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九十三學年度國小教師教育學程招生考試題卷
科目:【英文】
考試日期：93 年 8 月 19 日
I. Grammar Choose the answer that best completes the sentences. 20%
1. By this time next summer, you ___ your studies.
A. be completing
B. have completed
C. will complete
D. will have completed
2. The cheetah is a member of the feline family ___ are being drastically reduced by in-breeding
and lion predation.
A. that its numbers
B. those numbers
C. which numbers
D. whose numbers
3. Jane left when Tim arrived. Tim arrived when Mary was leaving. John had left when Tim arrived.
Who did not run into Tim?
A. Jane
B. Mary
C. John
D. Nobody
4. Joe ___ so keen on employing Jerry if he didn’t think Jerry was the best person for the job.
A. had not been B. will not be
C. would not be
D. would not have been
5. I’ve redone this math problem at least twenty times, but my answer is wrong according to the
answer key. The answer in the book ___ be wrong!
A. must
B. couldn’t
C. can’t
D. should
6. I just bought
clock at an antique shop.
A. a German wonderful old
B. an old wonderful German
C. a wonderful German old
D. a wonderful old German
7. My brother didn’t study. ___, he failed the course.
A. Moreover
B. Nonetheless
C. Otherwise
D. Therefore
8. The students are usually taught by Mr. Yu. However, this week they ___ taught by Ms. Young.
A. are
B. are being
C. have been
D. have been being
9. There was ___ little interest in his talk on macroeconomics that the room was half empty by the
time he stopped speaking.
A. so
B. so as
C. such
D. such a
10. You
sad. What’s the matter?
A. are looking
B. have been looking
C. look
D. looked
II. Vocabulary 10%
1. Scientists get angry and bristle when industries and politicians don’t understand the need to
protect our water and wetlands.
A. become irritated B. become depressed C. become isolated D. become intimidated
2. His ambition was to emulate his mother and become a great musician.
A. discard
B. imitate
C. encounter
D. enact
3. This employee has no discernible skills in computer work now, but we may be able to teach him
quickly.
A. obvious
B. long-term
C. promising
D. lucid
4. The locals were all dressed to the nines, waiting for the show to begin.
A. at nine o’clock
B. according to the dress code
C. in costumes
D. in their fancy clothes
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5. If I could just have an opportunity for an interview, I could knock their socks off.
A. make them buy the socks
B. stop the argument
C. make a good impression
D. alter an attitude
III. Reading Comprehension 40%
Read the following passages and answer the questions based on the context. Choose the most
appropriate answer.
【A.】
Junior had just received his brand new driver’s license. To celebrate, the whole family trooped
out to the driveway and climbed into the car for his inaugural drive. Dad immediately headed to
the back seat, directly behind the newly minted driver. "I'll bet you're back there to get a change of
scenery after all those months of sitting in the front passenger seat teaching me how to drive," said
the beaming boy to his old man. "Nope," came dad's reply, "I'm gonna sit back here and kick the
back of your seat while you drive, just like you have been doing to me for sixteen years."
1. “Trooped” can be replaced by ______.
A. gathered
B. marched
C. crowded
D. went
2. “Inaugural” means _____.
A. new
B. test
C. first
D. special
3. Which of the following statements about the story is correct?
A. Junior had got his drivers license for months.
B. Dad enjoys the scenery from the front passenger seat.
C. Junior always sat next to his dad while his dad drove.
D. Junior always sat at the back seat while his dad drove.
4. Dad wants to sit at the back seat because _______.
A. he is tired of the scenery from the front passenger seat
B. he wants Junior to know how it’s like to be kicked from behind
C. he wants to know how Junior felt before.
D. the other seats have been taken
【B.】
1
In modern developed societies, access to formal education is something that many people now
take for granted. Formal schools have not always existed, though, and it took centuries for a
system of compulsory education to be established. Teachers, leaders, and parents had to
campaign for years before reforms took place and the educational system we know today was
established.
2
During the early days of education in the U.K., many students were schooled by local priests,
who taught reading and writing classes in their churches. Few formal schools existed, and the
ones that did were costly and, therefore, reserved for children of the wealthy. In addition, only
boys were educated given the tradition that they would one day be the family’s sole breadwinner.
3
In 1187, England’s first university, Oxford, was founded. Over the next 400 years other
colleges and universities were established including Cambridge and Edinburgh. During the
seventeenth century, numerous private schools were founded and attended primarily by the sons
of aristocrats who later continued their education at university. In the centuries that followed,
though, schooling for many still remained quite haphazard; some pupils attended classes in
churches, while others were educated at Sunday school. Harsh punishments were quite
common and were given to disobedient or forgetful students. Education for the majority of girls
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and young women consisted mainly of learning domestic crafts; very few were exposed to the same
academic content that boys and young men were.
4
The lack of a formal system of teacher training became an increasing issue, and in 1840,
James Kay-Shutttleworth opened the first teacher-training college. In 1846, he established the
pupil-teacher apprentice system whereby pupils aged thirteen could study and serve for five years
with a teacher, then attend college for three years, in order to become trained teachers themselves.
5
It wasn’t until the late 1870s that laws were passed in the U.K. requiring parents to ensure
that their children received a basic education in reading, writing, and math. In 1918, schooling
became compulsory up to the age of fourteen. The Education Act of 1944 reformed the schooling
system further by providing equal educational opportunities for boys and girls and changed
teaching approaches to incorporate students’ individual ages and abilities.
6
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, various pioneers in educational reform
were hard at work bringing about similar improvements to the education system on the other side
of the Atlantic. Education in the U.S. at that time was much the same as it was in the U.K., with
badly equipped classrooms and untrained teachers. Horace Mann was the first to establish
teacher-training institutes; he also campaigned for equal opportunities in education, and
increased the length of the school year from a few weeks to six months. John Dewey, one of the
most influential educational reformers of the twentieth century, campaigned for alternative
approaches to teaching in order to accommodate a pupil’s psychological and physical
development, as well as assist in academic progress. Dewey argued that classroom learning
should center on the child, a belief that is now common practice in many classrooms around the
world. Many of Dewey’s theories continue to be discussed and debated by educators today.
7
Nowadays, a variety of schools exist in the U.S. and the U.K. Some offer basic academic
education while others offer students the chance to specialize in their field of choice such as
drama, science, music, or technology. Teachers must be fully trained and schools are required to
follow government guidelines that specify which subjects should be taught in which grades.
Today, educational content is regularly reviewed and adjusted in an effort to meet the changing
needs of society and its learners.
5. According to the first paragraph, what happened before the establishment of formal education?
A. Teachers, leaders and parents advocated for educational reforms.
B. Teachers, leaders and parents argued with one another for the best form of education.
C. Teachers, leaders and parents were educated to realize its importance.
D. Teachers, leaders and parents had to take lessons on establishing a system.
6. What was local priests’ role in education during the early days in the U.K.?
A. administrators
B. owners
C. reformers
D. teachers
7. Choose the correct statement concerning the education for males and females years ago.
A. Males learned at schools, while females learned at homes.
B. Males learned better than females.
C. Males were punished more harshly than females.
D. They were taught different subjects.
8. James Kay-Shuttleworth is best known for _____.
A. being the first educator in the U.K. to graduate from college
B. establishing formal systems that train teachers
C. having studied and served for five years with a teacher since he was thirteen
D. training teachers who would carry out his theories of education
9. Children in the U.K. were first given the right to education in _____.
A. 1187
B. 1840
C. late 1870s
D. 1918
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10. Choose the correct statement about The Education Act of 1944.
A. Boys and girls had the same chances to be educated.
B. Reforms of education system were necessary when teaching approaches changed.
C. Students of different ages and abilities should cooperate to learn well.
D. The time for boys and girls to receive education should not be the same.
11. Choose the correct statement about John Dewey.
A. He argued that the center of a classroom was where students should sit.
B. He believed that teachers should teach the subjects that fit their psychological and physical
developments.
C. He thought that teachers had to change teaching methods in accordance with differences in
students.
D. His theories are widely accepted by all educators today.
12. Choose the correct conclusion concerning education.
A. The developments of education in the U.S. and the U.K. indicate that these countries have
the tendency to imitate each other.
B. Education will keep evolving because the needs of society and its learners are changing.
C. Great brains of education have mainly appeared in the West rather than the East.
D. People’s concerns with education increase with time.
13. Find “haphazard” in line 5 of paragraph 3. Choose the word closest to it in meanings.
A. chaotic
B. prosperous
C. random
D. tough
14. Find “pioneers” in line 1 of paragraph 6. They are _____.
A. institutes
B. people
C. systems
D. theories
【C.】
1
Animal activists urged the government yesterday to make koala protection an election issue,
as they presented evidence that urban sprawl is driving the much-loved marsupial toward
extinction.
2
The Australian Koala Foundation delivered a dossier of evidence to government scientists to
support its prediction that koalas will disappear from the populous eastern seaboard within 15
years if the eucalyptus trees they eat continue to be cleared for new homes and farmland.
The foundation urged Environment Minister Ian Campbell to list the koala as a vulnerable species,
an application the former Labor Party government rejected when it was last made in 1995.
Classing the animals as vulnerable would give them and their habitat better protection under
environmental laws.
3
"That's an alarming prediction ... any threat like that will be taken incredibly seriously by
me," Campbell told The Associated Press. "I really hope they're wrong."
4
The plight of the koala could become an influential issue ahead of elections due within
months, with environmentally conscious voters expected to form a key ballot box bloc as the
government seeks a fourth term. The foundation said in the southeast of Queensland state, one of
Australia's fastest growing urban populations, koala habitats had fallen to as low as 1.9 percent of
their original size.
5
"I'm hoping that he (Campbell) will recognize that it would be a great election promise to save
the koala," said the foundation executive director Deborah Tabart.
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The foundation has threatened a legal appeal if Campbell refuses to protect koalas.
Campbell said experts in his department will examine the koala foundation's 10-year survey of
koala numbers in eastern Australia.
7
"I don't think it's politically sensitive," he said. "There are many Australian species that are
under threat from a whole range of reasons and in many parts of Australia, koalas are under
threat through urban sprawl, diseases and other threats."
15. Which of the following topics is NOT mentioned in this article?
A. The cause of decreasing eucalyptus trees
B. The effect of the koala issue to the environmentally conscious voters
C. The failure to classify koalas as vulnerable species in 1995
D. Some ways to save the marsupials
16. Campbell said that ____.
A. there are different reasons contributed to the decreasing numbers of koalas
B. he believes in the koala foundation’s prediction
C. the koala issue will affect the result of the coming election
D. he will make an election promise to save the koalas
17. Which of the following statements about the Australian Koala Foundation is incorrect?
A. The foundation asked the government to categorize koalas as vulnerable species.
B. The foundation said that koala habitats had decreased by a total of 1.9 percent in Australia.
C. The foundation will seek for an appeal if Campbell didn’t accept its request.
D. The foundation believes that koalas can be better protected under the laws.
18. Which of the following would be the best title for this article?
A. Koalas, the endangered species
B. Urban sprawl drives the marsupial toward extinction
C. Koalas set to become hot election issue
D. Australian Koala Foundation gets the upper hand
19. “Urban sprawl” means _____.
A. more pollution
B. fewer trees
C. increasing population
D. spreading development
20. The word “habitat” means _____.
A. population
B. food supply
C. home
D. family
IV. Essay Question 30%
Here is a story that describes the working attitudes of different generations in Taiwan these
days. In a restaurant, if the garbage can in the kitchen is full, employees in their forties will
take it out themselves immediately. On the other hand, people in their thirties will take it out
only if the boss asks them. However, people in their twenties will refuse to take it out even if
the boss asks because they think they are not hired to do such things. In your opinions,
what characteristics do people in their twenties have? What causes contribute to these
characteristics? Please write your answers on the answer sheet within the space limit in
about 150-200 words.
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