
臺北市 102 學年度公立國民小學教師聯合甄選初試基礎類科知能試題(英語科)
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26( D )Open questions in a survey _____ for people to say how they really feel.
(A) makes possible (B) make possible (C) makes it possible (D) make it possible
27( C )For a particular substance, the density of the solid is _____ the gas.
(A) higher than (B) to be higher of (C) higher than that of (D) much more higher than
28( B )_____ the books are the author’s detailed illustrations of animals in that country.
(A) Common (B) Common throughout (C) Being common throughout (D) After being common throughout
29( D )The decade of the 1960s in the field of academic training _____ a persistent focus on a comprehensive perspective of education
in socially pragmatic contexts.
(A) witnessing (B) was witnessed (C) which witnessed (D) witnessed
30( A )The Internet, a backbone for the so-called data superhighway, _____ computer networks, cable TV, interactive phone services
and other technologies.
(A) consists of (B) consisting of (C) was made of (D) made up of
31( B ) _____ the efforts of enthusiastic collectors at the turn of the century, few folk songs created by the native Taiwanese would
have survived to the present days.
(A) If there have not been (B) Had there not been (C) If there was no (D) Have there not had
32( C )_____ a fairly long speech in a play is often presented as a recitative in an opera.
(A) There would be (B) It would be (C) What would be (D) That would be
33( D )It is obviously urgent that we _____ the impact of the construction of nuclear plants, which has grown _____ to destroy human
lives.
(A) are aware of …… severe enough (B) are aware of…… enough severe
(C) have been aware of…… enough severely (D) be aware of ……severe enough
34( C )Expensive perfumes come in tiny bottles, but many hide a whale-sized secret. To perfect a particular smell, perfume makers
often use an ingredient that comes from whales with upset tummies. The whale waste, called ambergris, is solid and greasy
on its own. But in perfume, ambergris holds all the smelly ingredients together for a long time. People describe its smell as
“earthy” and “sweet”.
According to the passage, the smell of many perfumes comes from _____.
(A) tiny bottles (B) earthy and sweet whales (C) whale waste (D) secret ingredients invented by perfume makers
35( B ) For decades, childhood obesity rates have been on the rise. Now some U.S. cities are seeing progress in their fight against fat.
In those cities, fried food has disappeared from many cafeteria menus in schools. Whole-wheat bread has replaced white
bread. Drinks like water and low-fat milk have replaced sugary beverages. Many schools have also required healthier snack
options in vending machines. It can be inferred that obesity rates fall in cities where _____.
(A) prices for healthy food drop (B) schools provide healthy food choices
(C) food labels offer nutritional information (D) students are required to exercise regularly
36( A )Freshwater is a more precious commodity than many people in the developed world recognize. More than 97 percent of Earth’s
water is salty, unfit for drinking. Of the remainder, more than two-thirds is frozen in glaciers and icecaps, leaving just 1
percent of all the water on our planet fresh. About one one-hundredth of that 1 percent resides in rivers and other waterways;
the rest is beneath the earth's surface. Pressure on this invaluable resource is growing.
In the last sentence, the phrase “this invaluable resource” most probably refers to _____.
(A) fresh water (B) water unfit for drinking (C) people in the developed world (D) frozen glaciers and icecaps
37( B )Around 200 million years ago, Earth was 18 degrees warmer than it is now. A new study found that plant-eating dinosaurs may
have contributed to prehistoric global warming by releasing significant amounts of methane gas through their farts and burps.
The gas traps heat and warms the atmosphere. It can be inferred that methane is _____.
(A) a dinosaur that eats plants (B) a greenhouse gas
(C) a plant that dinosaurs cannot digest (D) the highest natural air temperature ever recorded on Earth
38( B )It doesn’t matter which room a family chooses to gather in. It could be a favorite corner of the kitchen or a wood paneled den.
What does matter is that they choose to be together. For it is the support, the strength, the bonds and traditions of the family
that give us what we all need most in life. What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) Family rooms are symbols of family tradition.
(B) The family is more important than the family room.
(C) It is important to understand family relationships and family responsibilities.
(D) The family room is a place where family members gather for family activities.
Globalization is the process of international integration (39) from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other
aspects of culture. Advances in transportation and telecommunications (40) are major factors in globalization, generating
further interdependence of (41) and cultural activities. The (42) of electronic communications, most notably mobile
phones and the Internet, connected billions of people in new ways. Thus, as professor Robertson defined, globalization is referred
to as "the (43) of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole."
39( C )(A) raising (B) arousing (C) arising (D) rising
40( D )(A) structure (B) blueprint (C) framework (D) infrastructure
41( B )(A) economy (B) economic (C) economical (D) economically
42( A )(A) advent (B) transformation (C) promotion (D) commitment
43( D )(A) prosperity (B) competition (C) diversity (D) compression
Nursery rhyme is used for traditional poems and songs for young children in Britain and many other countries. However, most
nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century. Nursery rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources,
including traditional riddles, proverbs, ballads, lines of Mummers' plays, drinking songs, historical events, and it has been
suggested, ancient pagan rituals. Many nursery rhymes have been argued to have hidden meanings and origins. For example,
Katherine Elwes' book, The Real Personages of Mother Goose (1930), in which she linked famous nursery-rhyme characters with
real people. She assumed that children's songs were a peculiar form of coded historical narrative, propaganda or covert protest, and
rarely considered that they could have been written simply for entertainment.
There have been several attempts, across the world, to revise nursery rhymes. In the late 19th century, the major concern seems to