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14. One is never too young nor too old __________ (change) his selfimage and thereby start to live a new life.15. The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly __________ (notice).I. 閱讀理解AWhen her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity. To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up. Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn39。s mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard. Finally the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains. Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business. Their expanding business became a large corporation(企業(yè))in 1996,with three generations of An working together. Now the Ans39。s daughters? A. They were influenced by what Helene taught them.B. They could not bear to work in the family business.C. They did not finish their college education.D. They were troubled by disagreement among family members.4. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? A. How to Run a Corporation B. Strength Comes from PeaceC. Family Unity Builds Success D. How to Achieve a Big DreamBA new study shows students who write notes by hand during lectures perform better on exams than those who use laptops. Students are increasingly using laptops for notetaking because of speed and legibility(清晰度).But the research has found laptop users are less able to remember and apply the concepts(觀念) they have been taught. Researchers performed experiments that aimed to find out whether using a laptop increased the tendency to make notes mindlessly by taking down word for word what the professors said. In the first experiment, students were given either a laptop or pen and paper. They listened to the same lectures and were told to use their usual notetaking skills. Thirty minutes after the talk