國立師大附中 102 學年度第一學期高三英文科第二次期中考
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1. Feeling _____ of her poor English pronunciation, Julia flushed and did not answer the teacher’s question. (A) ashamed (B) devastated (C) terrifying (D) chaotic
2. Seeing their team win the championship, all the fans _____ in cheers and shouts. (A) demonstrated (B) erupted (C) overcame (D) outraged
3. Tanya is such a(n) ___ captain on her school basketball team that she has led them to numerous victory. (A) civilized (B) solitary (C) distinguished (D) agonized
4. As soon as the teacher opened the door, a bucket of water poured down, ______ his shirts and pants. (A) soaking (B) assaulting (C) embracing (D) splattering
5. Jane suffered from deep _____ for the loss of her cat and wept for weeks.
(A) anguish (B) modesty (C) commerce (D) smash
6. Running a marathon is an ultimate test of one’s_____, physical strength, and will power.
(A) mustache (B) sacrifice (C) endurance (D) despair
7. In most countries, sale of _____ drinks to minors is prohibited. The Turkish government took a step further as to ban the sale of all wine and liquor in shops from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
(A) domestic (B) dairy (C) commercial (D) alcoholic
8. According to the _____ of the teacher association, the educational reform proved to be effective. (A) complexity (B) emphasis (C) consciousness (D) assessment
9. Steven was totally _______ by the sweetness of the girl’s voice. He couldn’t get the sound out of his mind. It seems to be love at first “sight.”
(A) plagued (B) entranced (C) disabled (D) inflicted
10. People always say that with time comes _________. However, my older brother, who still counted on my parents for everything, would be a best counter example of it.
(A) maturity (B) fusion (C) circumstances (D) dignity
11. It is well established that early _______ to multi-languages would help to develop a sharp ear for languages. (A)attempt (B) trauma (C) exclusion (D) exposure
12. Optimism, enthusiasm, and leadership are positive traits that make you __________ from your peers. (A) burst out (B) call out (C) run out (D) stand out
13. Nobody that the war would last so long.
(A) encountered (B) anticipated (C) beckoned (D) tackled 14. Professor Chang is to be the highest authority on the subject.
(A) acknowledged (B) acquired (C) distributed (D) accelerated 15. Tuberculosis seriously his strength and confined him to bed.
(A) taunted (B) transformed (C) unfolded (D) diminished II 克漏字: 28%, 共 28 題
With The Cellist of Sarajevo stealing in, I was immediately drawn to a hushed, empty universe. Then the music grew into a(n) 16 furor that gripped me powerfully. And slowly and gently, it subsided into a death rattle and eventually back to silence. Bathed in this unaccompanied cello performed by Yo-Yo Ma, I felt 17 I had just witnessed the terrifying civil war, which devastated Sarajevo. The composer David Wilde 18 his feelings of outrage and love 18 this piece of music, trying to tell the world how brutal the war could be and how admirable Vedran Smailovic was.
Vedran Smailovic, an outstanding cellist in Sarajevo, actually did not realize the cruelty of war until May 27, 1992 19 he witnessed twenty-two innocent people killed by a mortar shell. 20 the massacre than a
feeling of agony overwhelmed him. Sleepless whole night, Smailovic finally figured out what he could do to mourn for his lost friends and neighbors. For the following twenty-two days, Smailovic, in his concert attire, played music with great 21 in the same spot where the massacre had happened. He played for human dignity, for scared people hiding in basements and for peace. With the battle 22 around him, Smailovic shook his cello like a fist in the face of bombs, ruins, and death. His cello, without a doubt, becomes the mightiest weapon of all.
16. (A) screaming (B) unashamed (C) renowned (D) civilized
17. (A) now that (B) even though (C) as though (D) as like 18. (A) soaked; with (B) poured; into (C) learned; from (D) swept; over
19. (A) when (B), when (C), in which (D) then
20. (A) As soon as he saw (B) The moment when he saw
(C) Whether he saw or not (D) No sooner had he seen
21. (A) resolution (B) doubt (C) embarrassment (D) confusion
22. (A) that rage (B) to rage (C) raging (D) raged
The recent wave of food crisis has taken a toll on many impoverished countries, among 23 Haiti is the hardest hit. Owing to catastrophic crop failures and the soaring prices of imported goods, farmers in the island country simply can’t produce food 24 to meet local needs. To keep their hunger at bay, local residents have supplemented their diet with mud cakes, which leads to malnutrition and diseases.
Actually, thirty-five other nations are faced with a similar plight.For instance, the Aboubakars family in Chad ate about $24 worth of food per week, which 25 sorghum, vegetables, nuts, and sunflower oil. Their only “luxuries” were salt, pepper, and a handful of ginger for flavor. As a sharp contrast, the Revis family in America spent over $300 on food per week, an amount that is over 26 the total food budget of the Aboubakars.
27 it is serious in some parts of the world, the problem of food shortages can actually be prevented. Though there’s no quick fix to the situation, here in Taiwan, we can still make a difference by better managing the world’s food supply and distribution. On a(n) individual level, we can make minor adjustments like cherishing our food on the table and 28 more food from going to waste. What really matters is that we should keep in mind the potential danger of a food crisis; otherwise, no matter which part of the world we live in, we’re bound to face food shortages 29 .
23. (A) them (B) which (C) where (D) what
24. (A) fast enough (B) too sufficient (C) so quick as (D) adequately large
25. (A) composed of (B) made up of (C) inclusive of (D) consisted of
26. (A) 12 times as much as (B) 12 times lower than
(C) 12 times more expensive (D) 12 times the number of
27. (A) Even (B) Though (C) In spite of (D) Despite
28. (A) stop (B) stopping (C) to stop (D) stops
29. (A) more or less (B) once and for all (C) sooner or later (D) for better or for worse
Hayao Miyazaki is widely regarded as the world's greatest animator and an icon of Japanese popular culture. His internationally 30 films, such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Howl’s Moving Castle have captured the interest of people 31 all ages around the world. What fascinate viewers are the features found in his films such as feminism, environmentalism, and flying.
Take Chihiro, the main character in Spirited Away, for example. Her bold adventure transforms her from a spoiled, whiny child into a responsible, capable girl. The strong female characters are one of the main elements of Miyazaki’s works. 32 , environmentalism has been a major theme that Miyazaki’s animated films often explore. In the animation Princess Mononoke, but for humans’ greed for natural resources, the forest inhabited by many animals 33 . Another recurring characteristic from Miyazaki’s films is flying. Miyazaki’s various flying vehicles, 34 a witch’s broom, massive military vessels, and so on, often inspire a lot of filmgoers. With his
lifelong interest in 35 , Miyazaki has been praised by his imagination in aircraft designed in his animation. With these unique characteristics, not only 36 commercial success in Japan, but they have won international
recognition from all over the world.
30. (A) renewed (B) acclaimed (C) emphasized (D) despised
31. (A) with (B) of (C) from (D) at
32. (A) Therefore (B) Accordingly (C) Similarly (D) Nevertheless
33. (A) could remain (B) could not remain
(C) could have remained (D) could not have remained 34. (A) included (B) including (C) inclusive (D) contained 35. (A) emphasis (B) fuse (C) complexity (D) aviation 36. (A) Miyazaki has achieved (B) Miyazaki’s films achieved
(C) has Miyazaki achieved (D) have Miyazaki’s films achieved
It is time that we reexamined the old saying, “Stones and sticks may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Brain researchers have discovered the inconvenient truth that verbal abuse may not just 37 the left side of the brain to stop developing but bring about damaging effects on the mind as well. For example, those verbally abused are very likely to have low self-esteem and to be plagued by such emotional problems as anxiety or depression. At times, so deep 38 that the victims think of committing suicide. In some cases, the victims even 39 taking the role of the abuser and start to inflict pain on other people.
40 , cases of verbal abuse can be seen anytime and anywhere. In an office, a boss may call the employees “Idiot” for failing to meet a deadline. At school, a student may be mocked or harassed just because of being different. The family, probably the 41 place that comes to our mind, is also the scene where verbal abuse takes place. Children may 42 being insulted or scolded by their parents for getting an unsatisfactory score. Some of the parents even ignore their children and discount their opinions.
As the breeze is to the flowers, so are positive words to a human being. We should bear in mind that words can hurt and that 43 we start to learn the art of saying positive words, we will avoid living in a sick world.
37. (A) cause (B) make (C) let (D) have
38. (A) run the mental scars (B) do the mental scars run (C) the mental scars run (D) the mental scars running
39. (A) make up (B) come in (C) put up with (D) wind up
40. (A) In contrast (B) Better yet (C) Sad to say (D) To our amusement
41. (A) last (B) first (C) only (D) least
42. (A) run the risks of (B) take advantage of (C) be entitled to (D) expose to 43. (A) as long as (B) only by (C) not until (D) in order that III. 文意選填: 20%, 共 10 題，請注意，選項字母大小寫不影響作答
Doctors-in-training are in need of a dose of compassion. That's 44 a new study from Johns Hopkins University. The study shows that young doctors in their first year out of medical school are 45 to take the time to introduce themselves to hospitalized patients, or to sit and have an eye-to-eye conversation with patients. That's concerning, if
considering research shows that how a doctor treats patients at their bedside can 46 a patient's recovery and lead to greater patient satisfaction.
Trained observers 47 twenty-nine internal medicine interns who were in their first year after medical school for three weeks. The observers recorded whether the interns used five 48 communication skills like introducing themselves, explaining their role to the patient, touching the patient, asking open-ended questions like, "How are you feeling today?" and sitting down with the patient for a conversation.
In some 49 , interns scored high. For instance, they touched their patients 65% of the time (though that was sometimes in the 50 of giving physical exams) and asked open-ended questions 75% of the time during hospital visits. 51 , interns only introduced themselves 40% of the time and explained their medical role 37% of the time. The interns sat down with their patients only 9% of the time.
52 , interns only performed all five behaviors during just 4% of their visits. "It's 53 patients don't feel connected to what we are telling them, because many times we are not doing as much as we could to make that connection," said study co-author Dr. Lauren Block, a former general internal medicine fellow at Johns Hopkins in a statement.
(A) areas (B) however (C) in total (D) improve (E) monitored (AB) according to (AC) no wonder (AD) process (AE) unlikely (BC) valued
IV. 篇章結構: 5 %, 共 5 題
Six months before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967.
I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?
Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint. 54 .
I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint.
55 . Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
56 . You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life — what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, "If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
And so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight oil; I would say to you, don't drop out of school. I urge you that in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that you're forced to live in — stay in school. And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. 57 .
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. 58 . Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
(A)Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.
(B) Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.
(C) Secondly, in your life's blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor.
(D)Number one in your life's blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness.
(E) Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better. V. 閱測: 32%, 共 16 題
Freerice is a free online game and learning tool, which allows players to raise rice to fight world hunger while learning through educational, multiple-choice games. For every question the user answers correctly,
10 grains of rice are donated to the World Food Programme.
The ingenious idea behind Freerice came to John Breen as he was trying to help his son study for the SAT, a college entrance exam in America. A computer programmer, Breen developed a computer-based, multiple-choice quiz to help his son build vocabulary. The quiz is designed to adjust to the user’s vocabulary level so that questions are challenging yet not too difficult. Breen, also passionate about ending world hunger, soon realized that putting the quiz online could aid this important cause.
Currently, besides English vocabulary, the available subjects include multiplication tables, pre-algebra, chemical symbols, English grammar, SAT, basic foreign language vocabulary for English speakers, human anatomy, geography, the identification of famous artwork, and literature. Total score is displayed as a mound of rice and the amount of grains.
One month after the start of the viral marketing program, users had earned enough points for one billion grains of rice. The United Nation’s World Food Program stated that this amount could feed 50,000 people for one day, since it takes 400 grams or about 19,200 grains of rice to feed one adult for a day. Using this calculation, enough rice was donated in 2008 to feed over 6,000 people daily for each day of that year. Since its operation, as of April 3, 2013, Freerice players had earned sufficient rice for over 10 million meals, assuming 2 meals per day. Since players are constantly clicking, Freerice can feed about 100 families of four each day if we get 6 million grains of rice every day.
59. What is the article mainly about?
(A) A website that raises environmental awareness. (B) An organization that advocates racial equality. (C) An online game that aims to end world hunger. (D) An institute that helps increase rice production. 60. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the article?
(A) The funding of Freerice. (B) The content of Freerice. (C) The accomplishment of Freerice. (D) The origin of Freerice. 61. About Freerice, which of the following is NOT true?
(A) Players with good geographical knowledge can score high. (B) Players have to speak correct English to get grains of rice. (C) Players can use it to prepare for the US college entrance exam. (D) The total score a player gets is shown as a pile of rice.
62. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
(A) One billion grains of rice is enough to feed 60,000 people for one day. (B) It takes about 400 grains of rice to feed one adult for a day.
(C) Rice donated in 2008 was sufficient for over 10 million meals.
(D) It takes 6 million grains of rice to feed about 100 families of four each day.
Miyazaki is one of animation’s most admired and successful directors. He said Friday that at the age of 72, he now wants to do other things besides slaving away over his drawings to meet feature film deadlines.
“This will never happen again,” Miyazaki said at the conclusion of a nearly 2-hour-long news conference in which he shared his thoughts on everything from war to Italian cuisine, one of his favorites.
The co-founder of Studio Ghibli said he hopes to work for another decade, but at a slower pace that might allow him to perhaps even take Saturdays off.
Among other things, he plans to work on his Ghibli Museum, where he says the exhibits need refreshing. “I might even become an exhibit myself,” he said.
While avoiding the limelight, Miyazaki hasn’t shied away from controversy. In the past few months, his outspoken opposition to efforts to revise Japan’s pacifist constitution has drawn fire from rightists who favor a higher profile for the military.
where Spirited Away was awarded an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, saying he found it hard to celebrate “because of the deeply sad events taking place in the world” – a reference to the war in Iraq.
Miyazaki has used traditional animation throughout the animation process, though computer-generated imagery was employed starting with Princess Mononoke. However, in his 2008 film Ponyo, Miyazaki went back to traditional hand-drawn animation. Miyazaki’s own career centers on grueling hard work: Miyazaki has mostly eschewed computer graphics for painstakingly hand-drawn animation.
Miyazaki’s success has helped keep Japan one of the world’s biggest markets for animation. His sale of worldwide distribution rights for Studio Ghibli’s works to Walt Disney Studios in 1996 helped win him a global audience.
Miyazaki’s films generally portray a fantasy world in which technology is eclipsed by mysticism and nature. “Miyazaki’s extraordinary vision unites romanticism and humanism,” said Marco Mueller, the 2005 director of the Venice Film Festival. “The sense of wonder that his films transmit reawakens the sleeping beauty in all of us.”
63. What can be inferred from the passage? (A) Miyazaki used to work on Saturday.
(B) The Studio Ghibli was solely founded by Miyazaki. (C) The rightists in Japan are in favor of peace.
(D) Miyazaki prefers Italian food to Japanese food.
64. According to the passage, why didn’t Miyazaki show up in the Academy Awards ceremony where Spirited
Away won an Oscar? Because _______.
(A) He didn’t like attending the formal occasions (B) A war broke out in Iraq
(C) Flight to the U.S. was grueling for an old man like him (D) He was busy revising Japan’s pacifist constitution
65. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
(A) Miyazaki plans to make some changes in the exhibition of Ghibli Museum. (B) Walt Disney Studios helped Studio Ghibli’s works be seen by the whole world. (C) Muller spoke highly of Miyazaki’s films.
(D) Although Miyazaki hopes to work for another decade, he finally decides to quit drawing animations. 66. What does the word eschew probably mean in the passage?
(A) Adopt. (B) Hate. (C) Avoid. (D) Paint.
Yesterday you had a hard day at work. As you were walking out of the office, a colleague approached you and started to attack the way you did things. You felt like your blood pressure had hit the roof. What the colleague said had pushed your buttons and you immediately replied with an equal amount of sarcasm and abuse, which made the situation worse. Before you knew it, you were involved in a verbal fight.
In fact, what you experienced was an “amygdala hijack.” The amygdala is the “fight or flight” and emotional memory part of the brain. Its job is to protect you by comparing incoming data with emotional memories. An amygdala hijack happens when you respond excessively to the actual threat because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat. When you experience an amygdala hijack, the amygdala overtakes the cerebrum (the thinking part of the brain) and you lose the ability to reason logically. The immediate result of a hijack is a decrease in working memory. Adrenaline is released and will be present and effective for 18 minutes, and other hormones are released into the bloodstream that will take 3 to 4 hours to clear.
The simple 4 steps to reduce the chance of an amygdala hijack are SOAP:
(1) Stop. Stop whatever you’re doing. Ask yourself what just happened. Replace your thoughts with positive ones. This step keeps the neocortex, a part of the brain, engaged and can prevent the amygdala’s takeover. (2) Oxygenate. Breathe deeply, with intention and purpose.
(3) Appreciate. While it’s especially effective to appreciate the source of the hijack (i.e. appreciating the colleague is concerned about your job), any appreciation of anything will be helpful. If you can’t appreciate the person who is the source of the conflict, appreciate parts of your own life, such as your family and friends. (4) Ponder. After the hijack, spend some time exploring what happened and why. Recognizing the trigger will
allow you to avoid being triggered in the future.
67. In the first paragraph, “what the colleague said had pushed your buttons” means what the colleague said had _______ you.
(A) encouraged (B) cheated (C) irritated (D) flattered 68. Which of the following is NOT one part of the brain?
(A) Neocortex. (B) Adrenaline. (C) Amygdala. (D) Cerebrum.
69. Which of the following is NOT the recommended way to reduce the chance of an amygdala hijack?
(A) Thank your family. (B) Take a deep breath. (C) Reflect on what happened. (D) Think negatively.
70. Which of the following statement about the amygdala hijack is WRONG? (A) When encountering verbal abuse, you are more likely to experience it. (B) It may happen when you over-react to the actual threat.
(C) When you experience it, you will become more rational. (D) A decrease in working memory is the instant result of it.
Imagine if Hamlet began with the Prince alone on stage, delivering the lines, "To be or not to be ..." — no explanation, no setting of the scene, just one character thinking out loud, leaving us to make of what he says. Edward Elgar (1857-1934), an English composer, does the musical equivalent at the opening of his Cello
Concerto, placing the listener in the middle of the work without its opening bars. This is not the way concertos are
supposed to begin. Generally there is an extended orchestral introduction, after which the solo instrument makes a carefully stage-managed first appearance. In Antonin Dvorak's Cello Concerto, for example, the opening
orchestral section lasts a full three and a half minutes.
Elgar begins instead with four insistent chords on the cello that immediately create a melancholy mood. They receive a gentle answer from strings, clarinets and horns, and then the cello becomes more agitated, in a series of rising notes that seem to promise some emphatic statement. What we hear is something else: the violas launch into a subdued lament in 9/8 time that was Elgar's original motivation for the work. He started the concerto just months after the end of the First World War, and this great sorrowful melody is Elgar's lament for all that the war had cost—millions of lives, and, with them, a way of life. Gently swaying between a half note and a quarter note as it winds its way through shifting keys, the theme manages to express both the grief and the ache within. This main theme is passed from orchestra to cello and back again, becoming more anguished with each
restatement, until it finally returns on the cello in the same subdued manner in which we heard it first. This leads to a more animated second theme in 12/8, which begins as a dialogue between strings and woodwinds. The first theme is heard again, and the movement ends with three plucked notes on the cello. With its two simple themes that forego any substantial development, the movement uses one of music's simplest form - the three-part structure of a song.
71. Hamlet is mentioned in the first paragraph to .
(A) show how much Elgar was inspired by this Shakespearean character (B) indicate how Elgar’s cello concerto starts in the 1st movement
(C) prove how important his image is in Elgar’s Cello Concerto
(D) introduce how the latest production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins
72. Which of the following adjectives can be used to best describe the tone of Elgar’s cello concerto?
(A) Mournful. (B) Optimistic. (C) Inspiring. (D) Solitary. 73. What made Elgar compose this cello concerto?
(A) The happiness he felt after his marriage. (B) The joy he found in conquering obstacles.
(C) The sorrow he felt for the death of his best friend. (D) The grief he held for the war which cost lives.
74. Which of the following issues is NOT mentioned in the passage? (A) The influence of WWI on Elgar’s cello concerto.
(B) The orchestration of Elgar’s cello concerto. (C) The number of themes in Elgar’s cello concerto. (D) The popularity of Elgar’s cello concerto.
