of each item on menus and on menu boards. And thishas to be done in type as large as the name or price of the item.
【題組】 10
(A) flexible
(B) responsible
(C) visible
(D) stable

14(B).

4 The price of each new product is _____by its production cost and market value.
(A) reiterated
(B) yearned
(C) determined
(D) inverted

15(B).

31 “Patient zero” is a term used to describe the first human______ by a viral or bacterial disease in an outbreak.
(A) recovered
(B) contacted
(C) infected
(D) detected

16(B).

36 The design of my high school did not appeal to me because it was built to _______ only 200 students.
(A)barricade
(B)accommodate
(C)withold
(D)embrace

17(B).

38 After the scandal was _____ , the Prime Minister committed suicide.
(A) cherished
(B) invaded
(C) sheltered
(D) exposed

18(B).

38 These companies claim deeper seawater contains more _________ and fewer pollutants than surface water.
(A)cankers
(B)nutrients
(C)incentives
(D)utilities

19(B).

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】47 Why do many governments bar refugees from working in the formal economy?
(A) Refugees would rather take odd jobs in a bar than formal jobs.
(B) The governments intend to preserve jobs for the local natives.
(C) The research shows that immigrants rarely take native workers’ jobs.
(D) The research shows that refugees have increased consumption per household.

20(B).

31 The mother makes a lot of ______in order to raise up her children.
(A)occasions
(B)sacrifices
(C)glances
(D)versions

21(B).

748. The newly-weds reserved a room with a balcony _____ the sea shore.
(A) vanishing
(B) overlooking
(C) narrating
(D) capturing

22(B).

517. Looking around the students, I found some students were giggling, ____ others were quite attentive.
(A) because
(B) once
(C) if
(D) while

23(B).

25 Academic performance should not be____ purely by examination results, which concern only a limited aspect of learning.
(A) arranged
(B) measured
(C) developed
(D) improved

24(B).

39.In developing countries, where three-fourths of the world’s population lives, women＿＿＿＿＿ more than half of the food.
(A)induce
(B)produce
(C)refuse
(D)expose

25(B).

Kuo-tung : How long did it take you speak English so fluently? Hua-min : Ten years. You have to practice it every day. ______ Kuo-tung : You're right about it.
(A) I'd be glad to do it for you.
(B) Nothing really matters.
(C) So far so good
(D) There's no shortcut.