會考英語

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Here are two pieces of news that Annie collected for her report.

News 1: Papier-mâché is works of art that are made of paper. In Taiwan, it is known as zhizhu and is usually burned as a gift for dead people. Taiwan’s papier-mâché is dying because it is not much needed now. However, this dying art won a Frenchman’s heart when he visited the island. He then invited one of the papier-mâché shops, Hsin Hsin Paper Offering Store, to show their beautiful works in France. The shop owner’s son also used papier-mâché in a way that no one ever thought of-making a movie with it.

News 2: Stan Lai is very important in Taiwan’s theater. He brought changes to Chinese theater art of the old days to make it closer to our life experiences and easier to understand. One of his most famous works is That Evening We Performed Crosstalk (1985). It was such a smash hit that people became interested again in xiangsheng, a show of funny talk between two actors. This art used to be a hobby that only a few people shared, but Lai has opened a bigger market for it. Now it has fans across all ages.

26.
(A) More young people need to join in making art.
(B) People’s ways of enjoying art change with time.
(C) Bringing important art works to Taiwan from abroad.
(D) Giving new life to old arts that were almost forgotten.

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VOF News 16/01/2015
For many people, having a cup of coffee right out of bed is the best way to start a day. But a report from Asap Science says otherwise. It says the worst time for coffee is soon after we get up.
When we wake up, our bodies start to make cortisol. Cortisol helps us to think clearly and be quick to understand and act. The cortisol levels rise after we wake up and climb to the highest in about an hour. So there are two problems when we drink coffee during this time: (1) our bodies will make less cortisol, and (2) the cortisol will make coffee less useful. And that’s why some of us drink more and more coffee.
Then, when’s the best time to have coffee? When the cortisol levels are going down, the report says. Cortisol levels are usually highest between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., between noon and 1 p.m., and between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. So if you want to have coffee, enjoy it after these times, and this popular drink will help you the most.

29.Which idea is talked about in the news?
(A) How often we should drink coffee.
(B) What happens when we have too much coffee.
(C) How to help the body make the cortisol we need.
(D) What happens when we have coffee at the wrong time.

[題組:第29到32題]The picture below shows how the cortisol levels rise and fall during the day. From the news, which is a good time for coffee?
(A) A.
(B) B.
(C) C.
(D) D.

[題組:第29到32題]Four people read the news and wrote what they thought about it.
32.What did they think about the news?
(A) They wanted to try what it said.
(B) They were sad about what it said.
(C) They did not agree with what it said.
(D) They were not surprised at what it said.

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Below is part of a new shopping center’s market report.
Our busiest time is weekend afternoons, between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. About half the business of the week is done then. So it would be better if we move Weekend’s Best Buy from Saturday evening to Saturday afternoon when there may be more shoppers during the sale. We should also think about having more free buses during the weekend, as 75% of the shoppers who were interviewed said two buses an hour are just not enough.
Weekend evenings are second busiest, though it is not as good as last season. An interesting fact is that business is better on weekday evenings, usually one hour before closing, than on weekend mornings. Most of the shoppers then are people who live near or working parents who do their last minute shopping. They together make up almost 60% of the business on weekday evenings. It might bring in more business if we open half an hour longer during weekdays, until 10:30 p.m.

33.What does the report NOT suggest?
(A) Having more free buses for shoppers.
(B) Changing the opening hours on weekdays.
(C) Making plans to help weekday morning business.
(D) Changing the time of the special sale on weekends.

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35.Which picture is most likely used in the report?