國立屏東師範學院進修暨推廣部九十四學年度碩士學位班入學考試
英文 試題
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I. Vocabulary and structures (20%) : 請依據每個句子的陳述，選擇一個最適當的用法或意義。
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Until he was eighteen he had never done any introspective thinking.
(A) imaginary
(B) unlimited
(C) looking within
(D) looking outside
David will probably ______________, but Marsha must leave early.
(A) be late to stay (B) stay late
(C) being late
(D) staying late
His generosity in donating money to worthy causes quickly earned him a reputation as a(n)
____________.
(A) beneficiary
(B) anthropologist
(C) philanthropist
(D) archaeologist
___________ dog was the first animal to be domesticated is generally agreed
upon by authorities in the field.
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(A) Until the
(B) It was the
(C) The
A malevolent expression would indicate _______________.
(A) good will
(B) illness
(C) evil intent
(D) That the
(D) sensuous desires
A: What does the advertisement say?
B: It says that __________ likes good food and entertainment would like the Grand Hotel.
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(A) whom
(B) someone
(C) who
(D) whoever
According to some analysts, the recent interest rises have __________ new problems for the
government.
(A) startled
(B) stressed
(C) snorted
(D) sparked
In order to repair barns, build fences, grow crops, and care for animals,
a farmer must indeed be ___________.
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(A) versatile
(B) elusive
(C) lucrative
(D) divergent
___________ within the algae began very early is evident.
(A) Evolution that was
(B) Evolution
(C) There was evolution
(D) That evolution
The uniformed soldier looked ___________ among the group of civilians.
(A) prospective
(B) conspicuous
(C) authentic
(D) flammable
Cloze test (20%): 請為下列各個空格選擇一個最適當的字或詞。
Television is the fastest-growing mass medium. It reaches virtually all target
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, since
few homes are without a television set.
Homemakers can be reached during the day, children are in the
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on Saturday
mornings, and adults are tuned
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most evenings.
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, by choosing an appropriate time,
program, and station an advertiser can reach the target viewers fairly accurately. Television also
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provides marketers with geographic flexibility,
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they can choose between national or local
advertising. Most important,
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, is the distinct advantage that television can
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a
message to both the eyes and the ears. The impact is enormous.
The obvious disadvantage of television is its cost. A 30-second
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during the 1978
World Series was priced at $75,000,
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“Roots: The Next Generation” (shown in the winter
of 1979) drew $260,000 for one minute of advertising. Another disadvantage is that a television
message is not permanent: it is lost forever if the market’s members are not viewing precisely when
the message is aired.
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, television does not lend itself well to such messages as those needed
for specialized products like heavy equipment.
11. (A) fees
12. (A) suppliers
13. (A) in
14. (A) However
(B) consumers
(B) applicants
(B) on
(B) Thus
(C) rectors
(C) communicators
(C) at
(C) In general
(D) applicants
(D) audience
(D) out
(D) On the other hand
15. (A) which
16. (A) really
17. (A) convey
18. (A) business
(B) if
(B) however
(B) make
(B) commerce
(C) for
(C) therefore
(C) place
(C) essential
(D) though
(D) by no means
(D) apply
(D) commercial
19. (A) while
20. (A) In summary
(B) as
(B) In addition
(C) since
(C) For example
(D) although
(D) In short
II.
Reading comprehension (30%): 請詳閱下列各篇文章，再回答文章下面的問題。
Passage A
Which factor played the most important role in the evolution of human intelligence? Was it the
pressure of the Ice-Age climate? Or tools? Or language? No one can tell; all worked together,
through Darwin's law of natural selection, to produce the dramatic increase in the size of the brain
that has been recorded in the fossil record in the last million years. The brain reached its present size
about one hundred thousand years before that Now brain and body were complete. Together they
made a new and marvelous creature, charged with power, intelligence, and creative energy. His wits
had been honed by the fight against hunger, cold, and the natural enemy; his form had been molded
in the crucible of adversity. In the annals of anthropology his arrival is celebrated by a change in
name, from Homo erectus, the Man who stands erect, to Homo sapiens, the man of wisdom.
21. According to the passage, what played the most important role in the evolution of human
intelligence?
(A) Pressure of the Ice-Age climate.
(B) Tools and language.
(C) All of the above.
(D) None of the above.
22. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
(A) The human brain evolved much earlier than the human body.
(B) The human body reached its maturity much earlier than the human brain.
(C) The human body and the human brain reached their present form and size at the same time.
(D) The human brain is still growing while the human body has stopped.
23. Which of the following is closest to "honed" in meaning as appearing in the sentence "His wits
had been honed by the fight against..." in Line 7?
(A) crippled
(B) widened
(C) sharpened
24. The "new and marvelous creature" in Line 6 is
(A) the man who stands erect.
(B) a wild animal.
(C) our ancestor.
(D) the man of wisdom.
25. We can infer that the writer of this passage
(A) believed in Darwin's law of selection.
(B) challenged Darwin's law of selection.
(C) corrected Darwin's law of selection.
(D) weakened
(D) defended Darwin's law of selection.
Passage B
Archaeology has long been an accepted tool for studying prehistoric culture. Relatively recently
the same techniques have been systematically applied to studies of the more immediate past. This has
been called “historical archaeology,” a term that is used in the United States to refer to any
archaeological investigation into North American sites that postdate the arrival of Europeans.
Back in the 1930s and 1940s, when building restoration was popular, historical archaeology was
primarily a tool of architectural reconstruction. The role of archaeologists was to find the foundations
of historic building and then take a back seat to architects.
The mania for reconstruction had largely subsided by the 1950s and 1960s. Most people
entering historical archaeology during this period came out of university anthropology departments,
where they had studied prehistoric cultures. They were, by training, social scientists, not historians,
and their work tended to reflect this bias. The questions they framed and the techniques they used
were designed to help them understand, as scientists, how people behaved. But because they were
treading on historical ground for which there was often extensive written documentation, and
because their own knowledge of these periods was usually limited, their contributions to American
history remained circumscribed. Their reports, highly technical and sometimes poorly written, went
unread.
More recently, professional archaeologists have taken over. These researchers have sought to
demonstrate that their work can be a valuable tool not only of science but also of history, providing
fresh insights into the daily lives of ordinary people whose existences might not otherwise be so well
documented. This newer emphasis on archaeology as social history has shown great promise, and
indeed work done in this area has led to a reinterpretation of the United States past.
In Kingston, New York for example, evidence has been uncovered that indicates that English
goods were being smuggled into that city at a time when the Dutch supposedly controlled trading in
the area. And in Sacramento an excavation at the site of a fashionable nineteenth-century hotel
revealed that garbage had been stashed in the building’s basement despite sanitation laws to the
contrary.
26. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Why historical archaeology was first developed.
(B) How the methods and purpose of historical archaeology have changed.
(C) Te contribution architects make to historical archaeology.
(D) The attitude of professional archaeologist toward historical archaeology.
27. According to the first paragraph, what is a relatively new focus in archaeology?
(A) Investigating the recent past.
(B) Studying prehistoric cultures.
(C) Excavating ancient sites in what is now the United States.
(D) Comparing findings made to North America and in Europe.
28. According to the passage, when had historical archaeologists been trained as anthropologists?
(A) Prior to the 1930s.
(B) During the 1930s and 1940s.
(C) During the 1950s and 1960s.
(D) After the 1960s.
29. In the third paragraph, the author implies that the techniques of history and the techniques of
social science are
(A) quite different from each other.
(B) equally useful in studying prehistoric cultures.
(C) usually taught to students of archaeology.
(D) both based on similar principles.
30. The author mentions an excavation at the site of a hotel in Sacramento in order to give an
example of
(A) a building reconstruction project.
(B) the work of the earliest historical archaeologists.
(C) a finding that conflicts with written records.
(D) the kind of information that historians routinely examine.
Passage C
The popularity of organic foods can be traced to many people’s nostalgia for a simpler, more
pioneer-like life style. And many people believe that organic foods are safer than foods produced on
a large scale by traditional methods. Many people also believe that these organic foods contain more
and better nutrients than conventional food.
In fact, plants absorb all their food directly from the soil in inorganic form, no matter where the
nutrients may originally have come from. Experiments in Michigan and in England that went on for
twenty-five years were unable to find any difference in plants raised organically and plants raised
with chemical fertilizers. Things that do affect nutrient content are climate, time of harvest, and
genetics—but no difference results when plants are grown organically.
Neither are organically grown plants free from chemicals such as pesticides. Some pesticides
leave traces in the soil for years; these traces may be absorbed by the plant that is “organically”
grown. Rainfall may wash pesticides from neighboring farms onto “organic” fields, and sprays or
other applications of chemicals may drift and cause the same problem.
Furthermore, all foods—whether grown conventionally or organically—may contain toxic
substances to some degree; the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains constant checks to
ensure that these substances are kept at a harmless level, but aflatoxin, a mold that causes cancer,
may grow on corn or peanuts or be present in milk. Lead and arsenic are sometimes present in
bone-meal or seafood. And many vegetables contain poisonous compounds such as oxalic acid and
nitrite compounds. The point is that these may be present in a given food, no matter how the food
was grown and cultivated. Toxic substances in food do not necessarily have to come from fertilizers
or chemical sprays.
31. This passage is mainly about
(A) the rise in demand for organic food in the last decade.
(B) how organic plants are grown.
(C) the toxic substances that are contained in both organically and inorganically grown food.
(D) the numerous fallacies that exist about organically grown foods.
32. The popularity of organic foods can be traced to all of the following except
(A) people’s longing for a simpler life style.
(B) people’s fear of vascular disease.
(C) people’s belief that organic foods are safer.
(D) people’s belief that plants grown traditionally are not as nutritious.
33. Which of the following can be concluded from the passage?
(A) There is some risk of toxic substances in all types of food grown in the earth.
(B) Organic foods are more expensive because of the expense of growing them.
(C) Organic foods are more nutritious, though more expensive.
(D) The FDA strongly recommends organically grown foods.
34. The passage suggests that
(A) in the long run, inorganic foods are more dangerous than organic ones.
(B) the organic food industry is preying on the public’s misconceptions about it’s product.
(C) organic foods are safe because they are controlled by the FDA.
(D) higher food prices are a result of organic foods.
35. Organic food is used interchangeably with which term?
(A) Traditional food.
(B) Popular food.
(C) Ethnic food.
(D) Natural food.
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Translation (10%): 請將下列中文翻譯成英文。
『昨天我倒楣透了。首先，忘了定鬧鐘，結果睡過了頭。比平常晚了半個小時起床，趕緊
洗個澡，穿好衣服，匆匆開往學校。在路上，居然爆胎，等了近一個鐘頭，車子才修好。
到了學校，衝進教室，結果摔了一跤。起身時，才發現我穿的是一雙拖鞋。此時，我的學
生早已哄堂大笑。』
V. English composition (20%):
我們對人類的美有不同的詮釋，有人重內在，有人重外貌，有人二者皆看重。請用至少
120 個英文單字，寫出你心中最美的一個人。