世新大學八十七學年度碩士班招生考試

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Ⅰ.Reading Comprehension 60%:

There are some blanks in the following passages. Listed below the passage are four possible answers, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D), for each blank. Please choose the best answer and write the letter corresponding to the correct answer.

(1)

In a (1) _____ of a university in England sites a professor. He is on the platform giving a talk, but his voice sounds slightly strange. That is because this professor has a disease which prevents him from speaking, so when he speaks he has to use a computer and a voice box. When he answers questions, it takes about two minutes. Not only does he have to type out the answer on a computer, but he also gets the computer to translate it into sounds. Why do people come to his lectures if he is difficult to understand? The answer is that he is one of the top three physics (2) _____ in his particular field. His special subject is the beginning of space, matter, and time.

The case of Professor Stephen Hawking is one example of the many “disabled” people who have achieved success in their chosen (3) _____ of work. He was born in 1942, took his doctor’s degree in physics and did research at Cambridge University in England. By the age of 21 he had already begun to notice that it was difficult to move around without falling over. Although he had a (4) _____ of the brain which was getting worse, he decided to continue with his research and his writing. He had to find ways that would make it possible for him to speak, read and write, even though he could later only move the fingers of one hand. In 1988 his work “On History of Time” became a (5) _____.

1. (A) aquarium (B) Zoo (C) lecture hall (D) theater

2. (A) experts (B) traitors (C) betrayers (D) craftsmen

3. (A) field (B) candidate (C) department (D) foe

4. (A) pleasure (B) disease (C) experiment (D) cultivation

5. (A) despair (B) failure (C) best-seller (D) sham

(2)

History is full of other examples of (6) _____ people with “disabilities.” For instance, some famous artists have had little or no sight. Beethoven, who lived from 1770 to 1827, lost his (7) _____, yet continued to write great music. One man this century was born with a (8) _____ in his backbone and became first a doctor and later a world-famous conductor. Many people who use wheelchairs do well in sports. Not only do “disabled” people read, write, draw pictures, paint and cook, but they also study, go to university, take exams and have jobs. In their personal lives, they also get married, have children, go out and meet people, play music and so on.

Some people have the wrong (9) _____ towards people with “disabilities,” (10) _____ them to be stupid. As a matter of fact, many people have a “disability.” Some need glasses to read, or do not hear very well. Others many have difficulty in moving. Even if none of this is true for us today, it is probable that one day we will end up with a “disability.” As we get old, we find it more and more difficult to see, to hear, to walk, to bend down, and to climb stairs.

6. (A) successful (B) distressed (C) outcast (D) ignored

7. (A) hearing (B) seeing (C) smelling (D) tasting

8. (A) benefit (B) superiority (C) fault (D) advantage

9. (A) preference (B) tendency (C) attitude (D) expectation

10. (A) praising (B) revering (C) adoring (D) considering

(3)

Lysistrata was a Greek comedy written in 411 B.C. To make the men stop the Athens-Sparta war, Lyaistrata (11) _____ to all the women of Greece that they go on a sex (12) _____ until the men agree to make peace. The women agree, but some do (13) _____. They capture the Acroplis and lock the gates on the men. When the men start to build a fire to smoke out the women, they get doused with water. Lysistrata has a to use a whip hand to (14) _____ some of the women fro, returning home for short visits, but Myrrhine, in a fine scene prepares a bed for her husband with much delay, then leaves him alone in it. Eventually the men (15) _____ and make peace.

11. (A) argues (B) proposes (C) defies (D) opposes

12. (A) beat (B) knock (C) strike (D) pound

13. (A) willingly (B) approvingly (C) zealously (D) reluctantly

14. (A) prevent (B) encourage (C) uphold (D) support

15. (A) capitulate (B) conquer (C) defeat (D) triumph

(4)

Vincent van Gogh was a complete and utter (16) _____ in everything that seemed important to his (17) _____. He was neither able to start a family, nor (18) _____ his own living, nor even keep his friends. Yet in his paintings he was able to set down his own concept of order, against that of the chaos of reality around him. His art was an attempt to regulate a world with which he was obviously unable to come to terms. He countered its unfathomability with the harsh theoretically based (19) _____ of the artist; its anonymity he impressed with his own finally balanced pathos and its run-of-the-mill workings with a solipsistic verve. His aim was not to escape reality, nor indeed to suffer by renouncing it, but instead to make it tangible in a comprehensive sense. In this way his art enabled him to accept the once so (20) _____ world as his own.

16. (A) success (B) accomplishment (C) achievement (D) failure

17. (A) podium (B) contemporaries (C) performance (D) platform

18. (A) condemn (B) scorn (C) earn (D) hallow

19. (A) praise (B) honor (C) criticism (D) respect

20. (A) friendly (B) hostile (C) amicable (D) amiable

(5)

Five days after departing from Southhampton, England, the Titanic grazed an (21) _____ in the North Atlantic. The (22) _____ passed unnoticed by most (23) _____ --a mere trembling, according to one. Having heard reports of water entering the hold, Captain Edward J. Smith and Mr. Thomas Andrews, a ship designer who was (24) _____ representing the Titanic’s builders, went below to conduct an inspections, then broke the news to the captain: “The ship is doomed; at best you have one and a half hours before she goes down. “An immediate order was (25) _____: Uncover the lifeboats!

21. (A) iceberg (B) whale (C) muntain (D) rock

22. (A) episode (B) incident (C) anecdote (D) plot

23. (A) passers-by (B) spectators (C) passengers (D) pedestrians

24. (A) abroad (B) aboard (C) board (D) a board

25. (A) issued (B) recommended (C) dissuade (D) discommoded

(6)

Aggression is not a male-sex-linked (26) _____: brutality is masculine only by (27) _____ of opportunity. True, there are 1,000 Jack the Ripperd for every Lizzie Borden, but that surely is the result of social (28) _____. Women as a group are indeed more (29) _____ than men. The practical result of this division is the at women seen nicer and kinder, but when the world changes, women will have a fuller (30) _____ to be just as rotten as men and there will be fewer claims of female moral superiority.

26. (A) merit (B) credit (C) characteristic (D) honor

27. (A) view (B) virtue (C) account (D) sake

28. (A) reference (B) norms (C) despair (D) contempt

29. (A) hilarious (B) affable (C) masochistic (D) peaceful

30. (A) opportunity (B) risk (C) gang (D) standard

Ⅱ. Write a short composition. 40%

Write a paragraph in which you express what you imagine would result if something we all take for granted in our lives were to end, to stop, or to die. For example, suppose there were no more schools or no more movie theaters, suppose all the rivers or lakes should dry up, suppose all the female or female teachers were fired from school,…. Remember to make your composition specific. Limit tour subject.