d) to illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.（d）
passage two
questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29.a) michael’s parents got divorced.
b) karen was adopted by ray anderson.
c) karen’s mother died in a car accident.
d) a truck driver lost his life in a collision.（b）
30.a) he ran a red light and collided with a truck.
b) he sacrificed his life to save a baby girl.
c) he was killed instantly in a burning car.
d) he got married to karen’s mother.（b）
31.a) the reported hero turned out to be his father.
b) he did not understand his father till too late.
c) such misfortune should have fallen on him.
d) it reminded him of his miserable childhood.（a）
passage three
questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32.a) germany.
b) japan.
c) the u.s.
d) the u.k.（b）
33.a) by doing odd jobs at weekends.
b) by working long hours every day.
c) by putting in more hours each week.
d) by taking shorter vacations each year.（d）
34.a) to combat competition and raise productivity.
b) to provide them with more job opportunities.
c) to help them maintain their living standard.
d) to prevent them from holding a second job.（a）
35.a) change their jobs.
b) earn more money.
c) reduce their working hours.
d) strengthen the government’s role.（c）
section c
directions: in this section, you will hear a passage three times. when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. when the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. for blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. for these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician. as nurses, we are (36) ________ to provide nursing care only. we do not have any legal or moral (37) ________ to any physician. we provide health teaching, (38) ________ physical as well as emotional problems, (39) ________ patient-related services, and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. if, in any (40) ________, we feel that a physician’s order is (41) ________ or unsafe, we have a legal (42) ________ to question that order or refuse to carry it out.
nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. all nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession. the emotional and physical stress. however, that occurs due to odd working hours is a (43) ________ reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction. (44) ________________________________. that disturbs our personal lives, disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job-related friends and activities.
the quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations. (45) ________________________________. consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand changes in our medical system. but if trends continue as predicted, (46) ________________________________.
part iv reading comprehension (reading in depth) (25 minutes) section a
directions: in this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. read the passage carefully. then answer the questions or complete statements in the fewest possible words. please write your answers on answer sheet 2.
questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
google is a world-famous company, with its headquarters in mountain view, california. it was set up in a silicon valley garage in 1998, and inflated (膨脹) with the internet bubble. even when everything around it collapsed the company kept on inflating. google’s search engine is so widespread across the world that search became google, and google became a verb. the world fell in love with the effective, fascinatingly fast technology.