32 She certainly seemed very conscientious and trustworthy, but I wonder whether she’s got the necessary _____ , or
whether she’s assertive enough for this job of CEO. (A) charisma (B) dullness (C) unpleasantness (D) apathy
34 The human body is made of some 50 to 100 trillion cells. Inside each cell, genes _____ a “blueprint” for protein
production that determines how the cell will function. (A) wreck (B) eliminate (C) comprise (D) ellude
37 As most people in the audience have never heard of cloud computing before, how to clearly explain it to
these _____ is a big challenge to Prof. Lin. (A) adherents (B) apprentices (C) disciples (D) laymen
請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題： Your bed could be watching you! If you have any of a variety of smart beds or sleep apps, it knows when you fall asleep and when you __41__ . A manufacturer says the bed collects more than 8 billion biometric data points every night, __42__ sent
to the company’s servers via an app. According to the company, analyzing all the personal data not only helps theminform the consumers about their health, but also aids the company’s efforts to make better products. Still, consumer-privacy __43__ are increasingly raising concerns about the fate of personal health information, which is potentiallyvaluable to companies that collect and sell it. __44__, consumers are flocking to sleep tracking devices and under-mattress sensors that claim to quantify sleep. But do consumers really need an app to tell them how rested they feel inthe morning? One unexpected __45__ is that people who become too attuned to their data may experience anxiety andan inability to sleep. People get all this data and get upset about having a perfect number. 【題組】41 (A) turn in (B) turn up (C) toss down (D) toss and turn
請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題： In the four minutes it probably takes to read this review, you will have logged exactly half the time the average 15- to 24-year-old now spends reading each day. That is, if you even bother to finish. If you are perusing this on the Internet,the big block of text below probably seems daunting, maybe even boring. Who has the time? Such is the kind of recklessly distracted impatience that makes Mark Bauerlein fear for his country. “As of 2008,” the 49-year-old professor of English at Emory University writes in “The Dumbest Generation,” “the intellectual future of the United States looks dim.”The way Bauerlein sees it, something new and disastrous has happened to America’s youth with the arrival of the instant gratification go-go-go digital age. The result is, essentially, a collective loss of context and history. The problem is that instead of using the Web to learn about the world, young people mostly use it to gossip about each other and follow pop culture, relentlessly keeping up with the ever-shifting linguafranca of being cool in school. Social life is a powerful temptation and most teenagers feel the pain of missing out. And all this feeds on itself. Increasingly disconnected from the “adult” world of tradition, culture, history, context and the ability to sit down for more than five minutes with a book, today’s digital generation is becoming insulated in its ownstultifying cocoon of bad spelling, civic illiteracy and endless postings that hopelessly confuse triviality with transcendence. At fault is not just technology but also a newly indulgent attitude among parents, educators and other mentors, who,Bauerlein argues, lack the courage to risk “being labeled a curmudgeon and a reactionary.” 【題組】 48 What does the word “dim” in the first paragraph mean?
(A) Pessimistic. (B) Dark. (C) Gossipy. (D) Illiterate.
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