Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text, Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most ailments, it has its own (1) and cure. Culture shock is (2) by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. Those signs or cues include the thousand and one (3) in which we orient ourselves to the (4) of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meet people, when and how to give tips, how to (5) purchases, when to accept and when to refuse invitations, when to take statement seriously and when not. These cues, (6) may be words, gestures, facial (7) customs, or norms, are (8) by all of us in the course of growing up and are as much a (9) of our culture as the language we spea
A. which
B. that
C. when
D. what
The world religion is derived from the Latin noun religion, which denotes both (1) observance of ritual obligations and an inward spirit of reverence. In modern usage, religion covers a wide spectrum of (2) that reflects the enormous variety of ways the term can be (3) At one extreme, many committed believers (4) only their own tradition as a religion, understanding expressions such as worship and prayer to refer (5) to the practices of their tradition. They may (6) use vague or idealizing terms in defining religion, (7) , true love of God, or the path of enlightenment. At the other extreme, religion may be equated with (8) , fanaticism, or wishful thinking.
By defining religion as a sacred engagement with what is taken to be a spiritual reality, it is possible to consider the importance of religion in human life without making (9) about what is really is or ought to be. Religion is not an object with a single
A. excessively
B. comprehensively
C. flexibly
D. exclusively
The heat generated by the operating system war between rivals IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. is (21) .
Windows 95 and OS/2 introduce a new (22) . Both systems claim to multitask legacy DOS and 16-bit Windows applications. However, only OS/2 can provide full memory (crash) protection for these legacy applications because it is capable of running each DOS and Windows application within its full-protected memory address space.
Windows 95 will run all current Windows applications in the same shared- memory address space, affording full memory protection only to the (23) 32-bit Windows 95 applications. In other word, Windows 95 users will have to (24) their current Windows applications to Windows 95 version to match the memory protection OS/2 now delivers.
While OS/2 does afford superior memory protection and multitasking for legacy DOS and Windows applications, it will not be able to run any Windows 95 applications. IBM may address t
A. mistake
B. advantage
C. benefit
D. shortcoming
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