這次的國考英文克漏字考題很長喔，剛開始看真是抗拒作答，不過呢克漏字考題當中，至少會有一題是考文法或者片語，其它多是根據前後文的句意來判斷答案是甚麼的考題！所以不要看到通通都是英文就放棄克漏字喔！
Lacking teeth, whales gather food by gulping the seawater that
contains it. Then they use their tongues to force the liquid out through
a sieve of fibrous plates – the baleen – hanging from the roof of the
mouth. Since the __1__ is often described as straining seawater,
many people have the impression that the great whales swim around
through the oceans with their mouths open, filtering plankton. In
reality these mammals travel tremendous distances between sites
where the right conditions __2__ food – small fish and krill, in the case
of humpbacks.
Suppose one locates a milling ball of herring. The whale may
lunge at the prey near the surface, plow down into their midst, or dive
deeper and circle below the fish, blowing a ring of fizzing bubbles to
act as a net, then rise up through the center. Sometimes the animal
blows different size bubbles depending upon the size of its prey. The
lower jaw swings out from the upper jaw to open at a 90–degree
angle, or even wider; one to three dozen grooves on the throat
expand; and what has been a sleek whale becomes a living vat __3__
as many as 15,000 gallons of water churning with fish.
Where the dining is especially rich, humpbacks do all this in
coordinated groups of as many as two dozen. As they __4__ to scoop
up the food, they are likely to be screaming – filling the water with
prolonged, piercing shrieks that seem designed to further disorient
the panicky, trapped targets.
( ) 1. (A) mouth (B) tongue (C) process (D) condition
( ) 2. (A) swallow (B) preserve (C) decompose (D) concentrate
( ) 3. (A) swollen by (B) fatigued by (C) surrounded by (D) sprinkled by
( ) 4. (A) dismiss (B) converge (C) converse (D) designate
更多內容請參考 國考專門店 英銘國考英文周刊-No.32-克漏字篇
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