世新大學九十二學年度研究所博碩士班考試

                                              

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性別研究所

英文

 

I. Vocabulary 20% 字彙

 

1.      According to medical reports, caffeine ingested after 6:00 p.m. ______ with sound sleep.

A)    harms  B) satisfies  C) facilitates  D) interferes

 

2.      Despite the overwhelmingly high expense, the committee finally ______ the proposal.

A)    rejected  B) determined  C) approved  D) scalped

 

3.      A teacher has great influence on her pupils. This can be ______ to the large amount to time she spends with them in the classroom.

A)    delegated  B) attributed  C) collaborated  D) engendered

 

4.      The army commander ______ the new recruit for neglecting his duties.

A)    yearned  B) ignored  C) upbraided  D) satiated

 

5.      The senior computer student offered much ______ to the freshmen in the computer department.

A)    resistance  B) convalescence  C) assistance  D) presence

 

6.      A quick examination ______ to the doctor that the sick child had contracted bronchitis.

A)    revealed  B) acclaimed  C) excused  D) delivered

 

7.      Although there are a few male students, the class is ______ made up of females.

A)    adeptly  B) discreetly  C) noxiously  D) predominantly

 

8.      Katie was so ______ in her novel that she forgot about her dinner cooking in the oven.

A)    obliged  B) engrossed  C) retorted  D) contracted

 

9.      The government is engaged in a project to pacify the ______ element of society.

A)    hostile  B) friendly  C) accommodating  D) fortunate

 

10.  To ______ mosquitoes, the students who went camping had sprayed themselves and their clothes with a strong chemical.

A)    repel  B) imbed  C) protract  D) deteriorate

 

II. Synonyms 20% 同義字

 

1.      There has been a great deal of speculation about the death of Princess Diana.

A)    suspicion  B) criticism  C) mystery  D) sadness

 

2.      The reshaping of the management structure is designed to improve efficiency and allow the bank to get closer to its customers.

A)    profit  B) ability  C) popularity  D) cost

 

3.      He had used his humor, breezy charm and self-confidence to cultivate the press. 

A)    make friend with  B) teach  C) mislead  D) made fun of

 

4.      The general fear that has infected the sector should evaporate eventually.

A)    grow  B) vanish  C) deepen  D) raise

 

5.      The financial incentive alone is not the reason they are here. That would be very short-sighted.

A)    threat  B) reason  C) motive  D) crisis

 

6.      The success depends on good rapport between interviewer and interviewee.

A)    support  B) discussion  C) preparation  D) relation

 

7.      The government officials are studying the feasibility of mapping out policy directions for science and technology development.

A)    flexibility  B) possibility  C) delicacy  D) occasions

 

8.      In many cases we need to take risks and bolster our defenses to maintain peace.

A)    decrease  B) give up  C) strengthen  D) declare

 

9.      The result of the investigation found trafficking in people almost as lucrative as dealing in drugs.

A)    criminal  B) common  C) difficult  D) profitable

 

10.  A few cows and sheep graze in the distance in rough fields.

A)    feed  B) wonder  C) watch  D) run

 

III. Reading Comprehension 45% 閱讀理解

.

    Plagiarism is defined as “copying” or “using someone else’s work.” There are many kinds of plagiarism affecting students today. Plagiarism happens when a student copies somebody else’s work of doing his own writing. It also happens in those cases where people actually purchase essays instead of doing the work themselves. Schools, colleges, and universities regard this as a serious offense (equivalent to cheating on an examination), and they often have strict penalties for anyone found guilty – including expulsion from school. Most students call this “cheating” or “copying”, and they know it is wrong.

    Plagiarism is easy to recognize; there are a number of related actions which may be defined as “plagiarism.” One example is when a student copies directly from a textbook or reference work, and copies word-for-word without using quotation marks and footnotes. As a rule of thumb, copying more than three words in a row from another author (without acknowledgement of the author) counts as plagiarism. If a student wishes to use another author’s ideas from a published work, such as a book, magazine, or journal, he must make a footnote and mention the author’s name.

     Another example of plagiarism is when a student downloads entire sentences, paragraphs or pages of text from the Internet, and turns them in to the teacher as his own writing. It is also illegal to download or copy pictures, charts, diagrams, or photographs without acknowledging the website or source from which it was taken.

    In academic writing assignments, use of quotations or data from the work of others is a common practice, and is often very valuable provided that the source of the quotation is clearly documented. Failure to provide a source or put quotation marks around material that is taken from elsewhere gives the appearance that the comments are one’s own. When quoting word-for-word from the work of anther person quotation marks or indenting (setting the quotation in from the margin) must be used and the source of the quoted material must be acknowledged.

1. This essay would best be entitled:

  A) “How to Use Quotations in Public Resources”

  B) “What is Plagiarism?”

  C) “Acceptable Source for Research Documentation”

  D) “Students and Academic Writing Assignments”

 

2. The phrase “rule of thumb” in the second paragraph means:

  A) a government edict

  B) a constitutional right

  C) a general principle

  D) a table or chart

 

3. The word “expulsion” from the first paragraph means:

   A) punishment

   B) exhaling

   C) being required to leave

   D) facing a financial penalty

 

4. Which of the following sources is not mentioned in the article?

  A) website

  B) dictionary

  C) journal

  D) magazine

 

5. When is it acceptable to use data from work of others?

  A) when copying more that three words in a row from author

  B) when copying directly from a reference work

  C) when using quotation marks or indenting

  D) when the source of the quotation is clearly documented

B.

A report shows the traditional attitude of placing boys before girls and keeping women strictly in the home has been disappearing and that women are now commonly receiving higher education.

 

Among Asian nations, Taiwan leads the way in the number of women receiving advanced education, with results close to those of the United States and New Zealand. Moreover, the figures in Taiwan are well above those for Japan and South Korea.

 

For every 1,000 females in Taiwan’s population, 55.8 receive higher education, compared with 52.2 males. In Japan, the numbers are 27.2 females per thousand, compared to 35.8males; not only are males clearly receiving more higher education than women in Taiwan.

 

In South Korea, 41.8 women per thousand receive higher education, compared to 70 males; this reveals a much greater bias against women and reflects the social inequality in educational opportunity in that society.

 

In 2001, Taiwan’s illiteracy rate was 1.4 percent for men and 7.1 percent for women. The higher rate of female illiteracy is largely because elderly woman make up a relatively large proportion of the population. With the greater equality in schooling that has been the norm for years, however, the discrepancy between illiteracy for men and women will disappear.

 

1.      What is the main idea of this passage?

A)    A higher proportion of females than males receive higher education in Taiwan

B)     Japanese women have a much lower rate of receiving higher education than women in Taiwan

C)    Korean women have a much lower rate of receiving higher education than women in Taiwan

D)    The illiteracy rate for women in Taiwan is dropping significantly

2.      Which of the following is true?

A)    more than half of the woman in Taiwan receive higher education

B)     slightly more than half of the south Korean man receive higher education

C)    more than half of the south Korean man receive higher education

D)    higher education rate for Japanese men is lower than that for Taiwan men

3.      In 2001, the illiteracy rate for woman is _______ times the rate for men.

A)    5

B)     4

C)    3

D)    2

4.      The term “norm” in the last paragraph refers to

A)    regulation

B)     argument

C)    question

D)    issue

5.      Which of the following is not true?

A) The ratio of woman receiving higher education in New Zealand is higher than that in Japan

       B) The ratio of woman receiving higher education in the U.S. is higher than that in Korean 

       C) The ratio of woman receiving higher education in Japan is higher than that in Taiwan

       D) The ratio of woman receiving higher education in the U.S. is close to that in Taiwan

C.

  Biology alone cannot determine what it is to be female. For over five thousand years, women have been exploited in our society; as s result, our natural strengths as women have been correspondingly frustrated and weakened. The affects of this powerlessness on us made nowhere more clear than in contemporary motherhood. Due to the constrains of our patriarchal society, we do not rise to a position of special esteem and authority when we have children. On the contrary, we are denied even the few options for meaningful participation in society that are available to us as childless women. We react to this powerlessness in a number of negative ways, which could include the following: overpossessiveness of our children (as in the hyper-tense Jewish-mother stereotype), utter self-abnegation (as in the Madonna image), or even child-murder (as in the myth of Medea). But feminist culture is based on what is best and strongest in women, and as we began to define ourselves as women, the qualities which stand out most are the same ones a mother projects, in the best kind of nurturing relationship, to a child: empathy, intuitiveness, flexibility, inventiveness, displaying protective feelings toward others, and a capacity to respond emotionally as well as rationally. If matriarchy means a society in which these are qualities all human beings both man and women, could admire and strive to embody, a society in which the paradigm for all social relationships is the relationship of a healthy and secure mother to her child, then matriarchy means nothing less than the end of oppression.

 

1.       This paragraph would best be entitled:

A)     How to Meet would best be entitled;

B)      Biology and Women’s Lives

C)     Motherhood and the Patriarchy

D)     Feminist Theories of Literature

2.       Which of the following qualities of women is NOT mentioned:

A) flexibility

         B) empathy

         C) substance

         D) inventiveness

3.       The constraints of our patriarchal society are responsible for:

A)     the denial of participation for childless women

B)      the lack of esteem and authority for mothers

C)     overpossessiveness of our children

D)     exploitation of our children

4.       According to the author, the concept of “matriarchy” means:

A)     a secure relationship between mother and child

B)      a society in which feminine qualities are admired and embodied

C)     a society in which males are oppressed

D)     an emotional and rational society

5.       The “Madonna image” implies:

A)     A virgin

B)      A wealthy female

C)     A mother who is less important than her child

D)     A mother who murders her child

 

 

IV. Translation (Chinese to English) 中翻英 15%

 

1.       第一階段的限水措施將在台北實施.

2.       我姊姊的作品和大多數藝術家的作品不同

3.       醫生說只要吃藥做運動病人很快就會好了