Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926. She is an American novelist, best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and became an instant international bestseller. In its first year, it sold half a million copies and was translated into 10 languages. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1961 and was adapted to the screen the following year. Lee was 34 when the book was published, and it remains her first and only novel.
Lee’s story unfolds in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s when Atticus Finch, a lawyer and a single father, is called upon to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a poor white girl, Mayella Ewell. The setting and several of the characters are drawn from real life. Finch was the maiden name of Lee’s mother, and the character of Dill was drawn from Capote, Lee’s childhood friend. The trial itself has parallels to the infamous “Scottsboro Trial,” in which the charge was rape. In both cases, the defendants were African-American men and their accusers, white women. 【題組】36 According to this article, what is To Kill a Mockingbird mainly about?
(A)Childhood memory (B)Racism (C)American culture (D)The Scottsboro Trial
DNA or ______ typing is sometimes called DNA fingerprinting because it allows police to identify an individual in the same way as fingerprints do.
(A) sampling
(B) shifting
(C) profiling
( (D) proliferating
707. Many restaurants in Taipei have signed up for an alliance to____ the imported American ground beef.
(A) boycott
(B) concede
(C) compensate
(D) console
26 至 30 題為題組 International trade is the exchange of goods and services between countries. Trade is driven by different production costs in different countries, making _____26_____ cheaper for some countries to import goods rather than make them. A country is said to have a comparative advantage over another when it can produce a commodity more cheaply. This comparative advantage is _____27_____ by key factors of production such as land, capital, and labor. While international trade has long been conducted in history, its economic, social, and political importance has been _____28_____ in recent centuries. During the 1990s, international trade grew by nearly 8.6% each year. In the year 1990 alone, the growth in trade in services was as high as 19%. Today, all countries are involved in, and to varying degrees dependent on, trade with other countries. _____29_____ international trade, nations would be limited to the goods and services produced within their own borders. Trade is certainly a main _____30_____ force for globalization. It is also the subject of many international agreements that aim to govern and facilitate international trade, such as those negotiated through the World Trade Organization (WTO). 【題組】27.
(A) installed
(B) reserved
(C) opposed
(D) determined
40 Despite________ competition, the athlete made a gallant effort to win the first medal of the championships.
(A) fierce (B) groovy (C) scarce (D) virtual
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