國立彰化師範大學九十一學年度博士班招生考試試題
系所：各研究所博士班
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科目：英文
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I. Word Set: (20%) In each word set below, choose the word that does not belong to it.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
a) universal
a) energetic
a) research
a) villager
a) spectacular
b) astounding
b) stressed
b) investigate
b) resident
b) immense
c) amazing
c) vigorous
c) fertilize
c) visitor
c) colossal
d) marvellous
d) robust
d) explore
d) inhabitant
d) huge
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
a) nation
a) process
a) gleaming
a) auctioneer
a) uterus
b) globe
b) cloning
b) glistening
b) expatriate
b) ovary
c) world
c) replica
c) fascinating
c) warden
c) egg
d) planet
d) duplication
d) sparkling
d) producer
d) sperm
II. Cloze Test: (20%) Read the following passages and choose the most appropriate answer to fill in each blank.
Squirrel hunting was a popular sport in West Caldwell 1 the 1940s. I loaded my 2 rifle,
cocked the spring, and waited on the steps of the porch. A squirrel was in the top of the pear tree. I 3
the rifle. The movement startled the squirrel and he jumped to the oak tree and froze 4
I stepped off
the porch. I sighted 5 the side of the barrel, aimed for the squirrel’s head, and fired.
I missed the squirrel’s head and gut-shot him. Bravely, he clung to the tree 6 he could, then
started to come down, clutching piteously at branches as he fell, 7 mortally.
I didn’t know it, 8 the shot alerted my mother. She watched the furry creature’s descent 9 it
fell to the ground and I shot it again, this time through the head at point-blank range, 10 put it out of
its suffering.
1.
2.
(A) of
(A) homemade
(B) in
(B) homemake
(C) about
(C) homemaking
(D) on
(D) home-making
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
(A) rise
(A) until
(A) with
(A) as long as
(A) wound
(A) until
(A) when
(A) to
(B) rose
(B) or
(B) along
(B) when
(B) worn
(B) as
(B) as
(B) then
(C) raise
(C) as
(C) about
(C) where
(C) wounded
(C) then
(C) until
(C) and
(D) raised
(D) but
(D) around
(D) as wide as
(D) wounding
(D) but
(D) yet
(D) even
國立彰化師範大學九十一學年度博士班招生考試試題
系所：各研究所博士班
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科目：英文
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III. Reading comprehension: (20%) Read the following passages and answer the questions provided.
A)
Warmth from the choir melted the stiffness in each of my fingers until I could bend my hand. I
always have been comforted by the delicate music in cathedral.
Truthfully, I know very little of the Church and its message, but I have memories of the ambiance.
That is why I sit, when I feel it necessary, within these stone walls in religious observance.
A woman touched my shoulder so faintly that I hardly noticed her. “I gotta know where the bathroom
is,” she said before I could twist to view her face. She bore a wary, solemn expression, half shadowed by
the wide overhang of the church ceiling.
“Uh, OK. It’s by that post,” I replied. Cautiously, I pointed at an engraved pillar. Why cautiously?
Was I afraid of directing a vagrant to the bathroom? No. I myself probably looked like a vagrant among
the regular church crowd.
As she crossed my sight, I paused in mid thought, halted by a sense of nostalgia. Watching her plod
towards the post, I realized that I had seen those worn, off-black boots before. I used to pass her each day
back in my home town of Toronto as she quietly sat on a street corner, whispering pleas for spare change.
Now she was in Montreal, doing God knows what in a church. I found myself pondering her invisible
boot points on the chapel floor when she emerged through the carved wooden doors. Making sure to
record a mental picture of her face, hoping to connect it with words I might have heard her speak, I
stopped her and, with hesitation, asked her the first question that came to mind.
“Do you know when the Jazz Festival begins?” I asked.
“You some sorta college guy?” she replied sedately.
“No. I grind coffee. Just asking.” My defense was weak.
“I got two bits of sugar here. Want one?” she asked, pulling two cubes covered with lint and crumbs
from her pocket. I made no reply, so she placed them both in her mouth and chewed, slowly, with
aggravation.
“I don’t know much about music; I just listen to some. And you probably think I got no house, but I
do. It’s up a mountain by a creek. I pan gold there and sell it. But there’s none now, so I gotta come to the
city with my brother for help.”
By now she was seated next to me, sucking the soul from those two sugar cubes, and I felt awkward.
I had never seen her before in my life. She wasn’t who I thought she was. She was a complete stranger.
I decided the best thing to do would be to explain that I had mistaken her for someone else. So I
began recounting the story of my daily passing of her look-alike in Toronto.
“Why do you come here anyway?” she asked.
“I like choral music,” I said.
“So do I. It makes me feel like I know religion,” she responded.
And we both remained seated till the singing ended, occasionally glancing at each other and
exchanging a smile.
國立彰化師範大學九十一學年度博士班招生考試試題
系所：各研究所博士班
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科目：英文
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1. Why did the man think he had seen the lady before?
(A) He remembered her whispering voice.
(B) He remembered her worn clothes.
(C) He remembered her off-black boots.
2. Why did the man stop her and talk to her?
(A) He wanted to know when the Jazz Festival began.
(B) He wanted to find out who she was and what she was doing there.
(C) He wanted to hear her speak to see if he recognized her voice.
3. “I found myself pondering her invisible boot points on the chapel floor.” He was
(A) following her foot steps carefully
(B) staring at where she had walked
(C) guessing where she would go
4. Which is true?
(A) Both the man and the lady loved religious music.
(B) Both the man and the lady came from Toronto to Montreal.
(C) Both the man and the lady were vagrants.
5. The man felt awkward with the woman because
(A) she was seated next to him.
(B) he realized he was mistaken about her identity.
(C) she was noisily eating the sugar cubes.
B)
Mini Computer Moguls
Impressed by the cogent technical advice Minneapolis resident Trent Eisenberg passed on to some
members of an online help forum, computer powerhouse Compaq approached him about a job at the
company’s headquarters in Houston. But Compaq was forced to withdraw the offer when a crucial
detail about Eisenberg came to light: He was just 14. Two years later, Eisenberg now runs his own
technical support company, F1 Computer, (named for the help key on DOS-based computer keyboards).
“I might be interested in getting a corporate job in a few years, after college,” he says. “But this is just
right for me now.”
Eisenberg is among an increasing number of 10-something kids who are running their own
computer-related businesses—and, for the most part, thriving at it. “Many kids in suburban homes have
grown up operating very powerful computers, so technology is second nature to them in a way that it’s
not to many adults,” says Gene DeRose, president of Jupiter Communications, a high-tech research firm
based in New York. “They’re just doing what kids did 10, 15 years ago to make money—using the tools
available to them.” [ …]
國立彰化師範大學九十一學年度博士班招生考試試題
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科目：英文
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Danny Kalmick, the 14-year-old president of Kalmick & Co.Computing in Seal Beach, Calif., took
his first step toward becoming a neighborhood computer guru at age 11, when he disassembled his first
PC (a 486/DX2) to inspect its motherboard. When neighbors called him for computer advice a year later,
Kalmick saw a business opportunity. “I realized I was offering the same kind of services that older guys
with degrees were getting $150 an hour for,” says Kalmick. “I felt like, as a kid, I could do the job more
cheaply.” So he printed up business cards, secured a license, and took out an ad in a neighborhood
directory: he now has about 10 regular clients, works six to 10 hours a week, and earns $20 an hour
custom-building computer systems and trouble-shoot tech problems. [ … ]
Cut rates are certainly an asset in the marketplace, but so, argue many young entrepreneurs, is age:
kids aren’t as intimidating to work with, they say, as their more senior counterparts. “We’re professional,
of course, but we are just kids, and people feel like they can talk with us and ask us whatever they want
without being embarrassed,” says Charles Ross, 18, vice president of Pixelstorm Inc., a Web services
company that develops marketing sites for local businesses. Ross runs the firm with his twin brother,
James, and their friend Matthew Baylis, 17, out of the Ross family home in Orlando, Fla. “Plus, a lot of
our clients tell us that they would rather work with us because we’ve grown up with the technology and
have a solid handle on it.” [ … ]
6. The title of the reading, “Mini Computer Moguls,” refers to …
A) young computer entrepreneurs.
B) new kinds of computer companies.
C) expensive, high-tech inventions.
D) very small high-speed computers.
7. Trent Eisenberg could not work for the Compaq computer company because …
A) Compaq didn’t want to hire him.
B) he wanted a very high salary.
C) he was too young for the job.
D) he didn’t have enough experience.
8. Most children who run their own computer business are …
A) very rich.
B) successful.
C) scared.
D) embarrassed.
9. All of the “mini computer moguls” in the reading …
A) are very good friends.
B) work for other people.
C) work in the United States.
D) do business with each other.
10. People like to work with these youngsters because …
A) they work for less.
B) they are just kids and know not much.
C) they are intimidating to work with.
D) they are inexperienced and naive.
IV. Composition: 40%
Helen Keller once said “the highest result of education is tolerance.” We all know that men and
women are different but equal. People from different ethnic groups are entitled the same human rights.
What are your opinions and attitudes on prejudice against 1) gender difference or 2) ethnic difference?
How can we improve the situations? Choose 1) or 2) as your topic to write an essay in 400 words.