【正文】 C、 D)中，選 A land free from destruction(破壞 ),plus wealth,natural resources,and labor supply— all these were important 36 in helping England to bee the center for the Industrial Revolution. 37 they were not 38 was needed to start the industrial “ something special” was men— 39 individuals who could invent machines,find new 40 of power,and establish business anizations to reshape(改造 )society. The men who 41 the machines of the Industrial Revolution 42 from many backgrounds and many of them were 43 inventors than man who is a 44 scientist is primarily interested in doing his research 45 .He is not necessarily working 46 that his findings can be used. An inventor or one interested in applied science is 47 trying to make something that has an actual 48 .He may try to solve a problem by using the theories 49 science or by experimenting through correct and of his method,he is working to obtain a 50 result:the construction of a harvesting machine,the burning of a light bulb,or one of 51 other objectives. Most of the people who 52 the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors,not trained few were both scientists and those who had 53 or no training in science might not have made their inventions 54 a ground work had not been laid by scientists years 55 . (動機 ) — 5 — 第三部分 :閱讀理解 (共 20 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 40 分 ) 閱讀下列短文，然后從各題所給的四個選項 (A、 B、 C、 D) A “ It hurts me more than you” ,and “ This is for your own good” — these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin,clean my room,stay home and do homework. That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in schools and the educators made it easy for taught that it was all right to be parents who take a letalone stopped making our children do gave them calculators,turned on the television,left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation. Now teachers,faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years ,are realizing we’ve made a terrible such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students — “ so passive” — and wonders what has is demanded of them,she ,says Klompus,contributes to children’s passivity.“ We’re talking about a generation of kids who’ve never been hurt or have learned somebody will always do it for them,instead of saying‘ go and look it up’ ,you tell them the takes greater energy to say no to a kid. Yes,it takes energy and it takes ’s time for parents to end their vacation and e back to ’s time to take the car away,to turn the TV off,to tell them it hurts you more than them but it’s for their own ’s time to start telling no again. are being more inactive in study because______. watch TV too often have done too much homework have to fulfil too many duties are too strict with them learn from the passage that the author’s mother used to lay emphasis on______. Latin development at school “ permissive period in education” (,)the author means a time______. childr