Newspapermen in America follow a long and proud tradition of maintaining the freedom of speech 1 censorship. The 2 first newspaper in the colonies, the Public Occurrences , was published by Benjamin Harris in Boston in 1690. It was suppressed only four days later 3 daring to criticize the British army in the latter's choice of allies. In 1722, James Franklin, editor of the New-England Courant, 4 to jail for his criticism of the colonial government. His brother Benjamin, then 16, 5 the editing and the criticizing. Benjamin, of course, was the same one who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac and did the famous experiment with kites. 1. (A) in defense of (B) in return for (C) in defiance of (D) in response to 2. (A) all (B) only (C) much (D) very 3. (A) in (B) with (C) by (D) for 4. (A) was sentencing (B) was sentenced (C) would sentence (D) had sentenced 5. (A) took over (B) turned down (C) gave up (D) laid off 解析： 1. 由空格前的名詞片語 freedom of speech( 言論自由 ) 和空格後的名詞 censorship( 檢查制度 ) 來推斷，空格中應填入能夠表達「對抗、挑戰」之意的字詞。四個 選項中只有 (C) in defiance of ( 藐視 ) 符合這個邏輯。 選項 (A) in defense of 指「保衛」，邏輯相反； (B) in return for ( 回報 ) 、 (D) in response to ( 回應 ) 邏輯不通。 2. 空格後的 first 屬最高級字眼，而空格前則有定冠詞 the ，因此空格中應填入可用來修飾最高級的字。四個 選項中只有 (D) very 可用來修飾最高級之形容詞 first ，表達「實在」、「的確」等強調之意。 3. 本句主詞 It 指的是前一句中提到的 The very first newspaper in the colonies ( 在殖民地出現的第一份報紙 ) ，而本句則表達「因為」該報勇於批判英國軍隊 (daring to criticize the British army) 以致於遭到查禁 (suppressed) 。能夠用來表達「原因」的介系詞為 (D) for 。 4. 依前後文意，本句要表達的應該是：「新英格蘭新聞」的編輯 (editor of the New-England Courant ) James Franklin 因為批評殖民政府而「遭判刑」入獄，也就是，動詞應選用表「被動」的 (B) was sentenced 。 5. 前一句話提到 James Franklin 被判刑入獄，因此延續下來本句中提到的他的弟弟 Benjamin 所做的應該是「接手」其兄編輯與批判 (the editing and the criticizing) 之工作。正確答案為 (A) took over 。選項 (B) turned down 指「拒絕」、 (C) gave up 指「放棄」、 (D) laid off 指「解雇」，三者明顯皆與文意不符。 | 
