| 小爽 2018.9下旬攝於北海·潿洲島
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一起帶回來的是9月28日， 發生的災難性事件——
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2-4.Although trains may use energy more (i)_____ than do automobiles, the lattermove only when they contain at least one occupant, whereas railway carriagesspend a considerable amount of time running up and down the tracks (ii)_____,or nearly so.
A. lavishly
D. vacant
B. efficiently
E. unimpeded
C. routinely
F. overlooked
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4.She was never (i)_____; she was nothing if not discreet, so she (ii)_____ forthe present to declare herpassion.
A. precipitate
D. pretended
B. tactful
E. decided
C. thoughtful
F. forbore
| 此題還有一道類似題，屬於常考的簡單題
9-7. Though Edmurd certainly had a dignified bearing and made a great first impression, those who became acquainted with him soon realized he had an essentially _____ nature.
A. pugnacious
B. deliberate
C. punctilious
D. courteous
E. complacent
F. truculent
25-3. Recent scholarship has questioned the (i)_____ of tropical forests around the world. Archaeologists have shown, for example, that the largest contiguous tract of what was thought to be virgin rain forest in the southern Amazon had been transformed into a cultural parkland before European contact, and many of the forest islands in West Africa’s savanna forest transition zone are (ii)_____ as well.
A. diversity
D. isolated
B. naturalness
E. endangered
C. sustainability
F. anthropogenic
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27-1. Though many avant-garde writers _____ traditional distinctions among literary categories, combining elements of biography and fiction, prose and poetry, this fusion of forms has been slow to catch on with publishers.
A. flout
B. presuppose
C. exploit
D. imitate
E. illuminate
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28-7. Fewideas are more _____ than the notion that cultures evolve in Darwin fashion; many academics have begun writing about cultural evolution, but few treat the underlying Darwinian logic with the care it deserves.
A. abused
B. archaic
C. misused
D. outdated
E. divisive
F. derivative
| 此題為小爽老師答疑常見題目
46-6.For many years, Americans have had a love affair withferryboats. Ferries are said to relieve our frayed nerves after we』vestewed in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and conventional wisdom also says ferries(i)_____ congestion and air pollution by getting us out of cars.Unfortunately, this (ii)_____ notion recently has (iii)_____several West Coast mayors, who have in consequenceeagerly pursued the implementation of ferry service in theircities.
A. contribute to
D. provocative
G. captivated
B. reduce
E. misguided
H. confused
C. cover up
F. cynical
I. outraged
| 此題為小爽老師答疑常見題目
61-4.The benefits offered by information technology do not (i)_____ the need forindividual reasoning; for example, Internet user should not allow the reasoningprocess to be (ii)_____ the mere accumulation raw data.
A. disguise
D. preceded by
B. signal
E. supplemented with
C. diminish
F. supplanted by
| 此題為小爽老師答疑常見題目
64-8. Although in the mid-1970s nuclear power seemed poised for a still greater role in energy supply, in fact the _____ of its prestige had already begun.
A. evaluation
B. waning
C. defense
D. undermining
E. ebbing
F. vindication
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85-1.「RESIGNATION」, an English word the French novelist Christian Oster would no doubt appreciate, presents an elegant paradox: in one sense, it indicated abold step, a cleaving of oneself from an attachment grown onerous; in another, it’s the height of _____, an acquiescence to fate.
A. sham
B. fissure
C. desperation
D. passivity
E. maturity
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91-3.In light of Elizabeth’s habitually (i)_____ nature, her friend were quitesurprised by her (ii)_____ at the convention.
A. ingenuous
D. garrulity
B. laconic
E. ostentatiousness
C. intractable
F. tenacity
94-3. Tryingto fix problems that affect vast numbers of people has an intuitive appeal thatpoliticians and policymakers find (i)_____, but several warehouses of researchstudies show that intuition is often a poor guide to fixing (ii)_____ problems.
A. logical
D. localized
B. irresistible
E. systemic
C. off-putting
F. theoretical
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104-5. Give a computer (i)_____ task—winning at chess, say, or predicting the weather—and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are (ii)_____, or require combining varied sources, computers are (iii)_____ human intelligence.
A. a well-defined
D. nuanced
G. no match for
B. a random
E. inconsequential
H. unyielding to
C. an open-ended
F. solvable
I. able to dwarf
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Passage 11
Before feminist literary criticism emerged in the 1970s, the nineteenth-century United States writer Fanny Fern was regarded by most critics (when considered at all) as a prototype of weepy sentimentalism—a pious, insipid icon of conventional American culture. Feminist reclamations of Fern, by contrast, emphasize her nonsentimental qualities, particularly her sharply humorous social criticism. Most feminist scholars find it difficult to reconcile Fern’s sardonic social critiques with her effusive celebrations of many conventional values. Attempting to resolve this contradiction, Harris concludes that Fern employed flowery rhetoric strategically to disguise her subversive goals beneath apparent conventionality. However, Tompkins proposes an alternative view of sentimentality itself, suggesting that sentimental writing could serve radical, rather than only conservative ends by swaying readers emotionally, moving them to embrace social change.
Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
1. The passage suggests which of the following about the contradiction mentioned in the highlighted sentence?
A. It was not generally addressed by critics before the 1970s.
B. It is apparent in only a small number of Ferns writings.
C. It has troubled many feminist critics who study Fern.
2. It can be inferred from the passage that Tompkins would be most likely to agree with which of the following about the critics mentioned in the passage?
A. They accurately characterize the overall result Fern is aiming to achieve.
B. They are not as dismissive of Fern as some feminist critics have suggested.
C. They exaggerate the extent to which Fern intended her writing to serve a social purpose.
D. They wrongly assume that sentimental must be a pejorative term.
E. They fail to recognize the role that sentimental rhetoric plays to reader’s emotions.
Passage 35
Architectural morphology is the study of how shifting cultural and environmental conditions produce changes in an architectural form. When applied to the mission churches of New Mexico exemplifying seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish colonial architecture in what is now the southwestern United States, architectural morphology reveals much about how Native American culture transformed the traditional European church architecture of the Spanish missionaries who hoped to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Many studies of these mission churches have carefully documented the history and design of their unique architectural form, most attribute the churches』 radical departure from their sixteenth-century European predecessors to local climate and a less-mechanized building technology. Certainly, the limitations imposed by manual labor and the locally available materials of mud-brick and timber necessitated a divergence from the original European church model. However, the emergence of a church form suited to life in the Southwest was
rooted in something more fundamental than material and technique. The new architecture resulted from cultural forces in both the Spanish colonial and indigenous Native American societies, each with competing ideas about form and space and different ways of conveying these ideas symbolically.
For example, the mission churches share certain spatial qualities with the indigenous kiva, a round, partly subterranean room used by many Southwest Native American communities for important rituals. Like the kiva it was intended to replace, the typical mission church had thick walls of adobe (sun-dried earth and straw), a beaten-earth floor, and one or two small windows. In deference to European custom, the ceilings of these churches were higher than those of the traditional kiva. However, with the limited lighting afforded by their few small windows, these churches still suggest the kiva's characteristically low, boxlike, earth-hugging interior. Thus, although pragmatic factors of construction may have contributed to the shape of the mission churches, as earlier studies suggest, the provision of a sacred space consistent with indigenous traditions may also have been an important consideration in their design.
The continued viability of the kiva itself in Spanish mission settlements has also been underestimated by historians. Freestanding kivas discovered in the ruins of European-style missionary communities have been explained by some historians as examples of 「superposition」. Under this theory, Christian domination over indigenous faiths is dramatized by surrounding the kiva with Christian buildings. However, as James Ivey points out, such superposition was unlikely, since historical records indicate that most Spanish missionaries,
arriving in the Southwest with little or no military support, wisely adopted a somewhat conciliatory attitude toward the use of the kiva at least initially. This fact, and the careful, solitary placement of the kiva in the center of the mission-complex courtyards, suggests an intention to highlight the importance of the kiva rather than to diminish it.
1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. correct some misinterpretations about the development of an architectural form
B. compare the traditional church architectures of two different cultures
C. examine the influence of a religious architectural style on secular buildings
D. explain the nature of the contrast between two different architectural styles
E. trace the European roots of an architectural style used in the United Stales
2. The passage suggests that the indicated historians regarded the placement of kivas in the midst of Christian buildings as which of the following?
A. exemplary of an arrangement of religious buildings typical of a kind of Native American architecture common prior to the arrival of the Spanish
B. largely responsible for the evolution of a distinctive Spanish mission architectural style
C. indicative of the Spanish missionaries』 desire to display an attitude of acceptance toward the kiva
D. symbolic of the controversy among Spanish missionaries in New Mexico regarding their treatment of the indigenous population
E. reflective of the Spanish missionary’s desire to diminish the kiva's importance
3. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument about the Spanish missionaries』 attitude toward the kiva?
A. The period of most intensive settlement by Spanish missionaries in the Southwest occurred before the period in which the mission churches of New Mexico were built.
B. There are no traces of kivas in Spanish mission settlements that were protected by a large military presence.
C. Little of the secular Spanish colonial architecture of the Southwest of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is predominantly European in style.
D. Some Spanish missionary communities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were attached to Spanish military installations.
E. New Mexico contains by far the largest concentration of Spanish mission-style church architecture in the United States.
4. According to the passage, the building techniques prevailing in the Southwest during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries played a role in which of the following?
A. preventing missionaries in the Southwest from duplicating traditional European churches
B. influencing missionaries in the Southwest to incorporate a freestanding kiva into certain mission settlements
C. causing missionaries in the Southwest to limit the building of churches to New Mexico only
D. jeopardizing the viability of Spanish religious settlements throughout the Southwest
E. encouraging many missionaries in the Southwest to reexamine the continued viability of a highly ceremonial European religious tradition
Passage 36
Astronomers have had difficulty accounting for certain planets discovered outside our solar system. They are called hot Jupiters because each is similar in mass to Jupiter, the largest solar-system planet, but orbits its parent star at a fraction of the distance at which Earth, let alone Jupiter, orbits the Sun. In the standard, solar-system-based theory of planetary formation, such as a massive planet could not form so close to a star. So most attempts to explain a hot Jupiter’s existence envision it forming farther away, then migrating inward.
According to one hypothesis, the planet’s gravitational field tugs on the protoplanetary disk of dust and gas from which it formed. The disk exerts its own gravitational tug, and this interplay of forces robs the planet of momentum in its orbital path, forcing it to spiral in toward the star. According to another hypothesis, the planet’s gravitational field is so strong that it creates a groove in the disk, partitioning it into inner and outer regions; the resulting gravitational interactions between the planet and these regions cause the planet to lose orbital momentum and spiral inward. Another question remains: what prevents the planet from continuing its spiral until it collides with the star?
1. The author of the passage mentions 「Earth」 primarily in order to
A.stress the massive size of a hot Jupiter
B.emphasize the proximity of a hot Jupiter to its parent star
C.imply that hot Jupiters are unlikely to harbor extraterrestrial life
D.point out differences between Earth and Jupiter with regard to their orbital distance from the Sun
E. illustrate how hot Jupiters might fit into the standard theory of planetary formation
2. Which of the following elements is part of one but not both of the hypotheses discussed in the passage?
A. an interplay of gravitational forces
B. a loss of orbital momentum
C. a protoplanetary disk composed of dust and gas
D. a protoplanetary disk divided into two regions.
3. It can be inferred from the passage that the 「attempts」 share which of the following goals?
A. to explain how a Jupiter-sized planet could form so close to its parent star.
B. to explain what prevents a hot Jupiter from colliding with its parent star.
C. to determine whether a hot Jupiter is formed from a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas.
D. to determine whether a hot Jupiter’s gravitational field is strong enough to create a groove in its protoplantary disk
E. to account for hot Jupiters in a way that is not inconsistent with the standard theory of planetary formation.
Passage 121
Benjamin Franklinis portrayed in American history as the quintessential self-made man. In「Self-reliance」, Emerson asks, 「Where is the master who could have instructedFranklin...?」 In fact, Franklin took instruction widely, and his scientificwork was highly collaborative. Friends in England sent equipment needed for hiselectrical experiments, others, in Philadelphia, helped him set up his workshopthere. Philip Syng constructed a device for generating electrical charges,while Tomas Hopkinson demonstrated the potential of pointed conductors.Franklin, in addition to being the group’s theoretician, wrote and publishedits results. His fame as an individual researcher is partly a consequence ofthe shorthand by which when one person writes about a group’s discoveries,history sometimes grants singular credit for collective effort.
1. Which of thefollowing best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
A. It states aviewpoint about Franklin with which the author disagrees.
B. It introducesnew evidence about Franklin’s role in the collaborative process.
C. It explainsFranklin’s reputation in terms of a broad scholarly phenomenon.
D. It emphasizesthe extent to which Franklin relied on others in his workshop.
E. It describesFranklin’s approach to writing scientific results.
2. Emerson ismentioned in the passage primarily to
A. identify theorigin of a particular understanding of Franklin
B. elaborate on aview of Franklin that the author takes issue with
C. point to acontroversial claim about Franklin’s historical legacy
D. introduce thequestion of who Franklin’s main scientific influences were
E. suggest that Franklin was resistant tocollaboration with other scientists
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