世新大學九十二學年度研究所博、碩士班考試

學系別	考試科目
口語傳播學系	英文

I. Vocabulary (30%) Choose the most appropriate word to complete each sentence.

1. James is certainly ______ this morning; he must have woken up in a terrible mood.

(A. grouchy B. delighted C. jubilant D. on cloud nine)

2. Tom was almost ______ with fear as the enormous dog drew closer and closer to his hiding place in the alley.

(A. bored B. numb C. unpleasant D. uninterested)

3. Mary’s parents tried to _______ her from marrying John until he graduated from college, but Mary simply wouldn’t listen.

(A. persuade B. dissuade C. tease D. deceive)

4. Liam’s plan for stopping inflation is a _______ one, but I have several doubts about it.

(A. intriguing B. plausible C. disconcerting D. confusing)

5. Ronald is much too ______ for a boy of nine; he’s got to lose some weight.

(A. skinny B. slender C. chubby D. osseous)

6. Our professor used to be a good speaker, but recently he had trouble sticking to his subject; he _______ed too much.

(A. progress B. congress C. digress D. regress).

7. It was the dictator’s many ______ offenses that finally caused the people to rise up against him.

(A. famous B. adroit C. notorious D. ingenious)

8. The children love to wear masks at Halloween and the more _______ the mask the better.

(A. graceful B. elegant C. tedious D. hideous)

9. The boy never eats spinach; he ______s the vegetable.

(A. adore B. cherish C. loath D. treasure)

10. In this city there is a 600 NT fine for ______ing, so be careful not to throw papers on the sidewalk.

(A. litter B. over-speed C. drink D. dump)

11. The chicken fell ______ to the eagle.

(A. pray B. prey C. prick D. prickle)

12. This used to be a beautiful lake, but now, because of pollution, an ugly ______ has formed on the surface.

(A. scum B. ripple C. wave D. surf)

13. A hammer is a useful tool, but in the hands of the wrong person it can be a ______ weapon.

(A. deadly B. harmless C. insignificant D. trivial)

14. After the accident, all the school children were trained to be _______ of strangers.

(A. incautious B. rash C. indiscreet D. wary)

15. He says he’s a doctor, but I’m pretty sure he’s merely a _______.

(A. genius B. authority C. phony D. expert)

II. Reading Comprehension (30%) (Some words have been erased and replaced with blanks. Choose the best word that you think should go there.)

(A)

Health officials on three continents last week were warning travelers to beware of a deadly, highly (1) ______ form of pneumonia being rapidly carried around the world by (2) ______ on jet planes. By Saturday night, at least nine people had died, one of them an American businessman traveling in Asia. The World Health Organization issued a rare (3) ______ travel advisory after receiving reports of at least 150 cases. Meanwhile, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta were scrambling to (4) ______ the bug before it hit the U.S.

The disease triggers flu-like symptoms—high fever, coughing, shortness of breath, but because it hasn’t been responding to either antibiotics or antivirals, doctors can’t immediately tell what cause it. For now they are calling it SARS—for (5) ______ Acute (6)______ Syndrome. Scientists speculate that it may be a (7) ______ or a virus that has mutated into a new, more virulent form.

1. A. hilarious B. entertaining C. contagious D. monotonous

2. A. passengers B. cargoes C. products D. extraterrestrial

3. A. frolic B. bogus C. fake D. emergency

4. A. identify B. burlesque C. manufacture D. hide

5. A. Safe B. Solitary C. Severe D. Same

6. A. Respiratory B. Revengeful C. Responsive D. Reactionary

7. A. bacterium B. ghost C. poison D. medicine

(B)

In 1986, Italian wine writer Carlo Petrini spied a new McDonald’s restaurant in Rome’s famous Piazza di Spagna and decided that enough was enough. He enlisted the help of some friends and they vowed to (8) ______ the encroachment of fast food by (9) ______ its opposite: slow food.

Now the slow food movement --- its well-chosen symbol is a snail --- has over 70,000 members in 40 countries who adhere to the movement’s credo: “To celebrate the (10) _______ of culinary traditions and culture, promoting ecologically sound food production and reviving the dinner table as the center of leisurely pleasure and social (11) _______.”

Speaking at a recent lunch at Manhattan’s Toscana restaurant, Petrini explained the genesis of this latest culinary upheaval. Slow food is a philosophical and (12) ______ movement. Fast food is one of the most powerful and (13) ______ components of our speeded up modern lives. It has (14) ______ food from country to country, emphasized the beauty of what’s on the plate but not its safety, and is undoing thousands of years of (15) ______ civilization. We must band together to stop it, but, of course, “ he added with a broad wink, “we must stop it slowly, slowly.”

8. A. fight B. urge C. elevate D. assist

9. A. promoting B. demoting C. extinguishing D. canceling

10. A. poverty B. deficiency C. disadvantage D. diversity

11. A. refutation B. contradiction C. interaction D. damage

12. A. chemical B. ecological C. zoological D. ornithological

13. A. advantageous B. beneficial C. profitable D. destructive

14. A. ethnical B. local C. standardized D. abnormal

15. A. astrochemical B. gastronomic C. astrological D. astronomical

III. Translation (40%)

1. English into Chinese (15%)

Women who want equality must be prepared to give it and to believe in it. In order to do that it is not enough to state that you are as good as any man, but also it must be stated that he is as good as you and both will be humans together. If women want men to share in the care of the family in a new way, they must assume them as capable of consistent loving tenderness as women.

2. English to Chinese (10%)

There is a long-standing myth in our society that the great friendship are between men. Forged through shared experience, male friendship is portrayed as the most unselfish, if not the highest form, of human relationship. The more traditionally masculine the shared experience from which it springs, the stronger and more profound the friendship is supposed to be. Going to war, weathering crises together at school or work, playing on the same athletic team are some of the classic experiences out of which friendships between men are believed to grow.

3. Chinese into English (10%)

美國領導的聯軍三月廿四日早上再度轟炸巴格達，在此之前數小時華盛頓當局坦承對伊拉克戰爭目前遭逢最艱困的境況，越來越多的美國士兵陣亡或遭俘虜。美國領導的攻打伊拉克戰爭受挫後，美國軍方官員昨天忙著安撫大眾，但仍聲稱美國有信心獲得勝利。