國立臺中教育大學 105 學年度教師專業碩士學位學程招生考試
英語專業試題
I. Vocabulary (20%; 2 points for each question)1. Last year, an organization in Taiwan _________ an online voting for netizens to select a list of top ten must-see libraries in Taiwan. Some libraries feature their reading-friendly environment, some feature the great amount of volumes in their holdings, some feature specialized holdings, and some feature warm and person touch.
(A) spent (B) launched (C) relieved (D) proved
2. Each year, young college students in Taiwan have been selected to embark on International Youth Ambassadors Exchange Program to represent Taiwan to establish bonds of _________ and trust on foreign relations through cultural exchanges, presentations, and versatile performances.
(A) entrepreneurship (B) hostility (C) opposition (D) friendship
3. In the age of great information explosion, it has become very convenient to _________ information online. One might find it increasingly difficult to quiet down to read and simply absorb meaningful information.
(A) look up (B) look after (C) look down on (D) look back
4. Black kites, one kind of eagles, are raptors living in close proximity to humans and are ranked as a rare and valuable species in Taiwan. Naturalists who launch kite population survey and tracking projects in Taiwan have proved that agricultural _________ were contributing to the kites’ decline.
(A) compost (B) nutrients (C) pesticides (D) specimen
5. Far off the beaten path, a group of twenty-some young creative individuals revitalize an old house by setting up a small creative and cultural market with their own crafts and _______.
(A) exhibits (B) carpenter (C) attorney (D) autopsy
6. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are causing global warming, resulting in ________ sea levels, and climate change. Hence, the Conferences of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change have set up the mechanism of reducing Greenhouse gases emissions.
(A) arising (B) raising (C) rising (D) descending
7. In recent years, an increasing number of Taiwanese students who studied abroad have chosen to study in Hong Kong due to two major _________ reasons as internationalization and cheaper tuitions than those in the US.
(A) appealing (B) resulting (C) unattractive (D) downsizing
8. Taiwanese are generally not very ________ solo encounters with nature. The usual custom is to gather a group of friends to go into the mountains or off to the ocean. Loud laughter, constant conversation, and even playing music through speakers all have made natural silence lost.
(A) fond of (B) subject to (C) aware of (D) sure about
9. People are harmed by noise pollution but don’t even realize it. Many don’t even know there are two kinds of silence in us. One is internal, a feeling of respect for life, which is at the level of the soul. The other is ________, the feeling when humans put themselves into a natural environment without modernity or intrusion by manmade sounds.
(A) inbound (B) outbound (C) extent (D) external
10. For international press, Ho Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢) has been synonymous with Taiwan movies. His movies feature ________ dialogues, emotional restraint, and unique aesthetics.
(A) sparse (B) fantastic (C) bearable (D) intolerable
II. Question and Answer: Choose the best answer. (10%; 2 points for each question)
11. Man: What kind of guy is Jeff?
Woman: He is a half-empty kind of guy. What does the woman mean?
(A) Jeff is an optimist.
(B) Jeff is uncomfortable in his surroundings. (C) Jeff is a pessimist.
12. Woman: Do you get pay raises where you work? Man: Yes, but they are few and far between. What does the man mean?
(A) He gets lots of raises at his job.
(B) There are no raises given where he works.
(C) The company where he works doesn’t give raises very often. (D) He has to run far to get a raise.
13. Man: Please comment on the appropriateness of this article for 2nd language acquisition.
Woman: This article is bread-and-butter 2nd language acquisition. What does the woman mean?
(A) This article is essential to 2nd language acquisition. (B) This article is relevant to eating culture.
(C) This article focuses on food nutrition. (D) This content of this article is too simple.
14. Woman: Aren’t you fed up with your noisy roommate? Man: Yes, that’s the reason why I seldom stay in the room. What is the woman asking?
(A) If he likes his roommate?
(B) If he has asked his roommate to dinner. (C) If he is losing patience with his roommate. (D) If he knows what his roommate ate.
15. Woman: What is your criticism of positive thinking?
Man: Positive thinking is about keeping one’s head in the sand! What does the man mean?
(A) Positive thinking is about helping people have a good memory.
(B) Positive thinking is about telling people how to avoid being drowned in the sand!
(C) Positive thinking is about avoiding problems. (D) Positive thinking is about making people laugh!
III. Grammar (20%; 2 points for each question)
16. Which sentence is NOT a correct sentence? (A) Simon must have taken the bus.
(B) Simon might have taken the bus. (C) Simon can have taken the bus. (D) Simon may have taken the bus.
17. Which sentence is correct?
(A) If you’d remembered to bring a compass, we wouldn’t have been lost now. (B) If you remembered to bring a compass, we wouldn’t be lost now.
(C) If you’d remembered to bring a compass, we wouldn’t be lost now. (D) If you remembered to bring a compass, we wouldn’t have been lost now.
18. Which sentence is NOT a correct sentence? (A) Neither the player nor the coach was ready. (B) None of the players were ready.
(C) Neither he nor I was ready.
(D) Neither the player nor his coach were ready.
19. Complete the sentence.
If you ________ the photocopier off and on again, it would have worked. (A) turn
(B) turned (C) will turn (D) had turned
20. Which word or phrase cannot complete the sentence? Children ________ watched at all times.
(A) must (B) should be (C) are always (D) like being
21. Report this sentence correctly.
‘There was an explosion outside the library’.
(A) He said there has been an explosion outside the library. (B) He said there were an explosion outside the library. (C) He said there had been an explosion outside the library. (D) He said there would be an explosion outside the library.
22. In which sentence can you NOT delete ‘that’? (A) I want to speak to the boy that wrote this essay. (B) The book that I’m reading is fantastic.
(C) I’m close to the end of the film that I’m watching. (D) The food that we ate yesterday was tasty.
23. Complete the sentence.
If ________ early, can you make sure everything gets turned on? (A) you’ll work
(B) you’ve worked (C) you’re working (D) you worked
24. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct?
(A) One of my jobs for next week is feeding the dog and tidying the kitchen. (B) My jobs for next week are feeding the dog and tidying the kitchen. (C) Feeding the dog and tidying the kitchen are my jobs for next week. (D) My tasks next week are to feed the dog and tidy the kitchen.
25. Which sentence is NOT correct?
(A) Which of the two entertainers is in the show? (B) Which entertainer is in the show?
(C) Which of the two entertainers are in the show? (D) Which entertainers are in the show?
IV. Cloze (20%; 2 points for each question)
26 literacy grew out of the field of communication studies in the second half of the 20th century. It was initially designed to 27 the dominant representations presented in the media, including 28 portrayals of race, gender, social class, age, and sexual orientation, and 29 a way of protecting children from the harmful effects of advertising, movies, and television. Originally focused on advertising and television, this field of study is now 30 the proliferation of digital media and its effects on society.
26. (A) Technology (B) Science (C) Media (D) Critical (E) Math 27. (A) fight (B) showcase (C) portrait (D) challenge (E) broadcast 28. (A) stereotypical (B) faithful (C) vivid (D) ironical (E) truthful 29. (A) create (B) was needed (C) in (D) for (E) as
30. (A) teaming with (B) concerned with (C) promoting (D) filing (E) contesting School improvement depends on 31 of trust in learning environments 32 which schools can realistically appraise their current practice and seek evidence based strategies to inform their school learning innovations. This process relies on educational research and professional collaboration. The most effective educational systems are 33 in which the responsibility for student learning is 34 shared. 35 the actions of individual teachers matter, the concept that it takes a whole village to raise a child has particular relevance for teachers.
31. (A) presence (B) present (C) absence (D) absent (E) presenting 32. (A) to (B) through (C) among (D) for (E) with 33. (A) many (B) where (C) what (D) those (E) these 34. (A) widely (B) truthfully (C) strictly (D) faithfully (E) honestly 35. (A) When (B) Whichever (C) What (D) However (E) Whilst
V. Reading Comprehension (30%; 2 points for each question)
The oldest shipwreck from Europe’s Golden Age of Exploration has been found off the coast of Oman, the country’s Ministry of Heritage and Culture announced on Tuesday. The wreck is believed to be that of the Esmeralda, which was part of a fleet led by legendary Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama during his second voyage to India (1502-1503).
The wreck was excavated between 2013 and 2015 by a partnership between the Oman Ministry of Heritage and Culture and the shipwreck recovery company Bluewater Recoveries Ltd., directed by David Mearns. Support for the project was provided by the National Geographic Society Expeditions Council.
Analysis of the thousands of objects recovered from the wreck is ongoing, but researchers have concluded in an interim report that the vessel belonged to da Gama’s fleet—and is in all probability the Esmeralda. Their conclusion is based on extraordinary artifacts that include a Portuguese coin minted for trade with India and stone cannonballs engraved with what appear to be the initials of Vincente Sodré, da Gama’s uncle and the commander of the Esmeralda.
36. When was Europe’s Golden Age of Exploration? (A) the 16th century
(B) the 17th century (C) the 20th century (D) the 21st century 37. The Esmeralda is a (A) ship (B) fleet (C) ministry (D) explorer
38. David Mearns works for
(A) Bluewater Recoveries Ltd.
(B) Oman Ministry of Heritage and Culture (C) Vasco da Gama
(D) National Geographic Society Expeditions Council
39. The word interim means most nearly the same as (A) conclusive
(B) permanent
(C) universal (D) provisional
40. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for this passage? (A) A great paleontological discovery
(B) A great geographical discovery (C) A great anthropological discovery (D) A great archaeological discovery
AlphaGo’s victories against legendary Go player Lee Sedol in March 2016 marked a major milestone in AI research. The complex Chinese board game had long been considered impossible for computers to crack, but DeepMind used machine learning and neural networks to give AlphaGo the ability to evaluate and execute strategy at a world-class level.
But you don’t put some of the most intelligent people in the world to work on artificial intelligence just to beat board games. DeepMind’s work has major implications for the field of AI, and the deep-learning technology it uses has the potential to
revolutionize everything from the way you use your phone to the way you drive your car—or the way your car drives you.
DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis said that DeepMind is only interested in games that lie on the main track of its research. “It’s to the extent that they’re useful as a testbed, a platform for trying to write our algorithmic ideas and testing out how far they scale and how well they do, and it’s just a very efficient way of doing that. Ultimately we want to apply this to big real-world problems.”
These problems could be anything where human decision-making could benefit from faster learning and more efficient data processing. Machine-learning techniques and deep neural networks are already in wide use at Google, for example, in its search and self-driving car programs. The lessons of AlphaGo could yield incremental improvements in any of these areas.
41. AlphaGo is a
(A) player who plays Go (B) smart phone
(C) computer program (D) self-driving car
42. According to this passage, the ultimate goal of DeepMind is (A) to beat Lee Sedol
(B) to apply the algorithm to other areas (C) to master Go game
43. The word revolutionize in this passage means most nearly the same as (A) reveal
(B) change
(C) destroy (D) dethrone
44. The word incremental means most nearly the same as (A) fundamental
(B) cumulative
(C) implemental (D) developmental
45. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for this passage? (A) Future of Go
(B) Future of neuro networks (C) Future of AI
(D) Future of real-world problems
Harken back to the calmer era before microwaves, interactive TVs, surround-sound stereos, phone mail, fax machines, cyberspace and Internet.
Remember when your sneakers didn’t blink, glow in the dark, pump up or fasten with Velcro?
Now, reflecting the 1990s’ back-to-basic dream of returning to uncomplicated times, those lazy, low-tech, do-nothing sneakers are back in vogue.
Tonight, classic sneakers are getting a special award for their impact on global fashion from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The top five players honored will be Adidas, Converse, Keds, Nike, and Reebok. They award recognizes trends, from Harley-Davidson biker panache to the red AIDS ribbon, that have had an impact on fashion but are off the beaten track.
“We are all teched-out,” explains Haysun Hahn of Promostyl. “The retro look in sneakers is a logical rebellion against complicated technology.”
46. The latest style in sneakers will probably be (A) high-tech, because the market demands it
(B) high-tech, because of new discoveries in improving athletic ability (C) simplicity, because it lowers the price of production
(D) simplicity, because the fashion trend is against high-tech
47. The Council of Fashion Designers of America will give an award to five major sneaker companies because
(A) they have had an impact on setting trends in fashion (B) they have sold more sneakers than any other companies (C) they have improved the technology of sneakers making (D) they have driven users’ desire for authenticity
48. The word panache means most nearly the same as (A) pinnacle
(B) style
(C) pancake (D) penicillin
49. The word retro means most nearly the same as (A) state of the art
(B) restore
(C) old-school (D) reconstruct
50. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for this passage? (A) Five sneaker companies awarded
(B) Best-selling sneakers
(C) Low-tech VS high-tech
