⑴ In occasione della seconda edizione della Giornata per la salvaguardia del creato, non è mancato l'appello del Papa a difendere l'ambiente ed arrestare il degrado del patrimonio naturale. «Alle nuove generazioni - è stato l'appello del Pontefice - è affidato il futuro del pianeta, in cui sono evidenti i segni di uno sviluppo che non sempre ha saputo tutelare i delicati equilibri della natura. Prima che sia troppo tardi, occorre adottare scelte coraggiose, che sappiano ricreare una forte alleanza tra l'uomo e la terra». Secondo il Papa «serve un sì deciso alla tutela del creato e un impegno forte per invertire quelle tendenze che rischiano di portare a situazioni di degrado irreversibile». In particolare il «bene preziosissimo» dell'acqua, argomento della seconda Giornata promossa dalla Chiesa italiana, «se non viene condiviso in modo equo e pacifico, diventerà purtroppo motivo di dure tensioni e aspri conflitti».

【已刪除】 ⑵共20 題，每題1.25 分，須用2Ｂ鉛筆在試卡上依題號清楚劃記，於本試題或申論試卷上作答者，不予計分。 1 Many parents their own tastes on their children.  arrange  give  impose  make 2 Many people used to complain about the in the administrative system of our governmental agencies.  bureaucracy  courtesy  friendliness  satisfaction 3 Carol knew her days were , but she never once showed that she was sick. Her smile cheered everyone up in the hospital.  numbered  restricted  confined  sentenced 4 The government has to give the promotion of democracy the highest priority.  cuddled  enthroned  pledged  reprieved 5 The overthrow of the government left the country in turmoil with no one in charge.  desperate  moderate  tremulous  tumultuous 6 It is difficult for artists to create a new market; most of them simply to an existing one.  pander  pamper  profess  proliferate 代號：10940 頁次：4－3 7 The executive director would in a memo to all members the suggestions brought up at this meeting.  attenuate  franchise  memorize  recapitulate 8 Whereas the French salon excluded politics from polite conversation, in the British coffee house politics was a main .  appreciation  distraction  infraction  preoccupation 9 The IBM 5150 is recognized as the ancestor of the modern PC, a crucial step in computers’ evolution from playthings to tools of modern business and private life.  assessable  indispensable  illegible  variable 10 Her advice good, I could not help following it.  had been  be  was  being 11 By ourselves, we’re lone voices, a whisper in a swarm of propaganda out there.  Our opinion is censored by the official talk and position.  We side with the majority view of the government.  The opinion poll favors our view.  Our opinion stands for the minority as opposed to the official position. 12 The readers’ criticism that the editorial was riddled with defeatist pessimism cut the writer to the quick.  The editorial was badly designed as a riddle of defeatist pessimism.  The writer of the editorial felt badly hurt by his readers’ critical comments.  Readers of this editorial quickly stopped the writer from spreading the defeatist pessimism.  Readers’ quick answer to the riddle of defeatist pessimism embarrassed the writer of the editorial. When the Treasury sold gold, the gold was frequently moved by armored car from the United States Assay Office in New York on the East River five blocks to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Liberty Street. The Federal Reserve vault is 50 feet below sea level and 76 feet below street level. Many foreign countries store some of their gold in this vault at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Each working day, gold bars are wheeled between the various countries’ storage compartments, on instructions for international payments, rather than the countries incurring expensive shipping and insurance charges from transporting the gold between countries. It is a weird and fascinating sight if one understands the implications. Men far underground, with steel covers over their shoes (to prevent injury if one of the bars drops), tote bars between compartments in the basement of the New York Federal Reserve Bank to settle a debt between Norway and Germany that arose from sardine imports into Germany. Many of the gold bars weigh 400 troy ounces, or 33.3 pounds. They rose in price from $14,000 in 1971 (at $35 per troy ounce) to $204,000 in 1979 (at $510 per troy ounce). Many of these bars are stamped with the insignia of the Soviet Union, which, along with South Africa, mines much of the world’s gold. 13 According to the passage, what is one advantage for the countries that store gold in the Federal Reserve vault?  It is near the United States Assay Office.  The gold is kept in New York, the financial capital of the world.  The gold is kept below sea level and so is not affected by the weather.  They do not have to pay shipping and insurance charges. 14 According to the passage, what happens when one country wants to pay a debt in gold to another country?  The gold is moved to the Federal Reserve Bank from the United States Assay Office.  The gold in the vault is moved from one country’s storage area to another’s.  The gold must be stamped with the insignia of the country that is receiving the payment.  The gold must be weighed to determine its value in dollars, since the price of gold goes up and down so frequently. 代號：10940 頁次：4－4 15 According to the passage, which of the following statements is true of gold bars?  Many of them weigh 33.3 pounds.  They were worth only $35 apiece in 1971 but cost $510 in 1979.  They are worth about $204,000 apiece at the present time.  Almost all of them come from the Soviet Union. 16 According to the passage, what protection is given to the workers in the Federal Reserve vault?  They are insured.  They wear special shoes.  They are allowed to work only short periods of time below sea level.  The information is not given in the passage. 第 17 題至 20 題為篇章結構，各題請依文意，從四個選項中選出最合適者，各題答案內容不重複： Scientists believe that something very serious is happening to the Earth. It is becoming warmer. Scientists predict that there will be major changes in the climate during the next century. Coastal waters will have higher temperatures. 17 Farmers will have trouble producing good crops. In warm regions the weather will be too dry. The amount of water could decrease by 50 percent. This would cause a large decrease in agricultural production. World temperatures could increase from 1.5 to 5.6 degrees Celsius by the middle of the twenty-first century. 18 A rise in temperatures could cause the great ice sheets to melt, which, in turn, would raise the level of the ocean by one to two meters. Many coastal cities would be underwater. Why is this happening? Why is the Earth becoming warmer? The Earth and its atmosphere are kept warm by the Sun. The atmosphere lets most of the light from the Sun pass through to warm the Earth. The Earth is warmed by the sunlight and sends heat energy back into the atmosphere. Much of this energy escapes from the Earth’s atmosphere. However, some of it remains. 19 Then this heat is sent back down to the Earth, and the Earth becomes warmer. Recently, however, an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing serious problems. Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere prevents heat energy from escaping: too much heat is sent back down to the Earth. 20 When oil, gas, and coal burn, they create large amounts of carbon dioxide. The destruction of rain forests that absorb carbon dioxide also helps to increase the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Some scientists believe that the amount of carbon dioxide in the air will double by the late 2000s. 17  This will have a serious effect on agriculture.  And the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to increase.  Scientists call this warming of the Earth and its atmosphere the “greenhouse effect.”  And the increase in temperature could be even greater in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. 18  This will have a serious effect on agriculture.  We need the ozone layer to protect ourselves.  And the increase in temperature could be even greater in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.  Gases such as carbon dioxide, ozone, and water vapor absorb this energy and create more heat. 19  We need the ozone layer to protect ourselves.  And the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to increase.  Scientists call this warming of the Earth and its atmosphere the “greenhouse effect.”  Gases such as carbon dioxide, ozone, and water vapor absorb this energy and create more heat. 20  We need the ozone layer to protect ourselves.  And the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to increase.  And the increase in temperature could be even greater in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.  Gases such as carbon dioxide, ozone, and water vapor absorb this energy and create more heat.

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