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I. Vocabulary Test: Choose the Best Item to Complete the Following Sentences. (2 points each, total 20 points)

1. The woman does not enjoy her journey mainly because she brought too much _____.

 bag  bags  luggages  luggage

2. Jeffrey had to spend all his morning _____ all of the mistakes in his passing ball.

 helping  correcting  working  making

3. It has been commonly acknowledged that organic food _____ to be more expensive.

 associates  inclined  makes  tends

4. According to the news release on the flyer, everything in the store is _____ whenever the hometeam wins the game.

 cheap  sell  on a sale  on discount

5. Jeremy Lin knows everybody credited him for the team’s seven straight wins, so he takes the _____ for their one-game losing streak.

 blame  blasphemy blare  blaze

6. New York’s point guard sensation committed nine turnovers, _____ for the most in the league this season, in an 89-95 loss to the New Orleans Bumblebee on Friday night.

 echoed  tied  tightened  inspired

7. Fortunately for Taiwanese sports fans, the internet provides a ready-made _____ to the television system. Most of Lin’s games are being made available by live stream on sports websites.

 alternative  abnormality  casualty  abandonment

8. The Taiwanese-American basketball breakout phenomenon, Jeremy Lin, led his team to _____ with a game-winning three pointer and a total of 27 points and 11 assists.

 insanity  legend  victory  calamity

9. Unlike in the U.S., where Lin seems to come out of nowhere, sports fans in Taiwan had been the fourth Asian American player since he was _____ last season by the Golden State Warriors after his graduation from Harvard.

 signaled  signed  sighed  singled

10. The so-called linsanity phenomenon indicates two things. Lin is Asian by ethnicity and he graduated from Harvard. Those are the two things that run against _____.

 synthesis  significance  systems  stereotype

II. Reading-Text Completion (2 points each, total 20 points)

Read the text below. A word or phrase is missing in some of the sentences. You need to choose the BEST out of the four items to complete the sentence.

Questions 1 to 5:

Most countries have different protocols for seeing a doctor and (1) medicine. In the US (2) , doctors don’t generally keep prescription medications in their own offices. Instead, these are kept in a/an (3) pharmacy. Pharmacies are often entirely different business, run independently of the doctor’s office or the hospital. This method is different (4) methods used in other countries, where the pharmacy is often part of the doctor’s office. In the US, the doctor only writes a prescription on a special piece of paper. The patient must then take this paper to a pharmacy to get the medication which

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the doctor (5) .

1.  getting  dining  applying  testifying

2.  as example  by example  for example  et cetera

3.  associated  adjacent  separate  partial

4.  from the  with the  to the  in the

5.  will prescribe  being prescribed  prescribing  has prescribed

Questions 6-10:

In June 2004, Patrick Denuel weighted 486 kg. A year later, he (6) that he could feel his ribs for the first time in 25 years. He said, “All of a sudden, I look little more like a human being.”

The sad (7) of Patrick’s life was that he had not left his bedroom for seven years, and had not been outside for seven years. He had trouble sitting up. He had heart problems and needed a machine to breathe. Twelve months after having (8) to make his stomach smaller, he weighed only 226 kg, the first time in 20 years that he had weighed so little. He wants to set an example for those who also suffer from (9) . “If I can lose weight, anybody can do this, and I mean anybody,” he said. For many years, he had been frustrated by not being able to lose weight and be being called names. Now he feels reborn. They are believed to be genetic, but it has not yet been proven.

Patrick has been paid to appear on TV to talk about his story openly, and often humorously. His (10) is to not be shy to ask an expert for help. Keeping everything inside will get you nowhere.

6.  claimed  begged  inquired  responded

7.  reliance  reality  alliance  release

8.  surgery  surface  relocation  rehab

9.  insomnia  observation  oblivion  obesity

10.  adversity  advice  advise  acquisition

III. Reading (2.5 points each, total 10 points)

In the second decade of life, young adults have endless choices, but the decisions they make depend on developing the power of the human brain to learn and reason. Reyna, a professor at Cornell, brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading scientists to examine how the adolescent brain develops, and how this development impacts various aspects of reasoning and decision-making. The idea raised is that the brain areas that quickly grasp the gist of situations and regulate judgments are still developing during the teenage years, and don’t reach full maturity until the early to mid-twenties for most people. A growing body of scientific data does show that to reduce adolescent risk taking, a different approach is needed: one that recognizes how adolescents reason. Intervention strategies are suggested to be used by parents, youth professionals, and communities to keep young people safe and help them make better choices.

From your understanding of the text,

1. What is the average age for young adults mentioned?

 5  15  25  35

2. Which concept fits better for the whole concept?

Young people are actually well aware of their vulnerability.

Young people think they are immortal and invulnerable to harm.

The adolescent brain just isn’t yet optimized for making that adult beeline to the bottom line.

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3. Following strategy is suggested to help young make better choice?

Bombarding youth with their fault.

Giving adolescents practice at recognizing environmental signs of danger.

Protecting young people from real-world risky substances and situations to reduce the errors.

Occupying their time with tremendous home-works.

4. Look at the word “endless” in the first line in the paragraph. This word could be best replaced by which of the following?

 few  unlimited  bounded  restricted

IV. Short essay questions (15 points each, total 30 points)

1. In your opinion, what is the most important characteristic that a person can have to be successful in his/her academic career? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

2. Do you agree or disagree the following statement? A person’s childhood years are the most important years of a person’s life. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

V. Translation (20 points)

Please translate the following paragraph from English to Chinese.

Some animals are capable of vocal learning, changing the sounds they make in response to those they hear from other members of their species. Scientists have hypothesized that such behavior may be associated with the capacity for so-called 'rhythmic synchronization'. "Motor control of vocal organs is naturally important in vocal learning," says Prof. Yoshimasa Seki. "Once auditory-motor coordination in the vocal control system has been established, a similar auditory-motor transformation system for other body parts might be derived from that." (ScienceDaily, 2012)