3.Taiwan hoped that Malaysia will lower its tariffs on 680 Taiwanese products, with the ultimate goal of achieving zero tariffs on chemical and electronics ______ .
(A) imports (B) dumping (C) duty exemption (D) royalty charge
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】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.
6.In some Asian cultures, people are not supposed to make direct eye contact when talking to their superiors because the behavior is considered bold or ( ) .
(A)aggressive (B)appropriate (C)amicable (D)affluent
What has the telephone done to us, or for us, in the hundred years of its existence? A few effects suggest
themselves at once. It has saved lives by getting rapid word of illness, injury, or famine from remote places. By
joining with the elevator to make possible the multistory residence or office building, it has made possible, for better or worse, the modern city. By bringing about a quantum leap in the speed and ease with which information moves
from place to place, it has greatly accelerated the rate of scientific and technological change and growth in industry. Beyond doubt, it has crippled if not killed the ancient art of letter writing. It has made living alone possible for
persons with normal social impulses;
by so doing, it has played a role in one of the greatest social changes in family structures. It has made the waging
of war chillingly more efficient than formerly. Perhaps (though not provably) it has prevented wars that might have
arisen out of international misunderstanding caused by written communication. Or perhaps, again not provably, by
magnifying and extending irrational personal conflicts based on voice contact, it has caused wars. Certainly it has
extended the scope of human conflicts, since it impartially disseminates the useful knowledge of scientists and the
babble of bores, the affection of the affectionate and the malice of the malicious. 【題組】【題組】50 The meaning of the word “disseminate” in the last sentence is closest to _____ .
(A) communicate (B) spread (C) listen (D) tell
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