世新大學九十學年度碩士在職專班考試

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考試科目

法律學系 (乙組)

英文

 

PART ONE: Grammar

 

每題三分

(1-   5題，選出一個正確用法)

(6-10題，挑錯)

1.      Only after 1820’s, when the supply of sugar from Caribbean islands like Barbados, Guadeloupe and Martinique rose sharply, _____.

A.     stabilizing prices started

B.     its price started to stabilize

C.     did its price start to stabilize

D.     with the start of stabilized prices

 

2.      The Snake River is famous for its _____.

A.     rafting is while-water

B.     rafting is water while

C.     while-water rafting

D.     rafting whitens water

 

3.      Consuming excessive caffeine can be harmful because ____, elevates

      the body’s blood pressure, and increase the resting heart rate.

A.     the lining of the stomach is irritated

B.     irritating the stomach lining

C.     the stomach lining is irritated

D.     it irritates the lining of the stomach

 

4.      ___ a difficult and dangerous job, for low pay and few benefits.

A.     Whenever the western cowboy performed

B.     The western cowboy performing

C.     Not only did the western cowboy perform

D.     The western cowboy performed

 

5.      When light shines through a translucent pane, ___ diffuses, creating

      images that are difficult to recognize.

A.     that

B.     and

C.     it

D.     so

 

6.      There are many differences between playing baseball in an indoor

                                                                 A                   B

      Stadium and playing in one located out.

                                          C                D

 

7.      Texas is the number one oil-producing state in the nation and the larger

                                                                                A                    B

                  of the forty-eight continental states, with an area roughly the size of France.

                                                                            C             D

 

8.      The singer Elvis Presley earned the title “The King” after he dazzled

                                              A                                                   B

      his audiences during him performance in what is called “Rock’s

                                       C                           D         

      Golden Era”

 

9.      A distance runner depends more on his power of endurance than for

                                                       A                                         B

     any other skill.

               C     D

 

10.  Some rarely animals survive in such tiny numbers that they are seen

                  A                                                  B

     primarily as zoo specimens.

           C                      D

 

PART TWO: Reading    每小題五分

 

       What caused the massive extinction of dinosaurs some 65 million years ago? Various theories have been proposed, including climatic changes caused by volcanic eruptions, and competition fir food from mammals. In 1980, Luis Alvarez and his son Walter proposed the comet-impact theory, now embraced by many as the most plausible theory of mass extinction.

 

       At Different places around the world, there can be found a thin interface of gray clay between sedimentation of the late Cretaceous period below it and that of the Tertiary period above it. No dinosaur fossils have ever been found above the gray clay. The Alvarezes  analyzed samples from the gray clay and found an abnormally high content of iridium, very rare on earth but abundant in comets and asteroids. After some calculations, they theorized that a comet eight kilometers in diameter hit the earth at 70 kilometers a second, 65 million years ago. The tremendous explosion sent into the atmosphere some 1,7000 cubic kilometers of debris, which almost completely blocked out sunlight.

 

        Temperatures plummeted dinosaurs, was erased from the surface of the earth by a complete breakdown of the food chain. The debris eventually fell down and became the layer of gray clay that buried all dinosaurs underneath. William Boynton and Alan Hildebrand later discovered a crater 180 kilometers wide buried under Chicxulub City,

Mexico. The size of the crater matched the Alvarezes’ and fossil dating placed is formation at the end of the Cretaceous period. The discovery of the crater provided the missing link in the comet-impact theory, and has helped make it the reigning theory on dinosaur extinction.

1.      With what is the passage mainly concerned?

A.     the discovery of an underground crater

B.     Several theories of dinosaur extinction

C.     The comet-impact theory of dinosaur extinction

D.     The formation of a layer of gray clay in geological records

 

2.      Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a possible

       cause of dinosaur extinction?

A.     Changes of climate

B.     Volcanoes

C.     Mammals

D.     Meteors

 

3.      The word” embraced” in line 4 most closely means

A.     hugged

B.     worn

C.     rejected

D.     accepted

 

4.      It is implied in the passage that the high concentration of iridium in the

      gray clay led the Alvarezes to surmise that

A.     there was a huge volcanic explosion

B.     iridium was not really rare on earth

C.     the clay was poisonous to dinosaurs

D.     the clay contained debris from a comet

 

5.      The word “it” in line 22 refers to

A.     a discovery

B.     a crater

C.     a link

D.     a theory

 

 

     PART THREE 翻譯 (中翻英、英翻中)

     每小題三分

1.      Private Placement

2.      Intellectual Property

3.      General Accepted Accounting Principle

4.      Software

5.      Decision

6.      Advertisement

7.      原告

8.      被告

9.      投資人

10.  著作權

 

PART FOUR: Writing

 

TOPIC: The Spring Is Coming