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Being hit by lightning is a rare event. Over the course of an 80-year life span, the odds of being hit by lightning are 1 in 3,000, ______ 21 ______ the probability of being struck seven different times.
(A) if it isn’t
(B) as you can see
(C) not to mention
(D) with regard to
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Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in the United States, was struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being. Over his 36-year career, Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times—and ______ each shock!
(A) piloted
(B) rejected
(C) survived
(D) tracked
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Strikes one, two, and three were pure bad luck, he thought. But after strike four, Sullivan became ______ 23 ______ death and took precautions during lightning strikes.
(A) fearful of
(B) critical of
(C) doubtful about
(D) positive about
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Strike five occurred in 1973 when Sullivan was on patrol. A storm cloud “chased”” him until he was struck. The same thing happened again in 1976. Sullivan, while surveying a campground, felt that a cloud was ______ 24 ______ him, and tried all he could to run—but it got him anyway.
(A) coming after
(B) getting over
(C) holding on to
(D) watching out for”
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Finally, on 25 June 1977, a seventh and final bolt struck Sullivan as he was fishing in a pond. “I don’t believe God is after me,”” he theorized. “”If he was, the first bolt ______ 25 ______ enough. Best I can figure is that I have some chemical, some mineral, in my body that draws lightning. I just wish I knew.””
(A) was
(B) had been
(C) would be
(D) would have been”
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第26至30題為題組
Glaciers are usually associated with colder climates. But some mountain ranges of South America, Africa, and Indonesia are also ___26___ glaciers and ice sheets.
(A) home to
(B) covers of
(C) roofs over
(D) room for
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A newly published study, however, revealed that rising temperatures are posing an ___27___ threat to the last tropical glaciers in Indonesia’s Papua region.
(A) occasional
(B) elaborate
(C) immediate
(D) offensive
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The study warned that Papua’s glaciers are only the “first to go”” if greenhouse gases are ___30___ and temperatures continue rising.
(A) kept balanced
(B) made released
(C) seen dismissed
(D) left unchecked”