107 國軍退除役轉任公務人員上校轉任 廉政(轉任退輔會) 中華民國憲法與英文 考古題詳解

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As the light shines through the arched windows on all sides of the main hall, New York’s Grand Central Terminal looks like a cathedral. It certainly doesn’t resemble anything as ____ as a train station. ____, there aren’t any trains to be seen (its 44 platforms are all underground). The hall is an awe-inspiring sight. Visitors stop, stand, and stare. They gaze open-mouthed and speechless and ____ at its size. They experience the kind of silent wonder more often found in a historic church or monument.

The hall is enormous – 470 feet long and 125 feet wide. At both ends there are marble steps, modeled ____ the staircase in the Paris Opera House. In the middle there is a four-sided brass clock on top of an information booth, a popular meeting point. Balconies with huge, square columns run on either side. But it is the height of the ceiling, as high as a 12-story building, which takes your ____ away. The vast, blue-green ceiling is decorated with lights that depict all the stars of the zodiac with the heavens behind.

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As the light shines through the arched windows on all sides of the main hall, New York’s Grand Central Terminal looks like a cathedral. It certainly doesn’t resemble anything as ____ as a train station. ____, there aren’t any trains to be seen (its 44 platforms are all underground). The hall is an awe-inspiring sight. Visitors stop, stand, and stare. They gaze open-mouthed and speechless and ____ at its size. They experience the kind of silent wonder more often found in a historic church or monument.

The hall is enormous – 470 feet long and 125 feet wide. At both ends there are marble steps, modeled ____ the staircase in the Paris Opera House. In the middle there is a four-sided brass clock on top of an information booth, a popular meeting point. Balconies with huge, square columns run on either side. But it is the height of the ceiling, as high as a 12-story building, which takes your ____ away. The vast, blue-green ceiling is decorated with lights that depict all the stars of the zodiac with the heavens behind.

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As the light shines through the arched windows on all sides of the main hall, New York’s Grand Central Terminal looks like a cathedral. It certainly doesn’t resemble anything as ____ as a train station. ____, there aren’t any trains to be seen (its 44 platforms are all underground). The hall is an awe-inspiring sight. Visitors stop, stand, and stare. They gaze open-mouthed and speechless and ____ at its size. They experience the kind of silent wonder more often found in a historic church or monument.

The hall is enormous – 470 feet long and 125 feet wide. At both ends there are marble steps, modeled ____ the staircase in the Paris Opera House. In the middle there is a four-sided brass clock on top of an information booth, a popular meeting point. Balconies with huge, square columns run on either side. But it is the height of the ceiling, as high as a 12-story building, which takes your ____ away. The vast, blue-green ceiling is decorated with lights that depict all the stars of the zodiac with the heavens behind.

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In China, the battle to control information is largely waged online. The Communist Party blocks most foreign social media, routinely censors dissenting views and punishes those who repeatedly speak out. It employs around 2m people to police the Internet and bombard users with positive messages about the regime. Yet criticism of the party still bubbles up. Even as the authorities try to tighten controls, netizens devise new ways of airing their views more freely. Zhihu, a question-and-answer site on which people mostly ponder mundane topics such as fitness or films, has emerged as a surprising springboard for political discussion.

Internet users everywhere migrate between social-media platforms as preferences change. But in China a site’s popularity is determined as much by users’ pursuit of freedom as it is by their love of fashion. Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging site, gained a colossal following after it was launched in 2009 (Twitter itself is blocked). Many users relished the opportunity to air sensitive views and link up with like-minded people. It has since been eclipsed by the rise of WeChat, a messaging app which the authorities find less threatening, and so censor less.

Zhihu, meaning “Do you know?” in classical Chinese, started in 2011 as a copycat of Quora, an American site. It is now China’s most popular question-and-answer portal, with 100m monthly active users (compared with Weibo’s 261m and WeChat’s 800m). It has evaded some of the strictures suffered by other forums because it is neither a news site nor a means of exchanging salacious videos (a new preoccupation for regulators, who recently called for 24-hour monitoring of live-streaming sites). Zhihu targets young urban professionals, who in China tend to be more willing than others to comment on sensitive topics. In January Zhihu users expressed doubts about the reliability of a televised confession made by a bookseller from Hong Kong, Gui Minhǎi, who is being detained by Chinese police for selling gossipy books about the country’s leaders.

18. According to the passage, who are more willing to comment on sensitive topics in China?