英文學測

第16至20題為題組
______ sticks or pea shooters， the human alarms would tour the streets， tap on windows， or blast them with dried peas， trying to wake paying customers in time for work.
(A) Aimed at
(B) Trained for
(C) Equipped with
(D) Exhausted by

第16至20題為題組
Whether they wielded rods or pea shooters， knockers-up became ______ throughout the United Kingdom.
(A) familiar presences
(B) distant memories
(C) vague images
(D) public eyesores

第16至20題為題組
While the practice continued in some parts of the country until the 1970s， it ______ as alarm clocks became more widespread and affordable.
(A) remained
(B) dismissed
(C) revised
(D) declined

第16至20題為題組
However， they cannot ______ the personal attention coming from the distinctive tap of a pea shooter.
(A) forget
(B) change
(C) match
(D) regret

第21至30題為題組
On a hilltop overlooking the 2011-tsunami hit Otsuchi Town in northeastern Japan， there is a white phone booth standing all alone in the wind. The lonely “wind phone” serves to connect family members to their ___21___ loved ones who died in the tsunami that claimed 18，000 lives.
(A) passed on (B) bridge (C) sorrow (D) hope (E) departed
(F) mechanism (G) housed (H) manageable (I) fateful (J) brought forth

第21至30題為題組
People come to speak to those they have lost， to say the words they never got to say on that ___22___ day.
(A) passed on (B) bridge (C) sorrow (D) hope (E) departed
(F) mechanism (G) housed (H) manageable (I) fateful (J) brought forth

第21至30題為題組
The idea for the wind phone was first ___23___ by a Japanese garden designer named Itaru Sasaki， who was grieving over the death of his cousin in 2010， before the tsunami.
(A) passed on (B) bridge (C) sorrow (D) hope (E) departed
(F) mechanism (G) housed (H) manageable (I) fateful (J) brought forth

第21至30題為題組
Feeling that he needed a private space to help him navigate through the ___24___ ， Sasaki positioned a booth where he could “speak” to the dead relative.
(A) passed on (B) bridge (C) sorrow (D) hope (E) departed
(F) mechanism (G) housed (H) manageable (I) fateful (J) brought forth

第21至30題為題組
The booth he built ___25___ only an old dial phone with a disconnected phone line.
(A) passed on (B) bridge (C) sorrow (D) hope (E) departed
(F) mechanism (G) housed (H) manageable (I) fateful (J) brought forth

第21至30題為題組
Sasaki stated in an interview: “Because my thoughts couldn’t be ___26___ through a regular phone line， I wanted them to be carried on the wind.”
(A) passed on (B) bridge (C) sorrow (D) hope (E) departed
(F) mechanism (G) housed (H) manageable (I) fateful (J) brought forth