臺北巿立師範學院九十一學年度碩士班研究生入學考試試題

科　　目：語文(英文)

考試時間：一百二十分鐘(含國文)

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I. VOCABULARY 10%

Choose the one word or phrase that best keeps the meaning of the original sentence if it is substituted for the underlined word or phrase.

1.       The walls were damp and were peeling.
(A) falling                                  (B) crumbling partially
(C) losing its outer covering                (D) under major reconstruction

2.       Census information is confidential.
(A) friendly                (B) private                (C) useful                 (D) hard to obtain

3.       The number of medical websites available has grown quickly in recent times.
(A) attainable             (B) desirable             (C) profitable                    (D) affordable

4.       At the last minute the minister wavered in his decision.
(A) worried about      (B) vacillated            (C) refused to make          (D) stayed firm

5.       Farming in this country is partially subsidized by the government.
(A) sponsored            (B) wrecked             (C) upgraded            (D) conserved

6.       Straight razors were dangerous to use and laborious to keep sharp. King Gillette decided to invent disposable razor blades that would fit into a safety holder.

(A) enjoyable  (B) throwaway  (C) remarkable  (D) noticeable

7.       In recent years, the sales of sugared soft drinks have been dwindling slightly, but diet-drink sales have continued to escalate.

(A) lessen  (B) promote  (C) rise  (D) produce

8.       The legends about St. Brendan seem almost implausible, but Severin believed them.

(A) impassable  (B) impossible  (C) improvised  (D) impressive

9.       After months of sailing across turbulent seas, Severin and his crew landed their boat just off the coast of Newfoundland.

(A) valiant  (B) rough  (C) unappealing  (D) vigorous

10.   Hundreds of performers try out at auditions to get the opportunity to join the circus.

(A) clowns  (B) candidates  (C)  trials  (D) games

II. GRAMMAR 10%

Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

11.   Most of us have seen a dog snarling at and approaching a reflection of _________.
(A) itself                     (B) himself                (C) themselves          (D) ourselves

12.   For children who have a particular breathing problem during sleep, _________ their tonsils and adenoids can help them sleep better.
(A) remove                (B) removing            (C) it is to remove             (D) with the removing of

13.   The age _____________ the greatest number of people in the nation learned to read is six.
(A) of                        (B) that                     (C) which                 (D) at which

14.   They ____________ a baby when he decided to start his own business.
(A) just have             (B) are just having             (C) have just had              (D) had just had

15.   Liberals tend to favor _________do conservatives.

(A) social change more than immediate                (B) more immediate social change than

(C) change more immediate than social                (D) more than immediate social change

16.   If it ____ more humid in the desert of the Southwest, the hot temperatures would be unbearable. 

(A)  be   (B) is   (C) was  (D) were     

17.   Of all the cereals, rice is the one ____ food for more people than any of the other grain crops. 

(A)   it provides  (B) that providing  (C) provides  (D) that provides

18.   ____ withstands testing, we may not conclude that it is true, but we may retain it. 

(A) If a hypothesis  (B) That a hypothesis  (C) A hypothesis  (D) Hypothesis

19.   The Internal Revenue Service ____ their tax forms by April 15 every year.           

(A) makes all Americans file  (B)makes all Americans to file

(C)makes the filing of all Americans  (D)makes all Americans filing

20.   It costs about sixty dollars to have a tooth ____.

(A)filling  (B)to fill  (C)filled  (D)fill

 

III. READING COMPREHENSION 20%

Choose the one best answer (A), (B), (C) or (D) to each question after reading the passage.

If you need a blood transfusion or a blood product, there is a very real danger that it might not be available. At different times during the year, blood banks and hospitals are unable to meet the demand for blood. And the shortage is growing worse as more Americans undergo bypass operations, organ transplants, Cesarean sections, hip and joint replacements and other procedures.
One potential source of blood we are not exploiting, however, is men who have ever had sexual relations with other men. Under a policy set by the Food and Drug Administration 17 years ago, any man who has had sex with another man one or more times since 1977 is automatically disqualified as a blood donor.

There is no reason to presume that those who engage in dangerous heterosexual practices that might lead to infection and spread of disease are any less a source of risk than those who engage in male to male sex. Yet, the FDA has not permanently banned heterosexuals who engage in unsafe sex as prospective blood donors.

The rationale for changing the policy recently became even more persuasive. A technological breakthrough should remove any lingering concerns about the safety of allowing some gay or bisexual men, or men who simply experimented with male to male sex once in their lives, to donate blood. Clearly the testing of blood is the only reliable measure. So if a man — or woman — tests negative for the AIDS virus or any other communicable disease, they should be allowed to donate.

 

21.   What is the best topic for the passage?
(A) Blood Transfusion Could be Harmful    (B) Time to Establish Restrictions Based on Sex
(C) The Malevolent Effects of Short Blood Supply     (D) No Excuse for Blood Donor Bias

22.   The overall tone of this passage can best be described as
(A) pessimistic                   (B) outraged                     (C) nostalgic                     (D) critical

23.   What policy does the author think should be changed?
(A) Those who test negative AIDS virus can be blood donors.
(B) Men who have sex with men should not be allowed to donate blood.
(C) Patients undergoing bypass operations, organ transplants, Cesarean sections, and other
   medical procedures should not have blood transfusion.
(D) Bisexuals and gays should not be allowed to have blood transfusion.

24.   According to the author, gays ________________.
(A) are no more likely to lead to infection and spread of disease than heterosexuals
(B) are more likely to lead to infection and spread of disease than heterosexuals
(C) are more likely to lead to infection and spread of disease than heterosexuals, but the risk

 can be detected by new medical technology

(D) are not the source of infection and spread of disease

25.   What is the practical reason that the author writes this passage? The author _______________.
(A) is concerned about the discrimination against sex orientation
(B) tries to promote the use of new technology in blood testing
(C) is concerned about the shortage of blood supply
(D) is fighting for the rights of homosexuals

 

Nothing is more American than hot dogs, hamburgers and Cokes---except, of course, sweet doughnuts. Doughnuts may not be served at Fourth of July barbecues but they are on the menu every morning at millions of coffee shops across America. They can be brown with cinnamon, white with powdered sugar, pink with icing, round, long, or twisted. They’re dunked, licked, munched and sometimes twirled on a finger. But no matter what shape or flavor they are or how they’re eaten, they have a long history of being the USA’s favorite breakfast treat.

        The first doughnut to appear on the American scene would be pretty stale by now because it has been around since the beginning of the country’s history. The early colonial settlers had a taste for doughnuts and even wrote about them in their historical records. Back then, they were simply fried sweet cakes. Actually doughnuts are a food as old as oil and flour, one of humankind’s most ancient and simplest foods. The settlers made them by grinding grain into flour, then mixing the flour with water to make the dough. Then they fried the dough in oil and poured honey over it to sweeten it.

        The settlers brought these recipes for fried sweet cakes with them to the New World. What a surprise it was when it turned out the natives had their own form of doughnut. It was a fried-dough cake of cornmeal, often sweetened with tree sap. A petrified doughnut with a hole in the middle was dug up several years ago from a cave in Oklahoma. The cave was full of relics from a prehistoric native tribe.

 

26.   The main topic in Paragraph 1 is that ___.

(A) doughnuts are America’s favorite breakfast treat

(B) people eat doughnuts in different ways

(C) doughnuts can have different shapes and flavors

(D) doughnuts are more popular than hot dogs, hamburgers and Cokes

27. Doughnuts are sometimes twirled on a finger.  The word “twirled” means ___.

(A) pushed up and down

(B) turned around and round

(C) thrown in to the air

(D) broken into small pieces

28. Paragraph 2 is mainly about ___.

(A) how the doughnut takes different shapes around the world

(B) how the early colonial settlers made doughnuts

(C) how doughnuts have existed for a long time

(D) how the early colonial settlers ate doughnuts

29. The first doughnut that appeared in America would be stale today. The word 

   “stale” means ___.

(A) prehistoric

(B) unique

(C) not fresh

(D) stolen

30. The main topic of Paragraph 3 is ___.

(A) the existence of doughnuts in the New World before the settlers

(B) the petrified doughnut found in a cave

(C) the remains found in a cave in Oklahoma

(D) the different recipes of doughnuts

 

IV. TRANSLATION 10%

Translate the following passage into English.

在美國這高度工業化的社會中，每個人的日常生活本來就已十分緊張忙碌，而在十一月下旬以後這短短三、四十天之內，「感恩節」、「聖誕節」以及「新年」這三大重要假期接二連三而來，每人活動頻繁，開支增多，壓得大家喘不過氣來，過年過節的興趣為之大減。