In the north of our county there is a stone wall that runs for two miles and then simply stops. It was started in the 15th century by a king who feared a military force from the sea. (11) Some say the money ran out; others say the enemy never came. The truth is simpler: the king died, and the next one feared other things. Farmers took the stones for their own walls, (12) today you can find a piece of a castle in a pig house. (13), the wall is the most visited place in the county. The view is beautiful and the path is full of visitors, but people do not come to see what was built, (14) to stand where somebody changed his mind.
✔ 正確答案：(D) Nobody knows exactly why it was never finished.
解析空格後列出幾種說法（錢用完、敵人沒來），所以空格要先點出「沒有人確知為何未完成」。
12
Aso
Bbut
Cbecause
Dalthough
✔ 正確答案：(A) so
解析農夫搬走石頭，因此豬舍裡有城堡的石頭，用表結果的 so。
13
AAt first
BThese days
CHowever
DFor example
✔ 正確答案：(B) These days
解析這句轉到現在的情況，用 These days。
14
Aand
Bor
Cbut
Dsince
✔ 正確答案：(C) but
解析not ... but ... 固定對比句型，用 but。
Passage 2
Why Old Stories Change
Every country tells stories about its own beginning, and every one of those stories has been changed. (15) A story is repeated because it is useful now, not because it is correct. A king who lost a war may become a king who chose peace. A war that began over land may be remembered as a war about a word. None of this is a lie, (16) each teller believed what he said. (17), history is not a box of facts but a conversation that never ends. The useful question is not only what happened, (18) who is telling me, and what do they need me to feel?