2011在職會計碩士復習英語知識運用解析(4)

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3.The antiwar movement in the 1960s, the _ Rights Movement that emerged strongly in the 1950s, and the antiabortion movement of the 1980s are all examples of social movement in America that have involved both legal and illegal activities to achieve their goals.
    [A] Civil
    [B] Liberty
    [C] Humanity
    [D] privacy
    解析:civil 有“公民的,國內的”之義,the civil rights movement 即人權運動,符合文意。[B] liberty“自由”;[C] humanity“人類,人性”;[D] privacy“隱私”。
    4.Around the world young people are spending unbelievable sums of money to listen to rock music. Forbes magazine claims that at least fifty rock stars have ________of between two million and six million dollars per year.
    [A] revenues
    [B] salaries
    [C] wages
    [D] incomes
    解析:income“收入”。[A]revenue 尤指國家的稅收;[B]salary 多指固定按月支付的薪水;[C]wage 常指按周計算的工錢,多指體力勞動。
    5.For some years now a research team at Vienna Technical University, headed by Drs. Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair, in cooperation with Professor Kurt Burian of the Medical Faculty of Vienna University, have pioneered the development of a hearing aid for the totally deaf in both ears. The device, which is already in production, is capable of enabling the totally deaf to achieve the level of speech understanding of those with moderately severe hearing _________—a breakthrough of considerable social and economic importance.
    [A] ability
    [B] aids
    [C] defects
    [D] organ
    解析:defect“缺陷”。句意:“…… 這種助聽器能幫助患者達到理解中度聽覺缺陷者的言語水平”。[A] ability“能力”;[B] aid“輔助”;[D] organ“器官”都不準確。