世新大學八十九年學年度研究所碩士在職進修專班考試

系所別	考試科目
經濟學系	英文

Vocabulary (30%)

Choose one best answer

1. After a hasty interview, the committee formed an erroneous impression of the applicant’s ability.

A) impulse B) belief C) insert D) consensus

2. Before we accept assistance offered by others, we first try to determine if the other person truly wants to helo.

A) decide B)realize C) imply D) offer

3. Most of us follow the natural urge to do first those things that we deem urgent, whether or not they are truly important.

A) pretend B) resist C) consider D) suggest

4. In the United States, men and women work together in an increasingly wide variety of job types and job responsibilities.

A) worth B) guidance C) selection D) opportunities

5. Happy couples are quick to look for help if they get bogged down in their relationship in any way.

A) impeded B) progress C) furious D) disappointed

6. A highly controversial new topic in the management field focuses on the role of gender in leadership.

A) sex category B) ambition C) integrity D) honesty

7. Multifamily dwellings decrease heating costs because people live closer together.

A) budgets B) work C) influences D) households

8. As we perspire somewhat when we sleep, the moisture from perspiration can get into the pillow, thereby providing the conditions for mold growth.

A) sweat B) swear C) swish D) sway

9. All animals are strategists in the reproductive game. Some have invested in the strategy of quantity.

A)aspect B) dimension C) plan D) overwhelm

10. Allen’s wife was one of the many bright and industrious young woman of the 1960’s who worked their way through college.

A)outstanding B) poor C) intelligent D) hardworking

11. As Jack’s popularity soared, he became a businessman.

A) rose B) descend C) changed D) noted

12. The restaurant tables were attractive because they had colorful tablecloths and cheerful flowers.

A) repellent B) delightful C) obvious D) essential

13. Billy is in charge of two production lines.

A) planning B) a representative of C) recruiting D) responsible

14. Some progressive companies value diversity and the increased creativity that a diverse workplace can provide.

A) offer B) discriminate C) assist D) operate

15. One golf club in Kansas offers reduced rates to senior citizens according to their income level.

A) well-known B) rich C) elder D) homeless

Grammar(20%)

Fill-in-the-blanks with appropriate prepositions(填入適當的介係詞)

Phytosterols and cholesterol are members of a family of compounds called “sterols.” Sterols are fatty substances composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen arranged __1__ a multiple ring-like structure. Bile, sex and adrenal hormones and even vitamin D contain sterols. Cholesterol is an essential component of cell membranes of animals tissues.

Phytosterols (phyto = plant) are found only __2__ plants. Interestingly, they can be naturally present in the diet in amounts almost equal to cholesterol. However, they differ __3__ structure and shape from cholesterol. Unlike dietary cholesterol, phytosterols seem to have some health-promoting effects:

Phytosterol-enhanced spreads (Benecol, Take Control) have been shown to reduce blood cholesterol __4__ 10 percent to 15 percent. In recommended amounts (1 to 5 grams/day of phytosterol), absorption __5__ dietary cholesterol and cholesterol-containing bile is inhibited. Even better, the reduction in blood cholesterol does not come __6__ the expense of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the so-called “good” cholesterol.

Recent research also has revealed that smaller amounts of a hpytosterol (60 to 120 milligrams/day of beta-sitosterol) may play a role in relieving urinary urgency and frequency caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate gland). It is interesting __7__ note that saw palmetto extract, a non-traditional remedy __8__ prostate problems, also contains phytosterols.

Animal studies also have shown that sitosterol may reduce the risk __9__ colon cancer by slowing cell replication. It is too early to speculate __10__ the effect in humans.

Reading Comprehension(12%)

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LONDON--Should Tony Blair, Britain’s prime minister, take paternity leave? His wife, Cherie, seems to want him to. His own rhetoric suggests he should. Both as a new-age dad and as head of a government that has just introduced paternity leave--albeit unpaid--in the face of much opposition, it would seem he should surely be in favor. But Mr. Blair is undecided. He has not, he says, “made my mind up yet.” The baby is to be born within weeks, and he “knows he should have” but sorry, he hasn’t decided. His candor is endearing. The voters can see his dilemma. It is the one that faces all forward-looking leaders who preach non-elitism but find its practice difficult when it comes to themselves. Do you, as a person of power and influence, send your children to the multi-ethnic public school nearby or to the private one where they’ll be happy and well educated? Do you take public transportation and arrive late, frayed and exhausted, or do you pour yourself out of a limo? Britain’s transport minister, John Prescott, owns two Jaguars, to the mirth and jeers of press and populace, hut can’t bring himself to give them up. Does Tony Blair take time off to bond with a crying baby, or does he keep the national show on the road? By helping gis wife he may perhaps risk his job--politicians are wary of turning their back for a moment longer than they have to.

Now see what it feels like, says the public. Paternity leave is a can of worms for the rest of us, too: it’s our right by law now, but how do we afford it, and at what cost to our careers? Far more than most working mothers, Cherie Blair can cope well enough without her husband. This is her fourth baby. She is Wonder Woman: Her energy, intelligence and skill are undoubted; she runs a good home and has already produced three pleasant, well-mannered children; she is a high-powered lawyer and earns more than her husband, taking high-profile, politically correct cases and fighting for them through the European Court. She even travels on public transportation. She puts the rest of us to shame. Her example makes many assume that all women can take both work and motherhood in their stride.

So it’s doubtful that she is putting forward a plea for moral and practical support: rather it seems likely to be that Mr. Blair must set a good example to the men of the nation. If women are ever to achieve equal rights and equals wages, then fathers must play an equal part in parenting.

In Tony Blair’s Britain, even more so than in Margaret Thatcher’s, one’s value to society is measured by one’s role in the economy. Women are expected to work--all must earn that all may spend: this is after all a consumer society. Too many women for the government’s comfort conclude that the only way to cope with job and family is not to have babies in the first place. The birth rate has already fallen to 1.7 per couple--2.1 being replacement level--and is expected to keep plummeting.

I hope that Cherie Blair will point these things out to her husband. “Tony,” she could say, “I daresay that in the short-term interests of the country you should stay at your post and organize bombs over Belgrade or the Irish peace accord or whatever military of political trivia arises, but in the long-term interest of the Western world and the working mothers in it, please just stay home and help mind the baby--be an equal parent, please. “And she would be quite right.

Fay Weldon is the author, most recently, of “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”

1. Which of the following is the most approprite title for this reading?

a). A different role of a woman in a family

b). Should paternity leave be legal?

c). A new act proposed by the prime minister

d). New labor’s new dad

2. What seems to be the Prime minister’s dilemma?

a). The public wants him to step down but he doesn’t want to

b). He wanted to take the leave but he doesn’t want to risk his hob

c). He wanted his wife to stay home for the baby but he just couldn’t say it.

d). His wife asks him to share parenting responsibilities but he is simply too busy.

3. What seems to be the author’s suggestion?

a). Take the paternity leave for the working mothers sake.

b). Stay in the post in the interest of the country.

c). The Prime Minister’s wife is a Wonder Woman and should continue to be one.

d). Take the leave for his wife plays a bigger role in the economy

4. Why is the fact that the Britain’s transport minister owns two Jaguars brought up?

a). to blame him for not taking the public transportation

b). to accuse him of bribery.

c). to imply that he is obsessed with name brand cars.

d). to argue that leaders often can’t answer their own political preach by setting themselves as an example.

Translation

I. English to Chinese (18%)

1. With the government backing away from earlier demands for a Microsoft breakup, the company is expected to propose a series of restrictions on its business practices in an effort to reach a compromise.

2. According to USA Today news, the Internet, which last year alone generated an estimated $300 billion in U.S. revenue, is transforming many sectors of the U.S. economy.

3. Some experts believe 2000 will be the year when China’s surplus permanently surpasses Japan’s trade surplus with this country.

4. In spite of an obvious lack of progress in developing study-skill programs that can be substantiated by empirical evidence, an historical overview does point to an interesting recurring notion.

II. Chinese to English

1. 在一月份，從外國進口的石油總價達到歷史新高，78億7仟萬，正是一年前全國還在享受油價大跌時的兩倍以上

2. 在上星期股市大漲，投資人獲利了結後，星期一大多數的股價都下跌

3. 若能善用每一個體的長處，且能鼓勵認同其個體的不同點，則組織能最佳運作

4. 定期運動可以帶來許多好處，如體重減輕，較強的肌肉，及更有活力的生活型態。