Villagers begin to 26 their belief that the children all have “one mind.”
答案：(A) express
express one's belief 是「表達某人的看法」，村民開始說出他們認為孩子們共有「一個心智」的想法；wonder 後面須接 wh- 子句不接 belief，select（挑選）與 ignore（忽視）都與下文矛盾。
四個選項都是動詞，你會先拿中文去對：村民開始「表達／想知道／挑選／忽視」他們的看法，四個好像都講得通，於是憑語感挑一個。中文都通，是因為記憶裡存的是「一個英文字配一個中文詞」，沒有留一格給「這個動詞後面能接什麼」。belief 這個名詞就卡在那一格上。
把每個選項直接和 their belief 併起來讀一次。express one's belief（表達某人的看法）是現成的說法；select their belief（挑選他們的信念）和 ignore their belief（忽視他們自己的信念）語意上自相矛盾——那是他們自己心裡浮現的想法，不會自己挑、自己忽視；wonder 更直接排除，它後面接 wh- 子句或 if 子句（I wonder if…），要接名詞得寫成 wonder about。express 拆開來看就記得住：字首 ex-（向外）加字根 press（壓），把心裡的東西壓出來就是表達；同家族的 impress 是往內壓（壓進心裡，留下印象）、compress 是壓在一起（壓縮）、pressure 是壓下來的力。一句記完：The parents expressed their belief that the commercial had gone too far, but my classmates only remembered its catchy tune.（家長表達了他們認為那支廣告太過火的看法，我同學卻只記得那段朗朗上口的旋律。）〔情境取材自 97 指考作文題：印象深刻的廣告〕
wonder（想知道）：後面接 wh- 子句或 if 子句，不接名詞，wonder their belief 這種組合英文裡不存在。select（挑選）：要先有一組東西擺在眼前才挑得起來，村民面對的是自己浮現的想法，沒有選單。ignore（忽視）：與下文「孩子們共有一個心智」的討論方向相反，村民是把想法說出來，不是壓下去。反義記一組：express（說出來）對上 keep to oneself（放在心裡不說）。
express one's belief（表達某人的看法）、express one's gratitude（表達謝意）、hold a belief（抱持某種信念）、share one's belief（與某人看法相同）、wonder if（想知道是否）、wonder about（對…感到疑惑）、keep sth to oneself（把某事放在心裡）、be known by（為…所知）。
It is a usual sunny afternoon in the village of Midwich, England. It seems not 21 any afternoon in the village, but all of a sudden, people and animals lose consciousness. 22 they awake, all of the women of child-bearing age have become pregnant.
This is an episode from a 1960 science fiction story. The women in the story 23 birth to children that have the same appearance. They all have blond hair and "strange eyes." 24 the children grow, they run around the village in a pack, wearing identical clothing and hairstyles, staring at everyone impolitely. 25 one child learns is also known by the others instantly. Villagers begin to 26 their belief that the children all have "one mind."
In this story, the children are produced by some unexplained force from outer space. But this story written 40 years ago 27 predicted the arrival of a recent method of genetic engineering—cloning. Cloning is the genetic process of producing copies of an individual. Will the genetic copies of a human really have "one mind" as 28 in this story? This situation is so strange to us that we do not know what will 29 of it. Faced with this new situation, people have 30 to find out how to deal with it.