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103 學年度
第二學期
答案卡若有基本資料劃記不清、錯誤，導致電腦無法判讀身分者，扣總分 3 分。
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Part 4. Short Talk Questions: 3%
Listen to the following paragraph and answer the questions.
I. Listening Practice: 10%
Part 1. Picture Questions: 2%
Look at each picture and answer the question.
1.
2.
Part 2. Best Response Questions: 3%
Listen to the question or statement and choose the best response.
3. (A) No way! The story can’t be real.
(B) I agree. It is rather plain and boring.
(C) Good. Children love books with pictures.
(D) True. Some bookstores even refuse to sell it.
4. (A) True. She will be too busy to turn it on.
(B) Yes. She will have it with her at all times.
(C) I know. She always remembers her password.
(D) Right. She won’t be able to check her e-mails.
5. (A) That’s great. We really need much safer roads.
(B) True. Women should get paid the same as men.
(C) No. I don’t think free education is a better choice.
(D) He needs to try harder. The crime rate is still high.
Part 3. Conversation Questions: 2%
Listen to each conversation and answer the question.
6. (A) It’s hosted by a secretary.
(B) It’s to honor some secretaries.
(C) It’s to welcome new secretaries.
(D) It’s to say goodbye to a secretary.
7. (A) Ones that star famous actors.
(B) Ones that have a lot of action.
(C) Ones that are based on real events.
(D) Ones that not many people know about.
8. (A) Tigers are faster.
(B) Tigers are larger.
(C) Lions are smarter.
(D) Lions are better hunters.
9. (A) You go blind.
(B) You cannot move.
(C) You can’t breathe.
(D) You forget everything.
10. (A) It has cute babies.
(B) It looks really happy.
(C) It has a crown on its head.
(D) It can copy what humans say.
II. Vocabulary: 10%
11. Eager to help his country improve its relationship with other countries, Bruno is determined to be a ____.
(A) refugee
(B) diplomat
(C) civilian
(D) gangster
12. John is a man with leadership qualities. He is very ____, has a vision and can give hope and inspiration
to people.
(A) nearsighted
(B) persuasive
(C) insulting
(D) surgical
13. On a tight budget, the poor man ____ with the clerk to get the lowest price.
(A) bargained
(B) giggled
(C) resigned
(D) summarized
14. Jacky lost all his savings in the stock market and went ____. Now, he has no choice but to turn to loan
sharks for money.
(A) accidental
(B) bankrupt
(C) brutal
(D) awkward
15. Houses built with ____ and steel bars are safer and more secure to live in than those wooden structures.
(A) appliance
(B) basin
(C) cement
(D) manual
16. In order to ____ the blow of her husband’s sudden death, people broke the news to her as gently as
possible.
(A) cushion
(B) apologize
(C) conquer
(D) blink
17. The artificial flowers are made ____ by adding chemicals which, though smelling good, may do harm to
our health.
(A) fragrant
(B) fluent
(C) habitual
(D) fierce
18. Having explained the complex historical event for twenty minutes, the professor paused for a while,
waiting for his students to ____ the information.
(A) flush
(B) digest
(C) flatter
(D) hasten
19. Dropping out of college, with merely a high school ____, Joseph still succeeded in building his own
enterprise at the age of 37.
(A) dynasty
(B) diligence
(C) deadline
(D) diploma
20. People ____ with dengue fever experience the symptoms of high fever, severe headache and pain in
muscles and joints.
(A) infected
(B) recited
(C) pirated
(D) depressed
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III. Cloze: 28%
A) Christian Bale is best known for his performance in the Batman movies. It is also well-known that, for
the role he plays, he’s willing to undergo physical transformations, such as
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or going on a crash diet.
Yet, he was once so
22
by the attention from the media that he considered giving up acting. That may
explain why he remains an intensely private person.
21. (A) bulking up
(B) singling out
(C) storming into
(D) keeping at bay
22. (A) forged
(B) blanketed
(C) overwhelmed
(D) accomplished
B) People often find themselves waiting in the slowest line in a grocery store. In order to
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grocery
store lines, queuing theorists came up with a solution. They suggested that there be only one long line left.
However, most grocery stores do not have enough space for such a line. Thus, when you find yourself in the
fastest line, 24
yourself 24
lucky. You get a scarce chance!
23. (A) moan
(B) bloom
(C) alternate
(D) accelerate
24. (A) keep, at
(B) count, as
(C) rid, of
(D) deserve, of
C) Recognizing the problems his country faces due to yearly flooding, the 22-year-old Bangladeshi,
Mohammed Rezwan, decided to do something about it. He
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together some funds and founded
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a nonprofit organization that aims to bring education and technology to rural
areas. By means of a
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of floating schools, libraries and health clinics, the organization wishes to
widely offer those poverty-stricken people in the flood-invading areas with the services. In so doing, these
needy people can have chances to better their lives.
25. (A) defeated
(B) scraped
(C) tackled
(D) evolved
26. (A) slogan
(B) craze
(C) fleet
(D) grant
D) The military uniforms we are familiar with today did not look the same 100 years ago. In fact, before
WWI, many countries, including France, used bright colors for their military uniforms to
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their
enemies and scare them away. However, in the heat of battle, soldiers in such bright colors fell easy prey and
became targets of bombs and bullets. After a crushing defeat by the Germans during WWI, France decided
to create a type of
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attire for their army, which could help conceal the location of troops. Ideas of the
Picasso’s paintings and a special art form from the Renaissance period were borrowed to create a one-of-akind style called “camouflage,” and the rest is history.
27. (A) generate
(B) differentiate
(C) disguise
(D) intimidate
28. (A) stealth
(B) lean
(C) recycled
(D) urban
E) O. Henry’s story, “The Cop and the Anthem,” is a typical example of his works that have a twist
ending. The main character, Soapy, is a vagrant in desperate need of a warm place to stay for the winter.
Considering the local jail a perfect shelter, he has caused
29 , stolen an umbrella, and sexually harassed
a young woman, hoping that he would be put in jail soon. Ironically, he is arrested by a police officer right
after deciding to turn over a new leaf. Like Soapy, O. Henry himself suffered ups and downs throughout his
life before he sadly 30
alcoholism in 1910 at the age of 47. Perhaps it is these peaks and troughs
appearing by turns in his life that enable O. Henry to create inspiring stories that have radiated warmth and
humanity till now.
29. (A) vandalism
(B) trademark
(C) recreation
(D) metaphor
30. (A) held up
(B) poked fun at
(C) succumbed to
(D) faced charges of
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F) The introduction of the Digital Revolution is thought to bring us into a greener and more
environmentally friendly era. However, the reality that
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was much less than perfect. Ideally, carbon
emissions could be minimized since we go paperless, thus lessening the impact on the environment, yet
some studies suggested otherwise. Digital Power Group
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a new study, claiming that iPhones
consume more energy than refrigerators! These so-called green innovations end up consuming more energy
and causing more harm to the earth rather than less.
31. (A) expanded
(B) eliminated
(C) emerged
(D) estimated
32. (A) won out
(B) put out
(C) came down to
(D) credited it with
G) Recently, a new form of bullying called “cyberbullying” has become a serious issue. Unlike other
forms of 33
bullies that happen in schools or working places, cyberbullying, referring to the use of
information technology to harm or harass others in a deliberate manner, takes place on the Internet. The
victims of cyberbullying come
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great pressure from the false accusations against them or the abusive
languages posted online. In certain extreme cases, some victims suffer the agony so much that they
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picking up their lives again and some even commit suicide.
Serious as it may sound, many people, especially teenagers, do not realize that they are the real
inflictors of cyberbullying. They know that Internet has
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people
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a platform to express their
opinions, so they take advantage of it, wrongly exercise their freedom of speech, and think that they are free
from any responsibility for saying things untrue and offensive. Such is also the case with our school where
students made harsh comments and unconstructive complaints on the anonymous Internet forum, “Kao-BeiChu-Chung.” Students do not even think about
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before they make malicious comments to insult
their teachers and ridicule their schoolmates. The situation certainly won’t get any better 38
we all
take this issue seriously and deal with it right away. We all have to bear in mind that such unhealthy and
irresponsible ways of expressing one’s opinions as cyberbullying should never be encouraged.
33. (A) common-seeing (B) commonly seen
(C) common-seen
(D) commonly seeing
34. (A) in
(B) with
(C) behind
(D) under
35. (A) fail to
(B) are unable to
(C) have a hard time
(D) cannot help but
36. (A) offered…to
(B) supplied… by
(C) regarded…as
(D) provided …with
37. (A) what to say
(B) how they should say (C) how to say
(D) what should they say
38. (A) unless
(B) whenever
(C) while
(D) since
H) Standing by the river Yamuna, the Taj Mahal is one of the most glorious wonders of the world. Behind
this grand mausoleum
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a touching story. To Shah Jahan, an ancient Indian emperor, building such a
significant tomb was
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he displayed his deep love for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Shah Jahan
was grief-stricken after Mumtaz Mahal passed away 41
their 14th child. After her death, he had twenty
thousand craftsmen construct a luxurious tomb by the river Yamuna to memorialize her.
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every
detail, the emperor insisted on designing the tomb himself and ordered that valuable treasures be
brought in from every part of the world. The main mausoleum of the Taj Mahal took more than 15 years to
complete. 43
that Shah Jahan intended to have a "Black Taj" constructed as his own mausoleum.
Conflicts within the empire, however, stopped the construction of the Black Taj. Perhaps it is better that way.
With the Black Taj never completed, Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan were both buried beneath the dome of
the Taj Mahal, lying side by side forever.
39. (A) as
(B) is
(C) with
(D) has
40. (A) how
(B) why
(C) when
(D) what
41. (A) when delivered
(B) while delivering
(C) to be delivered
(D) with delivering
42. (A) In memory of
(B) Usurped by
(C) Particular about
(D) In praise of
43. (A) It has legend
(B) As a legend
(C) How legend tells
(D) Legend has it
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第二學期
I)
On May 8, 2015, hundreds of people quietly flocked into the cemetery in Jin-Shan, New Taipei City
because it was the 20th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s unexpected death. Born in 1953 to migrant parents from
mainland China, Teng demonstrated her extraordinary talent for singing in elementary school. In her lifetime,
this Taiwanese pop music star released over 1,700 songs,
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from Chinese folk songs to Japanese
songs, and won numerous prizes.
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gaining praise from many singers as their music mentor, Teresa
Teng was famed for great love of her country and firm support for democracy. Her music has melted
thousands of hardened hearts while also building strength and courage in thousands more. Her voice is as
soothing as water: The more you listen to her music,
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you are to feel relaxed and comforted as if
bathed in cool water. Thus,
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comes as no surprise that she was not only regarded as “the military
sweetheart” but was considered the most beloved and influential cultural icon in Asia.
Twenty years have passed since her departure, and Teng's voice has been blended into the
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of
our life. She and her voice will remain ever-present in society's collective consciousness where she seems
immortal.
44. (A) combining
(B) motivating
(C) weaving
(D) ranging
45. (A) In return for
(B) There is no doubt that (C) In addition to
(D) Going a long way toward
46. (A) more likely
(B) more possible
(C) the more likely
(D) the more possible
47. (A) it
(B) she
(C) what
(D) which
48. (A) fabric
(B) stack
(C) density
(D) profit
IV. Passage Completion: 8%
I arrived at the town Digne when the sun just set. Having walked for an entire day, I could no longer
bear the hunger and the
49 . I desperately needed a place to rest in. As I was seeking
50 , I went to
an inn. Unfortunately, the innkeeper refused to offer me a room when he found out my identity – a(n) 51 .
As a consequence, I was left to shiver at the cold night. Later, I was fortunate enough to find shelter in the
bishop’s house. Unlike other villagers, he welcomed me with open arms. Oddly, I was so
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by the
bishop’s kindness that I couldn’t fall asleep that night. I even stole his only
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belonging—the
silverware. To my great surprise, when I was brought back to him by the police, he said he had given it to me
as gifts. Stunned by the bishop’s words, I wandered blankly around. As I
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over my miserable life, a
boy passing by dropped a coin accidentally. I, out of habit, stepped on it, yelled at the boy, and took the franc
away. After the boy ran away, the bishop’s words
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through my mind. I felt ashamed that I couldn’t
stop weeping. Suddenly, my anger and
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somehow vanished. I became a changed man who never
committed any crime again.
(A) cast
(F) flashed
(B) brooded
(G) ex-convict
(C) fatigue
(H) disturbed
(D) release
(I) treasured
(E) bitterness
(J) accommodation
V. Les Miserables: 15%
A) Matching (Who Says That? ): 5%
57. “I have bought your soul for God. Promise me you will use the money from this silver to become an
honest man.”
58. “Monsieur Mayor, I remind you that I must be dismissed. It was wrong for me to report you to the chief
of police in Paris.”
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59. “Things got worse when I lost my job. I had to get money any way I could. I sold my beautiful hair and I
even sold my two front teeth.”
60. “It isn’t smart to take a man’s servant. You were the strong one that day. Today is my turn. I hold the
cards now. And you’re done for, my beauty.”
61. “On your left elbow, Cochepaille, there is a tattoo in blue lettering. It reads ‘1 March 1815’—the date of
Napoleon’s landing at Cannes. Pull up your sleeve. Show us.”
A. Javert
E. Marius
B. Fantine
F. Cosette
C. Thenardier
G. Fauchelevent
D. Jean Valjean
H. the bishop of Digne
B) Multiple-Choice Questions: 10%
62. Which of the following things about Jean Valjean can NOT be inferred from Les Misérables?
(A) He is a good climber.
(B) He is a man of great strength.
(C) He is a good swimmer.
(D) He is a man of great patience.
63. Which of the following people NEVER once gets help from Jean Valjean?
(A) Javert.
(B) Fauchelevent.
(C) Champmathieu.
(D) The bishop of Digne.
64. Which of the following statements is true about Fantine?
(A) She is a single mother with her husband dead.
(B) She has to leave her only daughter to strangers’ care.
(C) She falls in love with Monsieur Madeleine and they get married.
(D) She is poor and sick but satisfied to see her daughter before death.
65. After Jean Valjean is sent back to prison again, how does he manage to escape?
(A) He pays the jailors there a lot of money.
(B) He climbs up a tall wall and hides himself in a convent.
(C) He rescues a crew member on a warship and pretends to be drowned.
(D) He asks for help of his old inmates in Toulon—Brevet, Chenildieu and Cochepaille.
66. When getting Cosette from Thenardier, which of the following things DOESN’T Jean Valjean do?
(A) Buying Thenardier’s inn sign.
(B) Showing Thenardier a letter from Fantine.
(C) Giving Thenardier lots of money.
(D) Threatening Thenardier with a walking stick.
67. What drives Javert to his own death?
(A) A conflict of his lifelong belief in laws against his conscience.
(B) A sudden realization that no human beings should be put in jail.
(C) A strong desire to see those who have committed crimes in hell.
(D) A sad feeling that French royalty is going to fall and so must he.
68. Put the following events happening to Jean Valjean in the order of their appearances.
a. He becomes a gardener in a convent.
b. He meets Thenardier in the Paris Sewer.
c. He saves the police chef’s two children in a fire.
d. He stops an innocent man from going to jail in his place.
(A) abcd
(B) cdab
(C) acbd
(D) cadb
69. In which of the following situations DOESN’T Jean Valjean encounter Thenardier?
(A) He saves Cosette from her misery.
(B) He comes to help a poor artist Fabontou.
(C) He carries the wounded Marius away.
(D) He lifts up a loaded cart to save Fachelevent.
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103 學年度
第二學期
第二次期中考試
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VII. Spelling: 10%
70. Which of the following statements about Cosette is true?
(A) Though respecting Jean Valjean, she is quite afraid of him.
(B) Knowing that Marius is going to the barricade, she goes, too.
(C) She receives her schooling in a convent where Jean Valjean works.
(D) She marries Marius when Marius gets money from his grandfather.
82. Tiffany gets tired of the hustle and bustle of city life. She is moving to the s
more spacious and less crowded.
71. Why is Marius so grateful to Jean Valjean in the end?
(A) Jean Valjean gives him and Cosette all his money.
(B) He knows that it is Jean Valjean that saves his life.
(C) He learns that Jean Valjean saves his family from going broke.
(D) Jean Valjean confesses everything to him including his criminal records.
84. The outbreak of Ebola virus in Africa in 2014 was not doubt a ca
and devastated people in the whole world.
VI. Grammar: 10%
87. The a
ve dog shows hostility to strangers, barking fiercely at every passerby, so it is always chained
by its owner.
72. Be quiet. One more word, _____ you will be punished.
(A) and
(B) or
(C) but
83. Those who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol are not p
drive a car.
85. Jean Valjean was sentenced to 19 years’ im
ted to operate heavy machinery or
e, for it claimed thousands of lives
t for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family.
86. Salman Rushdie was a British-Indian l
y master, who has written many novels and essays, among
which Midnight’s Children won him the Booker Prize in 1981.
(D) so
73. If my memory serves me right, I remember _____ has been to Disneyland in Tokyo.
(A) both John and his sister
(B) either my classmates or my neighbor
(C) Not only Peter but also his friends
(D) neither her family nor her colleagues
74. People had _____ breathed in the toxic gas when a burning pain filled their throats.
(A) hardly
(B) no sooner
(C) not until
(D) as soon as
75. Although he has encountered numerous failures, ______ he never once loses his courage.
(A) but
(B) nor
(C) hence
(D) however
76. There are such _____ that it is very challenging for teachers to remember their names in a week.
(A) many students (B) huge in numbers
(C) big numbers of kids
(D) great a number of boys
77. My college training was mainly in theatre, _____ becoming a director or a producer.
(A) in order to
(B) so as not to
(C) with an eye to
(D) on account of
78. There is a tiny axe attached by the door which passengers can use to break the window _____ emergency.
(A) in spite of
(B) for fear that
(C) in case of
(D) on condition that
79. Analogy is a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way. For example, “Hands are
to gloves _____ feet are to shoes” or “Day is to humans what night is to owls.”
(A) as
(B) as if
(C) so
(D) even though
80. _____, he has long suffered from loss of sleep. I have to admit that I'm not 100% sure, but this is the
situation as I understand it.
(A) As far as I know
(B) With a view to getting well soon
(C) As a result of his death
(D) Not until the new medicine hits the market
81. Do as your mother tells you to; ______ your mother will be very upset.
(A) or
(B) then
(C) otherwise
bs where it is quieter,
(D) and therefore
88. As the aged man hurriedly w
w all his savings from his account, mumbling that he needed to pay
the ransom for his son, the clever teller warned him that he might be scammed.
89. About two weeks after every midterm exam, information about your midterm grades will be a
Skyweb system at our school homepage.
le on
90. It’s simply unwise to stay up late squandering your precious time on Smartphone games. You would not
only make your grades suffer but also c
se your health.
91. The rich entrepreneur donated all his art collections to our city government. It is said that over 20,000
valuable works of art are now in the po
n of the public museum.
VIII.Translation: 9%
92. 這位老師不但把學生的好成績視為理所當然，還把太多考試排入(pack)課堂中。(Not only…)
93. 聖母院(Notre Dame)的設計是這麼無與倫比，以致於世界上沒有其他建築物像它一樣不凡。
94. 不管你在哪一家報紙登廣告，有了有效的宣傳，你就能從產品銷售量的成長中獲益。