5 Unemployment anywhere is a_____ on the country’s resources.
(A) drive
(B) drain
(C) lift
(D) sign

1 The tailor-made diet and exercise program are_____ to her health. Her doctor already indicated that her recovery from the surgery was extraordinary. (A) abrasive (B) conducive (C) ingenious (D) reflective

2 To prove himself not involved in the crime, Tommy has to provide an _____. (A) album (B) autonomy (C) alias (D) alibi

3 Taipei 101 is a breathtakingly _____work of art, a stunning masterpiece of concrete and steel that soars 508 meters into the sky. (A) audible (B) olfactory (C) strenuous (D) audacious

4 The _____warnings on cigarette packs aim to remind the smokers of the danger of smoking. (A) blunt (B) dubious (C) genetic (D) exotic

6 Earthquakes accompanied_____ rising tidal waves are deadly to seaside residents. (A) for (B) in (C) with (D) by

7_____ the boss wants to know is whether they have taken all factors into consideration. (A) What (B) That (C) The thing (D) Which

8 Around one thousand years ago, undoubtedly the warming climate and absence of new epidemics paved the way for an increase in individual rights, economic freedom, and living standards. (A) It is no doubt that warm weather and a number of infectious diseases in the 11th century contributed greatly to the increased human rights, free economy, and high quality of life. (B) Had it not been for the tepid weather and increasing new pandemic diseases in the 11th century, people would not have enjoyed more individual rights, economic freedom, and living standards. (C) Warm weather and new diseases contributed little to the fact that people in the 11th century enjoyed more human rights, freedom, and a better quality of life. (D) Unquestionably, people in the 11th century enjoyed more human rights, economic freedom, and a better quality of life than before due to the higher temperature and lack of new plagues.

9 Children, more attuned to social trends, guide their parents through the maze of modern life. (A) To the parents’ amazement, their children guide them through the confusion in the modern society. (B) Parents were led by their children, who are more socialized, through the complicated modern life. (C) Adjusting quickly to social fashion, children help their parents understand the amazement of the modern life. (D) Being more aware of the social style, children lead their parents through the confusion of modern life.

10 The mobile, high-tech society prizes knowledge work—work that relies on our intellectual abilities—and yet increasingly we feel that we have no time to think. (A) People are discouraged from thinking because knowledge work has taken away their time in the mobile, high-tech society. (B) People are urged to use their intellectual abilities in the mobile, high-tech society because little time is left for them to think. (C) People find little time to develop intellectual abilities even though knowledge work is valued in the mobile, high-tech society. (D) Knowledge work pays well but people do not want to spend time developing intellectual abilities in the mobile, high-tech society.

11 Conservators of many fragile monuments know that often the only way to protect the “real thing” is by restricting access to it, by substituting virtual auras for actual ones. (A) To protect the real fragile monuments, conservators have to reproduce actual auras in replacement of virtual ones. (B) Conservators replace the actual with the virtual because public access may do harm to many fragile monuments. (C) Conservators restrict public access to the “real thing” because it is more valuable than many fragile monuments. (D) According to the conservators of monuments, the “real thing” with restricted public access would generate virtual auras.

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