
三、克漏字測驗【請依照段落上下文意,選出最適當的答案】
If ever a movie earned its time-travel plotline, it’s Men in Black 3, which attempts to revive a movie
franchise largely forgotten by audiences after its disappointing second entry. Men in Black 3 16 Will
Smith’s Agent J going back to the 1960s to save partner Agent K, and mines its late-’60s setting for jokes both
obvious and subtle. But if time travel, as the Men in Black would 17 it, is illegal throughout the universe,
cinema is full of lawbreakers. It’s been 10 years 18 the last Men in Black movie, but nearly 100 years since
the first time-travel film hit movie theaters. There are so many variations on turning the clock forwards and
backwards in cinema that it’s difficult to say these films 19 belong to a unified genre. But every
time-traveling movie has, in its own way, had to overcome the mind-bending logic problems 20 in its
premise. And each, too, has played on a universal, if vain, human desire to experience a world that's entirely
unavailable to us—and perhaps to change things in our own.
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四、閱讀測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】
Long before there were flowers, the world was green. The first plants appeared some 500 million years ago,
early mosses, hornworts and liverworts, low and clinging to the ground. Then, 360 million years ago, ferns rose up,
with newly evolved vascular systems that helped them ferry water to their extremities and gain height. They
prevailed as the dinosaurs fell, through extinction after extinction, obstinate and mostly unchanging; according to
the fossil record, a fern from 180 million years ago was almost identical to its descendants today.
Ferns were, therefore, a part of human existence from our very start, and yet in the West, it wasn’t until the
Victorians that we went mad for these prehistoric relics. Pteridomania, the official name of the fever, was fueled in
part by the 1829 invention of the Wardian case, a glazed glass box built to transport and protect sensitive plants, and
by the extension of roads and railways to previously less accessible and particularly damp corners of Britain, where
ferns thrived. The craze was democratic, cutting across class lines: Farmers foraged for specimens while aristocrats
imported rarities hunted in far-flung lands, from Borneo to Brazil.
You might say that, once awakened, our craze for them never died. In 1960s America, the plants became the
defining decoration of the so-called fern bars, which took inspiration from idealized grandmotherly living rooms
(along with banks of potted ferns, they often featured homey wooden tables with Tiffany-style lamps), creating a
space where single women would feel safe sipping sugary cocktails — an upper-crust version of tiki bars, minus the
exuberance. By the 1980s, ferns (or, more often, their plastic likeness) drooped from macramé hangers in homes
across the country, a tropical trope in a decade that celebrated excess.
【3】21. What is the passage mainly about?
When ferns became prehistoric relics.
Where ferns became people’s decorations.
How ferns became a target of human’s craze.
Why ferns became imported items for aristocrats.
【4】22. Which of the following statements about ferns is NOT true?
They existed long before flowers did.
They came into existence after hornworts.
They are almost the same as those 180 million years ago.
They were used to carry water for human beings to very far places.
【1】23. Why is the Wardian case mentioned in the second paragraph?
To explain the reasons for pteridomania.
To claim a theory of the extinction of plants.
To illustrate the prosperity and wealth of Britain.
To argue for the invention of an artistic glass box.
【2】24. What does the word them refer to in the third paragraph?
Bars.
Ferns.
Hornworts.
Wardian cases.
【1】25. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
One of the reasons for pteridomania in Britain was the improved transportation.
In 1960s some in America created bars for grandmothers and single women only.
The craze in Britain resulted in a war because farmers and aristocrats disagreed with each other.
By the 1980s plastic ferns were used in homes in America to create heat in winter and to celebrate Christmas.