Words Comprehension Direction : Select one word for each blank from a list of choices following the passage. Each choice in the blank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center. On your body, your Achilles’ heel is the tendon (腱) on the back of your ankle. In spoken English, your Achilles’ heel is your weak 1 . You can say either “Achilles’ heel” 2 “Achilles’(s) heel”. Both are correct. The Greek story of Achilles’ heel is the one Homer tells in the long poem called “The Iliad”. Here is how the story goes. When Achilles was a baby his mother 3 him in the river Styx. She believed the river had 4 powers. Bathing her son in its waters, she thought, would make Achilles 5 , deathless, like a god. But one part of his body did not get wet: his heel, where his mother held him. His heel, 6 , was the one spot where Achilles could be hurt. Achilles grew up. He became a great warrior. During the Trojan War, he fought with the Greek army. 7 of the Trojan weapons was able to hurt Achilles. The god Apollo, 8 , knew of Achilles’ weak spot. Apollo told the prince of Troy, named Paris, all about it. While not actually written in “The Iliad”, legend says Paris 9 an arrow at Achilles’ heel and killed him. We all have an Achilles’ heel. Even the 10 among us has a weak spot. This weakness may change as we get older. For many young people their ego, or over-confidence, could be their Achilles’ heel. For others perhaps greed is their Achilles’ heel. ( 240 words ) ( Time : ) A) spot F) invoke K) bathed B) as result of G) magical L) magician C) immortal H) lively M) therefore D) shot I) toughest N) drown E) or J) none O) however