世新大學九十三學年度碩博士班考試試題卷

學 系 別	考 試 科 目
觀光系、傳管系、資管系、財金系	英文

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1. Cloze Test : Choose the only correct answer from the parentheses, and write the representing alphabet A, B, C, D, or E on the answer sheet.30%

Fifty years after it spilled a lethal mix of mud, ash and water which washed away a bridge and derailed a train, (1) 151 people, Mount Ruapehu, the highest peak on New Zealand’s North Island, is threatening to do it again.

As the nation remembers the tragedy of Christmas Eve, 1953 when Ruapehu, an active volcano, created one of the country’s worst ever natural disasters, controversy has broken out about (2) the loss of lives next time and minimize the damage.

Mt. Ruapehu contains a (3) 17-hectare lake in a crater near the summit which burst through the ice wall rim on December 24, 1953, sending a lahar (a silt and rock-laden mudflow) down the mountainside and (4) away the Tangiwai rail bridge minutes before the Wellington to Auckland night express roared through.

The engine and first five carriages (5) up by the unstoppable tide of swirling mud and rock and carried four kilometers down the Whangaehu River, (6) 151 of the 285 people aboard.

It was the most (7) of the 60 or so lahars that have swept down the slopes of Ruapehu over the last 150 years.

It (8), though it followed a series of eruptions eight year earlier which emptied the crater lake and dammed its outlet with rocks and glacial ice, allowing it to refill to a much greater depth than before.

In 1995, the mountain (9) again, emptying out the crater lake once more. It left a dam about seven meters thick over its former outlet, but this time there is no ice content and geologists say the wall is weak.

In the wake of this natural disaster, it was suggested that special precautions (10) against another possible ones in the future.

1. (A) killed (B) killing (C) kill (D) to kill (E) kills

2. (A) prevent (B) prevents (C) to prevent (D) how to prevent (E) prevented

3. (A) steaming (B) steam (C) steams (D) to steam (E) steamed

4. (A) sweep (B) sweeping (C) sweeps (D) to be sweeping (E) to sweep

5. (A) picked (B) picking (C) picks (D) were picked (E) to pick

6. (A) killing (B) killed (C) kills (D) to be killed (E)and killing

7. (A) devastate (B) devastates (C) devastated (D) devastating (E) to devastate

8. (A) had not been predicted (B) had predicted (C) was not predicting

(D) has not predicted (E) is not predicted

9. (A) flowed (B) boiled (C) blocked (D) swelled (E) erupted

10. (A) to implement (B) should be implementing (C) implement

(D) should implement (E) be implemented

2. Translation A: Translate the following paragraph into English. 15%

為了因應二十一世紀的多元知識發展，與台灣進入世貿組織後所面臨的各種環球政治、外交、經貿、科技等專業領域的挑戰，行政院於2002年研議一項定名為「挑戰二００八」的國家總體建設計畫。這項涵蓋數位台灣、觀光客倍增、提升產業附加價值的國家計畫，在實質上已經凸顯了知識經濟的真諦。

3. Translation B: Translate the following paragraph into Chinese. 15%

It was 25 years ago, in December 1987, that Deng Xiaoping launched China’s reform. By the time of his death 18 years later, he’d achieved his goal of quadrupling China’s GNP—ahead of schedule. China’s extraordinary economic growth, construction, military modernization and forward foreign policy have aroused U.S. concern about the risk of conflict over Taiwan, damage to U.S. economic interests and long-term rivalry. But we in the universities see a different result of Chinese opening and reform: an intellectual vitality that may be as broad and deep as the Western Renaissance.

4. English Composition 40%

Write an English composition of about 200 words, based on the following topic:

“ Internationalization Is Instrumental to the Enhancement of Taiwan’s Global Competitiveness”