時間： 2014/10/15
地點： 美國 南加州
考場狀況： Prometric 電腦考場
Issue 題號： 116
"To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest
ethical and moral standards."
Argument 題號： 122
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1. 乙醇汽油
出現在在吳中東 1993 年的題目、高志威 37 or 40 套高頻機經的第一篇
2. Volcanic hotspots, Morgan's hypothesis that hotspots are fixed
source - https://community.dur.ac.uk/g.r.foulger/Offprints/Astron-Geo.pdf
An important contribution to this debate came hot on the heels of the newly
accepted plate tectonic theory. Morgan (1971) suggested that “hotspots”,
i.e. areas of exceptionally intense volcanism such as Hawaii, Yellowstone and
Iceland, are fuelled by plumes of buoyant, hot material that arise in the
deep mantle and punch through the mobile, convecting, shallow mantle to reach
the surface (figure 1). This theory was developed in order to explain the
time-progressive volcanic trails associated with some hotspots, and their
apparent fixity relative to one another. If the sources of the volcanism are
rooted in a relatively immobile deep mantle, they will not move relative to
one another and the plates at the surface will drift passively above them,
bearing away trails of volcanism.
火山、熱點
3. Collision theory and implication of this model could explain the origin of
moon.
星球碰撞理論
- 兩顆差不多的星球互撞可能會融合在一起或者是產生出新的星球
- 月球可能從地球產生的
- 因為 1.月球密度跟地球的 mantle (外層) 類似
- 有科學家懷疑是因為地球轉太快才把月球甩出去
- 但是證據不夠
- 所以星球碰撞的機會比較高
- 而且因為撞了之後 從地球跑出去的物質都是蒸氣 很容易蒸發，
所以月球找不到特定的物質
- 碰撞理論也有可能發生在水星跟金星
- see Giant Impactor Hypothesis on wiki
- more background information on this NASA for child site
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question38.html
4. 美國建國初期對女性的教育
- American education for women in the early days
- conventional idea is that society forbade women from being well-spoken
- 但是其實 1780 - 1800, standard education values public speaking among women
- this education is effective,
even leading to political activism among young women
- 好景不長 the attitudes change in 1815
5. Namier's contribution to political history
- his method was innovative and very meticulous
- focus on historical accuracy and direct evidence
- followed the habit of classic and medieval history scholars
TC/SE 填空
This report is admittedly _______: it is intended to suggest new lines of
research, rather than deal with the subject in a ______ manner.
Blank 1 flippant sketchy exculpatory
blank 2 thorough cavalier
Answer - 應該是 sketchy and cavalier
數學沒什麼印象