But I couldn’t 32 his face at all.
答案：(C) recognize
語意「我完全認不出他的臉」，recognize（認出）符合；analyze（分析）、emphasize（強調）、memorize（記住，時態方向不合，這裡講的是當下認不出而非記憶）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。
四個選項都是 -ize 結尾的動詞，長得非常像，中文又都跟腦袋在運作有關（分析、強調、認出、記住），眼睛掃過去很容易挑錯。其中 memorize 與 recognize 都跟記憶有關，最容易互相干擾。
四個選項是四個不同的動詞，文法上都放得進去，可見這一格考的是語意，那就往後找。空格所在的句子是 But I couldn’t ___ his face at all.（但我完全……不出他的臉。）下一句是 I didn’t know a soul in the city.（我在這座城市裡一個人也不認識。）——連一個人都不認識，當然認不出對方的臉。下一句等於把答案直接講了出來，填 recognize（認出）。順便把 recognize 與 memorize 分清楚：memorize 是刻意去背、把東西存進腦袋（memorize a poem 背一首詩），是輸入；recognize 是東西出現在眼前時認得出來（Do you recognize this song? 你聽得出這首歌嗎？），是比對。本句講的是看到臉卻對不上人，屬於後者。
memorize（背下、記住）：講的是把資訊存進腦中的動作，而本句是臉就在眼前卻認不出來。analyze（分析）：把事情拆開來看，與認人無關。emphasize（強調）：把某一點特別提出來，與認人無關。
recognize sb／sth（認出）、memorize sth（背下、記住）、not know a soul（一個人也不認識）、have jetlag（有時差）、arrive by plane（搭飛機抵達）、at all（完全，用於否定句）。
It was my first day in this beautiful tropical city. 31 I was walking to the beach, a stranger came up to me and tried to shake my hand. "Don't you remember me, my friend?" he said. But I couldn't 32 his face at all. I didn't know a soul in the city. I had just arrived by plane and still had jetlag. "I 33 you at the airport. I work there at the customs. How are you enjoying our beautiful city?" I couldn't remember him but I was too 34 to tell him. He was so friendly.
35 he offered to take me to his uncle's seafood restaurant, just by the beach. I thanked him 36 but he insisted that we should go there for dinner. "You'll love the seafood there," he 37 me. "And it will be a dinner to remember."
So we went to the restaurant and sat by a window 38 the bay. The dinner was great indeed, but the coffee they served was quite different. In fact, it tasted very strange...
Anyway, it was not 39 10 o'clock the next morning that I finally woke up. But I had no idea where I was. All my money was 40 and my "friend" had even taken my watch and my shoes!