【正文】 void outright(徹底的 )lies, some jobseekers claim that they attending means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that being associated with a college means that the jobseeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are panies that will sell you a phony diploma. One pany, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from Smoot State University. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the University of Purdue. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper. 1. The main idea of this passage is that ________ . [A] employers are checking more closely on applicants now [B] lying about college degrees has bee a widespread problem [C] college degrees can now be purchased easily [D] employers are no longer interested in college degrees 2. According to the passage, special cases refers to cases that ________. [A] students attend a school only parttime [B] students never attended a school they listed on their application [C] students purchase false degrees from mercial firms [D] students attended a famous school 3. We can infer from the passage that ________ . [A] performance is a better judge of ability than a college degree [B] experience is the best teacher [C] past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do [D] a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job petition 4. This passage implies that ________ . [A] buying a false degree is not moral [B] personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools [C] most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school [D] society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications 5. The word phony (Line 13, Para. 2) means ________ . [A] thorough [C] false [B] ultimate [D] decisive 【參考解析】： 1. B 主旨題。 now British and German scientists are developing memory glasses that record everything the2 sees. The glasses can play back memories later to help the wearer remember things they have fotten such as where they left their keys. And the glasses also 3 the user to label items so that information can be used later on. The wearer could walk around an office or a factory identifying certain4 by pointing at them. Objects indicated are then given a5 label on a screen inside the glasses that the user then fills in. It could be used in 6 plants by mechanics looking to identify machine parts or by electricians wiring a 7 device. A spokesman for the project said: A car mechanic for 8 could find at a glance where a part on a certain car model is so that it can be identified and repaired. For the motorist the system could 9 accident black spots or dangers on the road. In other cases the glasses could be worn by people going on a guided tour,10 points of interest or by people looking at panoramas where all the sites could be identified. [A] allow [B] instance [C] blank [D] industrial [E] frustrating [F] items [G] indicating [H] highlight [I] user [J] plicated [K] white [L] annoying [M] successful [N] articles [O] simple 【參考答案】： EIAFCDJBHG 二、閱讀理解 第 2題： You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually pleted a couple of years of college work or even that you pleted your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a wellknown university. Registrars at most wellknown colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them impostors(騙子 )。由第二段中前半部分的 If it turns out that an applicant is lying... school calls them impostors。 4. D 推斷題。 thorough意為 “徹底的 ”， ultimate 意為 “最終的 ”， decisive 意為 “決定性的 ”，均排除 第 3題： Material culture refers to what can be seen, held, felt, used—what a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of material culture in it, of course, is musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to E