初等/地方特考考古題 101年 英文(三等)

5. After its engine failed, the small boat______ with the current.

6. The environmentalist movement, a reaction against industrial pollution of air and water, grew up in the 1960s.

7. One similar attribute of all science fictions is that the main character is usually taken on a fantastic journey.

8. While they are not immune to the hot and cold winds of politics, artists have become adept at taking shelter from them most of the time.

9. Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

10. Capitalism has improved the lives of billions of people, but it has left out billions more.

11. This cutting-edge equipment is state-of-the-art.

12. In 1983, researchers first______ HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS.

13. The police cannot break the law in order to______ it.

14. The government official said, “I hereby request that the attached application______ under 35 USC 122(B).”

15. It is believed that chewing helps to______ your facial muscles.

18. We do have choice with our lives since we have got two lives—one we are given and the other one we make.

19. As an experienced director, he knows how to bring all these risk management skills to bear in guiding a corporation to success.

20. Jack Lang, who is renowned for his protectionist views, despises American culture as “pure entertainment.”

21. Everyone is born with dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick; illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.

22. Oprah Winfrey’s father had concerns about his daughter making the best of her life, and would not accept anything less than what he thought was her best.

23. Any public______ of this scandal would do great damage to this movie star.

25. Forgiveness seems its own form of revenge since it is like we have risen above what happened to us and above people who should be blamed.

26. The idea of good character sounds old-fashioned and patronizing, but it may be the key to some of our most entrenched social problems.

27. What is a weed? A plant whose virtue has not been discovered.