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III. Reading Comprehension. 30 pointsPlease read the following three excerpts/passages closely and then choose the best answer for each of the questionsaccording to the contents.【單選題】每題 2 分，共 15 題，答錯 1 題倒扣 0.5 分，倒扣至本大題零分為止，未作答，不給分亦不扣分。Scuba diving has never been easy for me. When I was in fifth grade, the father of one of my classmates died in ascuba-diving accident. His death, along with the scenes I had watched in James Bond’s movies of men left to drown hundredsof feet under water with severed air tubes, did not give me the impression that scuba diving was a safe sport. However, ineighth grade, my father asked me if I would take scuba-diving classes with him. Although I was reluctant, the importantconsideration was that he would be there to support me and that we would do it together. It seemed that as I grew older, wespent less time together. I wanted this opportunity to be with him.After hours of pool work and classes, I was ready to go for my certification. My first problem was getting to the dive site. Ihave a slight fear of boats, which probably stems from my first boat ride, during which I developed a major case of seasickness.第 4 頁，共 6 頁This was a small obstacle compared to what was about to come. I spent the first fifteen minutes of the dive standing on therocking deck of the dive boat, staring at the rough ocean, weak with fear. I was only able to dive into the water after a good peptalk from both my father and my dive master. I repeated the word “relax” to myself over and over and plunged in.Even now, after five years of scuba diving, I still feel a little uneasy before submerging. However, once I have taken adeep breath and broken the surface of the water, curiosity and astonishment at the variety on the ocean floor calm myapprehensions. No sounds or disturbances break the perfect tranquility. Enormous purple fans wave in the current, and orangeand red sponges just out of the coral like poppies in the meadow. When I am underwater, I can hover above the colorful, craggycoral, flying like Superman, watching schools of fish dart around in search of food, oblivious to my presence. Underwater, I amable to leave behind my worries and observe the peaceful beauty of nature.The experience does not end with my surfacing but continues with the stories my father, the other divers, and I tellafterward. There is a high level of camaraderie among all divers. We sit around like old pirates in a dank tavern, laughing as wetalk about the stingrays who search for food in our hair (an experience that was once described as “like being mugged by E.T.”)or about the dive master who found a bicycle down by one of the wrecks and started to ride it around. My fellow divers do notknow that I have not yet left behind my fears of diving, because once I submerge, I inhabit a different world with them.Like learning to scuba dive, learning to read was also not easy for me. Most early-reading programs rely heavily on theteaching of phonetics. However, I have a learning disability that makes understanding sound/symbol relationships difficult. Thismade learning to read through the use of phonetics impossible. I was lucky, however, because I was accepted into FennSchool’s Intensive Language Program. For two years (fourth and fifth grades), six other boys and I worked together, learninghow to compensate for our learning differences. In this class, I developed a trait that I am very proud of: the ability to workhard—not only in my studies, but in everything I do.But continuing even when the waters were rough, and drawing on the support of my parents and teachers, I learned toread and found an amazing world opened to me. Just as my fellow divers do not know that I am anxious about scuba diving,most of my classmates do not know that I have a learning disability. They just think that I am a diligent worker, but I know that,as with scuba diving, there is a lot more to the story.
41. The author found, initially, scuba diving neither fun nor safe because of all of the following reasons except _____.
(A) the accident that claimed the life of a classmate’s father
(B) the seasickness he suffered during his first boat ride
(C) the drowning scenes presented in James Bond movies
(D) the rough ocean he saw before diving into water
(E) the companionship he shared with fellow divers

參考答案

答案：E
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(1),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(1)

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