36 The police requested the public’s help in identifying two suspects caught on_______ cameras during a robbery at
a jewelry store.
(A)autography (B)surveillance (C)immunization (D)pilgrimage
37 Poachers hunt the endangered African elephants for a_______ profit by selling their tusks on the black market.
(A)hefty (B)drastic (C)liable (D)virtual
38 The users’ manual states that, in order to access the functions with your browser, one must first_______ with a
user name and password.
(A)part (B)authenticate (C)collide (D)illuminate
39 The_______ of the deadly earthquake which caused hundreds of deaths was found much bigger than it had been
first reported on the national television news.
(A)aptitude (B)exactitude (C)magnitude (D)latitude
41 Customers can feel_______ for a number of reasons and chief among these is the frustration at not being heard.
(A)compatible (B)competitive (C)distracted (D)disgruntled
42 Tommy had trouble_______ in when he transferred to our school, but two months later he became very sociable
and popular.
(A)fitting (B) messing (C)popping (D)taking
43 If you come across unfamiliar words during reading, using contextual_______ to guess the meaning of the
unknown vocabulary will help you figure out what the author means.
(A)clues (B)crafts (C)cords (D)curves
44 Forcing yourself to use your non-dominant hand will_______ the neural connections between the right and left
hemispheres in your brain.
(A)seize (B)specify (C)stimulate (D)surrender
45 The Bureau of Energy is the research institute_______ to help develop new electric motorcycles.
(A)confused (B)concluded (C)commented (D)commissioned
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題:
Ever since he was little, Larry had been fascinated by balloons and fantasized about using them to fly. When he was
33, he decided to 46 his dream come true. He bought an aluminum garden chair, 42 weather balloons and an air gun
to shoot the balloons when he was ready to land. He also got a parachute, just 47 . Larry planned to fly 483 kilometers
across the Mojave Desert. He tied the chair down with ropes and attached the helium-filled balloons to it. Then, he sat
down in the chair with his gun and parachute. He was ready to go. When Larry’s friends untied one rope, 48 , the
other rope broke, and Larry and his chair rose rapidly into the sky. He ascended much more quickly and much higher
than he had expected. Before he knew it, he was 5,000 meters above the ground. The trip wasn’t turning out the
way Larry had planned. He was high up in the sky 49 the air was thin and cold. Shivering with cold, Larry
decided to 50 , but he couldn’t because he had dropped his gun during his ascent. All he could do was float
wherever the wind took him. When he finally floated down, the ropes holding the balloons became tangled in some
power lines, and the chair hung just two meters above the ground. Larry was able to climb down unhurt, but the
tangled ropes caused a twenty-minute power blackout in the neighborhood. 【題組】
46 (A)get (B)let (C)make (D)want