【正文】 ___ the important decision on reason rather than on emotion. A. has taken。 was based on C. has taken。 based 22. Recently a survey prices of the same goods in two different supermarkets has caused heated debate among citizens. A. pared with B. paring C. pared D. having pared 23. Hey, look where you are going! Oh, I’m terribly sorry. ______. A. I wasn’t noticing B. I39。t noticed D. I don’t notice 24. Time ______, they promise ______ raises a question a chance to take a selfie with the mascot. A. permitted, whomever B. permitting, whomever C. permitted, whoever D. permitting, whoever 25. Traffic conditions in Beijing ______ for decades. At first people only plained about jams during rush hours, but today every hour is rush hour. A. are worsening B. have worsened C. have been worsening D. have been worsened 三、 閱讀理解（共 20小題；每小題 2分，滿分 40分） 第一節(jié) （共 15 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 30 分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（ A、 B、 C 和 D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。t afford the operation because her family was poor. Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic(閣樓 ) one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿 ). On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry.” It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry39。s manuscript? A. The girl39。s father. C. The girl. D. The author. 30. Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic? A. O. Henry once worked in Houston. B. O. Henry once stayed in Galveston. C. O. Henry once moved to Des Moines. D. O. Henry once taught at SMU. 31. The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______. A. treated B. discovered C. proved D. described 32. According to the text, why did the author39。 Rebel has three meanings according to my dictionary: 1) a person who fights against the government of their country. 2) a person who opposes somebody in authority over them within an anization, a political party, etc. 3) a person who does not like to obey rules or who does not accept normal standards of behavior, dress, etc. Today, 41 . Some might say, rebels are the destroyers of our normal society. To some extent, yes, they are. 42 In my view, every step of advance has rebels’ significant contribution. I have seen a TED talk, from which a man, born in an Islamic family, talked about his father who was an IS member took him to have a drill, using a sniper rifle to shoot a target, when he was about 10 years old. 43 Of course, his father was a militant and had plotted a bombing attack. But as the man grew up, he found that his family was not going in a right way. Then he left his family, changed his beliefs and gave a TED talk, which shows that he is not a militant like his father. 44 Yes, The Son is not like The Father. Isn’t his son a rebel that didn’t obey his family’s rules and the standards of his father’s behavior? If not, what would happen? 45 Just because we have those rebels who can see the drawbacks and flaws of their families, they can replace them with virtues, revise their ideas, and change the lines of their beliefs. So, we couldn’t criticize a rebel more. Suppose they could change our future to a better one, should we give them a chance to do what they want? A. They, the rebels, are hopes instead, in my view. B. And also because of that, our society moves forward. C. I think from this story you could get the gist of what I am going to talk about. D. No doubt, another militant or terrorist came out from his family. E. Each family has something imperfect which needs to revise. F. I only want to talk about the third meaning of the word rebel and discuss the significance of being it. G. Finally, he hit the target, and his uncles around him praised him as: The Father, The Son. 四、 完形填空（共 20小題；每小題 ，滿分 30分） Honestly, I’m not a big fan of Kpop itself. However, if you see Kpop as a 46 , things get more 47 . First, the process of 48 a Kpop singer, mostly through forming boy/girl groups, is like car production: Industrialize and focus on 49 . Talent agencies find potential 50 , often through global auditions(選秀 ). The training of the future stars, who are taught to sing and dance, act and learn foreign languages, can 51 three to seven years. In the South Korean model, a pop 52 is more like a brand than a proper band. For instance, SM Entertainment’s Super Junior boasts 12 members. This allows the pany to break the band down into subunits targeting 53 markets, including Super JuniorM (Mandarin pop music), Super JuniorT (trot music, a 54 of Korean music 55 back to the early 1900s), and something called Super JuniorHappy. The pace of the Kpop music production is 56 . You get one 57 that can last