7. 九十七學年度第二次學科能力測驗模擬考
第壹部分：單一選擇題(72%)
一、詞彙（15％）
說明：第 1 至 15 題，每題選出最適當的一個選項，標示在答案卡之「選擇題答案
區」。每題答對得 1 分，答錯不倒扣。
1. Your plan is not very ______. I’m afraid you won’t be able to carry it out.
(A) subjective
(B) honorable
(C) informative
(D) practical
2. All citizens are required to ______ the laws of their country; otherwise, the society will
be in disorder.
(A) interpret
(B) observe
(C) declare
(D) violate
3. Mr. Brown holds a(n) _____ attitude toward his children’s education. He never forces
them to do what they don’t like to do.
(A) absolute
(B) aggressive
(C) liberal
(D) pessimistic
4. In most countries, the ______ service is provided to help with people’s living
conditions and financial problems.
(A) military
(B) community
(C) employment
(D) welfare
5. The cosmetics company gave away free samples to ______ the new product.
(A) promote
(B) command
(C) enhance
(D) aspire
6. Most recent polls show that support for the government is ______ after the disastrous
policies on the event of poisonous milk powder.
(A) progressing
(B) declining
(C) eliminating
(D) reforming
7. After the bell rang, the students went back to their classrooms ______.
(A) considerably
(B) formally
(C) extraordinarily
(D) respectively
8. The remote village is totally ______ from the outside world; it is not accessible by any
means of modern transportation.
(A) identical
(B) extensive
(C) isolated
(D) imaginary
9. The ambassador could not be arrested for his drunk driving because he enjoyed
diplomatic ______.
(A) profit
(B) restriction
(C) qualification
(D) privilege
10. Before a plane takes off, the flight attendants will ______ how to use the life jackets.
(A) analyze
(B) investigate
(C) demonstrate
(D) summarize
11. Jane used all her powers of ______ to convince her parents to let her study abroad.
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(A) persuasion
(B) obedience
(C) modesty
(D) recognition
12. Tom hopes to move to France. More ______, he wants to live in Paris.
(A) intensely
(B) eloquently
(C) regularly
(D) specifically
13. To deal with the problem, we will form a committee ______ of twelve members,
including experts, scholars, and officials.
(A) suspicious
(B) composed
(C) conscious
(D) deprived
14. Thanks to the witness’s ______ description, the police were able to find the robber in a
short time.
(A) artificial
(B) random
(C) accurate
(D) exaggerated
15. The president gave the people his ______ that the economy would pick up within one
year.
(A) massage
(B) assurance
(C) credit
(D) admission
二、綜合測驗（15 % )
說明：第 16 至 30 題，每題一個空格，請依文意選出最適當的一個選項，標示在
答案卡之「選擇題答案區」。每題答對得 1 分，答錯不倒扣。
16-20 題為題組
It is a well established fact that classical music can soothe our mind and body.
Hearing classical music
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decreased stress, less agitation, and improved mood.
This soothing music not only does us humans good, but is also
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help to some
animals.
In a study conducted by animal behaviorists in Northern Ireland, 50 canines in a dog
shelter were
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to four different types of sounds: pop songs, classical music, a radio
program which only had human conversations, and heavy-metal music. The dogs became
agitated and barked a lot when listening to heavy metal but became quiet and lay down
more when they listened to the classical music. Pop music and the human voice seemed to
make 19 difference to how they behave.
So, next time if your dog is stressed and keeps barking
20 , don’t shout at it but
try playing some music of Bach or Chopin to calm it down.
16. (A) builds up
17. (A) of
18. (A) confined
19. (A) much
20. (A) enormously
(B) results in
(B) to
(B) opposed
(B) little
(B) hastily
(C) settles down
(C) with
(C) attracted
(C) any
(C) furiously
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(D) arises from
(D) in
(D) exposed
(D) few
(D) increasingly
21-25 題為題組
Located in central Australia, Uluru National Park features a vast rock formation,
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as Ayers Rock. The rock stands 348 meters high with most of its bulk below the
ground. Its surface is
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appearing to change color as the different light strikes it at
different times of the day, with a particularly remarkable sight when it briefly glows red at
sunset.
The development of tourism infrastructure near Ayers Rocks
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in the 1950s
soon produced adverse environmental impacts. The Australian government decided in the
early 1970s to remove all tourist-related facilities and re-establish them outside the park.
In 1975, a 24 of 104 square kilometers of land, 15 kilometers from Uluru, was
approved for the development of a tourist facility and an associated airport, to be known as
Yulara. Since then, booming tourism has provided regional and national
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benefits.
It also presents an ongoing challenge to balance conservation of cultural values and visitor
needs.
21. (A) which refers to
22. (A) expressive of
23. (A) began
24. (A) reservation
25. (A) agricultural
(B) that is referred to
(B) notable for
(B) to begin
(B) measurement
(B) industrial
(C) referred to
(C) characteristic of
(C) begun
(C) boundary
(C) economic
(D) is referred to
(D) relative to
(D) beginning
(D) protection
(D) medical
26-30 題為題組
Renewable sources of energy (solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) are self-replenishing and
clean, and currently 26
15% of the world’s energy supply. Solar power is expanding
as technology improves and its cost becomes more
27 . Commercial wind turbines
are now harnessing wind power in over 65 countries, making it the world’s
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source of energy after solar. And geothermal energy—literally “heat from the earth”—is
meeting a significant portion of electrical power demand in several developing countries.
29 , each of these sources has it limitations—technologies are still developing and
costs are high in many cases.
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renewables will continue to play a growing role,
they aren’t expected to overtake fossil fuels in the near future in meeting global energy
demand.
26. (A) distribute
27. (A) constructive
28. (A) faster growing
(B) facilitate
(B) productive
(B) fastest growing
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(C) manipulate
(C) competitive
(C) faster grown
(D) contribute
(D) explosive
(D) fastest grown
29. (A) In addition
30. (A) While
(B) On the contrary
(B) Provided
(C) Consequently
(C) Seeing that
(D) However
(D) As long as
三、文意選填（10 % )
說明：第 31 至 40 題，每題一個空格，請依文意在文章後所提供的(A )到(J)選項
中選出最適當者，並將其英文字母代號標示在答案卡之「選擇題答案區」。
每題答對得 1 分，答錯不倒扣。
Laugh your head off! It’s strong medicine, researchers are learning. Even the
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act is good for you, says William Fry, professor emeritus at Stanford University and
pioneer in laughter research. It increases blood
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and contracts abdominal muscles.
A hundred belly laughs is the aerobic equivalent
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ten minutes on a rowing
machine, according to Fry.
But the benefits go beyond a workout. The most astonishing 34
of laughter’s
power comes from a 1997 study of 48 heart-attack patients. Half watched comedy shows
for 30 minutes every day; the rest
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controls. After a year, ten patients in the
control group had suffered repeat heart attacks,
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only two in the group that
watched the shows.
Does a good laugh really help patients get well? In a
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experiment at the
University of California at Los Angeles, called Rx Laughter, scientists plan to test the
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of laughter on children with serous illnesses, including cancer. Early results
suggest that funny videos help kids handle uncomfortable or painful procedures.
Justine Ybarra, 13, already knows that. He was in great pain when he woke up from
surgery— 39
Bill Marx and a volunteer for Rx Laughter appeared at his bedside.
Marx told jokes, made faces and pranced around the hospital room. “Having something to
laugh
40 took my mind off the pain,” says Justin. “When you’re laughing, you can’t
help but feel better.”
(A) served as
(E) evidence
(I) of
(B) at
(F) physical
(J) compared with
(C) landmark
(G) flow
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(D) until
(H) effect
四、閱讀測驗（32 % )
說明：第 41 至 56 題，每題請依各篇文章的文意選出最適當的一個選項，標示在
答案卡之「選擇題答案區」。每題答對得 2 分，答錯不倒扣。
41-44 為題組
Once upon a sunny morning a man spotted a white unicorn with a golden horn in the
garden. He went up to the bedroom and woke his wife. “There’s a unicorn in the garden,”
he said. She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him. “The unicorn is a mythical
beast,” she said, and turned her back on him. The man walked back to the garden. “Here,
unicorn,” the man pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a
high heart, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. “The unicorn,” he said, “ate a
lily.” His wife sat up in bed and looked at him, coldly. “You are a booby,” she yelled,
“and I am going to have you put in a booby-hatch.” The man went back to the garden
dismally, and the unicorn had gone away.
The wife got up and telephoned the police and the psychiatrist; she told them to hurry
to her house and bring a strait-jacket. When they arrived, she said, “My husband saw a
unicorn this morning.” The police and the psychiatrist looked at each other. “It had a
golden horn,” she continued. At a solemn signal from the psychiatrist, the police leaped
from their chairs and seized the wife. Just as they got her into the strait-jacket, the husband
came back into the house.
“Did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?” asked the police. “Of course not,” he
said. “The unicorn is a mythical beast.” “That’s all I wanted to know,” said the psychiatrist.
“I’m sorry, sir, but your wife is as crazy as a jay bird.” So they took her away and shut her
up in an institution. The husband lived happily ever after.
Moral: Never count your boobies before they are hatched.
41. How did the man feel when he went upstairs to awake his wife the second time?
(A) Dismal.
(B) Frustrated.
(C) Delighted.
(D) Surprised.
42. Why did the police and the psychiatrist put the wife in an institution?
(A) She committed a telephone fraud.
(B) They thought she was out of her mind.
(C) She attempted to put her husband in a booby-hatch.
(D) The husband told them to do so.
43. From the passage, we can infer the relationship between the husband and the wife was
______.
(A) passionate
(B) intimate
(C) dependent
(D) resentful
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44. What literary genre is this passage?
(A) A fable.
(C) A fairy tale.
(B) A myth.
(D) A detective story.
45-48 為題組
At a lonely hearts convention held at a hotel in Tokyo, many senior people were
looking for marriage partners—for their children, who are so-called “parasite singles. ”
“Parasite single” (parasaito shinguru) is a Japanese term for people who live with
their parents and unmarried into their early thirties in order to enjoy a carefree and
comfortable life. According to sociologist Masahiro Yamada, 60 percent of single
Japanese men and 80 percent of women are parasite singles. There are 10 million “parasite
singles” of both sexes in Japan. Some of these adult children help with the household
chores or even pay a share of rent, while the majority do not. This can be a burden on
many parents.
The parasite phenomenon is also a disaster for the nation, which is rapidly running
out of babies. With men and women putting off marriage and children, or not having them
at all, Japan’s fertility rate fell to a low of 1.25 in 2005. With no immigration to offset the
shortage, the population of 127 million will halve by the end of the century, the
government warned recently.
Worried about their grown-up unmarried offspring, Japanese parents are taking the
initiative and becoming matchmakers. This time they are not following the traditional way
of matchmaking. Instead, they attend lonely hearts conventions hosted by big
matchmaking companies. At the convention, they are handed a list of eligible men and
women detailing age, background, income, work and blood type. If they are interested in a
candidate, they will take along photos and résumés of their offspring to the candidate’s
parents sitting in the same hall. If both sides click, they will exchange information and
agree to arrange a meeting between their children.
45. Concerning parasite singles, which is NOT mentioned in the passage?
(A) Their marital status.
(B) Their age.
(C) Their residence.
(D) Their annual income.
46. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the lonely hearts conventions
mentioned in the passage?
(A)They are arranged by matchmaking agencies.
(B) Parents accompany their children there.
(C) Guests are offered personal data of single young people.
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(D) Elderly people are more often seen at the conventions.
47. According to the passage, what will be the number of the population in Japan by 2100?
(A) More than 80 million.
(B) No more than 65 million.
(C) Between 75 million to 80 million
(D) Less than 50 million.
48. The passage is mainly about ______.
(A) the conventional marriage pattern in Japan
(B) the cause of low fertility rate in Japan
(C) the effects of parasite phenomenon in Japan
(D) the population problem in Japan
49-52 為題組
When mathematics genius John Forbes Nash won the Nobel Prize for economics in
1994, it was a crowning achievement for the Princeton University math researcher. He had
been in and out of the hospital for almost 30 years with paranoid schizophrenia, from
which he claimed spontaneous recovery in 1988.
Russell Crowe won a 2002 Golden Globe Award for best dramatic actor of Nash’s
struggle with mental illness. While Nash’s wife, Alicia, said the movie A Beautiful Mind
was a “very sympathetic” story based on key aspects of their lives, Nash was quick to note
that the movie—out of necessity—offered a fictionalized view of the schizophrenic
episodes of his life. One major difference between the real Nash and the man portrayed by
Crowe is that Nash never had visions of people or places—he only imagined hearing
voices. “But voices without images don’t make for a moving tale on the big screen,” Nash
said. “The screenwriter did something that is very significant… creating madness, insanity
in a structure that can be seen in a movie.”
Nash’s 42-year-old son, John Charles Martin Nash, who holds a doctorate in
mathematics from Rutgers University, also suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. He says
his father is an inspiration: “He’s a great hope for all of us. Anyone with mental illness can
look at Dad and say it’s possible to recover.”
49. John Forbes Nash ______.
(A) won the 2002 Golden Globe Award
(B) saw people or places that did not really exist
(C) was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics
(D) did not recover from his mental illness until 2002
50. What did the Nash family think about the movie A Beautiful Mind ?.
(A) Mrs. Nash thought the movie too far away from reality.
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(B) Mr. Nash praised it for making madness seen and understood.
(C) The son thought it offered us inspiration and hope.
(D) They considered Russell Crowe the best person to be John Nash.
51. John Nash and his son have a lot in common except that ______.
(A) they have both suffered from mental illness
(B) they are both mathematicians
(C) they are optimistic about their illness
(D) they were both hospitalized for a long time
52. Russell Crowe ______.
(A) achieved great success in playing John Nash
(B) was very sympathetic toward the Nash family
(C) heard strange voices and had illusions
(D) was a fictional character in a movie
53-56 為題組
Responding to concerns about the presence of the contaminant melamine in
numerous foods made in China and exported to the USA and elsewhere, the Food and
Drug Administration said that consuming a very small amount of the chemical poses no
serious risk. The exception, officials said, is melamine in baby formula, which has
sickened more than 54,000 infants in China, leading to at least four deaths mainly due to
kidney problems. The agency said it was unable to determine what a safe amount of
melamine in formula might be. The FDA set 2.5 parts per million (2.5 ppm) as the
maximum “tolerable” amount of melamine that could be safely consumed in other foods.
Several melamine-contaminated foods found in recent weeks in the USA had far more of
the chemical. Thus, White Rabbit candies and Blue Cat Flavor Drink—a yogurt-type
drink—from China were recalled after authorities found melamine.
The FDA guidelines were issued to help federal and state investigators check for
contaminated Chinese products. But Representative Rosa DeLauro, head of a House
subcommittee that oversees FDA funding, criticized the agency for saying there could be
safe levels of melamine in foods. “While other countries throughout the world, including
the European Union, are acting to ban melamine-contaminated products from China, the
FDA has chosen to establish an acceptable level for melamine in food in an attempt to
convince consumers that it is not harmful,” DeLauro said in a statement. “Not only is this
an insult to consumers, but it would appear that the FDA is condoning the intentional
contamination of foods.”
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53. According to the passage, babies consuming melamine-contaminated formula for a
long time are likely to ______.
(A) become more intelligent as teenagers in the future
(B) enable the body to absorb as many nutrients as possible
(C) suffer health problems primarily in connection with the kidney
(D) grow better than those who never consume melamine-tainted formula
54. Based on the FDA guidelines, which of the following could be regarded as a safe
food?
(A) Candy containing over 4 ppm of melamine.
(B) A milk beverage containing up to 3 ppm of melamine.
(C) Baby formula containing more than 2.5 ppm of melamine.
(D) Chocolate cake with the melamine concentration below 1 ppm.
55. Which of the following is NOT a definition of the word “condone?”
(A) To condemn severely what is regarded as illegal or morally wrong.
(B) To give approval to something illegal, objectionable, or the like.
(C) To accept or forgive behavior that most people think morally wrong.
(D) To treat something blameworthy as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless.
56. Which of the following is true about the passage?
(A) The FDA is pretty certain of the safe amount of melamine in milk powder.
(B) Foods containing up to 5 ppm of melamine do not pose a risk to human health.
(C) So far no countries in Europe have banned melamine-tainted products from China.
(D) Representative Rosa DeLauro is not at all persuaded of the safe level set by the
FDA.
第貳部分：非選擇題(28%)
一、翻譯題(8 % )
說明：1.下面一段短文中，有數處係以中文文呈現，請利用上下文線索(如單字、
片語等)將其譯成正確、通順且前後連貫的英文，並將答案寫在「答案卷」
上。
2.請依序作答，並標明題號。每題 4 分，共 8 分。
Nowadays, many teenagers want to have an MP3 player. Alice is no exception. Last
month, she spent NT$3,000 buying an MP3 player. Wherever she went, she carried it with
her, and 1. 更糟糕的是，她養成讀書時聽音樂的習慣。That’s why she could not
concentrate on her studies.
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In order to get rid of this bad habit, Alice decided to lend her MP3 player to her
brother Jim, but Jim was very careless and left the MP3 player on the bus. After learning
about it, Alice was so angry that she requested Jim to buy her a new one. Now, 2. Jim 不
得不找一份兼差的工作賺一點錢 so that he can buy a new MP3 player and return it to
Alice.
二、英文作文（20 % )
說明：1.依提示在「答案卷」上寫一篇英文作文。
2.文長 120 個單詞(words)左右。
提示：請根據以下三張連環圖畫的內容，將圖中主角所經歷的事件作一合理的描述。
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