2. Having previously questioned the value of military alliance, the preisdent _____ his full support
for NATO.
(A) pledged (B) plodded (C) plaited (D) pleaded
4. Unfortunately for those who try to make a living by catching sea cucumbers, the population of
sea cucumbers seems to undergo a cycle of boom and _____.
(A) bloom (B) blur (C) burst (D) bust
5. Copyright protection, especially to prevent overseas piracy for _____ sale, is an important issue
today.
(A) elicit (B) eligible (C) illicit (D) illegible
6. Once when East was East and West was West, the _____ between was not only geographical but
also moral and historical.
(A) chasm (B) chaos (C) linkage (D) longitude
9. Mr. Yanai, an _____ fan of globalization, has made English the working language in his
company and hired many foreigners.
(A) arduous (B) androgen (C) ardent (D) aromatic
13. Eight Labor MPS quit the party over Jeremy Korbyn’s poor leadership, which has led to
dithering over Brexit and failed to clamp down on a surge in anti-Semitism among party
activists.
(A) intense desire (B) rapid exodus
(C) expeditious departure (D) indecisive agitation
15. Unbowed and determined to relay the horrors of terrorism to readers at home, she became a
stringer for several newspapers.
(A) pass off (B) pass out (C) pass up (D) pass on
Part III: Grammar and Structure: Select the word or phrase that BEST completes the
sentence.16. The question of Taipei’s aging houses _____ again after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck
Hualien at 13.01 P.M. on April 18.
(A) raised (B) rose (C) was raised (D) was risen
17. The radio waves have offered the means ____ the universe has been determined 20 billion years
of age.
(A) by which (B) as those (C) for what (D) all that
18. ___ since graduation from high school, Joe had to find jobs to sustain himself.
(A) Having self-supported (B) Self-supported
(C) Self-supporting (D) Being self-supported
20. Which of the following is grammatically accurate?
(A) Declarations of racial antipathy from ethnic minorities will not be tolerated.
(B) Drug trafficking is a matter of considerable concern for the entire international community.
(C) Upon seeing bullying can be very hurtful to adolescents.
(D) It can be seen why analytic abilities to be important for linguistic studies.
II. Cloze: Choose the most appropriate word for each of the blank in the following passages.
(A)
Harold Ridley was an English ophthalmologist. He developed a 21 way of helping people
with poor eyesight as a result of cataracts. During World War II, Ridley worked with RAF pilots with
eye injuries. He noticed that their eyes did not become 22 when they had eye injuries caused
by bits of Perspex from the windows of their planes. As a result of this observation, he decided to
23 plastic lenses in the eyes of people with cataracts. Surgeons had earlier tried replacing the
lenses in the eye with a glass one, but the 24 always failed because the body rejected the glass
lens. Ridley's operations with plastic lenses were successful. However, the medical community 25
Ridley's discoveries and it took many years for the technique to be accepted. Today over 200 million
people have their sight because of Harold Ridley.
【題組】21. (A) revolutionary (B) complimentary (C) supplementary (D) momentary
When Juul launched in the UK this July, it met with anticipation and trepidation 26 .
Anticipation because Juul has captured 71 percent of the American e-cigarette market in three short
years. However, trepidation because it has also 27 a vast teenage fanbase, who think it’s cool to
juul and are busy vaping like mad all over social media. Under #juul and #juulnation, you will see
teenagers smoking multiple Juuls at once, juuling while eating or flirting, or tucking their Juuls into
their cleavage. It's become part of a culture of daffy and dumb jokes, and it’s been 28 the
iPhone of e-cigarette.
So concerned is the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that last week it gave Juul Labs
and four other companies three months to prove they can keep their products out of the hands of
minors. If they cannot, they will have to 29 them from the market. In addition, Juul has faced a
number of lawsuits alleging that it has exacerbated nicotine addiction in some cases, and 30
marketed its product as safe.
【題組】26. (A) in a similar way (B) to some extent (C) in equal measure (D) to our surprise
III. Reading Comprehension: Read the following passages and choose the most appropriate
answer for each question.
(A)
A paper published in Nature Climate Change indicated that the effects of climate change
across a broad spectrum of problems, including heat waves, wildfires, sea level rise, hurricanes,
flooding, drought and shortages of clean water. Such problems are already coming in combination.
Florida, for example, had recently experienced extreme drought, record high temperatures and
wildfires — and Hurricane Michael, the powerful Category 4 storm that slammed into the Panhandle
this summer. Similarly, California is suffering through the worst wildfires the state has ever seen, as
well as drought, extreme heat waves and degraded air quality that threatens the health of residents.
In 2017, US withdrew from Paris Agreement. Despite the White House's later assessment
showing climate change could significantly reduce GDP by 10% by 2100, President Trump remains
incredulous about global warming. The UN unveiled its own report that says signatories to the Paris
Agreement are doing nowhere near enough to meet the target of keeping warming below 2°C relative
to pre-industrial times. Other reports also warned that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had reached
405 parts per million, the highest in three million to five million years.
【題組】31. The author’s tone in this passage can best be described as _____.
(A) intimtated (B) apprenhensive (C) contemptuous (D) aggrieved
【題組】32. Which of the following words is the closest in meaning to the word “incredulous” in the 2nd
paragraph?
(A) dubious (B) gullible (C) apathetic (D) unperturbed
【題組】33. Which of the following questions can NOT be answered in this passage?
(A) How can there be global warming when there is a snowstorm?
(B) What's wrong with a few degrees higher?
(C) Will the increase of carbon emissions hurt the economy?
(D) How exactly has the Earth's climate warmed over the past century?
(B)
In the past two years, scores of scientific studies have suggested that trillions of murmuring,
droning, susurrating honeybees, butterflies, caddisflies, damselflies and beetles are dying off. Most
of the studies describe declines of 50% and more in different measures of insect health over decades.
The immediate reaction is consternation. Because insects enable plants to reproduce, through
pollination, and are food for other animals, a collapse in their numbers would be catastrophic. “The
insect apocalypse is here,” trumpeted the New York Times last year.
Yet only a handful of databases record the abundance of insects over a long time. There are no
studies at all of wild insect numbers in most of the world, and reliable data are too scarce to declare a
global emergency. Where the evidence does show a collapse—in Europe and America—agricultural
and rural ecosystems are holding up. Plants still grow, attracting pollinators and reproducing. Farm
yields also remain high. As some insect species die out, others seem to be moving into the niches
they have left, keeping ecosystems going, albeit with less biodiversity than before.
People rely on healthy ecosystems for everything from nutrient cycling to the local weather,
and the more species make up an ecosystem, the more stable it is likely to be. The scale of the
observed decline raises doubts about how long ecosystems can remain resilient. An experiment in
which researchers gradually plucked out insect pollinators from fields found that plant diversity held
up well until about 90% of insects had been removed. Then it collapsed. As one character in a novel
by Ernest Hemingway says, bankruptcy came in two ways: “gradually, then suddenly.”
【題組】34. Which of the following words can best describe most of the people’s instantaneous reaction to
the drastic decrement of insect population?
(A) fright (B) bewilderment (C) agitation (D) placidness
【題組】35. Which of the following phrases can best interpret the contextual meaning of the word
“apocalypse” in the 1st paragraph?
(A) A prophetic revelation
(B) A very serious event resulting in great destruction and change
(C) The complete final destruction of the world
(D) None of the above
【題組】36. In Europe and America, what happens when some insect species become extinct?
(A) The insect decrease wreaks significant economic damage.
(B) With less biodiversity, the ecosystem continues with great difficulty.
(C) The environmental health remains intact.
(D) The sudden collapse of the ecosystem is expected.
(C)
The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease
thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which
medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured. Such a disease is, by definition,
mysterious. For as long as its cause was not understood and the ministrations of doctors remained so
ineffective, TB was thought to be an insidious, implacable theft of a life. Now it is cancer’s turn to be
the disease that doesn’t knock before it enters, cancer fills the role of an illness experienced as a
ruthless secret invasion—a role it will keep until, one day, its etiology becomes as clear and its
treatment as effective as those of TB have become.
Although the way in which disease mystifies is set against a backdrop of new expectations, the
disease itself (once TB, cancer today) arouses thoroughly old-fashioned kinds of dread. Any disease
that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally,
contagious. Thus, a surprisingly large number of people with cancer find themselves being shunned
by relatives and friends and are the object of practices of decontamination by members of their
household, as if cancer, like TB, were an infectious disease.
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence,
but because it is felt to be obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable,
repugnant to the senses. Cardiac disease implies a weakness, trouble, failure that is mechanical; there
is no disgrace, nothing of the taboo that once surrounded peoples afflicted with TB and still
surrounds those who have cancer. The metaphors attached to TB and to cancer imply living processes
of a particularly resonant and horrid kind.
【題組】37. Why does the author compares cancer with TB?
(A) Because physicians had a great discovery about their formation.
(B) Because both were considered incurable.
(C) Because both are contagious.
(D) Because both are infectious.
【題組】39. According to the passage, which of the following is true?
(A) Affliction with TB is concealed as a secret.
(B) In the past, patients afflicted with TB felt unashamed.
(C) TB and cancer used to be regarded as a taboo.
(D) TB and cancer are both infectious diseases.
【題組】40. Which of the following could be the controlling idea of this passage?
(A) Medical knowledge is not as advanced as we have assumed.
(B) People should show sympathy for patients who suffer from cancer.
(C) TB and cancer used to associate with negative metaphors because of ignorance.
(D) In the past, doctors should have been honest to their patients.
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