阿摩：黑髮不知勤學早，白首方悔讀書遲
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1(A).
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A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. “Why?” asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. “I am a panda,” he says, at the door. “Look it up.” The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal. Native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.” So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death. In 2003 Lynne Truss published Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The book became a runaway success in the U.K., hitting number one on the best-seller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as “Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List” (BBC News). This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. The above passage is printed on its back cover.
【題組】50. The words “shoots” and “leaves” whose meaning has changed dramatically in different contexts are the primary source of ____ in the panda joke.
(A) spelling
(B) strategy
(C) definition
(D) humor



2(A).

With the clouds of difficulty in finding jobs still lingering, plus the intangible pressure of competition within the workplace, office workers are staying in the office later and later. In fact, working long hours is already a shared situation worldwide. In Japan, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor has issued repeated directives regarding overwork. Some corporations, worried about leaving a paper trail of illegal overtime, figure out ways to remove punch clocks, lock their doors, and turn off their lights while still keeping workers secretly working overtime. Others directly ask their employees to take work home with them. The average American works nearly 1800 hours a year, 200 hours more than in Germany. And even “after work,” modern technologies like e-mail and cell phones are like invisible chains preventing employees from ever being out of reach of the boss’ demands. “Reasonable working hours” is one of the factors used in all countries to evaluate labor conditions. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, the war between labor and capital over working hours has been never-ending. 
【題組】13 According to the passage, which of the following statements about Japan is NOT correct?
(A)Some companies give high salary to attract people to work overtime.
(B)Some companies ask their employees to work at home after daytime working.
(C)Several companies put away the punch clock, so their employees could not punch their cards.
(D)Some companies turn only fewer lights on and ask their employees to work in secret.



3(A).
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Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once ____ cacti and sagebrush could live.
(A)nor
(B)nor the
(C)none other
(D)nothing but



4(A).

請依下文回答第 21 題至第 25 題 Kraken, a 17-year-old rollercoaster at SeaWorld Orlando, an amusement park in Florida, reopened recently after several months of refurbishment. That, in itself, is unusual. The normal fate of old rides is demolition and replacement by new ones offering fresh thrills. More unusual still is that Kraken, though it had not undergone any physical upgrade during its refurbishment, had customers queuing eagerly to get on it as though it were a brand new offering. SeaWorld Orlando is the latest in a string of parks to turn to virtual reality (VR) to recycle rollercoasters of days past. In the case of Kraken, the rider wears a headset that takes him on an underwater journey which matches the coaster’s movements, dodging prehistoric sea creatures such as pliosaurs, careering down into an underwater canyon, and straining to escape the clutches of the terrible, tentacled monster after which the ride is named. Building a new ride is pricy, even for a big attraction like SeaWorld. For small parks, with low budgets, it can be an existential bet. VR, though, has given parks an opportunity to breathe new life into old rides, saving money as they do so. Adding VR to a rollercoaster does, however, present challenges beyond those involved when the headset wearer is either stationary or using his own muscles to move around. Matching what is seen with the sensation of movement is crucial. Get it wrong and the result is nausea. Yet, when executed properly, the pairing of rollercoasters and VR, two things that can both, by themselves, be nauseating experiences, actually helps reduce the risk of sickness. The VR augmentation of rides is unlikely to remain limited to rollercoasters. Six Flags, one of the world’s biggest amusement-park companies, is experimenting with adding VR to drop towers—devices in which the rider experiences several seconds of free-fall before being decelerated for a safe landing. Park visitors, then, should expect to don more headsets when they strap in for their favorite rides.
【題組】21 Which of following statements about Kraken can we infer from the first paragraph?
(A)Kraken is endowed with a new purpose even without any structural change.
(B)Kraken is an attracation which can not be easily found in a typical traditional amusement park.
(C)Kraken reopened because it is the only rollercoaster in the amusement park.
(D)Kraken has better potential for a longer life because it offers free tickets.



5(A).
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請依下文回答第 11 題至第 15 題 
   Can a building be so ugly that people get angry just looking at it? For years, the Old Executive Office Building (the OEOB) in Washington, D.C., received 11 its share of insults. President Warren G. Harding proclaimed that the building was "the worst I ever saw." Mark Twain described it as the "ugliest building in America." At a 12 of ten million dollars over seventeen years of construction, the OEOB was completed in 1888. For many, it was 13 at first sight. The building was used for many purposes over the years and then fell into neglect. 
   Then one day in 1974, a college student named John W. F. Rogers was working in the mail room of the White House. He was sent to get a chair in one of the OEOB "storerooms." Rogers thought he had entered "the castle of the Sleeping Beauty." "Everything was 14 dust and cobwebs," he recalled, "and yet I saw beauty." Years later, Rogers became the administrator of the building. Once he was 15 , one of the first things he did was to restore the old "storeroom." It is now the grand White House Law Library!

【題組】15
(A)in mind
(B)in vain
(C)in favor
(D)in charge



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