I.Vocabulary: 1. In light of the tension between North Korea and the United States, an envoy was sent to North Korea to seek peaceful solution.
I.Vocabulary: 2. An 18-year-old woman was killed and at least 22 people injured Thursday when a speeding car plowed into pedestrians in Manhattan’s bustling Times Square.
I.Vocabulary: 3. When travelling to the United States, if you have prohibited items, such as fruit that could carry pests or diseases, they will be confiscated and destroyed.
I.Vocabulary: 4. The image of the alien in this YouTube video was later exposed to be a gutter, as the actors confessed that they were paid to play the role of the extraterrestrials.
I.Vocabulary: 5. The soccer player was kicked in the leg, and the audience saw him limp off the field in agony.
I.Vocabulary: 6. The economic downturn in recent years has stirred much apprehension in those who are about to enter the society.
I.Vocabulary: 7. The waitress in the café tried to soothe the furious customer as his order was delayed for 30 minutes.
I.Vocabulary: 8. After returning from the trip, he has been rhapsodizing about the beautiful girl he met in Japan nonstop.
I.Vocabulary: 9. A taskforce was appointed to investigate the scandals surrounding the Prime-Minister.
I.Vocabulary: 10. Nowadays the public loves to read tabloid journalism because it contains sensational contents.
II. Grammar：12. Jackie dressed in nothing but baggy Levis and flannel shirts in high school, for she did not like to wear tight clothes.
II. Grammar：13. If I were a jurist, I would keep physician-assisted suicide illegal for this issue is much too complicated.
II. Grammar：14. Despite its commercial aspects, Woodstock, a music festival held in 1969, momentarily embodied the American dream of a harmonious community.
II. Grammar：15. After much consideration, Jonathan finally decided to move to Taipei to pursue his dream as a hair stylist.
II. Grammar：19. Not only does industrial production use up a lot of water, it also causes water pollution and destroys the environment.
II. Grammar：20. Harnessing the horse to the cart, John invited us to take a ride with him in the countryside.
III. Cloze Test：22. To be whole of limb is, I know from experience, infinitely more pleasant and useful than to be crippled; and if that knowledge leaves me open to bitterness at my loss, the physical soundness. I once enjoyed (though I did not enjoy it half enough) is well worth the occasional stab of regret.
III. Cloze Test：24. I climbed trees, played hopscotch, jumped rope, skated, swam, rode my bicycle, sailed.
III. Cloze Test：25. However, I disliked team sports, spending some of the wretchedest afternoons of my life, sweaty and humiliated, behind a field-hockey stick and under a basketball hoop.
III. Cloze Test：26. I tramped alone for miles along the bridle paths that webbed the woods behind the house I grew up in.
III. Cloze Test：27. I also enjoyed dancing: I swayed through countless dim hours in the arms of one man or another under the scattered shot of light from mirrored balls, and gyrated through countless more as Tab Hunter and Johnny Mathis gave way to the Rolling Stones, Credence Clearwater Revival, Cream.
Passage II : 30. The Anthropocene has fast become an academic buzzword and has achieved a degree of public visibility in recent year.
