We weren’t able to visit the Rainbow Waterfalls as we planned, but… John: 27 Jack: Well, apart from that, we did everything we wanted to—hiking, fishing and swimming.
答案：(A) What a pity!
對John回應Jack剛剛提到沒能去看瀑布這件事表示惋惜，What a pity!（真可惜！）符合；Oh, how wonderful!／Oh, that was great!（太棒了，語意相反）、No big deal!（沒什麼大不了，跟惋惜語氣不符）都不合。
本題大考中心未公布逐題答對率，以下不談數據，只談觀念。
空格前面那句話用 but 加刪節號結束，看起來話沒說完，你可能不確定 John 到底在回應什麼。其實這一格前後都有線索，可以兩邊夾擊。
往前讀：Jack 說 We weren’t able to visit the Rainbow Waterfalls as we planned, but…（我們沒能照原訂計畫去看彩虹瀑布，不過……）——話說到一半被打斷，而被打斷的地方正好是一件遺憾的事。往後讀更確定：Jack 接著說 Well, apart from that, we did everything we wanted to（嗯，除了那件事之外，我們想做的都做了）。apart from that 的 that 指的就是「沒去成瀑布」，而且被特別挑出來排除掉，代表它在兩人的認知裡是一件不好的事。所以 John 在中間說的必然是表示惋惜的話，填 What a pity!（真可惜！）
Oh, how wonderful!（太棒了）、Oh, that was great!（那真好）：兩句都是稱讚，方向完全相反；而且意思相近，依「同義的選項不可能只有一個對」的道理，看到就可以一起砍掉。No big deal!（沒什麼大不了）：這是安慰或不在乎的說法，但 Jack 下一句用 apart from that 把那件事特別排除出來，代表它確實被當成一件憾事。
What a pity!（真可惜）、What a shame!（真可惜）、No big deal!（沒什麼大不了）、apart from（除了……之外）、as planned（照原訂計畫）、be able to V（能夠）。
John: What was the weather like while you were camping? Jack: 26 It rained for a few days towards the end of our holiday, but mostly it was fine. We weren't able to visit the Rainbow Waterfalls as we planned, but…
John: 27
Jack: Well, apart from that, we did everything we wanted to—hiking, fishing and swimming. We even managed to visit an aboriginal village in the forest.
John: 28 did you get so far? Jack: We rode bicycles there. We also went to the beach several times. John: Did you take your bikes with you? Jack: No, we rented some at the nearby village.
John: Where did you stay 29 ? Jack: Oh, in a lovely valley, about three miles north of the National Park.
John: I remember when we went camping last summer. We forgot to take a can-opener along! Jack: 30 Do you know what happened to us? A goat came in our tent at night and ate most of our food!