世新大學九十三學年度碩博士班考試試題卷

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I. Select the correct word to fill in the blank. (20%)

1.      Many smokers feel _____ by their firms’ anti-smoking policies.

(A)  eradicated (B) regaled (C) persecuted (D) extinguished

2.      After his initial business deal ____ in Stockholm, he invested in a second business opportunity.

(A)  transpired (B) impoverished (C) alleviated (D) flourished

3.      Because she had studied me not to trust him anymore.

(A)  incredulous (B) fortuitous (C) sanguine (D) exhilarated

4.      His repeated ____ caused me not to trust him anymore.

(A)  misdemeanors (B) indiscretions (C) deceptions (D) frustrations

5.      Two or more computers can be ____ together to share files.

(A)  equal (B) connected (C) ameliorated (D) subtracted

6.      According to the latest news reports, schools have been closed due to ____ weather.

(A)  fair (B) balmy (C) inclement (D) enthusiastic

7.      The jeweler admired the diamond through a magnifying glass, and pronounced it ____ .

(A)  exquisite (B) flawed (C) mediocre (D) obvious

8.      In defining the role of a mother, the characteristic which stand out most is ____.

(A)  distrust (B) malaise (C) empathy (D) caprice

9.      Stephen’s willingness to help Marge revealed how ____ he is.

(A)  conscientious (B) depraved (C) lazy (D) malicious

10.  The professor has asked the students to hand in their assignments, because today is the ____ .

(A)  deadline (B) motive (C) change (D) distraction

 

II. Find the following grammar errors—write A,B,C, orD. (36%)

 

___1. There are hundreds of techniques you could learn to help you reading faster.

           A                     B            C         D

___2. After hearing all sort of rumors about morals in the U.S., we were pleasantly

            A      B                       C          D

surprised.

___3. Achieving personal power is helpful for someone who pretends to be more

        A                     B                    C

confident than really has.

                  D

___4.23percent of Russian mothers would like her daughters to marry foreigners.

             A                B       C             D

___5. In my parents generation, there were no electric appliances to help women do

A      B                  C                                 D

the housework.

___6. It was hard to choose a suitable school when I had applied to some American

             A                  B        C        D

universities last year.

___ 7. Using files available to anyone who can pay, they produced nearly 200 page on

                           A       B                   C       D

Hiatt and Carr.

___ 8. Some say Spain’s growing appetite for fast food are undermining the country’s

                       A           B         C                  D

healthy Mediterranean diet.

___ 9. It was so cold that a bucket of water tossed on the air fell to the ground as ice.

        A                   B           C                     D

___10. For example, you should be able previewing eight or ten 100-page reports in

          A           B             C         D

an hour.

___11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was one of Twain’s best book; certainly his

                                                    A      B

best for a juvenile audience.

 C  D

___12. The life-like picture of a boy and his friend is enjoyed by both youngs and

                   A   B                    C                 D

olds.

 

III. Reading Comprehension (30%)

 

     In the final two decades of the 19th century, an Augustinian monk named Gregor Mendel became the first person to make precise observations about the biological process of inheritance. This happened more than 100 years ago in an Austrian monastery, where Mendel spent his leisure hours performing experiments with pea plants of different types. Out of curiosity and a dedication to continuous intellectual inquiry common to monastic living, Mendel demonstrated persistence and commitment to the expansion of scientific knowledge.

    Mendel crossed the plants carefully and took notes about the appearance of various traits, or characteristics, in succeeding generations. He continued this research for most of this life. From his observations, Mendel formed a set of rules, now know as the Medelian Laws of Inheritance, which were found to apply not only to plants but to animals and human beings as well. This was the beginning of the modern science of genetics.

 

1.      The importance of Gregor Mendel is that he was the first person to:

(a)    grow pea plants of different types

(b)   approach the problem of inheritance scientifically

(c)    think about why animals and plants inherit certain characteristics

(d)   invent the word genetics

2.      When did Mendel perform his experiments?

(a)    in ancient times (b) in the 1680’s (c) in the 1880’s (D) fifty years ago

3.      Where did Mendel live and work?

(a)    Augustinia (b)Australia (c) Austria (d) America

4.      Why did Mendel do this work?

(a)    It was part of his duties.

(b)   He was a scientist in addition to being a monk.

(c)    He enjoyed it in his free time.

(d)   He was paid for it.

5.      The Mendelian Laws of Inheritance describe the transmission of biological traits in

(a)    plants (b) animals (c) human beings (d) A, B and C

 

        Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley but severe homesickness led her to return home after one year. In the years that followed, she seldom left her house and visitors were scarce. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an intense impact on her thoughts and poetry. She was particularly stirred by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she met on a trip to Philadelphia. He left for the West Coast shortly after a visit to her home in 1860, and his departure gave rise to a heartsick flow of verse from Dickinson, who deeply admired him. By the 1860s, she lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely.

       Her poetry reflects her loneliness and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want; but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of future happiness. Her work was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as by her Puritan upbringing and the Book of Revelation. She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barret Browning and John Keats. Though she was dissuaded from reading the verse of her contemporary Walt Whitman by rumor of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice. Dickinson was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, but she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She died in Amherst in 1886.

 

6.      Dickinson’s character can be described as:

a)      boisterous

b)      famous during her lifetime

c)      introverted

d)      outgoing

7.      Emily Dickinson’s relationship to Walt Whitman can be characterized by which of her following:

a)      through correspondence only

b)      she read his poetry

c)      thought of as disgraceful

d)      linked by history

8.      Dickinson’s relationship with ____ was a turning point in her life; after meeting him, she rarely went out again.

a)      John Keats

b)      The Metaphysical poets

c)      Walt Whitman

d)      Charles Wadsworth

9.      This essay would best be entitled:

a)      The Death of Emily Dickinson

b)      Emily Dickinson: feminist Icon

c)      The Puritan Upbringing of Emily Dickinson

d)      A Short Biography of Emily Dickinson

10.  The most noteworthy characteristic in Emily Dickinson’s life is most likely:

a)      the disgracefulness of her relationship with Walt Whitman

b)      the disappointment of her rejection from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

c)      other poets, including Keats

d)      Dickinson’s reclusive lifestyle

 

IV. Essay question (14%)

 

Write a three-paragraph essay on the following topic:

The Person I Admire Most