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
社會心理學系	英文

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Part I. Vocabulary, Grammer and Comprehension (60%)

Section A. Choose the best answer to fill in the blank. (30%)

1. The target is ____ the move. (A) on (B) in (C) of (D) at.

2. The dean has been in his position _____ 1999. (A) since (B) when (C) from (D) until.

3. The submarine stayed _____ the surface of the water. (A) out of (B) down to (D) below (D) beyond.

4. The purpose of the course ____ provide students with a basic knowledge of social psychology. (A) is (B) is to (C) has (D) is being.

5. If the sex of a person is biological determined, the ____ of a person is culturally and socially constructed. (A) generation (B) gender (C) feminine (D) masculine.

6. Karl Marx analyzed _____ in relation to ownership of capital and the means of production. (A) state (B) strata (C) class (D) cluster.

7. In the case of _____ analysis, sociologist and psychologist often use questionnaire to collect data. (A) qualitative (B) quantitative (C) quota (D) quasi-theoretical.

8. ____ is the unverified information of uncertain origin usually spread by word of mouth. (A) Legend (B) Fable (C) Rumor (D) Common sense.

9. ____ is a minority group which has power of influence over others and is organized as being superior. (A) Estate (B) Esprit (C) Elite (D) Ethnic.

10. ____ means the actual number of live births in a population unit in one year. (A) Fatality (B) Fertility (C) Pregnanacy (D) Productivity.

Section B. Read the following passage, and choose the best answer for each questions. (15%)

The human nervous system has two parts: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. Peripheral means having to do with the outer part. The central nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord. Everything else in the nervous system is the peripheral system.

Suppose you see a bank robber running away down the street. The police ask you, “What way did he go?” Your eyes already gave your brain the message, “Down the street.” Your brain then sends a message along the spinal cord to the peripheral nerves in your arm. These nerves look like long pieces of thread, but they are not one continuous strand. They branch out at the end where the nerve cell is located. When the message comes along, it has to jump across these gaps. The gap is called a synapse. The message travels along, jumping synapse at regular intervals, until it reaches the terminal, or end nerve fibers. The terminal fibers are connected to the muscles. As your arm and hand muscles get the message, you point down the street where the robber is running.

11. All other nerves besides the nervous system are in the (A) brain (B) synapse (C) spinal cord (D) peripheral nervous system.

12. The peripheral nervous system looks like (A) a piece of paper (B) a thread (C) a cord (D) a gap.

13. In fact, the nerves exist (A) continuously (B) peripherally (C) locally (D) discretely.

14. To answer the police, the brain will send the message to reach to (A) the eye (B) the gap in spinal cord (C) the robber (D) the muscle of arm.

15. Choose the best title: (A) The Central Nervous System (B) How the Nervous System Works (C) Where Did the Robber Go? (D) What Happens When We Run.

Section C. Choose the best answer to fill in the blank. (15%)

To sociologists, age is not just number of years since years since a person (16) ; it also involves a set of social definitions regarding what is required of and appropriate for people of different ages. These definitions differ from (17), and they can change significantly with the passage of time. The term again, too, has a sociological meaning different from the everyday one. In everyday speech, again usually (18) the progress of growing older in the later stage of life, but sociologists use the term more broadly. To them, again is the progress of that begins on the day we are born and (19) . To sociologist, what is important about again is not just the (20) progress people make, but also their transition to new age-related statuses and roles.

16. (A) born (B) bearing (C) was born (D) bears.

17. (A) society to society (B) all societies (C) societies themselves (D) different societies.

18. (A) refers to (B) refers (B) is referred (D) referent to.

19. (A) dead (B) we are dead (C) continues until we die (D) continues to dead.

20. (A) chronological (B) clinic (C) synchronic (D) charismatic.

Part II. Translation. Translate each of the following paragraphs into Chinese. (40%)

1. As children near their first birthday, they often seem to be understand what others say even they are not yet speaking themselves. If a parent asks, “where is the ball?” a child will often look for it. (10%)

2. Anthony Giddens has realized the problems of sociology and its limitations. He has taken the step and faced the challenge from contemporary politics. Some sociologists have turn their back on this strategy and instead into cultural sociology or cultural studies, while others returned to economics. Unfortunately, these sociologists have not reinvented sociology as a discipline attempting to overcome poor economic theory. (15%)

3. Cognitive social psychology is replacing a single-process “cold” cognition with a “hot” version that includes affective and motivational process, thus incorporating the psychodynamic orientation’s motivational emphasis. Within the sociological social psychology a similar integrative trend seems evident with theoretical synthesis of role and symbolic interaction perspectives. (15%)