世新大學八十八學年度碩士班招生考試

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經濟學系碩士班	英文

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Ⅰ.Vocabulary (20%)

For each of the following multiple-choice question, choose the answer that best completes the sentence and indicate the letter of that answer on your Answer sheet.

1. The bookkeeper _____ the lawyer’s request that she turn over the ledgers.

a. receded to

b. acceded to

c. acceded

d. acceded with

2. Even after three months of private lessons, she still did not have the _____ to speak any French.

a. capacity

b. ability

c. celerity

d. capaciousness

3. If you really want to _____ significant changes, you must be willing to sacrifice personal time and pleasures.

a. affect

b. effect

c. efect

d. effect

4. She was always willing to _____ new employees about how to adjust to their new jobs.

a. advocate

b. advice

c. adverse

d. advise

5. The young princess was always _____ her chaperone when she traveled abroad.

a. accompanied by

b. accompanied

c. accompanied with

d. accompanied in

6. Even the poorest child can dream of _____ his greatest goal.

a. chiefing

b. achieving

c. achieveing

d. achieving

7. They will be _____ their behavior, whether they accept the responsibility or not.

a. accountable for

b. accountable to

c. accountable in

d. accountable with

8. In _____ the regulations of health department, the restaurant required chest X-rays of all new employees.

a. accord

b. according

c. accordance with

d. accordance to

9. The doctor says you must _____ any alcohol for at least forty-eight hours after the operation.

a. obtain

b. abstain

c. abstain from

d. abstain against

10. She was _____ mentioning her boss’s private conversation without his permission.

a. adverse to

b. averse to

c. advert to

d. avert with

Ⅱ. Idioms and Phrasal Verbs (20%)

For each of the following multiple-choice question, choose the answer that best completes the sentence and indicate the letter of that answer on your answer sheet.

1. He worked at a car factory and usually _____ at 7.30 every morning.

a. signed the pledge b. called the shots c. clocked in

d. opened an account

2. You cut it _____! Another minute and we’d have left without you.

a. fine b. short c. close d. loose

3. I was all set to take the job in Tokyo, but at the last minute I _____ and decided to stay in Britain.

a. pulled my finger out b. got cold feet c. held my horse

d. called it a day

4. The police are working _____ with the Football Association in an effort to stamp out soccer violence.

a. hand over fist b. hand in hand c. hand in glove

d. head over heels

5. Although she had never used a word-processor before, she soon got the _____ of it.

a. feel b. touch c. swing d. hang

6. It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She’s very fraid. I hope she _____ _____.

a. gets away b. comes round c. pulls through d. stands up

7. It’s none of your business: please don’t _____ _____ things that don’t concern you.

a. bump unto b. meddle with c. tot up d. come across

8. I’m sorry, but I don’t think you and I have met before. Are you sure you’re not _____ me _____ with somebody else?

a. pairing off b. putting together c. fitting in d. mixing up

9. The factory is now fully automated, which means that we have been able to _____ ____ production.

a. run on b. step up c. turn over d. double up

10. I watched a very old professor giving a lecture the other day. He _____ _____ for ages before getting to the point.

a. rambled on b. stumbled forward c. went ahead

d. circled round

Ⅲ. Grammar (20%)

In the sentences that follow, if one of the underlinings contains an error in grammar, indicate the letter of that underlining on your answer sheet. Some of the sentences contain no errors, in which case you will write E on your answer sheet.

1. Let me say once and for all that between you and I there can be no further

A B C D

friendship. No error.

E

2. He proved to his own satisfaction that he was as shrews as, if not shrewder than,

A B C D

she. No error.

E

3. The award should go to the pupil who we think the parents had intended it for.

A B C D

No error.

E

4. We insist upon your telling us who else’s signature appeared on this petition besides yours. No

A B C D

error.

E

5. The child felt very bad when his teacher criticized him before the entire class. No error.

A B C D E

6. Interested in semaphone code, Betty joined the Girl Scouts to learn these kind of signals. No error.

A B C D E

7. Harvard’s football captain could tackle, block and pass better than anyone on the team. No error.

A B C D E

8. You may sneer if you wish, but if it weren’t for Westerns, there would be few television sponsors

A B C D

today. No error.

E

9. Though Larry had awakened before the birds began to twitter, he laid in bed until long after the

A B C

sun had arisen. No error.

D E

10. As Martha dived off the springboard, she was horrified to see that the water was drained from the

A B C

pool the night before. No error.

D E

Ⅳ. Composition (40%)

Topic: Let Responsibility Be Your Trademark