112學測英文

The bus driver often complains about chewing gum found under passenger seats because it is ______ and very hard to remove.
(A) sticky
(B) greasy
(C) clumsy
(D) mighty

Jesse is a talented model. He can easily adopt an elegant ______ for a camera shoot.
(A) clap
(B) toss
(C) pose
(D) snap

In order to draw her family tree， Mary tried to trace her ______ back to their arrival in North America.
(A) siblings
(B) commuters
(C) ancestors
(D) instructors

Upon the super typhoon warning， Nancy rushed to the supermarket—only to find the shelves almost ______ and the stock nearly gone.
(A) blank
(B) bare
(C) hollow
(D) queer

Even though Jack said “Sorry!” to me in person， I did not feel any ______ in his apology.
(A) liability
(B) generosity
(C) integrity
(D) sincerity

My grandfather has astonishing powers of ______. He can still vividly describe his first day at school as a child.
(A) resolve
(B) fraction
(C) privilege
(D) recall

Recent research has found lots of evidence to ______ the drug company’s claims about its “miracle” tablets for curing cancer.
(A) provoke
(B) counter
(C) expose
(D) convert

Corrupt officials and misguided policies have ______ the country’s economy and burdened its people with enormous foreign debts.
(A) crippled
(B) accelerated
(C) rendered
(D) ventured

As a record number of fans showed up for the baseball final， the highways around the stadium were ______ with traffic all day.
(A) choked
(B) disturbed
(C) enclosed
(D) injected

Studies show that the ______ unbiased media are in fact often deeply influenced by political ideology.
(A) undoubtedly
(B) roughly
(C) understandably
(D) supposedly