國立空中大學 97 學年度下學期期末考試題【正參】02
科目：英文文選
壹、 閱讀指引 (Study Guide) 簡答－36 %。請把握時間，不要亂翻譯句子意思。
1. I was probably upstairs working on the budget report. 通常，work 這個字我們都解為：工作，請問：
(1) working on 在這個句子中應如何解方才恰當？(2) 為何在這裏不能將「工作」的意思套進去？
2. Although he does not go into detail about the matter, he hints in the book at the reasons for his care about clothing.，課本及教學節目帶中都提到以介係詞片語來分段，這句話中共有幾個介係詞片語？請寫：
(1) 數量 (2) 每一個介係詞
3. Should we invite Mr. Nash? I can’t make up my mind on that one. 請問：that one 在這句子中指的是甚 麼？不要寫 that one 的中文意思是甚麼
4. The wind had taken him out to sea and back to the coast. 請問：這是一段怎麼樣的旅程（經歷了怎樣 的過程）？
5. In my neighborhood, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where the morning sidewalks bustle with well-dressed parents walking their children to private school, you can almost hear the collective melody of credit-card machines ringing in the Christmas holiday. 這句話中有二個線索可以說明作者所住的地
區的經濟狀況，請寫出其中之一（不要翻譯，只要寫出相關線索的大意即可）。
6. School, piano lessons on Tuesday, dancing classes on Thursday, and Saturday mornings (a loony idea of my mother's) something called elocution lessons. 第三十講中這句話不是個完整句子，列出一串的事 情來，作者的用意是要說明甚麼？
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貳、 課文閱讀測驗－64%。有的句子已用 [ ] 幫你分段，作答時只要填上每段的號碼即可，不必抄 字。其它的題目在做答時，建議也先分段，會有助於理解句子的。
1. [Tell them] [about the guy] [he wrote about] [who gets washed up on an island without any clothes on].
這句話已分成四段，(1) 這個句子中有二個子句，是那二段？(2) 這二個子句各是和句中的那一段 話有關？
2. [We can observe] [how people dress] [and know] [the new clothes] [they have on] mean [prosperity and good wishes] [for the new year]. 這句話分成七段，請問：(1) mean 這個字沒有放在一個 [ ] 中，
是因為它這個動詞和它的主詞被分開了，它的主詞是那一段？ (2) 這句話中共插入了幾個子句？
（寫數量就好）
3. Oh I don’t know…. If he’s got the time, he’ll come, and if he doesn’t, well, he won’t be there. Being Chair of the English Department makes him even busier now I suppose. Still, if I were you, I’d invite him. 請問：Still, 這個字在這樣的上下文中所表達最可能的用意是：(1) 別管這麼多了 (2) 說了 也是白說 (3) 還是依然故我 (4) 仍然不知所以
4. [Like my friendly colleague] [who jokes about not liking weddings] [because they remind him of his age], [I too feel a little older now] [when I see my brides or grooms on their wedding days]. 這句話分 成五段，請問：這句話的主要結構是那一段？寫下號碼即可。
5. But [when people close to you are ill], [especially if death is whispering in their ears], [you want to give them impossible things]—[more time], [less pain], [an escape from long nights of fear]. 這句話分成六 段，請問：(1) 這句話的主要結構是那一段 (2) 最後三段話是在說明那二個字？
6. Our social worker, who is blind and had adopted a sighted Amerasian child 20 years before, pointed out how much physically harder that would be for me. 請問：(1) 請將這句話的主詞和動詞寫下來（總共 不超過五個字），抄整句或整段不給分 (2) 句子中有二個逗點，其中所含的文字（who… before）
在這句子中的作用是甚麼？
7. It is very offensive to women to assume that the man is paying, and it is very embarrassing to both if you talk only to the man, when it is the woman who invited him. 請問：這個句子中共有幾個子句（主 要結構的部份不算）？請將每個子句的帶頭和最後一個字抄下即可。
8. While we value the opportunity to serve you during your stay in Denver, and while we sympathize with the difficulties of managing hungry children, as Miss Lin has told you, we are currently full. 請問：(1) 連接詞 and 是連接那二段話，請將每段話的第一和最後一個字抄下即可(2) 請將這句話的主詞和
動詞寫下來（總共不超過二個字），抄整句或整段不給分
