世新大學九十二學年度研究所博、碩士班考試
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財務金融學系 |
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Ｉ. Vocabulary: 20%
Choose the most appropriate word according to the given context, and then write its corresponding letter on your answer sheet.
1. The government decided to _____ those foreign workers because they had no visas.
(A) retrieve (B) repatriate (C) reiterate (D) recline
2.
(A) guffaw (B) guerrilla (C) guidon (D) gurgitation
3. Attendance at museums and galleries increases by leaps and bounds , new exhibition facilities _____ and possession of works of art become a badge of cultural honor.
(A) coagulate (B) conglomerate (C) simulate (D) proliferate
4. The quality of university teaching may be _____ if the government increases the number of students without providing additional funding.
(A) outstayed (B) integrated (C) fabricated (D) jeopardized
5. We don’t know whether the _____ weather extremes we’ve been having lately are normal changes in the planets atmospheric systems or not.
(A) bizarre (B) billiard (C) billet (D) blizzard
6. The girl did not want to take sides in the argument between her two friends, but her _____ only made them both angry at her.
(A) impartiality (B) improbability (C) immorality (D) impatience
7. There has been an almost _____ fear of inflation, which has been especially terrifying to people who live exclusively on a fixed income.
(A) puerile (B) concomitant (C) neurotic (D) sadistic
8. Too much TV watching tends to cause children to be passive _____ who can only respond to action, but not initiate it.
(A) inspectors (B) detectors (C) spectators (D) visitors
9. The only _____ for membership in this club is an IQ of over 150.
(A) presumption (B) prerequisite (C) prescription (D) pretense
10. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, _____ diseases, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
(A) provoke (B) discharge (C) condemn (D) eradicate
II. Grammar 30%
(A) as the way how it was written (B) by the way which it was written
(C) in the way of which it was written (D) the way it was written
2. The murder was not solved, and the case remains _____
(A) open (B) opening (C) opened (D) to open
3. It was very encouraging that _____ was able to attend the meeting.
(A) every member of the Association (B) all of the entire Association
(C) the whole entire Association (D) the grand total of the Association
4. _____ of patients got relief from their pain after receiving the medicine?
(A) What percents (B) How many percents
(C) What percentage (D) How many percentages
5. This year will be difficult for this organization because _____.
(A) there are fewer money and volunteers that in the last year there were
(B) they have less money and volunteers than they had last year
(C) the last year it did not have as few and little volunteers and money
(D) it has less money and fewer volunteers than it had last year
6. We judge our friends both _____.
(A) by what they say and by their doings
(B) by what they say and what they do
(C) both by what they say and do
(D) by what they say and by what they do
7. Charles Ives gave away the Pulitzer Prize money because he _____.
(A) needed a vast amount of financial assistance
(B) had little regard for people with money
(C) felt that he deserved the award
(D) thought the honor was sufficient
8. When inflation is rampant, many families find it difficult to maintain the
A B
life-style with which they are accustomed.
C D
9. Prior to the protester’s arrival, the police forcibly removed college students
A B
staged a sit-in in front of AIT.
C D
10. Today, hardly there is an industry that does not make use of the results of
A B
atomic physics, and the influence these have had on the political structure of the
C
world though their application to atomic weaponry is well known.
D
11. I wish I knew that you were thinking of buying a house that is so far away.
A B C D
12. That we ought to seek everything that is really good for us is self-evident true.
A B C D
13. We now understand that language is not stationary, that it is in a state
A B
of continuous development, and that standards which may hold good for one
C
century are not necessarily apply to another.
D
14. The central idea of resource management is to make each action or judgment
A
help achievement
a carefully chosen goal.
B C D
15. People should keep themselves politically inform; otherwise,
they will not be
A
B
C
D
living up to their democratic responsibilities.
III.
Close: 30%
In the following two passages, there are fifteen blanks where words or pfrases 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.
For months, economists, policymakers, and investors
___1___ their hopes ___2___ the belief that the war is the biggest ___3___ to
the economy’s recovery. The general view: Once the uncertainties ___4___
the ___5___ to war are ___6___, a quick victory in
1. (A) had pinned (B) had been pinned (C) have been pinning (D) have pinned
2. (A) to (B) in (C) on (D) under
3. (A) imperialism (B) impediment (C) impenitence (D) impeachment
4. (A) surround (B) surrounded (C) to surround (D) surrounding
5. (A) runoff (B) runin (C) runon (D) runup
6. (A) past (B) to past (C) pass (D) to pass
7. (A) boost (B) decrease (C) growth (D) depress
8. (A) reprimand (B) repulse (C) repression (D) reprise
The high and growing cost of a nuclear power plant is due ___9___ to the
difficulties ___10___ the technology that it has ___11___ with a non-nuclear plant, ___12___, the conversion of energy of steam into electricity – but rather to its unique feature, the use of ___13___ to supply the heat needed to produce steam. The accident at Harrisburg showed that a failure in the steam-to-electricity section of the plant ___14___ would have caused very little trouble in a conventional power plant ___15___ producing a catastrophic disaster in the nuclear one and has shut down the plant for a long time, and possible permanently.
9. (A) mostly (B) not so much (C) in part (D) a lot
10. (A) associated with (B) associating to (C) associated in (D) associating with
11. (A) in common (B) in agreement (C) nothing to do (D) to do
12. (A) in fact (B) in addition (C) that is (D) for example
13. (A) fraction (B) fracture (C) fragment (D) fission
14. (A) and (B) or (C) but (D) that
15. (A) arrive at (B) went on (C) came close to (D) was instead of
IV.
Composition: 20%
Write
an English composition in about 200-300 words on “Globalization and Economic
Development”. Your composition must contain an introductory paragraph, one or
two discussion paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.