臺北巿立師範學院九十二學年度碩士班研究生入學考試試題

所　　別：共同科目

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 ( 每題1分，共10分)

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. Apart from those deemed to be in genuine need, the budget required patients to pay for part of the cost of their medical treatment.
(A) real (B) individual (C) specialized (D) extravagant

2. Magazines such as Majesty and Royal Monthly would have had little hope of survival in the 1960s or 1970s.
(A) prosperity (B) competition (C) existence (D) being well-known

3. For 50 years, English judges had been unwilling to nullify government decisions.
(A) invalidate (B) ratify (C) execute (D) confirm

4. The University of Bradford is developing its system to disseminate information of an orientational nature to the new library user.
(A) solicit (B) distribute (C) compile (D) rely on

5. The distance between two neighboring galaxies changes as time increases.
(A) peaceful (B) friendly (C) adjacent (D) developing

6. He had to stifle his gasp of annoyance as he found the door to be locked.
(A) increase (B) revive (C) puff out (D) hold back

7. Catering not only to children but also to young working singles, many amusement parks are pushing thrills.

(A) loud noises (B) rapidly moving cars (C) exciting activities (D) popular games

8. The laparoscope has revolutionized abdominal surgery in the last several years, but it is probably too early to gauge its impact on home entertainment.

(A) distribute (B) direct (C) measure (D) operate

9. If the chess machine beat a human player, the champion would be so intimidated that he would be an easy target in the coming game.

(A) confident (B) queried (C) slowed (D) frightened

10. If the European Community goes ahead with plans to abolish border controls and obviate the need for passports to travel within the member nations, other means have to be found to learn who is in the Netherlands legally.

(A) eliminate (B) establish (C) execute (D) excuse

II. GRAMMAR (每題1分，共10分)

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

11. A newborn child responds to the word with reflexes such as grasping, sucking, or ______________ its head when touched on the mouth.
(A) turn (B) turns (C) turning (D) it turn

12. _________________________, none is more natural than the love for the town, the valley or the neighborhood where we grew up.
(A) As are human emotions (B) Of all human emotions
(C) All emotions that are human (D) It is that all human emotions

13. Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and ___________ what nobody has thought.
(A) think (B) thought (C) thinking (D) have thought

14. Anyone ____________ in receiving information about the new project should write to the secretary.
(A) interested (B) interesting (C) is interested (D) is interesting

15. ___________ the perfect business plan or latest technology today may soon be as out-of-date as the main-frame computer.
(A) It seems (B) It seems to be (C) Although it seems to be (D) What seems

16. Iguanas are different from most other lizards ___ they are not carnivores.

(A) in spite of (B) even (C) so that (D) in that

17. After overcoming her shyness, Nan grew ___ the other girls.

(A) the more popular of (B) the most popular than (C) as popular like

(D) as popular as

18. The first clock ___ was invented in the mid-fourteenth century.

(A) to be historically recorded (B) to record historically

(C) that recorded historically (D) to historically be recorded

19. ___, follow the directions on the bottle carefully.

(A) When taken medicine (B) When one takes medicine (C) When, in taking medicine

(D) When taking medicine

20. The speed of communications today, as opposed to ___, has greatly altered the manner in

which business today is conducted.

(A) the one of yesterday (B) communications yesterday (C) that of yesterday

(D) communication’s speed a long time ago

III. READING COMPREHENSION (每題2分，共20分)

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

What is more basic, more “natural” than love between a man and woman? Eskimo men offer their wives to guests and friends as a gesture of hospitality; both husband and wife feel extremely offended if the guest declines. The Banaro of New Guinea believe it would be disastrous for a woman to conceive her first child by her husband and not by one of her father’s close friends, as is their custom.

The variations among cultures are startling, yet all peoples have customs and beliefs about marriage, the bearing and raising of children, sex, and hospitality. But the details of cultures do indeed vary: in US, not so many years ago, when a girl was serious about a boy and he about her, she wore his fraternity pin over her heart; in the Fiji Islands, girls put hibiscus flowers behind their ears when they are in love. The specific gestures are different but the impulse to symbolize feelings, to dress courtship in ceremonies, is the same.

The universals of culture may derive from the fact that all societies must perform the same essential functions if they are to survive—including organization, motivation, communication, protection, the socialization of new members, and the replacement of those who die. Yet the way in which a people articulate cultural universals depends in large part on their physical and social environment—that is, on the climate in which they live, the materials they have at hand, and the peoples with whom they establish contact. No custom is good or bad, right or wrong in itself; each one must be examined in light of the culture as a whole and evaluated in terms of how it works in the context of the entire culture.

21. The best statement of the main idea of this passage is __________________________.
(A) the variety of practices and customs in society show few threads of cultural unity
(B) the unusual variations in societies gain acceptability because no custom is good or bad
(C) a variety of cultural universals make the variations among cultures less important
(D) cultural universals are found in all known societies even though the details of the

culture vary

22. The Barnaro woman _____________________________.
(A) would be punished if she has a baby by her husband
(B) could not have her own babies without the approval of her fathers’ close friends
(C) could have the baby of her husband after she has the baby of her father’s close friends
(D) could chose to have her first baby by her husband or by one of her father’s close friends

23. Girls in the Fiji Islands put hibiscus flowers behind their ears ________________________.
(A) to express love (B) to symbolize agony (C) to attune to fashion

(D) in the wedding ceremony

24. The author implies that universals of culture exist because of _____________________.
(A) a social desire to be more alike
(B) the differences in cultural behavior patterns
(C) the competition among societies
(D) the needs of survival in group life

25. What is the best topic for the passage?
(A) Cross-Cultural Differences
(B) Cultural Universals
(C) Unity in Diversity
(D) Learning to Respect Differences Among Cultures

It may not be able to do lunges and leg lifts, but a new strain of aerobic rice could really stretch water resources in Asia, which uses up to 50 percent of its water to grow the thirsty crop. “Rice uses three times more water than other crops like wheat and maize,” said Bass Bouman, a water scientist in the Philippines. “To produce one tonne of rice it requires two Olympic sized swimming pools.”

To properly cultivate the staple food, rice is planted in some 50 to 60 centimeters of water for three to six months. Years of work in plant hybridization to develop seeds needing less water to grow have helped Chinese researchers produce a low-water, high-air alternative to that cultivation.

The aerobic rice—known as han dao in Chinese, which literally means dry land rice— invented by Wang Huaqui of China Agricultural University was presented to the Third World Water Forum underway in this ancient imperial Japanese capital as a “major breakthrough,” particularly for Asia. Some 190,000 hectares of northeastern China have for the last two years been planted with the new aerobic rice, as have 120,000 hectares in Mato Grosso in Brazil’s central west. Other new techniques to improve cultivation of staple crops, including those that can tolerate salinated or even recycled water, have taken root in talks at the week-long forum.

26. What is the best topic for this passage?
(A) Aerobic Rice Can Help in Water-Tight Areas.
(B) Asians Can Benefit Financially From Aerobic Rice.
(C) New Strains of Rice Have to be Developed.
(D) Growing Thirsty Rice Needs Water.

27. The thirsty crop in the first paragraph refers to ___________________________.
(A) the crop that can tolerate salinated and recycled water
(B) the crop that consumes a lot of water when growing
(C) the crop that can quell thirst
(D) a new strain of aerobic rice that is being researched

28. According to the passage, aerobic rice _____________________________.
(A) is able to do lunges and leg lifts
(B) uses three times more water than other crops like wheat and maize
(C) can reduce water requirement
(D) is currently staple food of Asians

29. According to the passage, ordinary rice should be grown _______________________.
(A) in two Olympic-sized swimming pools
(B) in places other than northeastern China and Brazil’s central west
(C) in places flooded with a shallow layer of water throughout the growing season
(D) in salinated or recycled water

30. This passage is least likely to be followed by a paragraph about ______________________.
(A) the importance of the new agricultural techniques in solving the water crisis the world faces
(B) the upcoming agenda of the Third World Water Forum
(C) the differences in the irrigation techniques between the East and the West
(D) the way to grow the aerobic rice in regions with limited water reserves

IV. TRANSLATION (10分)

Translate the following passage into English.

說來真奇怪，宗教都是勸人為善、愛人如己，可是歷史告訴我們，當人們為了宗教打仗的時候，卻殺得最慘烈，破壞得最徹底，絲毫不能包容異己，真是矛盾極了。