世新大學九十二學年度研究所博、碩士班考試
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觀光學系 |
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I. Vocabulary : 20%
For each item, choose the word that is synonymous with the underlined word in the sentence, and then write its corresponding letter on your answer sheet.
1. The vice president has expressed her recent espousal of feminism.
(A) objection (B) support (C) comment (D) interest
2.
The sales manager is noted for
his business acumen.
(A) folly (B) acme (C) shrewdness (D) foible
3. Other channels through which English is inundating all lands include radio and television, motion pictures and recordings of popular songs.
(A) parching (B) curbing (C) evading (D) flooding
4. One may come to a tentative conclusion, subject to later findings.
(A) provisional (B) unconvincing (C) brief (D) unsupported
5. A mature person will not regard prayer as a means of getting out a predicament.
(A) a dilemma (B) a burden (C) an enigma (D) an extension
6. The discontented students retaliated by boycotting the school cafeteria.
(A) fluctuated (B) took revenge (C) rewarded (D) vindicated
7. He has exquisite taste in music.
(A) terrible and poor (B) long and lasting (C) sensitive and delicate (D) old and unique
8. The loan officer suggested that we get someone to sign for us, since we didn’t have any collateral.
(A) currency (B) promise (C) payment (D) guarantee
9. A hypothetical question is a question about something that has not happened and
might not happen.
(A) imaginative (B) fundamental (C) practical (D) tentative
10. A large amount of counterfeit money was discovered at the scene.
(A) eradicate (B) fake (C) stolen (D) opposition
II.
Grammar 20%
1. When the rains continued, the danger of a mud slide _____.
(A) threatened the low-lying villages (B) is threatening the village lying low
(B) threatened the villages lying lowly (D) begins to threaten the villages low-lying
2. ______ mathematics, a student cannot hope to master nuclear physics.
(A) Without a solid grasp of (B) Without gripping solidly the
(B) Having no grasp solidly of (D) With not a solid grip on
3. The question whether all the Shakespearean plays were all written by Shakespeare himself ______.
(A) are debatable for more than 2 centuries (B) is for more than 2 centuries debatable (C) has been debated for more than 2 centuries (D) for more than 2 centuries is debating
4. After reading your instructions ______.
(A) Skylake was found without difficulty (B) it is not difficult finding Skylake
(B) we had not difficulty finding Skylake (D) there was no difficulty finding Skylake
5.
At the
for radio and television.
(A) many students as ever before (B) more students as before ever
(B) many students than before ever (D) more students than ever before
B. In questions 6-10, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases marked
(A),(B),(C),and (D). You are to identify the one that should be corrected and then write its corresponding letter on your answer sheet.
6. In barely more than three decades this country has gone from a major debtor nation
A B C
to the world’s leading creditor.
D
7. Nearly half of the ancient meteor craters has been found in central and eastern
A
B
C
D
8. The Department of Health confirmed that a
A B C
the
severe acute respiratory syndrome, has been brought to
D
9. It is often stated that the dam and its
reservoir have opened up to the many what
A
B
C
was formerly restricted to the few, implying in this case that was once expensive
D
has now been made cheap.
10.
The President and the Vice
President of the
A
officials chosen
by the electoral college, more then by direct vote of the
people.
B C D
III. Close : 20%
In the following two passages, there are ten blanks where words or phrases are left out. For each blank, there are four choices marked (A),(B),(C), and (D). One of the choices best fits the blanks. Choose the best answer and write its corresponding letter on the answer sheet.
Whenever you are __1__ to contemplate with pride the alleged achievements of civilized man, then __2__ a look at nature, at the spider, for example. You may begin to wonder if man is not actually some sort of divine bad joke. ___3___ it like this : after generations of bickering and loafing around, following by decades of feverish technological advance, can you point to one man who has taught himself, unaided, to build a bridge which, __4__ its purpose, he can then tuck away in his lunch-basket and proceed securely on his way since he had the good sense to make the bridge out of materials high in protein which he can __5__ for his dinner? Your look of shame suggests you have come across no such man. But the spider can do it.
When populations __6__ and then actually shrink, the economic dislocations can __7__. Will there be far less demand for housing and office space? __8__, a very low fertility rate can also yield labor shortages, __9__ wages higher. Of course, such shortages in countries with low fertility rates could __10__ by immigration from countries with higher fertility rates, a migration from poor countries to rich ones. But Europeans are actively trying to reduce immigration, especially since 9/11.
IV. Translation: 20%
Please translate the following two passages into Chinese on the answer sheet.
V. Composition : 20%
Write an English composition in about 200-300 words on “Pro-war or Anti-war”. Your composition must contain an introductory paragraph, one or two discussion paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.