國立臺中教育大學 102 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%)
1、Judy reminded her husband to have his passport and driver’s license renewed before they _____.
○A aspired
○B expired
○C inspired
○D respired
2、Before the wedding banquet started, the best man on behalf of all the guests _____ a toast to the groom and the bride.
○A exposed
○B imposed
○C proposed
○D supposed
3、Alex enjoys visiting historic sites, such as the Great Wall in China and the Great Pyramid in Egypt, to look for _____ of ancient cultures.
○A traces
○B traits
○C traps
○D trends
4、Sandy always remembers to take her elderly father back to the hospital on time to get doctor’s _____ for his heart condition and diabetes.
○A description
○B inscription
○C prescription
○D subscription
5、In western culture, it’s _____ to ask people personal questions such as their age, weight, and salary.
○A illegitimate
○B imperative
○C inadequate
6、With all the massive terrorist attacks one after another, the world seems to be facing dangers greater and more _____ than any known in the past.
○A aggravating
○B enlivening
○C intervening
○D obliterating
7、My sister likes coffee very much, but she can’t drink any of it because she is seriously _____ to caffeine.
○A allergic
○B exposed
○C immune
○D opposed
8、Before going over the result of the _____, the prosecutor refused to make any comments on the cause of the super star’s mysterious death.
○A autopsy
○B celibacy
○C ecstasy
○D literacy
9、Candy found it with her boyfriend around her nearly 24 hours a day over the past few weeks, so she asked him to give her some breathing space.
○A condemning
○B dedicating
○C suffocating
○D terminating
10、When it comes to writing your CV for a job application, your CV should not carry or contain any lies.
○A endearments
○B endowments
○C embezzlements
○D embellishments
11、There are ___ of the same story in many cultures, each one adapted to their environment and culture.
○B assessments
○C tabulations
○D variations
12、Knowing short phrases in English which students can use to talk to each other can ___ them to speak in English more.
○A pacify
○B secure
○C motivate
○D surmise
13、The ___ is one of the most powerful of all qualities in storytelling. ○A prose
○B pause
○C poll
○D paddy
14、___ is the support given during the learning process which is tailored to the needs of the student with the intention of helping the student achieve the learning goals.
○A Scaffolding
○B Clasping
○C Grudging
○D Assembling
15、You can add –able to ___ to make it an adjective. ○A comforting
○B pain
○C fashion
○D danger
16、A student who has never ___ further than the edges of town would possess very different life experiences from one who has vacationed overseas.
○A shifted
○B ventured
○C reassessed
17、___ Instruction is the practice of teaching each student in a manner that will accommodate how he or she learns best.
○A Whole Language
○B Content-based
○C Communicative
○D Differentiated
18、Even the most ___ children can be persuaded to do something when they are given a choice.
○A exotic
○B reluctant
○C draughty
○D deliberate
19、Use your hands to remind children: a child who has forgotten a word may remember when you use the ___ that you used when you first taught it. ○A attitude
○B posture
○C gesture
○D latitude
20、Children don’t need to be ___ to short words just because they are small. ○A restricted
○B forbidden
○C relocated
○D extracted
II、Cloze Test (20%)
The significance of the T-shirt in Western culture, as 21 of social and political expression, 22 by comparing its roles in Western countries 23 the response to it in the nondemocratic country, the People’s Republic of China. In 1991, a young
Chinese artist created T-shirt bearing humorous statements, 24 could be interpreted as having mild political implications. The T-shirts were enormously successful with the public but were perceived as “a serious political incident” by the Chinese
authorities. The artist was arrested and interrogated, and the T-shirts were officially banned. Thousands of them were confiscated and destroyed, 25 many Chinese continued to wear them.
21、○A mean ○B means ○C a means ○D a mean
22、○A sees ○B is seen ○C see ○D are seen
23、○A with ○B in ○C into ○D by
24、○A some of that ○B some of those ○C some of which○D several of these
25、○A that ○B yet ○C even ○D although
There are three categories 26 which drinkers can be classified: moderate drinkers, who take two cocktails before dinner; heavy drinkers, who take two or three cocktails before lunch, two more cocktails before going home, and another two at home before dinner; and 27 , whose intake may begin with a shot or two of bourbon in their morning coffee and continue through the morning, lunch, the
afternoon, and evening until they fall into bed with no recollection whatever the next morning 28 where they 29 or to what they 29 during the day before. These are the alcoholics, a constant danger 30 to themselves, but to their families, their business associates, and possibly to the community where they live.
26、○A under ○B in ○C on ○D with
27、○A alcohol ○B alcohols ○C alcoholic ○D alcoholics
28、○A to ○B as to ○C such ○D so to
29、○A are …do ○B were…were doing ○C have been…have done
○D are…are doing
30、○A neither ○B not only ○C either ○D so as
III. Reading Comprehension (30%)
The two most important facts about an advertising campaign are the brand itself – that is, the product or service being advertised – and its potential purchasers, its target market. You might think the former to be far more important than the latter, and this would undoubtedly have been the view in years gone by. But today the two are seen to be symbiotic: the brand and its target market are inevitably entwined.
How come? There are three factors involved. First, the everburgeoning diversity of products and services in every field means that even the largest, most popular brands are used only by minority segments of the population. Even a massive
supermarket chain like Tesco is used regularly by only about one-third of the British population. So advertisers need to find out everything they possibly can about the exact segment of the population they are targeting. Second, the growth of market research allows advertisers to know who their potential customers are with much greater precision than used to be the case. And third, media audiences are themselves
now so segmented it is essential to specify the target market in order to advertise in the media which will reach them most cost-effectively. The days when one advertisement in a single newspaper like the News of the World (in 1948, the News of the World reached a world-record sale of 8,000,000 copies weekly), or on a single channel like ITV, could reach more than 50% of the British population are long gone. Today, even with mass media like television, different types of people watch different channels, different programs, and at different times of day: there is no point in advertising to busy business people, on a channel they do not watch, in the middle of the afternoon, for example.
The outcome of these three factors has been that products and services are no longer designed and formulated for 100% of the population. They are designed for specific target markets: clearly defined population sectors, large and small. This is the basis of the symbiosis between the brand and its target market.
31、What is this article mainly about?
○A To discuss the contributing factors to the success of a brand.
○B To emphasize the important role of advertisements in marketing.
○C To explain the reasons that the brand and its target market are closely
related.
○D To introduce the rules of designing different advertisements for different
brands.
32、Why is the massive supermarket chain Tesco mentioned in the article? ○A To introduce the brand to the audience.
○B To analyze the strategies of the company.
○C To discuss the background stories of the chain.
○D To provide supports to the author’s viewpoints.
33、Where are you most likely to find such an article? ○A Marketing textbook.
○B Restaurant menu.
○C Sport magazine.
○D Tourist guide.
34、According to the article, which of the following statements is NOT correct concerning the media audience nowadays?
○A No single channel can reach more than half of the population.
○B TV channel is attracting more audience compared with newspaper.
○C Much fewer people now read newspaper as people used to 50 years ago.
programs.
35、According to the article, which of the following statements is NOT correct? ○A It’s important to target the right audience so as to save money on advertising.
○B It is no use to advertise to business people during their working hours.
○C Nowadays the product is more important than its potential consumers.
○D The market research now can rather precisely predict the customers.
A study of deaf people in Nicaragua offers fascinating insights into the link between language acquisition and the understanding of numbers. The findings are based on field work conducted by Elizabeth Spaepen and her colleagues over three trips to Nicaragua between 2006 and 2010. Researchers tested four deaf “homesigning” adults for their language skills and facility with numbers. Homesigners communicate through entirely made-up hand gestures — while their language is adequate for communication with friends and family, it lacks consistent grammar or specific number words. What researchers found was that the homesigning adults had a hard time understanding numbers greater than 3, likely because they didn’t have words to represent larger sums. By contrast, deaf people who learn conventional sign language learn the values of large numbers because they learn a counting routine early in childhood, just like hearing children who acquire spoken language. The researchers claim that it’s not just the vocabulary words that matter, but understanding the relationships that underlie the words — the fact that ‘eight’ is one more than ‘seven’ and one less than ‘nine.’ They further argue that without having a set of number words to guide them, deaf homesigners in the study failed to understand that numbers build on each other in value.
The findings, published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, may help researchers understand how children learn numbers,
and figure out ways to improve math literacy in kids who have trouble. As Wired reported, “Research on child development shows that kids start by memorizing
numbers as an ordered list. They can recite the numbers from 1 through 10, but if you ask them to give you three apples, they’re just as likely to give you five or seven.” The age at which kids start connecting their ordered list to numbers of things depends a lot on how much reinforcement they have from adults. Some children learn to count by age two; others, usually from disadvantaged households, arrive at school not knowing what “two” means. The homesigners represent those disadvantaged kids taken to the extreme. As concluded by Spaepen, language input is important for everybody’s
36、What is the main purpose of this article?
○A To summarize the research studies on number.
○B To discuss the findings of a research study.
○C To introduce the “homesigning” adults.
○D To explain how language is learned.
37、According to the article, which of the followings is NOT correct concerning Spaepen’s study?
○A The subjects lived in Nicaragua.
○B The paper was published in Wired.
○C It was conducted during the period of 2006 to 2010.
○D The deaf “homesigning” adults in the study had difficulties counting to 10.
38、According to the article, which of the following statements is NOT correct concerning deaf people?
○A They can learn how to count as normal hearing people do.
○B The sign language they use contains consistent grammar.
○C They have difficulty in learning the value of large numbers.
○D They can use conventional sign language to communicate.
39、What is Elizabeth Spaepen most likely to be? ○A Educational Psychologist.
○B Financial Consultant.
○C Computer programmer.
○D Fashion Designer.
40、According to the article, which of the following statements is NOT correct? ○A The counting routine and the meanings of each number are both important
for children to learn numbers.
○B Language input is important for young children to learn the value of
numbers.
○C Children start to learn numbers by memorizing them as an ordered list.
○D The disadvantaged children usually learn to count as early as age two.
IV. Composition（30%）
Instructions: Based on your own learning experience, write an essay to explain the teaching methods that can motivate you to learn English. This essay should have at least three paragraphs.
