I _____________ call on you yesterday evening, but it rained (so I didn’t call on you).
would
was going to
would have
did
You should not ______________ the food before the guests came.
serve
have served
have been serving
have been served
You can’t see her now; she _____________ a bath.
had
has
is having
has been having
It’s beginning to get dark; the street lights ____________ on in a few minutes.
should get
will get
would get
will have got
If it _____________ tomorrow, I will not go.
rains
will rain
is going to rain
will have rained
He ____________ her since she was a child.
loves
loved
has loved
had loved
I _______________ here for a whole year by April next.
shall live
will live
will have lived
have lived
He _____________ for two hours when I went to see him.
slept
was sleeping
has slept
had been sleeping
The child did not know that it was a piece of gold, for she ______________ one before.
has never seen
never saw
had never seen
had never been seeing
Yesterday when I was going upstairs, I ______________ someone knocking.
was hearing
had heard
heard
was heard
was hearing
had heard
heard
was heard
I ______________ several long trips with my mother when I was a little girl.
had taken
have taken
took
had been taking
I can’t stay long. I ______________ to get back the day after tomorrow.
am
will be
am going
got
If she ______________ to be here, she will certainly come.
promises
promised
has promised
had promised
If it ______________ for the kind old lady, the boy would have starved to death.
were not
had not been
had not being
has not been
If only the rain _____________ .
stopped
would have stopped
would stop
will have stopped
Jim and Ruth aren’t speaking; they had a serious ____________ .
chore
raid
squabble
concussions
Usually such a fine young man. Stephen surprised us with those ____________ remarks.
staid
weird
unseemly
excruciating
Barbara is short and fat; her sister, Gill, in contrast, is long and ______________ .
likely
lanky
endearing
foremost
I don’t mind dry and hot weathers, but I can’t stand _____________ weathers.
boisterous
worrisome
sultry
outlandish
Sensing the coming of danger, all birds perching on the tree ______________ away.
sauntered
fluttered
faltered
aroused
The children were so excited about their vacation trip that they became ____________ and had to be calmed down.
baffled
boisterous
grinning
spry
The new movie about the supernatural was ____________ , wasn’t it?
outlandish
adamant
gruesome
eerie
Tom and Brian are in their room, jumping up and down on their beds. Tell them to stop that _______________ .
racket
contempt
scuffle
twinge
He is always self-confident in manner as he ______________ into the office every morning.
falters
belches
quivers
saunters
I can’t avoid listening to their talk for I am within _____________ of their conversation.
chore
racket
throng
earshot
It isn’t right to __________ for you shouldn’t listen to other people’s private conversations.
eavesdrop
heckle
bemoan
hedge
Cindy is a _____________ ; she is always sticking her nose into matters that are no concern of hers.
stickler
busybody
scoffer
chore
He ___________ when he was accused of stealing money from his morher’s purse..
scowled
dissuaded
wended
clutched
Bill is a very reasonable man most of the time, but there are several things about which he is ____________ , and one of them is tardiness.
foremost
adamant
preposterous
soothing
Ellen’s leg was broken; the pain was ____________ especially when she found that she was alone and no one could come to her help.
downcast
gruesome
clutching
excruciating
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as the program that the author clicked his/her remote control through?
variety shows
movies
commercials
news
The question that lurked in the back of the author’s brain in
The rerun of Mission: Impossible,
The unfinished Roseanne episode,
The 24-hour cable news,
American nuclear waste
Which of the following nuclear waste forms is NOT mentioned by the author?
The shape of the state of Oklahoma
A bubble
A bottle
Shavings
The author’s solution to the nuclear waste is to
turn it into gift items
turn it into gamma rays
cast it into safer dumps
turn it into a coffee table
The key, according to the writer, to the success of commericializing radioactive by-products is
gifts
radiation
advertising
collection
Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned as one of the three differences between reading and listening?
We cannot relisten to what was said before
We cannot control the speed of the message
We have to understand things said immediately
We can think about something else while listening
According to the passage above, listening is
the only way we receive message
dissimilar to reading in some ways
easy by using a dictionary
like a game you expect to lose
What does the word gist probably mean in the last line of the passage?
guest speaker
best part
general meaning
guideline
Supply a topic sentence to the following passage and write down your answer on the Answer Sheet provided(請於閱讀完下文後,寫出「主題句」一即該文主旨,並將該句話寫於答案本內):
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.First, you decide which neighborhood would be most convenient for you. Then you must determine how much rent your budget will allow. Utility bills for houses average between $100 and $150 per month. Your next step is to check the classified ads in the newspapers. If you do not plan to buy
furniture, you should check under “A partment for rent—furnished.” Otherwise, check under “Apartments for rent—unfurnished.”…
Write down the sentences that you think are NOT relevant to the topic sentence in the following passage on the Answer Sheet provided(請將與主題不相干之句子挑出,並將其抄錄於答案本內):
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