請依下文回答第 38 題至第 42 題 Everyone on the Internet is looking for the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme. At least that is what the people
selling the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme would like you to believe. I like to believe that we’re smarter than that. We realize that the only way to become successful at
anything 38 a lot of hard work, persistence, and luck. Now let me explain each of these points. Hard work: This is a no-brainer. You are not going to be able to turn on your computer, walk away from it,
and expect to 39 a successful business. You have to work at it. The more 40 work you put into your
website and your marketing efforts, the greater the rewards. Persistence: You have to stick with it. You can’t quit. Don’t lose faith. Luck: Yep, it’s going to take a little luck as well. But if you follow the above guidelines, you can make
your own good luck. Luck is being in the right place at the right time. Luck is making the right decision at
that 41 moment. Luck is buying low and selling high. Luck is realizing that you 42 and correcting it
right before everything crashes.
【題組】 38 (A) requests (B) remains (C) recommends (D) requires
42 It seems a very simple thing to tell the truth, but, beyond all questions, there is nothing half so easy as lying.
(A) Though it may appear simple, telling the truth is not as difficult as telling lies.
(B) Though it may appear simple, telling the truth is certainly far more difficult than telling lies.
(C) Though it may appear difficult, telling the truth is definitely less questionable than telling lies.
(D) Though it may appear easy, telling lies is believed by honest people to be the most difficult thing.
39 題至第 42 題為題組
Emily Brontë, one of the three gifted Brontë sisters, is the author of the famous English novel Wuthering Heights.
She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in England, the fifth of six children. In 1820, her family moved to
Haworth, 39 her mother died in 1821 and her two elder sisters died in 1825. Her father, a minister, was a stern and
sullen man, and the aunt who took over the household was more strict than loving. The four surviving children
became a close-knit group and 40 one another with emotional and creative support. 41 in a small and remote
community, the four siblings paired off and used their unusual literary gifts to write about imaginary lands. Emily and
her younger sister Anne 42 the imaginary country of Gondal and wrote literature for it that included legends and
poetry. Gondal remains a source of Emily’s later art, providing the setting, characters, and situations for many of her
best dramatic poems and for her novel Wuthering Heights. 【題組】40 (A) covered (B) provided (C) dealt (D) threatened
第 43 題至第 46 題為題組
A potato farmer was sent to prison just at the time when he should have been digging the ground for planting the
new crop of potatoes. He knew that his wife would not be strong enough to do the digging by herself, but that she could
manage to do the planting; and he also knew that he did not have any friends or neighbors who would be willing to do
the digging for him. So he wrote a letter to his wife which said, “Please do not dig the potato field. I hid the money and
the gun there.”
Ten days later he got a letter from his wife. It said, “I think somebody is reading your letters before they go out of
the prison. Some policemen arrived here two days ago and dug up the whole potato field. What should I do now?”
The farmer wrote back at once, “Plant the potatoes, of course.” 【題組】
43 Why was it a bad time for the potato farmer to go to prison?
(A) It was the time when the policemen found his money and gun.
(B) It was the time when he lost his money and gun.
(C) It was the time for him to dig the ground and plant the new potatoes.
(D) It was the time to harvest potatoes.
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