私醫聯招 英文歷屆試題｜全部題目＋答案＋詳解（第 3 頁）

Using RFID in stores puts people’s privacy  (26) . When you buy a product with an RFID tag, the store can continue to monitor the chip’s location after your purchase.  (27) , no matter where you go—home, work, or out to dinner—your location can be identified.

My father picked me up on my last junior high school day. As I showed him my final report card, tears ran down his face. He cried with pride, because he knew how hard I had worked to scrape a borderline pass, and he cried with sadness for what this would mean for my future.

I had  (28)  made it. I spent countless hours torturing my eyes with letters that slid away. No matter how diligently I threw myself at the slope of institutionalized education, my results kept slipping. My teachers didn’t know why. They thought I was just plain stupid.

What  (29)  an average person five minutes to read takes me thirty. Reading for me is like trying to sprint in water. My eyes move quickly across the page, but my mind cannot  (30)  the words in time. The words bounce off a brick wall in my head. The only way they break through is forcing myself to read at a much slower pace.

“It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.” This old saying, while not entirely accurate, contains an element of truth. When it comes to planning careers and seeking jobs, networking pays off. Networking—the process of taking advantage of relationships with other people for career or professional purposes—can be a key part of occupational success. You can let various people in your life know that you are seeking employment or advice.

Just how do you get involved in networking? You’re probably already part of several networks. Wherever you live, you probably have neighbors. You also have a number of other acquaintances. Add those people you know from your own activities, such as religious groups, clubs, or volunteer organizations, and you’ve just put together your own pool of contacts.

Are you superstitious? Before you answer “no”, think about the little things you do now and then. For instance, do you always use a certain pen for tests? There are superstitions for everything. According to the people of Braga, Portugal, there is a statue that can ensure marriage. Legend has it that if a woman walks around this statue three times, she will hear wedding bells in the near future. If you are eager for marriage, it might be worth doing. Of course, if you really want to get married, you had better work hard to accomplish the goal instead of leaving it to superstition. After all, while you cannot rely on luck, you can always rely on your own actions!

The legal drinking age should be lowered from 21 to about 18 or 19, and young people should be allowed to drink in the presence of adults in such settings as restaurants, taverns and pubs and at official school and university functions. Allowing young people to consume alcohol in such controlled environments would enable them to learn mature and sensible drinking behaviors. The defiance of current drinking-age laws is readily apparent among university students. Students under age 21 are more likely to be heavy, or binge drinkers—those who consume over five drinks at one sitting at least once a week; 22 percent of students under age 21 classify themselves as heavy drinkers, compared with 18 percent of students over age 21.

Traditionally, mental tests have been divided into two types. Achievement tests are designed to measure acquired skills and knowledge, particularly those that have been explicitly taught. The proficiency exams required by some states for high school graduation are achievement tests. Aptitude tests are designed to measure a person’s ability to acquire new skills or knowledge. For example, vocational aptitude tests can help you decide whether you would do better as a mechanic or musician. However, all mental tests are in a sense achievement tests because they assume some sort of past learning or experience with certain objects, words, or situations. The difference between achievement and aptitude tests is one of degree and intended use.

A headache is more than just a pain in the head. Sometimes neck or upper back pain may also be involved in a headache. It ranks among the most common physical complaints. Two of the most common types of headaches are migraines and tension headaches. Possible causes of migraine headaches include lack of sleep, stress, or flashing flights. The symptoms include blurry vision and vomiting. Another common type of headache is the tension headache. A person will feel tense if he or she is too anxious about something at work or school. Also, doing a repetitive activity in the same position for a long time can result in a bad headache. The neck and head muscles become tense, and the headache begins.

Some methods to prevent migraines include taking deep breathes and lying down to rest in a dark room. Another method is to imagine scenes in which one feels warm and comfortable. Bright or flashing lights should be avoided. For a tension headache, one can relax tired muscles with a massage or head, neck, and shoulder exercises. In order to deal with different sources of stress, experts recommend doing activities that can help release stress, such as meditation or yoga. In addition to that, some over-the-counter medications such as aspirin might also help. However, if one has a headache and the symptoms persist over several days, one should see a doctor for further treatment.

Have you ever felt you were being watched? Some new technologies might make you feel that way. Digital billboards are being created with ability to recognize certain characteristics. These high-tech devices have cameras pointed at the people on the street, and software that tries to recognize people by age and gender. A computer inside the billboard then uses the information to display ads that are directed at the people who are looking at the billboard. For example, if a man passes a billboard featuring an ad for cosmetics, the computer can change the ad to something that is more likely to catch the man’s attention, such as football games.

While advertisers see this as a great opportunity to reach their target customers, some people feel that this kind of profiling is an invasion of their privacy. People are now much more aware of how information is exposed, shared, bought, and sold on the Internet. Now this debate will involve technologies such as “smart” billboards. But advertisers claim that they are sensitive to people’s concerns about privacy—companies that have tested the billboards in Japan and the U.S. assure consumers that the billboards can only guess your age and gender, but they will not be able to recognize your face or obtain any personal information about you.

Until recently, this kind of personal advertising has been mostly limited to the Internet. Search engines like Google and Bing can follow what we search for because each computer that connects to those sites has a unique identity. Companies then pay search engines to use this information to display ads for products and services that you have searched for. So if you search for travel information, you are likely to see ads for airlines and hotels. This kind of advertising has proven to be much more effective—and valuable—than traditional advertising.

In addition to taking steps to deliver more personalized messages, advertisers are using billboards to offer more useful information. Digital billboards can connect to the Internet to display information such as the time, weather, and news headlines. In the future, this technology could be used to relay immediate social events.

In today’s world, people ignore thousands of ads every day. Advertisers are trying to change that trend by personalizing the experience of seeing an ad. So pay attention: next time you see a billboard, it could be talking to you.