一、氣象傳真圖判讀: 請參考以上附圖,回答下列問題:
3.參考第一頁氣象圖,日本氣象圖對於霧區警告或是大(強)風區警告的表達方式,有何不同?在此氣象圖中,最強的高氣壓位在北緯48度、東經95度附近,請問它的最高氣壓是多少?這種高壓的名稱是什麼?
2.有一種低氣壓型態,被稱為〈台灣低氣壓〉,也稱為〈台灣氣旋〉,日本則稱為〈台灣坊主〉,請回答並說明以下問題:
f. 在中太平洋地區,也有類似型態的低氣壓,請問美國氣象圖上給它的特殊名稱是什麼?
e. 請說明此類低氣壓中心的大氣壓力,變化的趨勢?
Questions 35 –40
A big goal of advertising is to increase your consumption. Everyone needs to consume;
we all need to eat, drink and buy basic necessities. But a lot of advertising is aimed at
convincing us that we should have much more than we need. This involves encouraging us to
throw out possessions that are still good or which could be recycled, as well as to buy extra
amounts of things we may never use. This excess consumption not only uses up the world's
resources, it also increases pollution and waste. Children born today in London or New York,
for example, will consume, pollute and waste fifty times more than children born in a
developing country.
It's estimated that more than 1.7 billion people make up the world's consumer society:
people who have more money to spend than required to cover their basic needs. This number is
increasing every year. But these 1.7 billion do not spend evenly. A fifth of the world's
population, mostly people in Japan, North America and Europe, are responsible for 90 percent
of consumption.
Westerners, for example, spend US$ 37 billion a year on pet food and perfumes. But just
US$ 26 billion would be enough to provide education, food, health care, water and sanitation for
everyone in the world who doesn't have it. Many westerners spend a few dollars a day on their
pets while two-thirds of the world's population lives on less than US$ 2 a day.
What's the solution? There aren't any easy answers. Also, the situation is quickly
changing as Asian populations and economies grow and demand for increased consumption
grows with them. Perhaps the next time we see a magazine advertisement telling us to consume
more, we should just turn the page.
40. At the end of the article, what does the writer imply that we turn the magazine page?
(A) Newspapers are better.
(B) Magazines are wasteful.
(C) We probably don't need what's being advertised.
(D) We could watch a movie instead.
39. What does the writer think about US$ 2 a day?
(A) It is enough for some people's daily needs.
(B) It is very little money.
(C) It is enough for a consumer.
(D) It is enough for sanitation.
38. Which of the following statements about children in London and New York is true?
(A) They are Americans.
(B) They cannot be consumers until they are 18 years old.
(C) They consume a lot of toys.
(D) They will be bigger consumers than children born elsewhere.
This is a large modal.