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31 When Amy frowned upon Alex's comment on her seemingly overweight body, Alex knew right away that 
he had made a social _____ about a woman's weight. 
blunder deposit fragment heritage 
32 The parents didn't believe that their son could have committed such a brutal murder and they _____ the 
judge to release their innocent son from jail. 
condemned importuned neutralized obligated 
33 The intern tries to fulfill the expectations of the boss and _____ her own agenda at the same time. 
meet grow pay sow 
34 While Jane is excited about a business trip to Europe, she is also a little _____ since she has never been 
abroad. 
addicted practicing apprehensive punctual 
35 The traveller has no _____ of staying in Australia longer than 3 months. 
integrity intensity intention intelligence 
請依下文回答第 36 題至第 40 題,並依文意從四個選項中選出最合適者,答案選用不能重覆: 
A tsunami is unnoticeable in the open ocean-a long, low wave whose power becomes clear only when it 
reaches shore and breaks.    36     Spotting the wave while it's still crossing the ocean is tricky, which explains 
why so few of us are aware of the one that's approaching.    37    As it does, it will make the computer 
revolution look like small change. It will affect everything from the batteries we use to the pants we wear to the 
way we treat cancer.     The main thing to know about nanotechnology is that it's small. Really small. Nano, a 
prefix that means "dwarf" in Greek, is shorthand for nanometer, one-billionth of a meter.        38       This comma, 
for instance, spans about half a million nanometers. To put it another way, a nanometer is the amount a man's 
beard grows in the time it takes him to lift a razor to his face.        39        Tear a piece of aluminum foil into tiny 
strips, and it will still behave like aluminum-even after the strips have become so small that you need a 
microscope to see them. But keep chopping them smaller, and at some point-20 to 30 nanometers, in this case-
the pieces can explode.    40     With them, scientists can engineer a cornucopia of exotic new materi als, such 
as plastic that conducts electricity and coatings that prevent iron from rusting. 
36 It's a distance that is so minute that comparing it to anything in the regular world is a bit of a joke. 
Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they're 
nanosize. 
Not all nanosize materials change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon. 
Technological revolutions travel with the same stealth. 
37 It's a distance that is so minute that comparing it to anything in the regular world is a bit of a joke. 
Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they're 
nanosize. 
Nanotechnology has been around for two decades, but the first wave of applications is only now 
beginning to break. 
Not all nanosize materials change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon. 
38 It's a distance that is so minute that comparing it to anything in the regular world is a bit of a joke. 
Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they're 
nanosize. 
Not all nanosize materials can change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon. 
Technological revolutions travel with the same stealth. 
39 Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they're 
nanosize. 
Nanotechnology has been around for two decades, but the first wave of applications is only now 
beginning to break. 
Not all nanosize materials change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon. 
Technological revolutions travel with the same stealth. 
40 It's a distance that is so minute that comparing it to anything in the regular world is a bit of a joke. 
Nanotechnology matters because familiar materials begin to develop odd properties when they're 
nanosize. 
Nanotechnology has been around for two decades, but the first wave of applications is only now 
beginning to break. 
Not all nanosize materials can change properties so usefully, but the fact that some do is a boon.