國立臺北師範學院 94 學年度碩士班招生入學考試
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I. Vocabulary（一題 2 分，共 20 分）
Please choose the option that is closest in meaning to the word underlined.
1. Despite some shortcomings, the principal still believes that a new school would be a beneficial addition to the community.
(A) advantageous
(B) diligent
(C) marvelous
(D) precious
2. Fables and fairy tales have been told for centuries because of their pedantic values.
(A) deleterious
(B) educational
(C) ornamental
(D) pompous
3. Major earthquakes are the most devastating events that will cause an incalculable loss of property.
(A) immeasurable
(B) judicious
(C) remedial
(D) calamitous
4. Carolina Winfield is an ardent advocate of vegetarianism.
(A) adversary
(B) antagonist
(C) grumbler
(D) exponent
5. Adman Goodfellow was prudent enough to ward off an impending danger.
(A) imminent
(B) apathetic
(C) indiscreet
(D) unavoidable
6. He had been waiting for over an hour and was beginning to get irritable.
(A) grouchy
(B) blasé
(C) intrepid
(D) agreeable
7. By and large, the papers greet the government’s new policy with a certain amount of skepticism.
(A) Once and for all (B) From time to time (C) Little by little (D) On the whole
8. The flood was a terrible disaster. Hundreds of people lost all and were destitute.
(A) ailment
(B) peril
(C) cataclysm
(D) vehemence
9. Unwilling to relinquish the Louisiana Territory, President Jefferson determined that the purchase would be
considered legal if the lands were transferred by treaty.
(A) purchase
(B) fight for
(C) mandate
(D) give back
10. She looked at the books jammed haphazardly in the shelves.
(A) cryptically
(B) randomly
(C) leisurely
(D) subsequently
II: Sentence Structures (一題 2 分，共 20 分)
Please choose the option that can best complete the sentence.
11. _______________, we might have achieved our goals.
(A) Had it not been for these setbacks
(B) If it would be for these setbacks
(C) If had it not been for these setbacks
(D) Have it been for these setbacks
12. Mrs. Hoffman has become a different woman, ___________ .
(A) is depriving of her son (B) deprived of her son (C) being depriving of her son
(D) is deprived of her son
13. People in this remote town have trusted their mayor, _____________ .
(A) by knowing that he is an honest and upright citizen
(B) who knows that he is an honest and upright citizen
(C) is known that he is an honest and upright citizen
(D) knowing that he is an honest and upright citizen
14. ______________, Mary Ann Davis has also written many novels and plays.
(A) One of the most famous female poets is considered
(B) By considering of one of the most famous female poets
(C) Considered one of the most famous female poets
(D) Has considered one of the most famous female poets
15. Mr. Cummingham is humorous, and, _____________ , he is very outspoken.
(A) it is worse
(B) what is more
(C) which is more
(D) that is worse
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16. Since the use of antibiotics ___________ widespread, certain types of pneumonia and streptococcal infections
are no longer as terrifying as they once were.
(A) was becoming
(B) had become
(C) has become
(D) becomes
17. The Olympic Games, __________ in 776 B.C., did not include women participants until 1912.
(A) first played
(B) they were first played
(C) that they were first played
(D) which they were first played
18. Rasputin __________ responsible for many of the ill-fated events that occurred during the reign of Czar
Nicholas II in Russia.
(A) believed to be
(B) they believed him to be
(C) was believing to be
(D) was believed to have been
19. Never before in the history of the country __________ as spiritually united as they were during the war.
(A) the people were
(B) had the people been
(C) the people had been
(D) when the people were
20. __________ the mathematical ability of girls is innately the same as that of boys is now generally accepted.
(A) The fact that
(B) It is a fact that
(C) In fact,
(D) The fact is that
III: Written Expression (一題 2 分，共 20 分)
Please identify the underlined part that must be changed in order for the sentence to be
correct.
21. Dr. Hopskins argued that our primitive ancestors who lived in the tropical areas
(A)
(B)
probably have natural protection against heat.
(C)
(D)
22. Oil extracting from the flowers of the herb chamomile has been used in the
(A)
(B)
production of perfume, hair rinse, and even medicine.
(C)
(D)
23. All the splendid furniture of his late habitat had been sold, excepting his wife’s dressing case.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
24. Even though a tiny, undersized bone needle may be of considerable significance to
(A)
(B)
(C)
any professionally trained archaeologists.
(D)
25. Nevertheless, with a total disregard of the principles of democracy, people are apt
(A)
to hurl rash accusations in an attempt to silent anyone who may not agree with them.
(B)
(C)
(D)
26. These days, doctors are seeing more children who suffer from asthma, which was
(A)
(B)
(C)
used to be quite rare among children who were otherwise healthy.
(D)
27. Well adapted to long, cold winters, Eskimos have traditionally obtained all their
(A)
(B)
food, clothings, oil, tools and weapons from sea mammals.
(C)
(D)
28. Spaghetti, widely believed to be a dish originating in Italy, was actually brought
(A)
(B)
there by Marco Polo from China, to where he had traveled at the end of the thirteenth century.
(C)
(D)
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29. Because Finland is part of Scandinavia, its language is, in fact, not at all like that
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
of the other Scandinavian countries.
30. Market researchers find out exactly how many people live in a certain area and what are their spending habits.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
IV: Reading Comprehension (一題 2 分，共 40 分)
Please read the passages below. And each of the passages will be followed by several
questions. Choose the option that best answers each of these questions on the basis of
what is stated or implied in the passage.
When listening to the emotional power or seamless perfection of a modern
symphonic orchestra, we may be pardoned if we momentarily forget that it is, in fact,
only the final fruit of a long and laborious evolution. The modern orchestra is an
assembly of skilled musicians, and it has been carefully disposed into four principal
groups: brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion. Each of these four components
plays an important role in the performance. While the individual notes of separate
instruments may be lost, the final blending of tones, pitch, and volume has the power
to delight even overwhelm the audience.
The well-oiled workings of today’s symphonic orchestra were not even
imaginable in 1567 when the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi was born. In
Monteverdi’s time, music was beautiful but limited. Of course, songs, dramas, and
musical compositions had been in existence for centuries, but music was still
narrowly confined to the task of accompanying singers or choirs at religious or court
ceremonies. At that time, musicians worked and played together on an informal basis
that was not fixed. The instruments were basically to frame and punctuate the singing
of choirs and singers. And the organ was the dominant accompanying instrument – a
big factor in its primacy being its sheer power and volume level, the ability to be
heard in great cathedrals and halls. It is not a coincidence if some of the earliest
instrumental composers to achieve fame were organists.
It is Monteverdi who brought organization and status to instruments and
musicians. In his first large-scale opera, Orfeo, instruments, musicians, choirs, and
singers would all play equally important parts. The core of Monteverdi’s 36-member
orchestra was built around string instruments organized in a well-defined and logical
arrangement. To build up the power of strings, this Italian composer made them
almost half his orchestra and featured lutes, harps, guitars, and viols. Monteverdi may
have been the first to discern the potential of the viol, known as the little French violin,
using different varieties of them to build a string section that eventually conforms to
the violins, violas, cellos, and basses of the modern orchestra. Having cleverly crafted
a bigger orchestra logically organized into separate families or sections of instruments,
Monteverdi was in the position of a painter who goes from having one or two colors
to having the palette of practically the whole rainbow at his disposal.
31. Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?
(A) The Reformer of the Modern Opera
(B) The Origin of the Modern Orchestra
(C) The Master of the Symphony Orchestra
(D) The Instruments of Symphonic Orchestra
32. According to this passage, what had been the major function of music before Monteverdi was born?
(A) Music was performed for theatrical entertainments.
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(B) Music was performed on religious occasions.
(C) Music was performed to overwhelm the singing of choirs.
(D) Music was performed to accompany French violins.
33. Which of the following is closet in meaning to the underlined word, cathedrals, in the 2nd paragraph?
(A) churches
(B) instruments
(C) palaces
(D) cinemas
34. According to this passage, why did the organ assume a dominant role in music in the 16th century?
(A) It is because the organ could be heard in the spacious space.
(B) It is because the organ could frame the voices of singers.
(C) It is because the organ could produce seamless perfection.
(D) It is because the earliest instrumental composers were organists.
35. According to this passage, which of the following is correct?
(A) Monteverdi was a musician and a painter.
(B) Monteverdi was the composer of the first opera.
(C) Monteverdi gave instruments an active role.
(D) Monteverdi emphasized the importance of choirs.
Most animals prey on more than one species as food. Therefore, the term “food
web” is a better description of food relationships than “food chain.” A food web is a
complex feeding system that contains a number of food chains. For instance, hares
and deer eat plants. Owls eat hares. Mountain lions eat hares and deer. These four
species are parts of food chains that together form a food web.
The first link in a food chain is always a green plant. Only organisms with
chlorophyll, such as green plants, can make food. For example, the first link in aquatic
food chains is algae. Most algae are microscopic green plants that produce food by
photosynthesis. In photosynthesis, energy from sunlight converts carbon dioxide and
water to sugar. Tiny fish in lakes or oceans eat algae. In turn, these tiny fish are eaten
by larger fish. The larger fish are eaten by still larger fish. The food supply for fish is
made by algae. This food is then passed through the food chains as one animal eats
another.
Organisms may be divided into three groups based on how they obtain food.
These groups are producers, decomposers, and consumers. Organisms containing
chlorophyll are producers. Thus, green plants are producers. Animals that eat other
animals and plants are consumers. Microbes, one-celled organisms that cause the
decay of dead plants and animals, are decomposers. Since decomposers can not make
their own food, they are also consumers.
36. According to this passage, what is a “food web”?
(A) A food web is a complex system with different types of organisms.
(B) A food web is a simplified system with many different animals and plants.
(C) A food web is an interwoven system that animals use to catch their prey.
(D) A food web is a complicated network that has several food chains.
37. What is the main purpose of this passage?
(A) It is to describe the interconnected relationships among plants and animals.
(B) It is to explain the process of how organisms are categorized into different groups.
(C) It is to illustrate the process of photosynthesis in green plants and organisms.
(D) It is to support the position of conservationists in maintaining the biodiversity.
38. According to this passage, which of the following would most likely be the first link in a food chain?
(A) minnow
(B) seaweed
(C) condor
(D) antelope
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39. Which of the following is closet in meaning to the underlined word, aquatic, in the 2nd paragraph?
(A) amphibian
(B) arctic
(C) marine
(D) glacial
40. According to this passage, why would a decomposer also be a consumer?
(A) It is because a decomposer can not catch other animals.
(B) It is because a decomposer can convert sunlight into food.
(C) It is because a decomposer can terminate other animals.
(D) It is because a decomposer needs to feed on other organisms.
Conventional wisdom has long held that mammals spent millions of years in
Darwinian limbo. As long as dinosaurs roamed the earth, our distant ancestors never
got to be much more than cringing, shrewlike creatures that slinked out at night to
nibble timorously on plants and insects when the terrible lizards were asleep. Only
when a rogue comet wiped the dinosaurs out, went the story, did mammals begin to
earn a little evolutionary respect.
But that picture changed dramatically last week with the announcement in
Nature of two impressive fossils.
One, of a brand-new species dubbed
Repenomamus giganticus, demolishes the notion that most dinosaur-age mammals
were never larger than squirrels. The animal, which lived some 130 million years
ago, had the dimensions of a midsize dog or large badger—by far the biggest
dinosaur-age mammal ever found. And the second, a new specimen of a previously
discovered species called Repenomamus robustus, refutes the notion that it was
always the mammals that got eaten. Inside the skeleton where the animal’s stomach
would have been are the fossilized remains of a baby dino. That proves that at least
one mammal from the age of dinosaurs was carnivorous.
41. “Our distant ancestor” in line 2 refers to
(A) Neolithic humans
(B) ancient primates
(C) ancient mammals
(D) amphibian reptiles
42. According to the first paragraph, which of the following is true about the old hypothesis in mammals?
(A) Mammals used to outwit dinosaurs.
(B) Mammals appeared long after dinosaurs roamed the earth.
(C) Mammals were nocturnal, gigantic creatures at the age of dinosaurs.
(D) Mammals ruled the earth only after the extinction of dinosaurs.
43. The word “demolished” in line 9 is closest in meaning to
(A) destroyed
(B) advocated
(C) elucidated
(D) interrogated
44. The word “carnivorous” in line 16 is closet in meaning to
(A) timorous
(B) ferocious
(C) flesh-eating
(D) impregnable
45. According to the second paragraph, which of the following is true about the new findings?
(A) Dinosaur-age mammals might be larger than paleontologists used to suppose.
(B) Dinosaur-age mammals ate nothing but dinosaurs.
(C) Dinosaur-age mammals were smaller than squirrels.
(D) Paleontologists only unearth two fossils of dinosaur-age mammals up to now.
The first two decades of this century were dominated by the microbe hunters.
These hunters had tracked down one after another of the microbes responsible for the
most dreaded scourges of many centuries: tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria. But
there remained some terrible diseases for which no microbe could be incriminated:
scurvy, pellagra, rickets, beriberi. Then it was discovered that these diseases were
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caused by the lack of vitamins. The diseases could be prevented or cured by
consuming foods that contained the vitamins. And so in the decades of the 1920’s
and 1930’s, nutrition became a science and the vitamin hunters replaced the microbe
hunters.
In the 1940’s and 1950’s, biochemists strived to learn why each of the vitamins
was essential for health. They discovered that key enzymes in metabolism depend
on one or another of the vitamins as coenzymes to perform the chemistry that
provides cells with energy for growth and function. Now, these enzyme hunters
occupied center stage.
You are aware that the enzyme hunters have been replaced by a new breed of
hunters who are tackling genes—the blueprints for each of the enzymes—and are
discovering the defective genes that cause inherited diseases—diabetes, cystic fibrosis.
These gene hunters, or genetic engineers, use recombinant DNA technology to
identify and clone genes and introduce them into bacterial cells and plants to create
factories for the massive production of hormones and vaccines for medicine and for
better corps for agriculture.
Biotechnology has become a multibillion-dollar
industry.
In view of the inexorable progress in science, we can expect that the gene
hunters will be replaced in the spotlight. When and by whom? Which kind of
hunter will dominate the scene in the early decades of the twenty-first century? I
wonder whether the hunters who will occupy the spotlight will be neurobiologists
who apply the techniques of the enzyme and gene hunters to the functions of the brain.
What to call them? The head hunters.
46. What is the main topic of the passage?
(A) the microbe hunters
(C) the progress of modern medical research
(B) the potential of genetic engineering
(D) the discovery of enzymes
47. How do vitamins influence health?
(A) They are necessary for some enzymes to function.
(B) They protect the body from microbes.
(C) They keep food from spoiling.
(D) They are broken down by cells to produce energy.
48. In the third paragraph, the author compares cells that have been genetically altered by biotechnicians to
(A) gardens
(B) factories
(C) hunters
(D) spotlights
49. The author implies that the most important medical research topic of the future will be
(A) the functions of the brain
(B) inherited diseases
(C) the operation of vitamins
(D) the structure of genes
50. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?
(A) The focus of medical research will change in the next two decades.
(B) Medical breakthroughs often depend on luck.
(C) Medical research throughout the twentieth century has been dominated by microbe hunters.
(D) Most diseases are caused by defective genes.
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