國立臺灣師大附中九十八學年度第二次期中考高三英文科試題
（I）詞彙與慣用語（20%）1. The saying that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy indicates the importance of ______.
(A) recreation (B) identification (C) cooperation (D) opportunity 2. It has been raining on and off these days, which ______ our plan for the camping.
(A) executes (B) irritates (C) extends (D) frustrates 3. The MRT is closed ______ due to some unknown reason. It will resume running tomorrow morning.
(A) anxiously (B) consequently (C) routinely (D) temporarily 4. After applying the cream to your face, you will find your skin is as ______ as a baby’s.
(A) tense (B) delicate (C) subtle (D) fleeting
5. His ______ showed reluctance after his friends made a request for further aid; as a result, they decided to turn to someone else. (A) muscle (B) outline (C) countenance (D) turmoil
6. Recent studies show that moderate amounts of alcohol are ______ to health. Moderate drinkers generally live longer than heavy drinkers or nondrinkers.
(A) prolonged (B) insurmountable (C) beneficial (D) tranquil 7. The medicine was supposed to cure all kinds of ______, ranging from colds to back pains.
(A) ulcers (B) ailments (C) routines (D) strategies
8. For safety’s sake, tourists should ______ when local authorities display signs warning that the seashore is dangerous. (A) cooperate (B) strive (C) demand (D) limit
9. Some doctors ______ unnecessary antibiotics because many patients want a quick fix when they have a cold. (A) subscribe (B) describe (C) prescribe (D) inscribe 10. For a marriage to succeed, both partners must learn to ______.
(A) give priority (B) tune out (C) make a difference (D) give and take 11. Sean is only a nodding ______; I have only seen him several times in some social gatherings.
(A) circumstance (B) acquaintance (C) companionship (D) tenderness
12. It soon became ______ to everyone that she couldn’t sing. First of all, she didn’t sing in tune. Second, she didn’t have any sense of rhythm.
(A) spectacular (B) personal (C) apparent (D) rough 13. A washing machine was a ______ several decades ago. Few households could afford one.
(A) panorama (B) range (C) gaze (D) luxury 14. I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to ______ you, but you seemed to be lost in thought when I entered the room. (A) startle (B) awaken (C) quiver (D) surround
15. A number of the report’s findings are ______ note, for they alert us to the possibility of further price rises and inflation. (A) accustomed to (B) worthy of (C) in the face of (D) occurring to
16. Only those people who cannot see can fully realize how ______ the gift of sight is.
(A) precious (B) anxious (C) curious (D) delicious 17. The local farmers fertilize their land for best ______ so that they can have a harvest.
(A) production (B) products (C) produce (D) productivity 18. The movie Slumdog Millionaire ______ India, a place of filth and waste as well as rebirth and resistance.
(A) conceals (B) steals (C) appeals (D) reveals 19. I felt a(n) ______ pain in my back and my head was splitting when I was hit by a car.
(A) acute (B) chronic (C) unconsoled (D) incredulous 20. He sighed and frowned, showing an expression of ______.
（II）綜合測驗（20%）
(1) I can still remember that, when I was little, one day my father brought home one of the first telephones in the community. It was
not a modernized one, but in reality an oak case ___21___ to the wall. I was fascinated with all the functions it offered. ___22___ I came across any problem, I would pick up the receiver, dial a certain number, and an amazing person living inside that wonderful device would immediately answer my questions ranging from arithmetic to such a silly question as why my pet guinea-pig would die ___23___ on the bottom of the cage at night when everyone was deeply asleep. Those used to be my best old days ___24___ I will always recall for the rest of my life. In my childhood, that old telephone did ___25___ a great comforter when I was in moments of doubt and confusion.
21. (A) fastened (B) which fastened (C) fastening (D) was fastened 22. (A) Unless (B) Whenever (C) Until (D) Only when 23. (A) noticing (B) noticed (C) unnoticing (D) unnoticed 24. (A) what (B) when (C) that (D) of which 25. (A) serve as (B) ask for (C) fiddle with (D) run down
(2) Without stress, life would be dull and unexciting. Stress adds flavor to life. Too much stress, ___26___, can seriously affect your
physical and mental well-being. Hans Selye, M.D., has ___27___ stress as a “non-specific response of the body to a demand.” When stress becomes prolonged, it can cause distress. So recognizing the early signs of distress and then ___28___ something about them can make an important difference in the quality of your life. Learning how to relax is also very important. But don’t try to relax ___29___ the same pace that you lead the rest of your life. If the stress in your life seems overwhelming, you may find ___30___ useful to see a mental health counselor.
26. (A) therefore (B) instead of (C) for example (D) however 27. (A) been described (B) defined (C) thought (D) looked 28. (A) do (B) does (C) doing (D) done 29. (A) on (B) in (C) to (D) at 30. (A) its (B) that (C) it (D) is
(3) Worn out from the repetitive routines of studying and taking tests, I feel like a fish out of water. How I miss the daily strolls in
the mountain trails! It seems ages since I last ___31___ to my beloved retreat. I miss so much the tree frogs croaking in the bog and the green-backed tits singing in the trees. I say to myself, “If I could be granted only an hour from my tight schedule to set out for my secret hiding place, I would study 1,000 times more efficiently than now.” Within only one hour, I would imbibe the nectar provided by Nature. Nature is full of things ___32___ observation. I would relish the panorama of color and action by sitting by the brook, dipping my feet into the cool water to ___33___ my snoring senses. At the same time, I could play hide-and-seek with the crabs and shrimps under the rocks. Besides looking down, I would also look up to observe the drifting clouds transforming into tender sheep or ferocious dinosaurs. The sun shining through the leaves never fails to make a great picture of light and shadow. Oh! How come I am wasting time dreaming an impossible dream? I still have loads of books to read and tons of tests to prepare for. I ___34___ be realistic. Had I carried on studying for an hour, I ___35___ 100 more English words.
31. (A) had been (B) went (C) have been (D) have gone 32. (A) worth (B) worthy to (C) worthy of (D) worthwhile 33. (A) refresh (B) release (C) relieve (D) relax
34. (A) would rather (B) prefer to (C) had better (D) would better
35. (A) would remember (B) will remember (C) had remembered (D) would have remembered
(4) Think Twitter and Facebook are just for teenagers with too much time? Think ___36___. A recent report on the use of social
technologies said that in the last year, young people almost ___37___ used social media. While teenagers and young adults aged 18-24 have been using social media for a long time since these sites first began, they are not alone in ___38___ its growth. The tech industry has been puzzled by the fact that Twitter has grown extraordinarily quickly even though young people do not tweet nearly as much ___39___ their elders do. The use of social media among those aged 35 to 54 jumped an astounding 60 percent in the last year. Researchers found that adults are using these websites to ___40___ communication and network for professional purposes.
36. (A) again (B) over (C) back (D) aloud 37. (A) scarcely (B) visually (C) universally (D) originally 38. (A) recalling (B) driving (C) mellowing (D) climbing 39. (A) that (B) than (C) like (D) as 40. (A) assume (B) declare (C) foster (D) consult
（III）文意選填（10%）：如為首字，請將第一個字母視為大寫。
Braille is a system of raised dots, which enables blind people to read with the tips of their fingers. Its inventors was a blind French schoolboy, named Louis Braille.
Louis Braille was born in 1809 in a small town near Paris. He was from a poor family and his father worked as the village saddler. At the age of three, he ___41___ his left eye with a stitching awl from his father’s workshop. This destroyed his left eye, and later sympathetic ophthalmia led to loss of ___42___ in his right eye. Braille was completely blind by the age of four. Despite his difficult start in life, Louis was an intelligent boy and excelled at the local school. ___43___ his potential, the local landowner offered to arrange a scholarship for Louis at one of the first schools for the blind. ___44___ to send Louis away from home but worried about his future, his parents agreed. Aged ten, Louis left for Paris to attend the Royal Institution for Blind Youth.
It was at the Institute in 1821 ___45___ Louis was first introduced to the idea of using a coded system of raised dots. This was a tactile system designed for soldiers to send and receive messages at night without speaking. Louis quickly realized how useful this system could be, but thought it was too ___46___. Over the next few years he worked hard to develop his own ___47___ of the code, using just six dots to represent the standard alphabet. He then spent his life teaching the system to as many people as possible.
However, spending so much of his life in poor and damp conditions probably contributed to Louis Braille ___48___ tuberculosis in his twenties. He battled with the illness for the rest of his life. He died on January 6, 1852, just two days after his 43rd birthday, ___49___ that his invention would one day be used all over the world. Today he is celebrated as a hero for all blind and partially sighted people, for he gave the ___50___ of independence and the joy of reading to thousands of people around the world.
(A) noticing (B) contracting (C) injured (D) version (E) vision
(AB) gift (AC) reluctant (AD) that (AE) unaware (BC) complicated
（IV）篇章結構（10%）
We can see how the product life cycle works by looking at the introduction of instant coffee. ___51___, and it took several years to gain general acceptance (introduction stage). At one point, though, instant coffee grew rapidly in popularity, and many brands were introduced (stage of rapid growth). After a while, people became attached to one brand and sales leveled off (stage of maturity). ___52___ (stage of decline).
The importance of the product life cycle to marketers is this: Different stages in the product life cycle call for different strategies. The goal is to extend product life so that sales and profits do not decline. One strategy is called market modification. ___53___. Did you know, for example, that the backpacks that so many students carry today were originally designed for the military?
Market modification also means searching for increased usage among present customers or going for a different market, such as senior citizens. A marketer may re-position the product to appeal to new market sections.
Another product extension strategy is called product modification. ___54___. American auto manufacturers are using quality improvement as one way to recapture world markets. ___55___.
(A) It involves changing product quality, features, or style to attract new users or more usage from present users (B) Sales went into a slight decline when freeze-dried coffees were introduced
(C) When it was introduced, most people did not like it as well as “regular” coffee
(D) Note, also, how auto manufactures once changed styles dramatically from year to year to keep demand from falling (E) It means that marketing managers look for new users and market sections
（V）閱讀測驗（40%）
(1) Cracked and worn-down teeth, jaw pain and headaches are getting the attention of dentists—and stress is at the root of the
problem. “We know that everybody’s under a lot of stress lately,” said Matthew Messina, a dentist and adviser for the American Dental Association. The body reacts to stress—whether real or perceived—with a spurt of energy that enables a person to run or fight, Messina said. People who are under stress burn that excess energy off somewhere. Some do it at night by clenching or grinding their teeth.
Clenching and grinding, also called “bruxism,” puts hundreds of pounds of pressure on tooth surfaces. Typically, chewing exerts 20 to 40 pounds on the teeth, but the pressure from grinding can be 250 pounds or more. Broken and chipped teeth are some of the results. And grinding can wear off the white shiny substance covering the teeth until the softer bony layer of the teeth is exposed. Teeth also can be rubbed flat. Wear and tear on teeth isn’t the only result. “When you clench your teeth, you can get pain behind the eyes, ringing in the ears, sinus pain, neck pain, headaches--it can even trigger migraines,” said David Wright, a dentist who has
training for the treatment of facial and joint pain. Breaking a clench-and-grind habit isn’t easy. Stress management techniques can help some patients. But there’s more to solving the problem than just telling a patient to relax and expecting everything to be all right, dentists say.
Many patients try over-the-counter night (mouth) guards that prevent teeth from snapping together and allow muscles to relax. But the one-size-fits-all devices often don’t work well, dentists say. What works better are custom-made appliances that fit the patient’s mouth.
56. The article is mainly about ______.
(A) how to take care of your worn-down teeth (B) how to break a clench-and-grind habit (C) how to prevent damage caused by teeth grinding (D) how being stressed out can affect your teeth 57. Which is NOT one of the consequences caused by teeth grinding?
(A) Ringing in the ears. (B) Excessive burning of energy. (C) Broken and chipped teeth. (D) Pains in various parts of the body. 58. The article is most likely to be included in the ______ section of magazine.
(A) education (B) technology (C) health (D) business 59. We can infer from the article that ______.
(A) the enormous pressure on tooth surfaces often leads to bruxism (B) people who suffer from migraines must have a stressed life (C) wearing a night guard is the best way to solve the nightly grind (D) bruxism is a stress-related symptom
(2) In 1952, Helen Keller was invited to join the centennial celebrations of Louis Braille’s birth in Paris. She was given a Medal of
Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor.
Mister President, Professors, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am touched by the honor you have given me. I cannot help thinking that this honor is not due to any accomplishment of mine, but is rather for the encouragement of the blind and the deaf whom I represent.
On behalf of the blind people of the world, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for having generously recognized the pride and efforts of all those who refuse to succumb to their limitations. In our way, we, the blind, are as indebted to Louis Braille as mankind is to Guntenberg. It is true that the dot system is very different from ordinary print, but these raised letters are, under our fingers, precious seeds from which our intellectual harvest has grown. Without the Braille dot system, how incomplete and chaotic our education would be! The dismal doors of frustration would shut us out from the untold treasures of literature, philosophy and science. But, like a magic wand, the six dots of Louis Braille have resulted in schools where embossed books, and like vessels, can transport us to ports of education, libraries and all the means of expression that assure our independence.
Can I tell you, esteemed faculty of the Sorbonne, my heartfelt thoughts? You have shown a generous interest in the wellbeing of mankind. Above all, you represent France, which is always in the forefront of enlightened activity—the country where Louis Braille was born and for whose legacy he worked. How better can we honor his memory than by pursuing the Christian ideal of helping those with disabilities and fostering a public spirit of cooperation that will enable the visually impaired to reach enormous heights of accomplishment and spiritual fulfillment?
60. In the speech, Helen Keller regarded the honor she was given as ______.
(A) a compliment to her achievement (B) an opportunity to raise fund for the visually-impaired (C) an encouragement for the blind community she represented (D) a consolation to those struggling in poverty
61. In the speech, the Braille system in NOT compared to______.
(A) a magic wand (B) vessels (C) seeds (D) raised dots 62. What, in Helen Keller’s opinion, is the best way to honor Louis Braille?
(A) Delivering more inspiring speeches about Louis Braille’s Life. (B) Fostering the spirit of helping the physically-challenged. (C) Having as many people baptized as possible.
(D) Succumbing to one’s limitation.
63. Which of the following fact is not made explicit in the speech?
(A) Louis Braille was born in France. (B) Guntenberg invented a printing method, using movable type. (C) The Sorbonne is an educational institute. (D) Each Braille character is made up of six dot positions.
(3) A small congregation in the foothills of the Great Smokies built a new church on a piece of land willed to them by a church
member. Ten days before the new church was to open, the local building inspector informed the pastor that the parking lot was inadequate for the size of the building. Until the church doubled the size of the parking lot, they would not be able to use the new church.
Unfortunately, the church with its undersized parking lot had used every inch of their land except for the mountain against which it had been built. In order to build more parking spaces, they would have to move the mountain out of the back yard.
Undaunted, the pastor announced the next Sunday morning that he would meet that evening with all members who had mountain-moving faith. They would hold a prayer session asking God to remove the mountain from the back yard and to somehow provide enough money to have it paved and painted before the scheduled opening dedication service the following week.
At the appointed time, 24 of the congregation’s 300 members assembled for prayer. They prayed for nearly three hours. At ten o’clock the pastor said the final amen. “We’ll open next Sunday as scheduled,” he assured everyone. “God has never let us down before, and I believe He will be faithful this time too.”
The next morning as he was working in his study, there came a loud knock at his door. He called, “Come in!” A rough-looking construction foreman appeared, removing his helmet as he entered.
“Excuse me, Reverend. I’m from Acme Construction Company over in the next county. We’re building a huge new shopping mall over there and we need some fill dirt. Would you be willing to sell us a chunk of that mountain behind the church? We’ll pay you for the dirt we remove and pave all the exposed area free of charge, if we can have it right away. We can’t do anything else until we get the dirt in and allow it to settle properly.”
The new church was dedicated the next Sunday as originally planned and there were far more members with mountain-moving faith on opening Sunday than there had been the previous week!
64. Who paid for the land on which a new church was built?
(A) The whole congregation. (B) A foreman of Acme Construction Company. (C) A church member. (D) The owner of a huge shopping mall. 65. What difficulty did the church members encounter when their new church was about to open?
(A) Not enough capital was raised. (B) The local building inspector died.
(C) The Lord was to remove the mountain from the backyard. (D) Something was wrong with the size of the parking lot.
66. What was the pastor’s attitude when he declared that he would meet with all church members full of confidence? (A) Fearless. (B) Timid. (C) Cowardly. (D) Scared. 67. Which of the following statements best conveys the message of this short story?
(A) Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (B) O God, teach us to number our days aright, so that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
(C) God will make a way, where there seems to be no way.
(D) What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and yet lose his very self?
(4) The most unusual airplane in the world is a kind of “flying hospital.” The name of the plane is Project Orbis. The word “orbis”
comes from the Latin word for “eye.” The airplane is well named because its purpose is to help blind people see again.
Inside the airplane is some of the most up-to-date medical equipment in the world, all of which is designed to correct many of the vision problems that cause blindness. The plane makes many trips from the United States to Peru and other countries in Latin America. There are thousands of cases of serious eye disease in that part of the world. The people need help, but there is usually no help for them. The doctors there know about the new operations to cure eye diseases, but they haven’t been able to learn how to do such operations.
That is where Project Orbis comes in. The teams of doctors aboard the airplane have performed many operations in the U.S. to correct eye diseases. They want to teach the skills to doctors in other countries. Then many blind people will be helped long after Project Orbis has gone.
In Peru, the people learned about the miracles being performed on the plane from the U.S. When the plane was parked in Lima, Peru’s capital city, those who had lost their sight began to make their way slowly to the plane. Most were very poor, and could not afford to pay for medical help. A part of the plane had been turned into an operating room. Dozens of doctors from Peru watched the eye operations. After the doctors learned how to do the operations, they performed many themselves.
the cornea becomes damaged so that light cannot enter. If the diseased cornea is replaced with a healthy one, sight can be restored. Two days after his operation, Alex was able to see again. Project Orbis had brought him the gift of sight.
68. In this passage, the underlined word “restored” is closest in meaning to ______.
(A) resolved (B) resigned (C) recognized (D) regained 69. Doctors in Peru did not usually do the new eye operations before Project Orbis came because ______.
(A) there were no such patients in Peru (B) they disliked foreign doctors
(C) they had never heard of the operations (D) they were not trained to do the operations 70. According to this passage, the main purpose of Project Orbis is to ______.
(A) cure all blind people in the Unites States (B) provide low-cost health insurance (C) teach doctors new operating skills (D) sell the latest medical equipment 71. According to this passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
(A) The word “orbis” means “eye” in Latin.
(B) The doctors on the plane Project Orbis refused to perform operations for the poor in Peru.
(C) The teams of doctors aboard Project Orbis are experienced in performing eye operations in the U.S. (D) After the doctors from Peru learned how to do the eye operations, they also performed many themselves.
(5) At the turn of the 20th century, a scientific genius came on the scene who was comparable to Newton, a German Jew called Albert Einstein, and he produced theories incompatible with Newton’s. Like Newton, Einstein was amazingly fertile of fundamental ideas. What he is best known for are his contributions to relativity theory: his Special Theory of Relativity, published in 1905, and his General Theory of Relativity, made public in 1915. Not surprisingly, these theories were highly controversial at first; but virtually nobody who was knowledgeable in the field could deny that they were deserving of the most serious consideration. And that fact in itself had disconcerting implications, because if Einstein was right then Newton was wrong—and in that case we had not “known” the contents of Newtonian science all along.
And so it was to prove. Crucial experiments were devised to adjudicate between the two sets of theories; and as the empirical evidence mounted it unmistakably favored Einstein. The consequences of this for philosophy were earthquake-like. Ever since Descartes, the search for certainty had been at or near the center of Western philosophy; and with Newtonian science Western man believed he had uncovered a vast body of reliable knowledge about his world and beyond, knowledge of fundamental significance and enormous practical usefulness. What is more, the methods by which that knowledge had been gathered had been closely considered and carefully codified, and were thought to guarantee its certainty, to validate it as sure knowledge. And yet now it turned out not to have been “knowledge” at all. What was it, then? Its use had led to immense progress in our understanding of the world; its practical application through technology had brought about a whole new historical age, namely modern industrial civilization; yet now, we discovered, it was inaccurate. This presented us with an utterly baffling situation, for it appeared that we had been mistaken not only about what was knowledge but about what knowledge was.
72. The best title for this passage would be ______.
(A) Two Scientific Geniuses (B) On Theory and Practice (C) General Theory of Relativity (D) Uncertain Knowledge 73. Which is closest in meaning to adjudicate?
(A) attribute (B) combine (C) determine (D) abandon 74. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
(A) Einstein’s theories were not recognized by his contemporaries.
(B) Both Einstein and Newton are productive in coming up with fundamental ideas. (C) Newtonian science had brought about the modern industrial civilization.
(D) Before the 20th century, the aim of Western philosophy had been a quest for certainty. 75. Einstein’s theories have had earthquake-like effects on Western philosophy because ______.
(A) they shake the foundation of Western philosophy
(B) they show us the difference between true knowledge and false knowledge (C) they show us that the quest for certainty is at the center of Western philosophy (D) they are open to criticism and therefore revision
