試題詳解

30.

(A) accessories.

(B) accomodations.

(C) accentuations.

(D) accounts.
Reading Comprehension 40%
Read the passages and choose the best answer for each of the questions.
Every so often in "Top Gun: Maverick," Pete Mitchell (that's Maverick) is summoned to a face-
to-face with an admiral. Pete, after all these years in the Navy more than 35, but who's
counting - has stalled at the rank of captain. He's one of the best fighter pilots ever to take
wing, but the U.S. military hierarchy can be a treacherous political business, and Maverick is
anything but a politician. In the presence of a superior officer he is apt to salute, smirk and push
his career into the middle of the table like a stack of poker chips. He's all in. Always.
The first such meeting is with Rear Adm. Chester Cain, a weathered chunk of brass played by
Ed Harris, who has an impressive in-movie flight record of his own. (Without "The Right Stuff,"
there would have been no "Top Gun.") He seems to be telling Pete that the game is over.
Thanks to new technology, flyboys like him are all but obsolete.

Based on this scene, you might think that the movie is setting out to be a meditation on
American air power in the age of drone warfare, but that will have to wait for the next sequel.
Pete still has a job to do. A teaching job, officially, but we'll get to that. The conversation with
Cain is not so much a 35 herring as a meta-commentary. Pete, as I'm sure I don't have to
tell you, is the avatar of Tom Cruise, and the central question posed by this movie has less to do
with the necessity of combat pilots than with the relevance of movie stars. With all this cool new
technology at hand - you can binge 37 episodes of Silicon Valley grifting without leaving your
couch - do we really need guys, or movies, like this?