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請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題:
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provide long-distance protection. However, for others, a smart home should have additional features, such as
energy-saving 42 . Similarly, a vehicle equipped with a GPS 43 device is smart for some drivers.
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congestion. As far as smart living is 45 , the sk y is the limit. Before the increasingly ICT-enabled world can fully satisfy
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請依下文回答第 46 題至第 50 題:
I sat in on an English lesson at the Gamal Abdel Nasser Secondary School. The Scottish instructor—one of three
Britons employed in the Yemeni school system—was drilling the class in the difference between the “present simple”
and the “present continuous”. There were twenty very thin, very eager boys aged between about fourteen and
twenty-two. They were part of that tiny educated leaven in a country which has an illiteracy rate of ninety percent, and
they had tense, ambitious faces. They had been trained to compete continually against each other, so that the lesson
turned into a kind of noisy greyhound race. The moment that the instructor was half-way through a question, his voice
was drowned by shouts of “Teacher! Teacher! Teacher!” and I lost sight of him behind the thicket of urgently raised
hands. If a student began to stumble over an answer, the others fought to grab the question for themselves, bellowing
for the teacher ’s attention. I once taught for a term at a comprehensive school in England: had the children in my class
ever shown a small fraction of the enthusiasm displayed by these Yemeni students, I might have stayed in the job a
great deal longer. They were ravenous for the good marks and certificates which would take them out of their villages
and tenements, and they behaved as if every minute spent in the classroom could make or break them.
46 What is the narrator’s current profession?
He is an English instructor.
He teaches at the Gamal Abdel Nasser Secondary School.
He is a student in Yemen.
The narrator does not mention it.
47 What did the narrator do in Yemen?
He taught English Grammar.
He studied how to become an English instructor.
He observed English teaching at a Yemeni school.
He issued certificates to students studying to become an English teacher.
48 Which statement describes the study environment at Yemen?
It is rich in intellectual training and social resources.
It is fiercely competitive in the greyhound race.
It is a country with only ten percent of its population educated.
It is an environment in which the students are not interested in learning English.
49 From the passage, what are the students’ learning attitudes?
They believe that education is the only way to success.
They believe that education will help them travel to other villages.
They receive education to become teachers.
The students are indifferent to education.
50 What is the main purpose of this passage?
To introduce tourism and sightseeing in Yemen.
To raise funds for Yemeni schools.
To show Yemeni students’ enthusiasm for education.
To encourage more English instructors to teach in Yemen.