
solar 太陽的eclipse 日蝕 visible 可見的 summer solstic 夏至 vary 變化 longitude 經度
latitude 緯度 as well as 和…一樣 entire process 整個過程 annular 環狀的 block 阻擋
edge 邊緣 taking place 發生 livestream 網路直播 stage 階段 partial 部分的
Customers First, Better Business
Queen Beauty Cosmetics Shop on Maple Street has a smart way of running its
business. Look at the picture on the right side.
In the picture, you can see two stacks of baskets.
On the right are the baskets with the light color label.
On the label is a picture of two people. Above the two
people is a sentence which says, “I NEED HELP.”
On the left are the baskets with the dark color label.
The dark color label is different from the light color
one. On it, there is only one person instead of two.
And the label says, “I CAN DO MYSELF.”
When entering the shop, choose a basket from the two stacks first. If you choose
one with a light color label, a clerk will kindly help you with your shopping. On the other
hand, when seeing a basket with a dark color label in your hand, the clerks will let you do
the shopping without any intervention.
The following is what four customers said about Queen Beauty Cosmetics Shop.
36. Which of the following is an example of intervention?
(A) Eddie is so smart that he doesn’t need too much help. His mom is proud of him.
(B) When Eric saw Molly play the puzzles, he taught her how to finish it quickly.
(C) Justin wasn’t afraid of talking to girls. Bill called to cheer him up.
(D) Jason couldn’t work out the math question, and then he gave it up.
37. How many of the four customers are more likely to choose a basket with the dark color label?
Do not miss the solar eclipse visible in Taiwan on June 21. The date is also known as the
summer solstice, the first day of the summer. The timing of the solar eclipse will depend on
your place and vary by longitude and latitude. The best places to see the eclipse would be in
Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Hualien and Taitung cities and counties, as well as the
outlying islands of Penghu and Kinmen. People in these best places can see the entire process of
the eclipse. Becasue of the mostly sunny sky on that day, people watch the eclipse from the
street corners. If you miss the sight, you will have to wait another 195 years to see the eclipse.
An annular solar eclipse happens when the sun and earth are in a straight line and the moon
passes in front of the sun blocking a large area of the sun, which becomes a ring of fire. The
moon is too far away to block the sun’s light, so the edge of the sun can still be seen around the
moon. There is a livestream of the solar eclipse on the Virtual Telescope Project website.
In Chiayi, the eclipse started at 2:49 p.m. and ended at 5:25 p.m., with the complete “ring
of fire” taking place for less than a minute at 4:14 p.m., when 99 percent of the sun’s surface was
blocked. The spectacle of the different stages of the eclipse attract lots of people from other
places. In Taipei, only a partial solar eclipse was visible. Around 10,000 people visited
the Taipei Astronomical Museum to watch the eclipse .
38. What does the word “spectacle” mean in the third paragraph(段落)?
39. Which of the following statements about the annular solar eclipse is incorrect?
(A) The moon passes in front of the sun and block a large area of the sun.
(B) The sun and earth are in a straight line.
(C) The moon is close enough to block the entire sun.
(D) The edge of the sun can still be seen around the moon.
40. Which of the following is true about the 2020 eclipse in Taiwan?
(A) Many cities couldn’t see the eclipse because of the bad weather.
(B) The people only in Chiayi can see the entire process of the eclipse,so some people in
Kinmen cannot see the entire process of it.
(C) The sun goes around the earth.
(D) People didn’t see a perfect annular eclipse in Taipei in 2020.
customers顧客
cosmetics 化妝品
label 標籤
instead of 而不是