八十學年度研究所碩士班入學考試
英文試題
1.Vocabulary:In each of the following 15 sentences. There is a blank where a word is left out. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C,. D. One of the choices best completes the sentence. Choose the best answer and write its corresponding letter on the answer sheet.30%
1.Next year we are going to ______(examine thoroughly for revision)the curriculum. (A)indulge
(B)survey (C)overhaul (D)research
2.He placed himself in ______(danger)in order to save my life. (A)scramble
(B)repulsion (C)trickery (D)jeopardy
3.All cars must have devices to reduce exhaust______(discharges). (A)emissions
(B)taints (C)smog (D)portions
4.His stomach was already______(making low continuous, throbbing sound)for lunch. (A)cackling
(B)rumbling (C)tickling (D)tantalizing
5.Rumors of his stepping down from his office______(spread through) the building. (A)upheld
(B)elevated (C)channeled (D)swept
6.How weather makes me______(inactive) (A)crafty
(B)nimble (C)sluggish (D)peppery
7.The government should put a ______(restraing) on public spending. (A)dodge
(B)curb (C)ruin (D)security
8.His speech______(expressed agreement with)my own feelings. (A)executed
(B)gobbled (C)fostered (D)echoed
9.The earthquake______(took)hundreds of lives. (A)withdrew
(B)mediated (C)consumed (D)claimed
10.The man looked______(in a way that is very obvious)uncomfortable. (A)readily
(B)decidedly (C)seemly (D)vitally
11.She didn't find my suggestion at all______(acceptable). (A)feasible
(B)fussy (C)palatable (D)blunt
12.Insurance statistics show that most wives______(outlive)their husbands. (A)undo
(C)vanish (D)abandon
13.This is a______(tentative) plan until we decide what to do. (A)makeshift
(B)overall (C)downcast (D)outgoing
14.The news report______(suggested indirectly) that the mayor was bribed. (A)insinuated
(B)enhanced (C)assembled (D)cuddled
15.Every citizen has a______(obligation) to defend his country.
2.Grammar:In the following 15 xentences, each has four underlined words of phrases marked A, B, C, D. Choose the one underlined that is grammtically incorrect and write the corresponding letter on the answersheet.30%
1.Please don't bother me now.I've gotten(A) to wash the dishes(B) from(C) last week(D).
2.I can very(A) understand your aversion(B) to meeting(C) all these people.
3.Some KMT insiders say the conservative backlash that followed(A) explains why Lee has kept (B)a low profile in the passed nine(C) months and has
quietly worked behind the scenes(D).
4.A sroup banker(A) who asks to be not identified(B) says its 19 domestic
lenders and 10 foreign-bank creditors are likely to support(C) the group should(D) its finances worsen.
5.A policy breakthrough was occurred(A) in June, when China announced it would ratify the Montreal Protocol, a move(B) that will leave India as (C)the only major nation which has not(D) signed on.
7.The cost of land and labor is becoming(A) enviably expensive. So are raw materials(B) that sourced through(C) Taiwan's state-dominated(D)
procurement agencies.
8.Finance officials have said that these investigations will delay (A)by at the least(B) several weeks the naming of(C) the successful applicants for the new
bank licences, originally scheduled for(D) mid-April.
9.Be(A) worn out from(B) all the work(C), he decided to relax for(D) the evening.
10.Intensive language instruction programs require a great deal of(A) time.
Students at(B) Chengchi University's Chinese language Institute, for an instance(C), attend Chinese classes four hours daily(D).
11.Behavior usually has to do more(A) with how long and healthily(B) people live than does(C) the soaring investment in medical treatments to restore health, or to slow(D) its decline.
12.We don't encourage hang gliding by two-year-olds(A) or teach calculus in first grade(B) ,nor should we tell a six-year-old that his uncertain future includes the
possibility of the death of everyone dear to him(C) and the end of his own short life as well(D).
13.This effort to deny women their biological identity, their individuality, their humanness(A), is such an important(B) aspect of obscene
language that one only can marvel(C) at how seldom, in an era preoccupied with(D) definitions of obscenity, this fact is brought to our attention.
14.While(A) discrimination undoubtedly(B) explains part of the male-female
earnings differential, one has to believe that men are monumentally stupid or irrational to explain
all of(C) earnings gap in terms of(D) discrimination.
15.It is often(A) stated that the dam and its reservoir have opened up(B)
to the many what was(C) formerly restricted to the few, implying in this case that (D) was once expensive has now been made cheap.
3.In the following three passage, there are 15blanks where words of phrases are left out. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C,
D. One of the choice best fits the blank. Choose the best answer and write its corresponding letter on the answer sheet.30%
(A) No matter_(1)__we are going to write about--whether our subject is required or inspired--we begin with words. Though this may sound fairly obvious, we often forget just how important_(2)__words play in the way we perceive and formulate a subject, in the way we generate ideas about a subject, and in the way we continue to think about that subject_(3)__each stage of composition. Words, we need to remind ourselves_(4)__we work with them, are not simply handy building-blocks to be fitted into their proper places, but are,_(5)__, powerful activators that continuously shape and reshape our thinking and writing.
(1)A)when B)what C)whether D)how (2)A)the B)most of C)a part D)our (3)A)throughout B)on C)for D)of (4)A)and B)since C)as D)though (5)A)still B)moreover C)thus D)rather
(B) The high and growing cost of a nuclear power plant is due_(6)__to the difficulties associated white the technology that it has_(7)__with a non-nuclear plant--_(8)__, the conversion of energy of steam into electricity--but rather to its unique feature, the use of fission to
supply the heat needed to produce steam. The accident at Harrisburg showed that a failure in the steam-to-electricity section of the plant_(9)__would have caused very little trouble in a conventional power
plant_(10)__producing a catastrophic disaster in the nuclear one and has shut down the plant for a long time, and possibly permanently.
(6)A)in part B)mostly C)a lot D)not so much
(7)A)in common B)to do C)nothing to do D)in agreement (8)A)for example B)in addition C)that is D)in fact
(9)A)but B)and C)or D)that
(10)A)came close to B)was instead of C)went on D)arrived at
_(11)__still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists,_(12)__of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era
challenged. When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging result of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth. We urgently need an end to these false assurance, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. _(14)__the public that is being asked to assume the risk that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, _(15)__only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand,"the obligation to endure gives us the right to know."
(11)A)There is B)It is C)Yet D)But (12)A)every B)each C)one D)none
(13)A)worthwhile B)count C)at whatever cost D)without any consideration (14)A)They are B)How sad is C)All is D)It is
(15)A)but not until B)and it can do so C)for it is possible D)even though
4.Translate each of the following Chinese sentences into English.10%
1. 他們已經交往兩年，並且論及婚嫁。 2. 這齣戲含有很濃的政治意味。
3. 我們絕不能放棄對該島的主權。 4. 飆漲的地價助長高房價。
