世新大學九十三學年度碩博士班考試試題卷
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學 系 別 |
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公廣系、圖傳系 |
英文 |
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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. Spark plugs____ in the automobile engine.
(A) ignore (B) ignite (C) illustrate (D) illuminate
2. The long-distance runner was ____ when he learned that he had set a new record.
(A) consulted (B) exhausted (C) elated (D) dejected
3. The old man is too ____ to cross the without her grandson’s help.
(A) frenzy (B) ferocious (C) feeble (D) fragrant
4. People usually think of stress as something the world ____ on them.
(A) affects (B) inflicts (C) effects (D) conflicts
5. Any form of mass entertainment is viewed considerable ____ until is has been around for some time.
(A) conscience (B) suspicion (C) consensus (D) census
6. There is no ____ ; the president must approve the bill if congress passes it.
(A) alleviation (B) ailment (C) alternation (D) alternative
7. You need to learn to resist the ____ to buy many things that are on sale.
(A) contempt (B) apprehension (C) comprehension (D) temptation
8. The soil in which the plants are grown must be ____ in order to have a big crop.
(A) fertile (B) futile (C) fervent (D) firm
9. Photographs taken in ____ show many features on the planet surface that look like dry riverbeds.
(A) ore (B) orbit (C) orchard (D) oration
10. The mud-slinging between the two candidates caused public opinion to ____ in favor of one and then the other.
(A) ostracize (B) ostrich (C) oscillate (D) ossify
II. Grammar. 20%
A. Questions 1-5 are incomplete sentences. Four phrases or clauses, marked (A) (B),(C) and (D), are given beneath each sentence. Choose the best answer and then write its corresponding letter on your answer sheet.
1. As a child, I could never understand why grown-ups ____ dreaming so calmly when they could make such a fuss about any holiday.
(A) saw (B) did (C) took (D) make
2.
(A) being an excellent surgeon (B) an excellent surgeon, is
(C) he is an excellent surgeon (D) is an excellent surgeon, he is
3. ____ is a good thing that Ms. Jones is a lawyer and not a journalist.
(A) She (B) It (C) What (D) There
4. From the polar snows to the ocean depths, life has learned to survive ____ .
(A) no matter why extreme the environment
(B) no matter what extreme the environment
(C) no matter how extreme the environment
(D) no matter which extreme the environment
5. After ____ for more than 150 years, Beethoven is still loved by many people.
(A) being dead (B) being died (C) dying (D) having dead
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. Many students go every year to
universities in
A
to learn science or economical or law or political theory.
B C D
7. The social benefits of living in a community carry with them the obligation to help
A B
strengthen the institutions that support the community, much of which are nonprofit
C D
organizations.
8. After writing novels unsuccessfully for several years, the novelist was not
A B
certain that he should quit or continue with his art.
C D
9. The storm began worrying the passengers, but the captain’s confidence and
A
cheerful laugh helped dispel their misgivens.
B C D
10. If you are interest to go to the beach, I’m planning to drive there as soon as I
A B C
have finished my work.
D
III. Cloze Test: 20%
In the following two passages, there are ten blanks where words or phrases are left out. For each blanks, there are four choices marked (A),(B),(C), and (D). One of the choices best fit the blanks. Choose the best answer and write its corresponding letter on the answer sheet.
The proportion of federal aid 1 individuals instead of institutions seems certain to grow. Even more certain is 2 higher education will not received public funds 3 to provide an on-campus educational experience for all 4 . Many will learn in different contexts, perhaps 5 a new pecking order contrasting those who 6 classes on campus with those who have not.
1. (A) goes to (B) gone to (C) going to (D) to go to
2. (A) why (B) what (C) that (D) which
3. (A) suffice (B) to be sufficiently (C) sufficiently (D) sufficient
4. (A) that seeks it (B) which seeks it (C) who seeking it (D) sat up
5. (A) sitting up (B) setting up (C) seating up (D) sat up
6. (A) have taken (B) took (D) taken (D) have
Why is advertising 7 to people who manufacture and sell products? The main reason is competition; there are many companies 8 items very similar to one another, and each company needs to succeed in order to stay business. Advertising gives consumers information about a new product and allows them 9 the quality and pride of several similar items before they choose 10 .
7. (A) so essential (B) such essential (C) so essentially (D) such essentially
8. (A) who produces (B) which are producing (C) which produced (D) who had produced
9. (A) compare (B) comparing (C) to compare (D) compared
10. (A) when to buy (B) which to buy (D) how to buy (D) where to buy
IV. Translation : 10%
Please translate the following two passages into Chinese on the answer sheet.
1. The Mediterranean groups had lower mortality rates in all age brackets and from all causes, particularly from heart disease. The study also showed that the Mediterranean diet is as high or higher in fat than other diets, obtaining up to 40 percent of all its calories from fat. It has, however, different patterns of fat intake. Mediterranean cooking uses smaller amounts of saturated fat and higher amounts of unsaturated fat.
2. The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. At least, this is the function which it should perform for society.
V. Composition: 30%
Write an English composition in about 300 words on “English Learning and
Globalization”. Your composition must contain an introductory paragraph, one or
two discussion paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.