世新大學二部八十八學年度轉學招生考試
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Please choose the BEST answer on your
answer sheet.
On your answer sheet, choose one answer, (A), (B), (C), or (D) that best fits the context of each statement.
1. Mary has been feeling dejected ever since she moved to Chicago.
(A) happy (B) sad (C) excited (D) cold
2. Manson confessed that he had committed the crime.
(A) claimed (B) admitted (C) denied (D) boasted
3. Smith has always been perplexed by human relations.
(A) puzzled (B) frightened (C) excited (D) strengthened
4. Good sportsmanship requires that one not humiliate a defeated adversary. .
(A) mortify (B) jocose (C) abuse (D) covet
5. The policewoman was deceived by the boy’s innocent manner. .
(A) hollowed out (B) taken in (C) on the outs (D) laid waste
6. That manufacturing method is now obsolete. .
(A) conspicuous (B) out-of-date (C) compete (D) inventory
7. Where did the assailant come from? .
(A) savior (B) attacker (C) sailor (D) assistant
8. Teachers pay attention to a student’s verbal ability because it shows how well he or she is learning. .
(A) ability to learn (B) ability to write (C) ability to speak (D) ability to read
9. With the current inflation, it is obvious that the price of imported goods will go down. .
(A) doubtful (B) more or less possible (C) certain (D) impossible
10. What we hear is a partial report of the ADB meeting. .
(A) a part (B) complete (C) summary (D) confidential
On your answer sheet, choose the one best answer, (A), (B), (C), or (D) to complete each sentence.
11. ____, the catfish is prized for its taste.
(A) It is ugly-looking (B) Ugly-looking it is (C) With ugly-looking (D) Ugly-looking
12. It is far better to teach a man a trade ____.
(A) more than give him charity (B) instead of offering him money
(C) without helping him by giving him charity (D) than to offer him charity
13. Miss Lin said in her letter that she’d appreciate ____ from you sometime in the future.
(A) to hear (B) having heard (C) hearing (D) to hearing.
14. Only after he has acquired considerable facility in speaking, ____.
(A) does he learn to read and write (B) then he learns reading and writing
(C) finally comes reading and writing (D) he began to read and to write
15. Weather ____, the picnic will be held as scheduled.
(A) has been told (B) was told (C) should permit (D) will permit
16. He ____ by us never to come here again last night.
(A) has been told (B) was told (C) should permit (D) told
17. I have been asked ____ to telephone you all week. Where have you been?
(A) to (B) for (C) by (D) in
18. Hello! I ____ to telephone you all week. Where have you been?
(A) was trying (B) have to try (C) have been trying (D) have being tried
19. ____ settlement of this problem without first looking into its causes.
(A) There is not (B) There can be no (C) There must be not (D) It’sno
20. The first national park, ____, was Yellowstone in the State of Wyoming.
(A)founding in 1872 (B) finding in 1872 (C) to be found in 1872 (D) founded in 1872
21. If I had had enough money, I ____ the car.
(A) would have bought (B) had bought (C) would buy (D) bought
22. Never trust another with ____ you should do yourself.
(A) that (B) which (C) what (D) as
23. what have you been doing ____ I last saw you?
(A) from (B) since (C) after (D) before
24. Although they ____ early, they arrived late.
(A) have left (B) had left (C) left (D) leave
25. A man gains in wisdom ____ age.
(A) for (B) as (C) at (D) with
Please read the following passages carefully and choose the one best answer, (A), (B), (C), or (D)to each question; then put down capital letter under the number of the corresponding question on the answer sheet.
A. Both late sleeper and early risers find the fixed hour of nine-to-five work day a problem. Now there is an answer that seems to please them both. Employees of over500 businesses, organizations and government agencies in the Untied States are adapting their work hours to suit their individual needs. It’s called “flexible time” (flextime) and it means, for example, that employees can start working at any time during the first three hours their office is opened and leave after completing their required daily working time. Early risers can begin work at seven a.m., finish at three and still have daylight time for shopping, picking up children at school, or recreation. Late sleepers need not report for work until 10 a.m. –but the must stay on their job until six in the evening.
Says a Boston, Massachusetts bank officials: “our employees like the system, and tardiness has been virtually eliminated. Fewer people are absent, turnover has dropped markedly, and productivity and moral have risen.”
26. How much time do workers have to start work?
(A) half an hour (B) three hours (C) five hours (D) two and a half
27. The normal American work day schedule is
(A) eight hours (B) five hours (C) six and one half hours (D) flexible
28. What is one of the benefits of the flexible work schedule?
(A) Time passes by more quickly. (B) There is more time for lunch.
(C) Hardly anyone is ever late for work. (D) Late sleepers have plenty of sleep.
29. What is the earliest possible time someone can get out of work on an eight hour schedule?
(A) 2:30p.m. (B) 1p.m. (C) 3p.m. (D) 4p.m.
30. Select the sentence which best completes the above passage:
(A) Many business organizations in the United States have never heard of flexible work hours.
(B) Employees shouldn’t be forced to adhere to a flexible work hour schedule.
(C) I wouldn’t be surprised if most business adopt flexible work hours in the near future.
(D) Flexible work hours is a terrible idea.
B. With interest in exotic pets on the rise, some people have gone into the business of breeding wild animals in captivity, claiming not just to make money from them but to protect them from extinction as well. However, animals bred in captivity are often infirm and genetically inferior because of inbreeding or confinement. If well-intentioned but misguided people set them loose in the wild, the best thing that can happen is for them to die off before they can mate with their cousins in the wild and spoil the genetic pool. As a matter of fact, nobody wants all animals to become domesticated. If we really olove animals, the best thing we can do for them is to nature sanctuaries are well managed, we can go there and see the animals in a more “natural” situation, which should be next best to being in the wild. Why do we have to stuff them in our pockets?
31. To breed wild animals in captivity is to
(A) speed their extinction. (B) protect them from extinction. (C) preserve natural environment. (D) build nature sanctuaries.
32. “Inbreeding” makes animals to suffer from genetical inferiority because they are bred
(A) with too much care. (B) in confinement. (C) from closely related family members. (D) in natural environment.
33. According to the article, nobody wants all animals to
(A) be bred in captivity. (B) be trained. (C) be seen as they should be. (D) be wild.
34. According to the article, when you set your pets loose in the wild, you probably will
(A) improve their genetic pool. (B) kill them (C) cause them to grow stronger. (D) cause them to grow infirm.
35. To stuff animals in our pockets means to
(A) eat them. (B) cook them. (C) buy them. (D) own them.
IV. Composition. 30%
Write a three-paragraph composition on the following topic: “The Most Serious Problem in Taiwan”