快速閱讀：

1.       N

2.       Y

3.       NG

4.       Y

5.       those things that they love most

6.       products

7.       more confidence

8.       What do I really want to do?

9.       give up, or risk

10.   the lack of action

聽力：

11.A) Surfing the net.

12.B) He is sure of his success in the exam.

13.D) The man is quite optimistic about human nature.

14.C) Stay in business.

15.A) More money.

16.B) She missed the comforts of home.

17.C) Seek professional advice.

18.A ) He dresses more formally now.

19.B ) To have meetings.

20.D) It can lessen the discomfort caused by air travel.

21.D) Avoided eating rich food.

22.C) Not many of them chose to do what she did

23 A ) At a fair.

24.C) The purchasing of some equipment.

25.B) Training consultancy.

26.A ) Improve themselves.

27.D) By making detailed plans and carrying them out.

28.D) To illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.

29.C) Karen's mother died in a car accident.

30.B) He sacrificed his life to save a baby girl.

31.A) The reported hero turned out to be his father.

32.B) Japan.

33.D) By taking shorter vacations each year.

34.A) To combat competition and raise productivity.

35.C) Reducing their working hours.

36.licensed

37.obligation

38.assess

39.coordinate

40.circumstance

41.inappropriate

42.resposbility

43.prime

44.It is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month.

45.Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system.

46.they will find that most critical hospital cares will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.

47. The brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page

48. the academic project

49. By word of mouth

50. meet their price

51. advertising

閱讀理解：

52. B) Why affluence doesn’t guarantee happiness?

53. D) materialism has run wild in modern society

54. A) Their material pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.

55. D) Workers who no longer have secure jobs

56. C) New conflicts and complaints

57. B) the Confucian influence on gender norms in Japan 

58. B) They use fewer of the deferential linguistic form

59. D) They express strong disapproval

60. A) may lead to changes in social relations

61. C) one of their strategies to compete in a male-dominated society