國立臺中第二高級中學
101學 年 度 第
2 學 期
年級
班 姓名
座號
號
2 年 級 類 組 英 文 科 期 末 考 試題
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I. Listening Section 共 12 題
A. Picture 共 2 題 Listen to the questions. Then choose the best answer according to the
picture.
1. A. She is celebrating Dragon Boat Festival.
B. She is wearing a pearl necklace.
C. She has an appreciation for art.
D. She has a sweet tooth.
2. A. I’m heading off to work now.
B. I’m glad you’re such a patriot.
C. I’m eating Chinese rice dumplings.
D. I’m going to major in economics.
B. Best Response 共 3 題
Choose the best response to each question or statement.
3. A. I intend to do six subjects this semester.
B. The class also includes a lot of research.
C. Well, this bill indicates that we need to pay it by next month.
D. Then you should plan well how you will spend your time.
4. A. Yeah, I’m under a lot of stress too.
B. You’ll need strength to lift these boxes.
C. The boss urged us all to exercise daily.
D. We’ll get a new gas line installed this week.
5. A. Is that area always slippery when it’s wet?
B. I can give you a ride. Where is your office?
C. Dad was furious when he found out what time I came home last night.
D. My teacher is angry at me because I’m careless with my homework.
C. Short Conversations 共 2 題
Listen to the conversations. Then answer the questions.
6. A. It was hard to understand.
B. It was really funny.
C. It was offensive.
D. It was too cold.
7. A. He met a friend.
B. He became lost.
C. He got rained on.
D. He was frightened.
D. Short Talk 共 5 題 Listen to the talk. Then choose the best answer to each question.
Part A.
8. A. The benefits of traveling.
B. The results of a study.
C. The hardest languages to learn.
D. The story of one student.
9. A. Trying to say each part of a word.
B. Trying not to make any mistakes.
C. Trying to use motions and gestures.
D. Trying to write down what you want to say.
Part B.
10. A. Someone who is obese.
B. Someone who likes to cook.
C. Someone who is running a marathon.
D. Someone who works at a restaurant.
11. A. Try to drink 8 glasses of water per day.
C. Eat only cabbage soup for one week.
12. A. Order the food over the phone.
C. Eat a snack so you won’t be hungry.
B. Start taking more vitamins.
D. Analyze your eating habits first.
B. Ask about healthy food choices.
D. Take some diet pills to lose weight.
II. 字彙與慣用語 8 %
13. The eagerly _______ movie, The Great Gatsby, will be released next month. Moviegoers can’t
wait to flock to the theaters.
A. anticipated
B. assembled
C. commemorated
D. concealed
14. The man is _______ to earn some money so that he can help support his family.
A. baffled
B. desperate
C. handy
D. leisurely
15. Flu is highly _______. Once those around you have it, you will get it, too.
A. infectious
B. intent
C. lengthy
D. tangible
16. Mark couldn’t turn down the _______ offer provided by the rival company, so he decided to
transfer.
A. fluent
B. profound
C. ravenous
D. tempting
17. It takes a lot of _______ to go jogging on cold winter morning. A majority of people will
prefer to stay in cozy bed indoors.
A. patron
B. reform
C. self-discipline
D. status
18. _______ wear is not appropriate for a formal occasion. You need something like a suit.
A. Casual
B. Creepy
C. Practical
D. Prompt
19. Mary’s boss has great faith in her, because her work has been of a _______ high standard.
A. consistently
B. embarrassingly
C. flamboyantly
D. inappropriately
20. The difficulties of _______ nuclear waste are a burning issue faced by the country. Nuclear
energy will always cause controversy if they are not solved.
A. corresponding to
B. disposing of
C. sticking to
D. pushing for
III. 文意選填 15%
(A)
(A) of
(B) off
(C) first
(D) no matter what
(E) serve
(AB) play
(AC) whatever
(AD) last
It’s summertime! Temperatures rise, flowers fill gardens, skies are sunny and people head
off to the beach. The
21.
thing people like to do is stay indoors to study or work. Going on
a picnic is a great idea. People can take
22.
they like to eat, but the focus is on having a
simple, leisurely, fun-filled meal outdoors. Then, thousands of vacationers are on the road all
summer. Why? Because, believe it or not, vacations
23.
an important function: protecting
people’s health. Or, at least go for a run once in a while. But don’t overdo it. If you are overtired,
you should need a day
24. . To put it in a nutshell, staying indoors should not be your top
priority for your summer vacation.
(B)
(A) for the purpose of
(B) impulse
(C) toying
(D) unused
(E) in
(AB) when
(AC) being
(AD) on
(AE) for the sake of
(BC) fiddle
(BD) creativity
(BE) where
(CD) meet
(CE) levels
(DE) available
Luckily, we are living in a modern world, enjoying the luxury of all kinds of conveniences.
Take 3-D printing. Appearing first in the 1980s, 3-D printing technology has matured to a point
printers can now create high-quality objects using a variety of materials, including
25.
metals. That means 3-D printers can now make final products that
26.
high industrial
standards. 3-D printers are already
27.
used to make parts for racecars and jets as well as
artificial limbs and hearing aids. No wonder some analysts predict that 3-D printing will be a
28. . They believe that 3-D printing could have “as profound an
game changer on many
impact on the manufacturing world as the PC and the Internet
29.
the information
world.”
But do the virtues of technological conveniences outweigh their faults? Not always. The
prevalence of smartphones, for example, do cause their users some problematic habits. One of
them is ignoring their surroundings. People might walk very slowly,
30.
with their
smartphones in a crowded subway station. Thus their behavior poses a danger to others, and it’s
best for them to put their phones away while walking,
31.
others and for their safety.
Using smartphones in the wrong way will also stifle people’s
32. . With their smartphones
always
33. , they have something to do at all times. However,
34.
time is necessary
for creative thinking. So they had better resist the
35.
to spend every spare moment with
the phones. Technology has surely come a long way over the past years, and it’s up to everyone
to weigh up its pros and cons.
IV. 綜合測驗 29%
(A)
People hardly knew that some electronic devices, such as smartphones and I-Pad,
would someday come into being, not to mention the fact
36.
they would become so
important in modern life. Interestingly, sci-fi movies sometimes give us clues about
37.
computers in the future will be like. What we see in Iron Man may no longer be just a dream
38.
reality. Besides, the holography is just one technology that will become popular soon.
With this technology, flat images can be turned into three-dimensional ones
39.
from 360
degrees. Perhaps in another decade, people can practice scuba diving in a pool
40.
by
vivid images of the Great Barrier Reef from a projector. Better yet, when they feel like visiting a
museum, their bedrooms can be turned into one immediately. Voice recognition technology is
41.
technology that everyone is talking about. In the near future, it is possible that we
don’t need to click on our mouse when using computers,
42.
we need to press buttons of
the TV remote control when watching TV. Fabulous, isn’t it?
36. A. how
B. that
C. what
D. which
37. A. how
B. that
C. what
D. which
38. A. and
B. but
C. or
D. so
39. A. view
B. viewing
C. and viewing
D. and viewed
40. A. surround
B. surrounded
C. surrounding
D. to surround
41. A. another
B. other
C. some other
D. the other
42. A. nor do
B. so do
C. and nor
D. and so do
(B)
During World War II, the Nazi government of Germany believed that their country
should be dominated by only the Aryan people. It resulted in the murder of millions of Jews,
made it easy
known
43.
the Holocaust. Jews were made to wear a yellow star,
44.
to identify them. Every day, numerous Jews were sent to concentration camps, where many
were left
45.
at last. As for those who had not been captured yet, such as Ann Frank and
her family, they did
46.
they could for a chance of survival.
During the years when Ann Frank lived in hiding, she kept a diary. From Ann’s diary,
readers can know that no Jews could keep out of the Holocaust. The entire world was at war,
and they returned home
47.
to find their families
48. . Even they themselves could
be robbed of their possessions and sent to concentration camps anytime. Moreover,
49.
only carrots to ease hunger, most children were often begging for food beside the
roads. It seemed that all the Jews could do
50. . Unfortunately, as the war ended, Ann’s
father, Otto Frank, was the sole survivor in the family. He decided to have her daughter’s diary
published so that other people would have the opportunity to know more about the war
between Ann’s lines.
43. A. as
B. by
C. for
D. with
44. A. so
B. that
C. which
D. in which
45. A. death
B. died
C. to die
D. to dying
46. A. however
B. that
C. whatever
D. whichever
47. A. and
B. but
C. only
D. so as
48. A. go
B. gone
C. to go
D. missed
49. A. had
B. have
C. having
D. to have
50. A. was wait
B. was waiting
C. were wait
D. were waiting
(C)
Can you imagine a world without bees? Rumor has it that if bees die out, humans will
have no more than four years to live, and that isn’t an exaggeration. But for bees, most plants
would not be able to be fertilized, and humans would not be able to use these plants for the
to its body hair, a worker bee
necessities of life. With more than 10000 pollen grains
51.
can pollinate thousands of flowers a day. However, human activity, like the use of insecticides,
has destroyed the living environments of many animals, and one of
52.
is
53.
of
bees. Hard
54.
many environmentalists have tried, humans have caused the Earth’s
biodiversity to drop greatly.
國立臺中第二高級中學
101學 年 度 第
2 學 期
年級
班 姓名
座號
號
2 年 級 類 組 英 文 科 期 末 考 試題
本科電腦代碼：10
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What is biodiversity, though? The variety of life within an ecosystem on Earth is referred to as
biodiversity, and maintaining biodiversity on Earth is of great importance. Unfortunately,
humans have long gotten used to planting one staple crop in an area, thus bringing about the
loss of local biodiversity. Take the Great Famine in Ireland in the 19th century for example. At
that time,
55.
a potato blight caused by low biodiversity, the Irish people had a very poor
harvest of the potato species they had lived on. Therefore, the famine
56.
around one
million Irish lives and forced another million to emigrate. This historical event proves to us that,
without healthy biodiversity, humans will find it hard
57. , not to mention to thrive.
Therefore, conserving endangered species is actually about saving our planet.
51. A. attach
B. attached
C. attaching
D. to attach
52. A. it
B. them
C. which
D. whom
53. A. it
B. one
C. that
D. ones
54. A. although
B. as
C. but
D. even
55. A. as well as
B. because
C. owing to
C. despite
56. A. brought
B. caused
C. claimed
D. spent
57. A. survive
B. survived
C. to survive
D. to have survived
(D)
Robert Frost was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He is the only poet
58.
four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. Most of his poems describe everyday events that
explore our lives. “The Road Not Taken” is just a classic example. Robert Frost wrote this poem
during his stay in England, when he used to take walks with another poet Edward Thomas.
Thomas liked to choose which path to take
59. . Yet, he would always complain that they
60.
even lovelier scenery if he had chosen other paths. Inspired by Thomas’s complaints,
Frost wrote this poem, which captures the problem of human decision-making.
In the poem, Frost described a traveler
61.
had to choose which path to take in
the woods. As the traveler knew that there was little possibility of returning for the other choice,
he could not help but imagine himself telling this experience with “a sigh” years later. His inner
conflict thus makes choosing a road a symbol of making a decision in life. Likewise, we often
need to give up all the other alternatives when we are making a decision. Once we make up our
mind, there is no
62. . People
63.
trouble making important decisions about their
future should read this poem. They should keep in mind that it is they themselves
64.
that make the final choice. Whether the decision is good or bad, it is no use regretting
what has been done.
58. A. to win
B. who won
C. that has won
59. A. at a price
B. at length
C. at odds
60. A. enjoyed
B. can enjoy
C. could enjoy
61. A. ╳
B. who
C. , who
D. , that
D. that winning
D. at random
D. could have enjoyed
62. A. goes back
B. went back
C. going back
D. to go back
63. A. have
B. having
C. to have
D. who having
64. A. lone
B. alone
C. along
D. lonely
V. 文法選擇 6%
65. Choose one wrong sentence.
A. Until then they’d always been in the London area.
B. Until she spoke I hadn’t realized she wasn’t English.
C. Not until you’ve finished this you can go out.
D. It wasn’t until the last moment that he realized he was set up.
66. Choose one wrong sentence.
A. We had hardly sat down at the table when the phone rang.
B. I scarcely had time to ring the bell before the door opened.
C. No sooner we had sat down at the table than the phone rang.
D. I had barely started speaking when he interrupted me.
67. Choose one wrong sentence.
A. The bar is for members only.
B. Children are admitted only if accompanied by an adult.
C. Only then she realized the stress he was under.
D. Only when you lose what you have do you realize you should cherish it.
68. Choose one wrong sentence.
A. I can’t find my keys. Oh, here they are.
B. There goes the last bus.
C. At the bottom of the stairs has a door that opens into the bedroom and a door that leads to
the garden.
D. Out of the cave came a grizzly bear which just finished its hibernation.
69. Choose one wrong sentence.
A. Under no circumstances should you lend Paul any money.
B. She is by no means an inexperienced teacher.
C. Never in my life I have seen such a horrible thing.
D. Nowhere is the effect of government policy more apparent than in agriculture.
70. Choose one wrong sentence.
A. There is no mother but loves her children.
B. She never passed her old home but she thought of the happy years she had spent there.
C. He never goes to a bookstore without buying some books.
D. I know a few people but are concerned about air pollution.
VI. 閱讀測驗 10%
Mending Wall
Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
“Stay where you are until our backs are turned!”
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
“Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.” I could say “Elves” to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
1914
*boulder: a very large rock
71. The gaps in the wall are the work of _______.
A. hunters and farmers
B. hunters and weather
C. farmers and weather
D. farmers and cattle
72. What does “wear” on line 20 mean?
A. to have a piece of clothing on one’s body
B. to have a particular expression on one’s face
C. to become, or to make something become thinner, smoother or weaker by constant use
D. to become, or to make something stronger
73. Which of the following is not true?
A. The mending of walls happens in spring.
B. Both the narrator and the neighbor are aware of the gaps in the making all the time.
C. The narrator thinks the neighbor looks like a barbarian and regards the act of mending the
walls as unnecessary and uncivilized.
D. The narrator is doubtful about mending walls.
74. What is the neighbor’s attitude toward mending walls?
A. Doubtful.
B. Insistent.
C. Neutral.
D. Optimistic.
75. What is one similarity shared by “The Road Not Taken” and “Mending Wall”?
A. Both of them describe Frost’s life on a farm.
B. Both of them explore deep aspect of human experience in everyday life.
C. Both of them recognize the positive side of humanity.
D. Both of them deal with the relation between life and death.
VII. 字彙填空 10%
76. Craig is c
ted with a difficult task. He needs to finish the project in one month.
77. Having been admitted to several good universities, my brother is in a d
a about which
one he should attend.
78. I just caught a g
se of Rita. She seemed to be chatting with the boy standing next to
her.
79. Having made several significant c
ns to society, the man finally received a lifetime
achievement award the other day.
80. A young girl died of drug misuse, and the health a
ties are trying to find out the
reason for the tragedy.
81. During the Japanese o
n of Taiwan, the Taiwanese had to follow the rules of the
Japanese government.
82. Please follow the on-screen i
ns step by step, and you’ll be able to finish installing the
program in ten minutes.
83. In the d
c world of business, companies have to adapt themselves to changing
markets to satisfy customers’ needs.
84. Timothy’s strange behavior a
sed my curiosity, so I asked him what he was doing.
85. With sufficient rain and rich soil, all the plants in this area have been able to f
h.
VIII. 翻譯 10% 錯一個字扣 0.5 分，扣完該題分數為止。
86. 大部份的人幾乎都沒有警覺到能源即將耗盡的事實。(Little . . . alert . . . ) 3%
87. 若非恐龍的絕種，我們現在就不能享受石油所帶來的便利生活了。(If . . . ) 3%
88. 從長期來看，人類破壞環境到達如此之程度以致於環境的復原將遙遙無期。
( . . . such . . . that . . . nowhere . . . ) 4%
國 立 台 中 第 二 高 級 中 學101 學 年 度 第 2 學 期 2 年 級
英 文 科 期 末 考 答 案
1-5 DADAB
6-10 CDBAA
11-15 DBABA
16-20 DCAAB
21-25 (AD)(AC)EB(BE)
26-30 (CD)(AC)(CE)(AD)C
31-35 (AE)(BD)(DE)DB
36-40 BCBDB
41-45 AAACC
46-50 CCBCA
51-55 BBCBC
56-60 CCCDD
61-65 BCBBC
66-70 CCCCD
71-75 BCBBB
VII. 字彙填空 10%
76. confronted
77. dilemma
78. glimpse
79. contributions
80. authorities
81. occupation
82. instructions
83. dynamic
84. aroused
85. flourish
VIII. 翻譯 10% 錯一個字扣 0.5 分，扣完該題分數為止。
86. Little are most people alert to the fact that energy resources are
going to run out/be used up.
87. If it had not been for the extinction of dinosaurs, we would/could
not enjoy the convenient life brought by gas/gasoline/petrol.
88. In the long term, humans have damaged/destroyed the
environment to such an extent/a degree that the recovery is
nowhere in sight/to be found/to be seen.