作文：" if you cant do great things,do small things in a great way?"做好小事情
參考範文：There is no doubt that many people want to be great and successful, but only a few can climb to the top and be admired by the world. However, it doesn’t mean that most of us are losers. Actually everyone can achieve high by doing small things in a great way.
We have to admit that there are something that we cannot accomplish right now, but it isn’t the excuse for us to stop trying. Being great needs time and patience, so only when all small accomplishments add up can many impossibilities gradually turn to possibilities. At least, one won’t regret for not making effort to achieve the goal. For example, one may doesn’t have the resources or training on how to be a world-class musician, but by constant practice of every short piece of music, he can still bring happiness, comfort and inspiration to his family members and friends, then this person is great in the eyes of the audiences.
Therefore, never cease the pace on the road to our dreams. As long as we stick to our goal and be serious to whatever related to it, we can be considered as great.
選詞填空
36. C) controlled
37. L) slash
38. M) specializing
39. K) professionals
40. E) forged
41. A) accountable
42. F) incentives
43. B) capacity
44. H) overstated
45. O) subsequently
段落匹配
H. Some big banks, like Wells Fargo……
B. Swipe is the operative word: …….
G. Chip-and Pin cards, by contrast, make fake cards……
C. The solution could cost as little as $2 extra for every piece of plastic issued……
A. A thin magnetic stripe (magstripe) is all that stands between……
I. Keep in mind, too, that credit cards typically ……
D. Why haven’t big banks adopted the more secure technology? ……
E. Multiply $3 by the more than 5 billion magstripe credit and prepaid cards…...
F. That leaves American retailers pretty much alone the world……
O. Credit and debit cards, though, are going to be……
題幹：
46. It is best to use an EMV card for international travel.
47. Personal information on credit and debit cards is increasingly vulnerable to hacking.
48. The French card companies adopted EMV technology partly because of inefficient telephone service.
49. While many countries use the smarter EMV cards, the U.S. still clings to its old magstripe technology.
50. Attempts are being made to prevent hackers from carrying out identity theft.
51. Credit cards are much safer to use than debit cards.
52. Big banks have been reluctant to switch to more secure technology because of the higher costs involved.
53. The potential liability for retailers using magstripe is far more costly than upgrading their registers.
54. The use of magstripe cards by American retailers leaves consumers exposed to the risks of losing account information.
55. Consumers will be a driving force behind the conversion from magstripe to EMV technology.
仔細閱讀
56. B) They are used by big businesses to monopolize agriculture.
57. D) More scientific research on GM crops.
58. A) Feeding the growing population makes it imperative to develop GM crops.
59. D) Whatever is useful to boost farming efficiency should be encouraged.
60. C) Efforts spent on it should be turned to more urgent issues of agriculture.
61. C) Unemployment.
62. D) Pour money into the market through asset buying.
63. B) Deflation.
64. C) Tighten financial regulation.
65. A) She possesses strong persuasive power.
翻譯：漢朝是中國歷史上最重要的朝代之一。漢朝統治期間有很多顯著的成就。它最先向其他文化敞開大門，對外貿易興旺。漢朝開拓的絲綢之路通向了中西亞乃至羅馬。各類藝術一派繁榮，湧現了很多文學、歷史、哲學鉅著。公元100年中國第一部字典編撰完成，收入9000個字，提供釋義並列舉不同的'寫法。其間，科技方面也取得了很大進步，發明了紙張、水鍾、日晷(sundials)以及測量地震的儀器。漢朝歷經400年，但統治者的腐朽最終導致了它的滅亡。
參考譯文：The Han dynasty is one of the most important dynasties of China. There were lots of prominent achievements during the reign of the Han dynasty. Being the first to open the door to other cultures, it excelled in its foreign trade. The Silk Road paved in the Han dynasty led to Central and Western Asia, and even to Rome. With all sorts of art schools flourishing, there appeared many great works in literary, history, and philosophy. In 100 A.D., China’s first dictionary was completed, which included 9000 characters, providing different ways of writing the characters as well as their definitions. During that period, the science and technology had made great progress, too: the paper, the water clock, the sundial and the instrument used for seismic survey were invented. Though the Han dynasty had a history of 400 years, the corruption of its rulers finally lead to its collapse.
