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臺北市立松山高中 102 學年度英文科第二次教師甄選試題
Part I
I. Vocabulary: Choose the best answer. 10%
1. After hitting the iceberg, the captain ordered to ______ the ship before it completely sank.
(A) allocate (B) facilitate (C) preclude (D) relinquish 2. The government is counting on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of
______.
(A) acquisition (B) collaboration (C) recession (D) transaction 3. After working in the company for a decade, she was ______ to take over the position of vice
president.
(A) conformed (B) designated (C) fluctuated (D) terminated 4. If you are ______ with someone, you have become friendly with him or her again after a
quarrel or disagreement.
(A) activated (B) compiled (C) reconciled (D) rectified 5. There is a considerable ______ between men’s and women’s opinions on which is more
blessed—to love or to be loved.
(A) discrepancy (B) itinerary (C) spectrum (D) turbulence
6. Don’t just read his letter ______. You should read between the lines to understand the real message he means to get across.
(A) literally (B) substantially (C) unanimously (D) verbally
7. Mr. Chen thought it absolutely ______ that the junior employee should be promoted over him. It was both shocking and unfair to him.
(A) imperative (B) erratic (C) adjacent (D) outrageous
8. With low prices and good quality, the company has gained a ______ on the logging industry in this area and no one can compete with them.
(A) syndrome (B) constraint (C) hypothesis (D) monopoly
9. I am impressed with your excellent choice of words in this essay, but I am afraid that it lacks coherence, for quite a few sentences are not ______ to the topic.
(A) disparate (B) mandatory (C) nauseous (D) pertinent 10. Mark just called, saying that he was terribly sorry he wouldn’t be able to meet until
Thursday afternoon, so I guess we just have to ______ the meeting until then.
(A) adjourn (B) concede (C) hamper (D) duplicate
II. Choice: Choose one correct sentence. 10%
11. (A) It is only when there is nobody around can I do my homework.
(B) The young mother sat by the window and her baby sleeping in her arms.
(C) Up in the attic are several wooden boxes full of my grandma’s treasures.
(D) Were it not for my mentor’s support, I would have given up my studies then.
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12. (A) How I wish there will be no hatred and wars in this world.
(B) Mr. Chen crept into bed last night lest he disturb his sleeping wife.
(C) When he went out of the restaurant, John saw his car taking away by a tow truck.
(D) For Alice’s disappointment, I won’t be able to make it to her wedding this Saturday.
13. (A) I don’t want to provoke a woman who weighs twice much as I do.
(B) Sweating from the heat, the hikers took a break and sat in the shade.
(C) Prices are soaring. It is time we have to reduce unnecessary expenses.
(D) How much money do you think will it cost to build such a luxurious hotel?
14. (A) To say is one thing, and to do is other.
(B) Dick wouldn’t allow me to touch his new car, let alone driving it.
(C) As the minimum wage has gone up in Taiwan, so has the cost of living.
(D) Our teacher insisted that the English assignment had to be done on our own.
15. (A) Jane is used to drink a glass of milk every day after she gets up.
(B) The harder you work, the more easily it will be to get good grades.
(C) The record is worth to listen to, especially if you are in the mood to relax.
(D) If you had reviewed your lessons on the weekend, you could pass the test now.
16. (A) If I had magic power, I will turn my house into a castle.
(B) The little boy held the blanket tightly as if freezing to death.
(C) If he didn’t drink that day, he would have avoided that accident.
(D) I must have made an appointment with my dentist last week, but I forgot.
17. (A) When she heard the bad news, she couldn’t but burst into tears.
(B) That actress never appears in public but wearing his sunglasses.
(C) So was the flame of his anger that Robert couldn’t think normally.
(D) I feel like saying sorry, but I found that difficult to put my apology into words.
18. (A) What a great time it was to have a barbecue at the beach last weekend!
(B) Allen just had his hair cutting yesterday. That’s why he looks so fresh now.
(C) The company would rather run the risk of a long legal battle than to give in to those are in power.
(D) No sooner did people hear a typhoon was coming before they rushed to do some grocery shopping.
19. (A) When you choose a career, all you have to do is following your heart.
(B) Despite facing a lot of difficulties, David didn’t turn to anyone for help.
(C) The police officer questioned some people since the dead body was found.
(D) Could you please stop to play that song over and over again? I’m so sick of it.
20. (A) Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.
(B) The dense fog will clear away by the time day breaks.
(C) Slowly as the dog ran, it tried its best to keep up with its owner.
(D) She is shy and timid, so she always has trouble to communicate with other people.
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III. Words in Context: Choose the best answer. 10%
(A) implications (B) rests (C) desolate (D) visualizing (E) precision (AB) consists (AC) predictable
Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at molecular and microscopic levels.
It is not only rebuking commonly held laws of physics but also offering new breakthroughs in science as well as __21__ for modifying human behavior. The study of physics is a relatively new field. Gaining technology to measure with better __22__ the phenomena happening in the universe, scientists discovered strange occurrences. Whereas there were laws of physics governing large bodies of matter, these laws didn’t apply to subatomic material. Actually, the act of observing something influences its physical processes and what direction it will go into, making the universe not __23__ but filled with a series of probabilities. That is, reality __24__ with the observer.
Quantum physics is enticing to many people, with its new philosophy that reality is relative. Believing that they are in control of their lives, supporters say that __25__
something to be true increases the probability of its happening. Thus, workshops, motivational books, and movies are made on the subject, using some of the ideas of quantum physics as the backbone of their teachings and assumptions.
(A) appeal (B) morality (C) patented (D) reaffirming (E) ineligible (AB) strain (AC) consideration
In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial extension that replaces a missing body part. Within science fiction, and, more recently, within the scientific community, there has been __26__
given to using advanced prostheses to replace healthy body parts with artificial mechanisms and systems to improve function. The __27__ and desirability of such technologies are being debated. Body parts such as legs, arms, hands, feet, and others can be replaced.
In early 2008, Oscar Pistorius, the “Blade Runner” of South Africa, was briefly ruled __28__ to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics because his prosthetic limbs were said to give him an unfair advantage over runners who had ankles. One researcher found that his limbs used twenty-five percent less energy than those of an able-bodied runner moving at the same speed. This ruling was overturned on equality, with the committee __29__ that the overall set of advantages and disadvantages of Pistorius’ limbs had not been considered. Pistorius did not join the South African team for Olympics, but went on to __30__ to the 2008 Summer
Paralympics, and has been ruled qualified for any future Olympics.
IV. Discourse Structure: Choose the best answer. 5%
“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” is the story of a woman who runs her daughters’
lives with an iron hand. Her way of education breaks every rule of today’s right-thinking parenting.
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____31____ The author Amy Chua, who is Chinese-American and a Yale law
professor, pushes her children to get straight A’s and forces them to spend hours each day practicing piano and violin. ____32____ She refuses them playdates and sleepovers and TV and video games, and she demands unstinting obedience and devotion to family.
____33____ Regardless of her daughters’ protests, Chua persists with her iron hand. “You have to be hated sometimes by someone you love and who hopefully loves you,” she says.
____34____
In spite of the obvious limits of Chua’s appeal, her publisher is clearly counting on her message finding wide resonance among American moms worn out from trying to do everything right for kids who mimic Disney Channel-style disrespect for parents, spend hours a day on Facebook, and pick at their lovingly prepared food. ____35 ____
(A) Her goal is to produce tougher, more resilient and of course higher-performing kids.
(B) They are not allowed to pursue loser activities like playing the drums.
(C) This parenting memoir clearly aspires to become a battle plan for a new age of re-empowered, captain-of-the-ship motherhood.
(D) All of these lead, unsurprisingly, to no small amount of crying, screaming, and general tension.
(E) What the “Tiger Mother” embraces is the Chinese way of parenting instead, which stresses respect, self-discipline and, above all, results.
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臺北市立松山高中 101 學年度第二次教師甄選 英文科筆試答案卷
I. Vocabulary 10%
1. D 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. A
6. A 7. D 8. D 9. D 10. A
II. Choice 10%
11. C 12. B 13. B 14. C 15. D
16. B 17. A 18. A 19. B 20. C
III. Words in Context 10%
21. A 22. E 23. AC 24. B 25. D
26. AC 27. B 28. E 29. D 30. A
IV. Discourse Structure 5%
31. E 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. C
