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科目：外國文（英文；包括作文、翻譯與應用文） | 年份：107年 | 選擇題數：40 | 申論題數：3

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所屬科目：外國文（英文；包括作文、翻譯與應用文）

選擇題 (40)

1 Please keep your seat belt fastened when seated, ______ the seat-belt light is not illuminated. (A) as if (B) despite (C) even if (D) so that

2 I will let you know what our chair says about the project, and in the ______ I will ask others for their opinions about it as well. (A) nutshell (B) moment (C) meantime (D) notion

3 With our limited budget, we can only buy an______ car that runs well. (A) affluent (B) affirmative (C) affordable (D) astonished

4 The United States has returned hundreds of ______ artifacts stolen from religious sites five hundred years ago to the government of India. (A) ancient (B) ambiguous (C) individual (D) imaginable

5 The bank requires a written ______ from their clients in order to prevent fraud or update the information. (A) audition (B) admission (C) administration (D) authorization

6 H5N1 epidemic in 2003 caused many ______ around the world. Many people died from it. (A) fragments (B) fatalities (C) symptoms (D) syndromes

7 If you want to travel to an English speaking country, you need to overcome the language ______ between you and English speaking people, so that you won’t have communication problems. (A) tension (B) barrier (C) nerve (D) stress

8 Scientists have found evidence that certain birth defects are______ with certain chemicals in our environment. But often the chemical industry refused to accept the connection between their products and birth defects. (A) satisfied (B) aware (C) associated (D) rampant

9 The number of households relying on various social ______ programs to get by has increased significantly since the recent poor economic performance. (A) costume (B) mischief (C) protest (D) welfare

10 Without other possible means, he left what little furniture he owned to his landlord ______ rent. (A) in lieu of (B) in spite of (C) in favor of (D) in terms of

11 Language ability has traditionally been considered, by language teachers and language testers alike, to ______ of four skills. (A) consist (B) insist (C) resist (D) persist

12 (A) supplement (B) complement (C) transcript (D) transformation

13 (A) parallel (B) retarded (C) irrelevant (D) apathetic

14 (A) susceptible (B) sustainable (C) suffocating (D) suspicious

15 (A) self-enticing (B) self-conscious (C) self-deceiving (D) self-reliant

16 (A) mutual (B) binary (C) bizarre (D) minimal

17 (A) supposed (B) opposed (C) committed (D) admitted

18 (A) genuine (B) literary (C) neutral (D) trivial

19 (A) switch (B) sway (C) stalk (D) stammer

20 (A) where (B) which (C) what (D) why

21 (A) Charity depends on one’s profession. (B) Happiness depends on how little we earn and how much we give. (C) How much we give depends. (D) There is strong evidence that those who are generous end up better off.

22 (A) Happiness provides an index to our wealth. (B) It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the kingdom of God. (C) Such actions imbue us with “self-efficacy.” (D) Wealth can solve a host of problems.

23 What is the passage mainly about? (A) How to have a wonderful date without spending too much money. (B) How do we distinguish between the rich and the poor. (C) How to recognize the value of money and be a master of it. (D) How do we get along with the rich and learn something from them.

24 Why does the author mention water and BMW in line 2 and line 4 ? (A) To contrast the price of daily necessities and luxury products. (B) To explain why we need to manage money wisely. (C) To show that the true value of things is determined by the circumstances. (D) To give examples of expensive and valuable things in daily life.

25 According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? (A) We increase the value of the money when we share it. (B) Being generous is a key to running a successful business. (C) When we are poor we need to find out the reason for it. (D) A rich man deserves respect for his frugality.

26 What could you smell in the apartment in the morning? (A) Chicken soup. (B) Pastries and sweets. (C) Medicinal herbs. (D) Fish and seafood.

27 Where did the old people sit cracking roasted watermelon seeds? (A) Under the red banner in a festival. (B) On the green-tiled ground in the dark alley. (C) By the wood-slat sideway next to the herb shop. (D) On the benches surrounding the play area.

28 Which of the followings is NOT true according to the passage? (A) The woman dying of an ancestral curse was cured by American doctors. (B) The pharmacy was full of saffron-colored seeds and pungent leaves. (C) The author thought the stores located in the dark alley were exciting. (D) The apartment was situated above a small Chinese bakery.

29 Which of the followings is the closest in meaning to the phrase “dole out”? (A) Influence. (B) Abandon. (C) Portray. (D) Dispense.

30 Which business type is NOT mentioned in the passage? (A) Bakery. (B) Pharmacy. (C) Cafeteria. (D) Printing.

31 (A) covers (B) imposes (C) discloses (D) exposes

32 (A) recreations (B) livelihoods (C) restorations (D) utilities

33 (A) discarded (B) withheld (C) assumed (D) overseen

34 (A) On and off (B) All the same (C) At all costs (D) As a result

35 (A) nevertheless (B) thereafter (C) whereby (D) henceforth

36 Which of the following statements is true? (A) Twitter-followers are often described as spammers. (B) Celebrities tweet as often as bots when they have a similar number of followers. (C) The more followers a twitter account has, the less likely it will be tweeted by humans. (D) Twitters anywhere can only be bots with more than 10 million followers.

37 Which of the following is true about “bots”? (A) Bots are a different kind of human-twitters. (B) Bots are often associated with malicious twitters. (C) Bots rely on humans to execute orders. (D) Bots operated by humans can only be malicious.

38 Which of the following statements is NOT true? (A) CNN or BBC relies on twitters to deliver trustworthy information. (B) Bots have been on Twitter for some of the celebrities’ existence. (C) Both human and non-human accounts are possible on Twitter. (D) Twitter accounts are barely dominated by bots.

39 According to the passage, what could be said of the human accounts and bots? (A) They have the same distribution in followers. (B) Human twitters are far more benign than bots. (C) The accounts operated by humans and bots are of equal number. (D) The vast majority of human twitters are malicious.

40 What can be inferred according to the passage? (A) Bots cannot be detected by any means. (B) Celebrity twitter accounts display bot-like behavior. (C) Bots are hardly used by media channels. (D) Celebrity twitter accounts are seldom benign.

申論題 (3)

一、英譯中：（15 分） It is reported that the entrapment felt by the soccer prodigy ran deeper than the overwhelming circumstances that brought about his fit, now widely believed to have been a combination of tension, and a possible reaction to the high dosage of painkiller that had gotten him through the semi-final.

二、中譯英：（15 分）讓這些科學家感興趣的是幫助人們去除不想要的記憶，因為這些記憶會造成心理疾病如憂鬱症和創傷後壓力失調症。即便在心理健康的人身上，亦有可能因無法忘記過去的事件而讓心智遲鈍及帶來痛苦。

三、英文作文：（20 分） It has been suggested that the war on terror has contributed to the growing abuse of human rights. Do you agree or disagree on the above statement? Write an English essay in NO MORE THAN 200 words to express your standpoint. Be sure to first rebut the other side’s reasons and then use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.