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Three friends sign up together. How much does each of them pay?
考題練習
題型與計分都照真實考試。多選題採學測的部分給分：答錯 k 個選項得 (n − 2k)/n，算出負值以零分計——所以亂猜的期望值是負的。
閱讀測驗：Green Island Summer Camp
GREEN ISLAND SUMMER CAMP
July 14–18 (Mon–Fri) · For students in Grades 7–9
What we do
Day 1–2 Snorkeling lessons in a shallow bay
Day 3 Beach clean-up with local fishermen
Day 4 Night walk: looking for land crabs
Day 5 Making postcards from the things we picked up on Day 3
Cost
NT$4,500 per person
NT$3,800 per person if two or more sign up together
Please note
· Bring your own towel and a hat. Do not bring a hair dryer.
· You do not need to know how to swim. A teacher stays in the water with you.
· Sign up before June 20. We take only 24 students, and last year all the places were gone by June 5.
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What will the campers use to make postcards on Day 5?
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Which student CANNOT join the camp?
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What does the last line suggest readers should do?
閱讀測驗：My Grandfather's Map
When my grandfather moved into our house last spring, he brought only two boxes. In one of them I found a map. It was drawn by hand on brown paper, and the lines were so thin that I had to hold it near the window to see them.
"That's Da'an," he said, looking over my shoulder. "The way it was in 1962."
I could not believe it. Where our MRT station stands today, his map showed a rice field. The night market on Tonghua Street was a row of low wooden houses. A stream ran right through the middle of the city — the same stream, he told me, that is now a road called Xinsheng South Road.
"Why did you keep it?" I asked.
He was quiet for a while. "Because nobody else did," he finally said. "Cities change faster than people remember. In twenty years, someone will look at a photo of your street and not believe it either."
Last month our school held a local history fair. I brought the map. My classmates spent the whole afternoon around our table, pointing at places and arguing about which building used to be where. My grandfather stood at the back of the room. He did not say much, but he stayed until the very last visitor left.
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According to the map, what used to be where Xinsheng South Road is today?
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Why did the grandfather keep the map?
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What does the grandfather mean by "someone will look at a photo of your street and not believe it either"?
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What can we infer about how the grandfather felt at the history fair?
綜合測驗：The Library of Things
In a small town in Ontario there is a library where nobody borrows books. The shelves hold tents, drills, pasta machines, and a telescope. It is called a Library of Things, and it rests on a simple 1: most of the objects we own sit unused for almost all of their lives.
An electric drill, according to one often-quoted estimate, is used for a total of thirteen minutes over its entire lifetime. 2 that figure is hard to verify, the point behind it is not. Households across North America are full of tools bought for a single afternoon's work.
Lending libraries for objects turn that waste into access. A member pays a small yearly fee and can then take home whatever the collection 3. The savings are obvious, but organizers say the more interesting effect is social: borrowers come back and describe what they built, and staff pass the story on to the next person who takes the same tool.
Not everything works smoothly. Items that everyone wants at the same moment — snow shovels in January, camping gear in July — are 4 in short supply, and some tools come back broken. Even so, more than five hundred such libraries now operate worldwide, and the number keeps rising.
Their appeal may lie less in saving money than in a change of 5: ownership stops being the obvious way to get the use of a thing.
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文意選填：Reading the Dark
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(A) abandoned (B) confuse (C) declining (D) evidence (E) habitats
(F) intensity (G) resemble (H) restore (I) signals (J) vanished
On a summer night in the mountains of central Taiwan, the slope below the trail fills with small green lights. They are not decorations. They are 1 — flashes produced by male fireflies looking for a mate, each species using its own rhythm the way a ship uses a code.
That code only works in darkness. When a streetlamp or a parking lot floods the hillside, the flashes lose their contrast and females can no longer read them. Bright artificial lights do not merely annoy fireflies; they 2 them.
Firefly populations have been 3 across East Asia for decades. The reasons are not mysterious. Larvae grow in damp soil beside slow streams, and those 4 are exactly what gets drained, paved, or straightened when a valley is developed. At several sites where researchers counted thousands of insects in the 1980s, the fireflies have simply 5.
There is, however, 6 that the loss can be undone. A community in Nantou replaced its trail lamps with shielded red fixtures and cut their 7 by half. Two seasons later, counts along the trail had tripled. Elsewhere, volunteers have taken 8 rice terraces and let water return to them, and fireflies have followed within three years.
None of this requires technology that does not yet exist. To 9 a firefly population, a village mainly has to stop doing a few things — draining, paving, and lighting. Conservation projects rarely 10 one another closely, but the successful firefly ones share that unusual feature: their main action is subtraction.
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閱讀測驗：Alarm Fatigue
A modern hospital room can produce more than three hundred alarms per patient per day. Infusion pumps beep when a line is nearly empty. Monitors sound when a heart rate crosses a threshold. Beds announce that a patient has shifted their weight. Each of these sounds was added by a manufacturer with good intentions, and each was tested on its own.
The trouble is that nobody tested them together. Studies in intensive care units have repeatedly found that between 85 and 99 percent of alarms require no action at all. A nurse who responded to every one of them would do almost nothing else. So nurses learn, without ever deciding to, that most alarms mean nothing — and the rare alarm that does mean something must compete with all the rest for attention.
Hospitals have tried two broad approaches. The first is to make alarms smarter: delaying a signal by a few seconds to see whether the reading corrects itself, or requiring two sensors to agree before anything sounds. One Boston hospital reported a 70 percent drop in audible alarms after such changes, with no increase in adverse events.
The second approach is stranger and, to some staff, more unsettling: make the ward quieter by routing alarms to a nurse's phone instead of a loudspeaker. Patients sleep better and recover faster. But experienced nurses report a loss they find hard to name. In an open ward, an alarm was information available to everyone; a colleague two beds away could glance up and go. Sent to a single device, it becomes one person's problem.
Neither approach removes the underlying design failure. Alarms were built to protect manufacturers from blame as much as to protect patients, and a device that stays silent when it should sound carries a legal risk that a device crying wolf does not.
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According to the second paragraph, what proportion of ICU alarms require no action?
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Why do nurses stop responding to most alarms?
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What do experienced nurses dislike about sending alarms to phones?
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What does the last paragraph suggest about why alarms are so sensitive?
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The museum does not ___ visitors to take photographs with flash.
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Although he had doubted he could, he ___ to finish the entire report before midnight.
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I would ___ walk twenty minutes than wait for a bus that may never come.
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The report ___ three possible explanations but examines none of them in any detail.
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Few of the officials were willing to ___ that they had misread the warning signs.
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The proposal looks attractive on paper, but the city simply cannot ___ it.
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Her ___ in the international competition surprised everyone, including her own coach.
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The two sides ___ for nearly six hours without reaching any agreement.
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She apologized ___ keeping the whole team waiting for half an hour.
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Before you sign anything, you should carefully ___ what would happen if the company went out of business.
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It ___ me two hours to finish all the homework last night.
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Don't forget to ___ your umbrella when you come to my house tomorrow.
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We ___ TV for almost two hours last night.
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My little brother is very ___ in dinosaurs; he can name over fifty of them.
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She listened ___ to every word the doctor said and wrote it all down.
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Your sister can play the piano, ___?
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There ___ a lot of milk in the fridge, so you don't need to buy any.
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The box was ___ heavy for me to carry by myself.
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A: Excuse me. How can I get to the post office? B: ___
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Oil prices ___ sharply last quarter, and few analysts expect them to fall soon.
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The documents had ___ untouched in the archive for nearly forty years.
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