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【歷史與考古人類學】情境範文：聘金(dowry)的習俗

    1Ever since the suffrage movement of the early 20th century, women around the world have striven to gain equal footing with men. 2By and large, they have succeeded in many areas, challenging the traditional role of a woman as a homemaker, and seeing their salaries rise to be almost on par with those of their male counterparts. 3But practices that some see as being archaic relics, such as paying a bride price, still exist. 4According to this custom, the groom must give a certain amount of money or property to the parents of the bride in order to be granted permission to marry her. 5Though this practice has its supporters, some women’s rights groups contend that it reduces women to the level of mere property to be bought and sold. (130)

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【科學新知】情境範文：動物的行為

    1Insects may be small, but they have brains just like you and I. 2__1__ 3Studies have shown that they have the ability to form a mental map, which allows them to remember where the best sources of food are located. 4Back in 1983, researcher James Gould undertook an experiment in which he placed a source of sugar water near a beehive, and then moved it 25 percent farther away from the hive each day, before ultimately placing it in a boat in the middle of a small lake. 5Each day, scout bees found the source, and reported back to the hive to lead other bees to the new location. 6__2__ 7This suggests that bees have the ability to figure out that it should be impossible to find their source of food in such an unusual place.

(A) Take honeybees, for example.

給讀者的話

    具備基本寫作觀念，還需要真正下筆去練習，才能達到效果。這本《大考英文作文搶分秘笈》提供正在尋找英文寫作素材的考生各種練習的機會，或是提供老師教學的材料。

        本書根據歷年的作文題型及大考英文寫作的趨勢，提供了23篇寫作題目，其中涵括考試常出現的記敘文、描寫文、書信文、及照片寫作等文體，給予考生寫作練習的機會及準備考試的方向。此外，針對看到題目卻不知如何起筆的學生，本書也提供了寫作技巧的指引，如5W+1H的腦力激盪思辨、文章脈絡的框架以及文章一貫性與連續性的導引等，讓學生可以在最短的時間內，鋪陳寫作思路，進而下筆寫作。

請大家支持這本新書喔。

很適合大專院校或職場的寫作需求，先來看看陳超明教授寫的序吧。

《一生必學的英文寫作》 前言：培養英文寫作力

上次猜了指考和學測的作文題目，命中率非常高。

當然，如果可以百發百中，我就可以去擺攤算命了。

這次針對100年指考英文作文題目我猜了三個題目，有興趣的同學可以寫寫看。

如果要批改的話，就有勞各位同學的英文老師囉。

這篇文章是之前本來要刊登在聯合報上的專欄，不過之後又先暫停這個計畫了。

快到指考了，寫作總是一個很難的部份，尤其動詞是大家最容易犯的錯誤。

參考看看囉。

這麼久沒PO文，實在是因為太忙了(這句話好像是老梗了)

我很高興終於完成了第四本書的初稿(姨?那第三本書呢?第三本書要和第四本書一起賣啦!)

本來想說寫完要大肆慶祝一番的，結果只有我一個人默默地在最後一個字化下句點，然後甚麼事也沒發生。就這樣寫完了。...

因為不想延宕太久心裡會一直掛念，所以我採用了所謂的"暴力式寫書"法;也就是一下課回到辦公室就寫書，回家的路上就想著要如何鋪陳書籍的內容，放假時也是一個人帶著電腦到我們家社區的K書中心寫書。毫無休息可言。

一份試題要出到大家都滿意，的確很困難。不過既然是學測-一項決定學生未來走向的重要考試，就不可不慎重了。

我們班學生有一位TOEFL iBT考107(滿分120)的同學，選擇題就只錯一題，而這一題也被一些老師反應是有疑義的，

如果你也對試題有問題，不妨看一下大考中心的回覆。

問題是:大考中心就算不認錯，它有上級單位可管轄嗎?