1. Professor Ramfield describes in his recent book publishing as dark as it is deep, even as one hidebound industry, indeed, it is facing a profound change in its product model, but is so (i)___ its past as to be (ii)____opportunities offered by technological change.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. indebted in D. unable to seize
B. encumbered by E. capable of seeking
C. irrelevant with F. definite to circumvent
答案：BD
解析：這道題是說Ramfield教授在書裏描述說，呆板的產業正在面臨產品模型的巨大改變，但是它們太過(i)____過去，以至於(ii)______科技改變帶來的機會。
空白(i) 空白(ii)
A負債的 D.不能抓住
B.被阻礙 E.可以尋找
C.無關 F.明確避免
可以看出i爲B，ii爲D，答案符合邏輯。
2. The cognitive flexibility of successful fictional detectives is often ____ by their cultural ambivalence: detectives' intellectual acumen, it seems, exists in direct proportion to their uneasy place in society.
A. spurned
B. spaded
C. spurred
D. matched
E. emaciated
答案：C
解析：這道題的意思是說成功的偵探非常靈活，這是他們的文化矛盾所____：他們的社會地位越是動盪，他們就越發敏銳。(a)唾棄(b)剷除(c)激勵(d)匹配(e)消瘦。我們通過後半句可以知道，是社會地位的動盪使得偵探日益敏銳和靈活，對應選項C中：spurred。
3. The history of the region's natural resources has been one of initial (i)___ followed by (ii)___; as such the region has over time gone from a resource-rich to a resource-dependent economy.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. abundance cious depletion
B. depletion endeavor
C. scarcity -sided reciprocity
答案：AD
解析：這道題是說該地區自然資源一開始(i)____，然後(ii)______;因爲這個地區逐漸從資源豐富型經濟轉變到了資源依賴型經濟。
空白(i) 空白(ii)
A.豐富 D.貪婪的耗盡
B.耗盡 E.徒勞的努力
C.稀少 F.單方面的互惠
可以看出i爲A，ii爲D，答案符合邏輯。
4. People accustomed to thinking that the human lifespan (i)_____________the outer bounds of animal longevity tend to dismiss tales of musket balls being found in the shells of living turtles. Samantha Romney，however，argues that while such stories may be (ii) ______________, some turtles do indeed exhibit a phenomenon known as “negligible (iii) _____________,” showing nosigns of aging even as they pass the two-century mark.
Blank (i)
A. belies
B. demarcates
C. antedates
Blank (ii)
A. apocryphal
B. authentic
C. heresy
Blank (iii)
A. rejuvenation
B. superannuation
C. senescence
答案：CAC
解析：這道題是說有些人認爲人類壽命(i)____ 動物壽命的極限，通常不會理會烏龜殼上發現子彈的故事。然而Samantha Romney認爲，這些故事可能(ii)______，但是一些烏龜確實呈現了一種現象叫做“可以忽略的(iii)______”，即使經過兩個世紀也沒有變老的跡象。
空白(i) 空白(ii) 空白(iii)
A.掩飾 A.虛構的但卻能說明真相的 A.返老回童
B.劃定 B.真實的 B.退休
C.先於 C.異端邪說 C.衰老
可以看出i爲C，ii爲A，iii爲C，答案符合邏輯。