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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

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