彰化縣私立精誠中學 108 學年度第一學期第二次段考 英文科 高三試題
I. Vocabulary (15%)
1. The _______ cause of Matilda’s depression was her experience of being taunted and bullied during her high school years.
(A) distressing (B) radical (C) underlying (D) offensive
2. In the military, few _________ officers have the guts to counter the commander’s orders. (A) irritated (B) negated (C) subordinate (D) outrageous 3. There has long been notorious for the racial intolerance and ________ among the residents
of the city.
(A) glory (B) investment (C) discord (D) essence
4. Under the oppression of the government, the Tibetans chose to live as _________ rather than face religious persecution.
(A) opposites (B) exiles (C) assaults (D) spirals
5. The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday warned of a potential humanitarian crisis as conflicts ________between police and protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University last week, and called on both sides to show restraint to avoid further escalation.
(A) lived out (B) wound up (C) stepped up (D) lashed out 6. Bees and butterflies ________ pollen as they fly from plant to plant in search of food.
(A) hurl (B) disperse (C) trap (D) emit
7. During the presidential adviser conference, a lot of information is collected, _________, and then passed on to the president.
(A) supervised (B) retorted (C) defended (D) condensed
8. In the court, defendants may plead insanity to __________ their responsibility for their behavior.
(A) diminish (B) halt (C) utter (D) generate
9. To strike a balance between body and mind, we have to learn to express our emotions instead of _______ on them.
(A) dwelling (B) interacting (C) inhabiting (D) twisting 10. The conference had lasted for almost three hours. Nevertheless, nothing was done because
of a lack of _________on the matter.
(A) annoyance (B) consensus (C) motivation (D) confession 11. One of the presidential candidates has made a promise to _________ a new policy to help bring down the unemployment rate after he wins the election.
(A) alleviate (B) eliminate (C) implement (D) lecture
12. Nelson Mandela dedicated most of his life to ________ for justice and equality for the sake
of all humankind.
(A) mending (B) uncovering (C) empathizing (D) striving
13. Thanks to stable concrete prices, Taiwan ________Corp yesterday gave a positive outlook for this quarter after it said net profit last quarter rose 10.17 percent annually to NT$6.54 billion.
(A) Cement (B) Therapy (C) Confess (D) Client
14. The research on the salary of male workers _______ female ones is worth our attention— female workers get lower pay.
(A) between (B) with (C) versus (D) via
15. The problem of air pollution is a matter of _________. It should be dealt with in no time. (A) emission (B) highlight (C) plague (D) urgency
CCCBC BDAAB CDACD
II. Grammar (5%)
16. Much to our surprise, on the floor of the kitchen _______ three dead chicken. (A) lay (B) laid (C) lied (D) lying
17. A: Tim has made great progress in English writing skills recently. B: _____________, and _____________.
(A) So he has; so you have (B) So he has; so have you (C) So has he; so have you (D) So has he; so you have 18. Please choose the CORRECT sentence.
(A) Linked to the problem of resources is the problem of ecology and the environment. (B) After that we never saw her again, nor we had heard from her.
(C) Difficult though the assignment was, it was completed in time. (D) No sooner had he arrived at the station than did the train leave. 19. Please choose the CORRECT sentence.
(A) Seldom do I cook at home, neither do my husband. (B) On no account patients should be allowed to stay late. (C) Were Anita here now, she would have reached out to me. (D) Little did I dream of coming across such a problem. 20. Please choose the CORRECT sentence.
(A) Only by working hard we can succeed. (B) There is no mother but doesn’t love her children.
(C) It is about time that you apologized to your mom, or you will regret it.
(D) It was not until the fish had died in the river did the villagers realize how serious the pollution was.
III. Cloze Test (15 %)
[A]
In the 1950s and 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King became famous through his strong advocacy of nonviolent methods to __21.___ equal civil rights for blacks. Modeling on the doctrines of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King firmly believed that changes had to be made ___22.___damaging other people's rights. He led peaceful protests all over America, such as boycotts of segregated city buses, or sit-ins at lunch counters that would not serve black people. King's campaign reached a high point on August 28, 1963 at the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. During the march, King ___23.___ his now famous “I Have a Dream” speech to more than 200,000 civil rights supporters who assembled that day to voice their concern about of racial injustice and the plight of blacks. He said that ___24.___ the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, he still had a dream. King stressed in his speech that only when blacks were liberated could the nation claim to have realized the true meaning of its founding creed: All men are created ___25.___. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech educated, informed, and inspired not only the audience there but people throughout the world, and we should now be grateful yet reminded that King’s dream is yet to be fulfilled; it is our turn to continue our commitment to his dream.
21. (A) rise up (B) result from (C) bring about (D) fight against 22. (A) without (B) through (C) by (D) toward
23. (A) awarded (B) delivered (C) mentioned (D) contributed 24. (A) although (B) despite the fact that (C) however (D) in spite of 25. (A) equally (B) equal (C) civilized (D) civilly
CABDB [B]
Words have power. When people say something mean to us, intentionally or innocently, their words can hurt us bitterly. It should come ___26.___no surprise that most of us have had our share of insults. Verbal abuse, when ___27.___ from this point of view, is actually quite common. What we ___28.____, nonetheless, is that verbal abuse, can ___29.____ at least two different forms. Sometimes it's an active assault, as when a boss calls an employee useless for missing a deadline. Verbal abuse can also be passive, and this type of abuse takes place when a parent frequently ___30.___ the child's opinions. For those who have been exposed to verbal abuse, they are likely to have low self-esteem and other emotional problems. What’s worse, the left side of their brains may stop developing, which often leads to a decline in memory.
26. (A) to (B) from (C) in (D) as
27. (A) considering (B) we consider (C) considered (D) to consider 28. (A) should not have expected (B) may not have expected
(C) will not have expected (D) must not have expected 29. (A) lay (B) make (C) take (D) pose
30. (A) conserves (B) discounts (C) confronts (D) perceives DCBCB
[C]
Most of us remember the childhood ___31.___ of having to say those little words, “I’m sorry.” ___32.___ you accidentally tripped over Grandma's cane or fibbed to your two-grade teacher about a homework assignment, you were made ___33.___ in front of the person you wronged and muttered, “I’m sorry.” If your first apology attempt was lacking in sincerity, you had to repeat it. And all you want to do was crawl under the bed and hide for the next thirty years. In fact, those painful childhood lessons are good training for adult interactions. Over the years, most of us ___34.____ be at ease with the dreaded apology as with everything else in life. Also, there is evidence that apology and forgiveness benefit health by___35.____ the burden of guilt and remorse. On the other hand, avoiding an apology harbors anger and resentment, which puts undue stress on your system and on your relationships.
31. (A) humiliation (B) imagination (C) exploration (D) demonstration 32. (A) Wherever (B) Whatever (C) Whether (D) No matter
33. (A) standing (B) to stand (C) stand (D) stood
34. (A) have grown to (B) end up (C) change to (D) appeal to 35. (A) encouraging people to (B) relieving people of
(C) defending people against (D) preventing people from ACBAB
IV. Fill in (10%)
(A) protected (B) In a row (C) threaten (D) lived on (E) at times (AB) implication (AC) known for (AD) priority (AE) contributed (BC) migrate (BD) deter (BE) collide
Many animals need to move from place to place in order to survive. As urban area continue to grow, however, __36.___ the construction of houses, buildings, and roads is taking away animals’ natural habitats. The ___37.___ of this urban expansion is that animals lose their ability to move. This may ___38.___ their survival.
Several countries have taken steps to ___39.___ the impact of human growth on animals. They have created wildlife corridors to protect and connect wildlife areas. These paths give animals the ability to move. It is hoped that these “nature highways” will prove beneficial in helping animals to flourish, even though they reside closer to people than ever before. Some corridors exist naturally and just need to be ___40.____. Other corridors need to be created. The Netherlands is ____41.____ being a leader in the development of wildlife corridors. The country has more than 600 corridors called ecoducts that provide wildlife with safe passage
over major highways. In Canada's Banff National Park, both overpasses and underpasses have been built above and beneath roads to help prevent car-wildlife accidents. On Australia’s Christmas Island crab bridges and underpasses have been built to protect the innumerable number of crabs that ___42.___ to the ocean each year to lay eggs. Some roads are closed during this time to curb the number of crabs and cars that ____43.____.
On a smaller but no less important scale, the city of Oslo, Norway has made it a ___44.___ to develop the world's first bee highway. The highway is a network of bee-friendly gardens planted voluntarily in certain locations by people in the city. These pollen-rich plants provide bees with food as they travel safely through the city. Some companies have ___45.__ bee hives to help sustain Norway's bee population.
When it comes to survival, animals are dependent upon humans to lessen the negative impact of development on their lives. Wildlife corridors are an effective way to protect their habitats and allow animals to follow their natural instincts to roam.
E AB C BD A AC BC BE AD AE
V. Reading Comprehension (32%)
[A]In the early 1980s, fashion for Western women meant tight clothing that showed off their feminine nature. Then two Japanese designers, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, came along and changed the game. After they made their debut in Paris in April of 1981, Western fashion would never be the same.
At their first show in the French capital, Kawakubo and Yamamoto exhibited clothing that went against everything Western fashion held dear. Their clothes, shown at an exhibition at the Intercontinental Hotel, were loose-fitting rather than tight. The fabric was of a single color, rather than the colorful patterns favored by Western designers. The materials were also quite rough, looking as though they had been left outside for a time, or even damaged.
Initially, fashion journalists were shocked. The first reviews that came in said the designers made the wearer look as though they were homeless. It took some time, but critics would eventually realize Kawakubo and Yamamoto weren't strange foreigners with weird ideas. Instead, they were ahead of their time.
Kawakubo and Yamamoto weren't the first Japanese designers to make their mark on the runways of Paris. Before them, as early as the 1960s, there were others who introduced Easter elements such as layering, a loose fit, wide sleeves, and silk. Few in the Western fashion industry saw these elements as much more than an exotic curiosity, however. It wasn't until the early1980s that these elements would have their moment of fame and glory.
By 1982, one year after their debut, the work of Kawakubo and Yamamoto was gaining attention not in Europe, but in the United States, and then opinions were split. Some saw their over-sized creations, mostly all black, and with pockets that didn’t line up, as simply too
strange for women to wear. But it would become clear that the intent of the designers wasn’t to create something only for women. It was to make clothing that could just as easily be worn by both genders—male or female. In this sense, these two pioneers were among the first in the field to make such a bold experiment, one Western designers still imitate to this day.
46. What is this passage is mainly about?
(A) How two Japanese designers changed West fashion. (B)Why Kawakubo and Yamamoto became designers. (C)When East meets West in the fashion industry.
(D) What fashion journalists think of gender-free clothing.
47. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Kawakubo and Yamamoto's works as mentioned in the passage?
(A) Clothing that can be worn by both genders. (B) Clothing that is over-sized.
(C) Tight clothing showing off feminine nature. (D) Clothing whose pockets do not line up
48. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
(A) One year after its debut, the work of Kawakubo and Yamamoto caught on in the United States.
(B) Kawakubo and Yamamoto were the first Japanese designers to be successful in the Western fashion industry.
(C) Kawakubo and Yamamoto introduced Eastern elements such as layering and silk to the West as early as the 1960s.
(D) The materials Kawakubo and Yamamoto used were quite rough, as though they had been damaged.
49. What does the word “curiosity” in the fourth paragraph refer to? (A) Something g ordinary (B) Something from the West
(C) Something unusual (D) Something from the East ACDC
[B]
Information literacy seems to be an apt phrase for our time, Last month, a leading developer of aptitude tests announced that it had created one to measure students' ability to evaluate online material. That suggested an official recognition that the millions spent to give schools and universities online access is of little use unless students know how to retrieve useful information from the ocean of sludge on the Web.
Clearly, “computer skills" are not enough,” A teacher of Scandinavian literature at the University of California, Berkeley, recently described how students used the Web to research a paper on the Vikings: “They're Berkeley students, so, of course, they have the sense to restrict their searches to Vikings NOT Minnesota,” she said, referring to the Minnesota Vikings
football team. “But they’re perfectly willing to believe a Web site that describes early Viking settlements in Oklahoma.”
That trusting nature is partly a legacy of the print age. If we tend to believe things we read in the library books, it is because they have been screened first by a publisher, who decided they were worth printing, and then by the librarian who acquired them or the professor who requested their purchase. The Web, however, imposes no such filters. But there is a paradox in the way people think of the Web. Everyone is aware that rotten information is abundant online, but most people feel confident that they can sort the good from the bad. In a survey released by the Pew Project on the Internet and American Life, 87 percent of search-engine users said they found what they were looking for all or most of the time.
That level of confidence may not be justified, particularly when a search for information requires judging a Web site’s credibility. According to the Pew survey, only 38 percent of search-engine users were aware of the difference between unpaid and sponsored search results, and only 18 percent could tell which is which. People tend to judge the credibility of a Web site by its appearance, rather than by checking who put it up and why.
Until now, librarians have taken the lead in developing information literacy standards and curriculums. Yet, leaving information literacy to librarians alone suggests failure to understand the scope of the problem.
50. The passage is primarily concerned with ________________. (A) the credibility of Web Sites
(B) types of search engine users
(C) the demand for more information source (D) the ability to distinguish online information
51. According to the teacher’s statement in the second paragraph, which of the following is true?
(A) UC Berkeley is generally considered a poor university online. (B) It is true that early Viking settlements can be found in Oklahoma. (C) The teacher’s students were capable of sorting trustworthy information. (D) Key in “Vikings” in the search engine, you may get something about sports.
52. According to the passage, who of the following does NOT attribute to the trusting nature of readers?
(A) Librarians. (B) Professors. (C) Booksellers. (D) Publishers. 53. The word “paradox” in the passage means _________________.
(A) a seemingly true conception
(B) a mystery which is difficult to solve (C) a discovery that benefits most people
(D) a situation that involves two contradictory ideas DDCD
[C]
The 19th century was a period of great change in the history of the USA. After the U.S. civil war, the Southerners were not happy with the situation which they were forced to face. The slaves were liberated, even the ones that wished to continue the old way of living. The economy of the South had gone down considerably and there was little opportunity for honest work. The growing number of blacks living as free men next to their former owners nourished the anger of some Southerners. The South was a wasteland both financially and psychologically. This resulted in the formation of secret societies, the Ku Klux Klan being the most infamous of them.
Six Confederate veterans, all in their twenties, founded the Klan. They also started the typical Klan clothing: a white robe and white “witches’ hats” with eyeholes. However, the purpose of this original form of the Ku Klux Klan was not political or even racist. The main aim of the Klan at the beginning was to play pranks and have fun. All of the Klan members had to attend the weekly gatherings, which “were held in the cellar of a deserted brick house standing on a hill.”
This secret society of bored young men started gradually enlarging. Soon the pranks of the original Klan were designated mainly towards the liberated slaves. They held particularly the Negroes in terror who had gained land and prospered. The original fairly innocent secret society turned into a blood-thirsty group. By 1870 The Ku Klux Klan and their operation had been made known all through the States, mostly in a negative way. During the late 1950s and early 1960s there were several blacks murdered and houses bombed. The Klansmen were dedicated to cutting this “bad weed out of the American soil.” It reacted strongly against the Civil Rights movement and opposed Martin Luther King. This form of the Ku Klux Klan was extremely political.
The Klan is still fairly active in the USA today. However, the times were changing and there was no point attacking blacks, as the Civil Rights movement could not be erased. It seems the violent Kan of the 1960s has changed into a society controlled strict rules and honor codes. The members of the Klan are now dedicated to protecting the white race and the “proper Christian religion.” They declare that they have the same right to preach for white power as the blacks have to being proud of their origins. The main form of action in today’s Klan is protests, rallies and Internet shows. It seems that the modern Klan still fosters some of the main ideas of the Ku Klux Klan but in a more peaceful and rational way.
54. This article is mainly about ___________. (A) the U.S. Civil War and slave Liberation
(B) the Klan’s political stand and the idea of equality (C) the honor code and strict rules of the Ku Klux Klan (D) the origin of the Ku Klux Klan and how it has operated 55. What is the true phenomenon after the U.S. Civil War?
(A) Secret societies started to form. (B) The economy of the south prospered.
(C) No liberated slaves wanted the old way of living. (D) The southerners soon identified with the Yankees.
56. Which of the following is true about the KKK before 1870? (A) It was an extreme political society.
(B) It had its members wear white costumes. (C) It acted against the Civil Rights movement.
(D) It held the weekly gathering in a Protestant church.
57. Which of the following statements about today's Klan is NOT true? (A) It still takes revenge on blacks.
(B) It strives to be neutral and rational.
(C) It is dedicated to protecting the white race.
(D) It takes action in the form of rallies and internet shows. DABA
[D]
We have all heard about people having a weird experience from a near death encounter. Seeing a light at the end of a tunnel is a common plot device used in movies and television, and even the phrase itself is a common expression used to tell people that things will get better during dark times. This is actually quite a common and well-documented real life phenomenon and is referred to as a near-death experience, or an NDE.
In 1980, an American survey showed that as many as 15% of people who have had a close encounter with death reported having an “unusual experience.” Furthermore, these experiences were all similar in nature and typically included one or more of the following: an awareness of being dead, having an out-of-body experience, a sense of peace, the “tunnel experience” mentioned above, and encounters with beings of light. It is not surprising then that these experiences have been attributed to and considered proof of God or some other spiritual or religious happening. Seeing is believing and those who have had an NDE often change or reevaluate their beliefs because of it.
Despite the apparent mystical nature of these experiences, there are many scientific theories that attempt to explain the phenomena. Psychological models try to describe NDEs as our brain reacting to the trauma of a coming death whereas physiological explanations refer to the body’s reaction to dying, triggering NDE symptoms.
The main argument in favor of psychological models is that many NDEs, such as from near-fatal accidents, occur before the event. The Depersonalization model describes an NDE as a fantasy based illusion to make the event more bearable. Another theory, named the Dissociation model, describes an NDE as a way to withdraw from a stressful event. Physiological theories for NDE are many and varied, including being caused by hormones, endorphins, G-force induced loss of consciousness, elevated levels of CO2, oxygen starvation
and brain damage.
None of these theories have been definitively proven, but the symptoms of an NDE don’t necessarily need to be limited to a single cause. Or perhaps, there really is a light at the end of the tunnel.
58. What is the purpose of the passage?
(A) To highlight the correctness of science over that of religion. (B) To contrast the concepts of psychology and physiology.
(C) To convince the readers of the theories for the phenomena of NDEs. (D) To provide certain possible reasons for the phenomena of NDEs.
59. According to the article, which of the following might be someone who has had an experience?
(A) Passing through a brightly illuminated tunnel. (B) Encountering religious figures, such as God. (C) Floating out of his or her body.
(D) Moving around as usual without his or her knowledge of death. 60. Which of the following is NOT an explanation for an NDE?
(A) An illusion to make a fetal accident more endurable. (B) A way to retreat from a tough situation.
(C) Hormones, endorphins, insufficiency of CO2 and brain damage. (D) Loss of consciousness.
61. Which of the following best capture the author’s tone? (A) Bitter. (B) Neutral. (C) Persuasive. (D) Furious. DCCB
VI. Translation (8%)
1. 有同情心的人會盡力幫助弱勢團體。(3%)
