3. It is everyone’s obligation to bring down water use. Reduced water consumption and the _____ reduction in water-heating costs are remarkable on the national level, precisely because so many people take showers.
(A)bumptious
(B)commensurate
(C)querulous
(D)whimsical

複選題23. 閱讀下列文字後作答： 凡選本，往往能比所選各家的全集更流行，更有作用。冊數不多，而包羅諸作，固然也是一種原因，但還在近則由選者的名位，遠則憑古人之威靈，讀者想從一個有名的選家，窺見許多有名作家的作品。所以《昭明太子集》只賸一點軼本了，《文選》卻在的；讀《古文辭類纂》者多，讀《惜抱軒全集》的卻少。……選本可以藉古人的文章，寓自己的意見。博覽群籍，採其合於自己意見的為一集，一法也，如《文選》是。擇取一書，刪其不合於自己意見的為一新書，又一法也，如《唐人萬首絕句選》是。……讀者的讀選本，自以為是由此得了古人文筆的精華的，殊不知卻被選者縮小了眼界，即以《文選》為例罷，沒有嵇康〈家誡〉，使讀者只覺得他是一個憤世嫉俗，好像無端活得不快活的怪人；不收陶潛〈閑情賦〉，掩去了他也是一個既取民間〈子夜歌〉意，而又拒以聖道的迂士。選本既經選者所濾過，就總只能喫他所給與的糟或醨。（魯迅〈選本〉） 依據上文，下列敘述正確的選項是： (A)《昭明太子集》、《惜抱軒全集》、《古文辭類纂》都是全集 (B)文中認為選集取精用宏，讀者不必詳讀全集，只要選讀好的選集即可 (C)由文中敘述可知：〈家誡〉的內容正足以證明嵇康是個憤世嫉俗的人 (D)文中認為選集常因編選者的任意去取，導致讀者對作家的認知偏狹而不夠全面 (E)文中認為選集往往比全集流行，原因之一是讀者想藉由編選者的眼光閱讀歷代名作

複選題24. 古今文化習俗中，常因忌諱不祥事物，在語言上或採避而不言的方式，或不直接明言，而改以較委婉的語言來替代，如現今常以「往生」代稱「死亡」。下列文句「」中的語詞，屬於上述語言現象的選項是： (A)生孩六月，慈父「見背」 (B)賈夫人「仙逝」揚州城／冷子興演說榮國府 (C)南京的風俗：但凡新媳婦進門，三天就要到廚下去收拾一樣菜，發個利市。這菜一定是魚，取「富貴有餘」的意思 (D)民間俗諱，各處有之，而吳中為甚。如舟行諱住、諱翻，以箸為「快(筷)兒」，以幡布為「抹布」；諱離散，以梨為「圓果」 (E)最惱人的是在他頭皮上，頗有幾處不知起於何時的癩瘡疤。這雖然也在他身上，而看阿Ｑ的意思，倒也似乎以為不足貴的，因為他諱說「癩」以及一切近於「賴」的音，後來推而廣之，光也諱，亮也諱，再後來，連燈、燭都諱了

1. With the seemingly recovering economy in the city, condominium boards are becoming truculent in stamping out _____ owners who do not pay their monthly fees promptly and in full. (A)cumbersome (B)delinquent (C)heretical (D)malleable

2. The daily opening and nightly closing of the leaves of a tamarind tree was observed, but they also found that a _____ plant inside a dark room would continue its daily cycles of leaf movement in the absence of sunlight. (A)heliotrope (B)malapropism (C)perquisite (D)theocracy

4. It was the professor’s idea to arrange a series of public lectures to the students at this institution with the prerequisite that each speaker would be asked to imagine that this will be his or her _____ presentation, or the “last lecture.” (A)deceitful (B)notorious (C)rampant (D)valedictory

5. The chef considers the best place in the world to eat seafood is where you can reach eye-witness-live seafood. He says the three focal conditions for great _____ and in seafood are immutable: freshness, freshness and freshness. (A)gastronomy (B)labyrinth (C)nepotism (D)yeast

6. During the training, the physiotherapist asked those in the matched condition to match their partners’ posture: to _____ their partners’ movements and postural changes by mirroring what their partners did with their torso. (A)ascribe (B)lounge (C)reciprocate (D)upbraid

7. Much to our surprise, there is an indirect technique for planet-hunting astronomers that may allow them, for the first time, to quest for the chemical signs of life and prevent themselves from the glare of stars when _____their prey. (A)boasting of (B)doing without (C)falling on (D)groping for

8. The dentist’s examination was _____. She just went through the motions without taking any interest in the patient. (A)perfunctory (B)jeopardizing (C)perplexing (D)rudimental

9. The sinking of Titanic in 1912 was a(n) _____ in which more than 1,500 people died. (A)attribution (B)enigma (C)qualm (D)retort