
貳、英文【第 26-50 題,每題 2分,共計 25 題,占 50 分】
一、字彙【請依照句子前後文意,選出最適當的答案】
【4】26. One responsibility for being a member of the movie appreciation society is that everyone needs to ________ his
or her favorite film.
amend disgust mend recommend
【2】27. Most citizens in megacities in our country agree that they need to travel to countryside once in a while in order
to ________ their sanity.
doubt preserve steal threaten
【2】28. Children’s ________ is usually referred to their abilities of reading and writing. It is always one of the goals of
primary education.
fragility literacy realia writhing
【4】29. The upcoming conference on business administration invites ________ of paper, forum and workshops related
to online business.
biography morpheme rejections submissions
【1】30. The medical units in the country are encouraging new ________ to cure unknown diseases because they have
used up what they learned.
approaches estuaries inventories obelisks
【2】31. After the natural disaster, it is urgent to ________ people to come back to normal life again.
gravitate facilitate laminate manipulate
【3】32. Centuries ago temples in remote areas used to be a ________ for the refugees.
draftee momentum sanctuary testimony
二、文法測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】
【2】33. What would you do if it ________ on your first day to work?
rain rained raining rains
【1】34. We would encourage you all to refer to the tables, which can ________ on the next page of this booklet.
be found be founded find found
【1】35. The lecture ________ by an investor from the Wall Street Journal will be held in the largest conference room on
the first floor.
given gives gave giving
【1】36. The recent reports for joblessness in many Asian countries ________ fears of economic recession.
have sparked has sparked sparks sparking
【3】37. I ________ definitely give you a ring if your boss comes to the office.
must ought to will would
【4】38. As studies showed, the study hours of girls are always longer than ________ of boys before college.
it that these those
【3】39. In the ________ August, our unit will have been serving our neighborhood for more than five years.
come comes coming to come
【3】40. ________ of the newspaper agree with what the editor’s opinion of creating more columns for younger
generation.
A many reader A reader many Many a reader Many reader a
三、克漏字測驗【請依照段落上下文意,選出最適當的答案】
If ever a movie earned its time-travel plotline, it’s Men in Black 3, which attempts to revive a movie franchise
largely forgotten by audiences after its disappointing second entry. Men in Black 3 41 Will Smith’s Agent J
going back to the 1960s to save partner Agent K, and mines its late-’60s setting for jokes both obvious and subtle. But
if time travel, as the Men in Black would 42 it, is illegal throughout the universe, cinema is full of lawbreakers.
It’s been 10 years 43 the last Men in Black movie, but nearly 100 years since the first time-travel film hit movie
theaters. There are so many variations on turning the clock forwards and backwards in cinema that it’s difficult to say
these films 44 belong to a unified genre. But every time-traveling movie has, in its own way, had to overcome
the mind-bending logic problems 45 in its premise. And each, too, has played on a universal, if vain, human
desire to experience a world that's entirely unavailable to us—and perhaps to change things in our own.
【4】41. see seeing seen sees
【1】42. have like take ask
【2】43. because since so that
【2】44. before even lest which
【3】45. accounted earned inherent unified
四、閱讀測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】
Long before there were flowers, the world was green. The first plants appeared some 500 million years ago, early
mosses, hornworts and liverworts, low and clinging to the ground. Then, 360 million years ago, ferns rose up, with
newly evolved vascular systems that helped them ferry water to their extremities and gain height. They prevailed as the
dinosaurs fell, through extinction after extinction, obstinate and mostly unchanging; according to the fossil record, a fern
from 180 million years ago was almost identical to its descendants today.
Ferns were, therefore, a part of human existence from our very start, and yet in the West, it wasn’t until the
Victorians that we went mad for these prehistoric relics. Pteridomania, the official name of the fever, was fueled in part
by the 1829 invention of the Wardian case, a glazed glass box built to transport and protect sensitive plants, and by the
extension of roads and railways to previously less accessible and particularly damp corners of Britain, where ferns
thrived. The craze was democratic, cutting across class lines: Farmers foraged for specimens while aristocrats imported
rarities hunted in far-flung lands, from Borneo to Brazil.
You might say that, once awakened, our craze for them never died. In 1960s America, the plants became the
defining decoration of the so-called fern bars, which took inspiration from idealized grandmotherly living rooms (along
with banks of potted ferns, they often featured homey wooden tables with Tiffany-style lamps), creating a space where
single women would feel safe sipping sugary cocktails — an upper-crust version of tiki bars, minus the exuberance. By
the 1980s, ferns (or, more often, their plastic likeness) drooped from macramé hangers in homes across the country, a
tropical trope in a decade that celebrated excess.
【3】46. What is the passage mainly about?
When ferns became prehistoric relics.
Where ferns became people’s decorations.
How ferns became a target of human’s craze.
Why ferns became imported items for aristocrats.
【4】47. Which of the following statements about ferns is NOT true?
They existed long before flowers did.
They came into existence after hornworts.
They are almost the same as those 180 million years ago.
They were used to carry water for human beings to very far places.
【1】48. Why is the Wardian case mentioned in the second paragraph?
To explain the reasons for pteridomania.
To claim a theory of the extinction of plants.
To illustrate the prosperity and wealth of Britain.
To argue for the invention of an artistic glass box.
【2】49. What does the word them refer to in the third paragraph?
Bars.
Ferns.
Hornworts.
Wardian cases.
【1】50. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
One of the reasons for pteridomania in Britain was the improved transportation.
In 1960s some in America created bars for grandmothers and single women only.
The craze in Britain resulted in a war because farmers and aristocrats disagreed with each other.
By the 1980s plastic ferns were used in homes in America to create heat in winter and to celebrate Christmas.