49. According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?
(A) Posthumanism conforms to the view that certain life forms are less valued and thus could be killed off for human benefits.
(B) Posthumanism calls for a greater responsibility to non-human life forms.
(C) Posthumanism broadens the scope of valued life forms to include non-human life forms.
(D) Posthumanism fights for the natural rights of animals.

45. Which statement can be added to the end of this passage without disrupting the flow of this passage? (A) In this study, an online Web 2.0 behavior management system called SirWilliam will be employed as a means to address the aforementioned classroom problems. (B) The use of a technology-mediated behavior management system will impose a negative impact on learner affect. (C) Stemming from these studies, a number of remedial instructional programs have been developed to address these problems. (D) Although the traditional behavior management system encourages repetition, there is usually no record of students’ repetition unless an assistant is appointed to record such actions.

46. According to the passage, which statement is NOT true? (A) Posthuman as a concept is derived from various sources such as science fiction, futurology, and philosophy. (B) The posthuman concept exclusively concerns issues about human outer-space exploitation. (C) The posthuman position sees the world through heterogeneous perspectives rather than a fixed and stable one. (D) A posthuman is not a singular, defined individual.

47. According to the passage, which of the following is considered as another term of “posthuman”? (A) entity (B) identity (C) beta (D) cybog (E)此題送分

複選題48. According to the passage, which statement is NOT true? (A) Scholars have different, sometimes even contradictory, ideas about posthumanism. (B) Hayles’s How We Became Posthuman follows the traditional humanism in asserting a clear division of body and mind. (C) Posthumanism deals with the after-effects of long-term adaptation to cyborg technologies and their later removal. (D) Donna Haraway reverses the traditional trope of the cyborg by blurring the line between humans and robots.

50. What is this passage mainly about? (A) Well-known scholarly disputes over posthuman mistakes (B) Quarrels and debates about the mystery of non-human life forms (C) Ideas and concerns of the posthuman and posthumanism (D) Prejudices and misconceptions about posthumanism

二、選擇題 1. Dietary restraint studies suggest that people who are starved (A) stop being scared of food. (B) may become preoccupied with food and eating. (C) lose interest in food over time. (D) eventually adjust to starvation diets.

2. Angelina has had difficulty falling asleep for some time. She started taking a prescribed sleeping pill every night for her insomnia. Now, she needs the pill to fall asleep. Without it, she will toss and turn all night, getting little sleep. Angelina is (A) dependent and drug abusive. (B) dependent and not drug abusive. (C) dependent but not physiologically addicted. (D) dependent and tolerant.

3. In the Stroop color naming paradigm, a patient with a blood phobia would be expected to name the color of the printed word "wound" (A) more quickly than a neutral word. (B) in about the same time it takes to name the color of a neutral word. (C) more slowly than a neutral word. (D) with a great deal of difficulty or not at all.

4. Which of the following statements reflects "circumstantial evidence" for the dopamine theory of schizophrenia? (A) Antipsychotic drugs (neuroleptics) act as dopamine agonists, increasing the amount of dopamine in the brain. (B) Antipsychotic drugs (neuroleptics) can produce symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease (a disorder due to insufficient dopamine). (C) The drug L-dopa, a dopamine agonist, is used to treat schizophrenic symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease. (D) Amphetamines, which activate dopamine, can lessen psychotic symptoms in people with schizophrenia.

5. What is the biggest difference between someone who has panic attacks versus someone who has panic disorder? (A) People with panic disorder avoid images associated with the threat (B) People with panic disorder have more panic attacks (C) People with panic disorder fear having another panic attack (D) People with panic disorder always have panic attacks in the same/similar places