II. Words in Context (10%)
(AB) electrocuting (AC) purported (AD) repulsed (AE) alleged(BC) enervating (BD) perennials (BE) betterment (CD) exhumed(CE) reanimating (DE) root (ABC) jettisoned (ABD) gripped       In the 19th Century, a handful of scientists were __11__ with a strange obsession – thatelectricity might be harnessed to make plants grow better. Could they have been on tosomething? There's a good chance you’re familiar with Frankenstein’s monster. But have youheard about his garden? Around the time the scientist who inspired Mary Shelley's novelFrankenstein was busy __12__ live animals and dead prisoners, several of his contemporarieswere doing the same to __13__ and __14__ vegetables. And just as these 18th Century foraysinto electrical stimulation __15__ to make the human body more robust (by delivering it frommaladies ranging from paralysis and depression to diarrhea and venereal disease), they werealso being investigated for the __16__ of plant life. Experiments on electrified gardens were__17__ to produce a range of benefits, from brighter flowers to tastier fruit. Before long, thispursuit went the way of its cousin, medical electro-quackery, and by the end of the 19thCentury, respectable science had largely __18__ both.      More than a century on, better tools and new insights are __19__ the study of electricity’seffects on biology. Uninformed early animal experiments have resolved over the past 200years into real understanding – and led to promising electrical medicine. Similarly, the oldvegetable experiments are being __20__ to see what modern fruit they may yield. Maybe thenew understanding could even improve 21st Century gardens.
【題組】11.(AB) electrocuting (AC) purported (AD) repulsed (AE) alleged (BC) enervating (BD) perennials (BE) betterment (CD) exhumed (CE) reanimating (DE) root (ABC) jettisoned (ABD) gripped