一、單字片語測驗：請依句意在下列各題中選出最適當的答案，並將該答案前的英文字母依序寫在試 卷上。（20％）
1. Children should not be allowed to play with ＿＿＿ unless under adult supervision.
（A）flashlight
（B）feather
（C）fossils
（D）firecrackers
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2. When someone faints, what should you do in order to make him ＿＿＿?
（A）broke down
（B）give up
（C）come to
（D）become of
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3. Gesturing is a form of ＿＿＿ communication.
（A）nonviolent
（B）nonverbal
（C）nonpolluting
（D）normal
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4. What facts should we ＿＿＿ when we judge John’s progress in English?
（A）take into account
（B）take a look at
（C）take pity on
（D）take off with
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5. There are strict laws to ＿＿＿ the use of chemicals in food.
（A）regulate
（B）recollect
（C）reject
（D）refresh
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6. What may happen if you are driving a car at high speed and a tire ＿＿＿?
（A）breaks down
（B）blows out
（C）keeps up with
（D）breaks in
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7. The fighter landed a good punch and knocked his opponent ＿＿＿.
（A）sensible
（B）settled
（C）senseless
（D）selfish
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8. Do you prefer things which are old-fashioned or those which are ＿＿＿?
（A）stand to reason
（B）out of date
（C）take it for granted
（D）up to date
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9. The company’s profits have ＿＿＿ in recent years.
（A）doubted
（B）decomposed
（C）declined
（D）declared
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10. Why is it difficult for you to ＿＿＿ John when you are both walking together?
（A）wear it out
（B）keep up with
（C）drop in on
（D）check up on
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二、英譯中：請將下列各段英文譯為中文（30％）
1. President Chen Shui-bian recently said Taiwan’s commercial relations with mainland China have entered a new era after the Economic Development Advisory Council (EDAC) decided to scrap the “go slow, be patient ” policy.
The president made the remarks when he met visiting U.S. congressmen. “I believe that the best way to normalize the cross-strait ties is to first try normalizing the two sides’ trading and c ommercial relations,” Chen said.
Taiwan entrepreneurs, according to the new policy, will be allowed to make investments directly in the mainland, unless such investment poses a threat to Taiwan’s national security.
Nonetheless, some political analysts doubt whether Taiwan could be able to materialize the conclusions made in the EDAC meeting, especially those concerning cross-strait issues.
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2. Authorities of government’s health care office are to increase spending on care for patients diagnosed with certain diseases as part of the government’s continuous effort to improve the overall quality of medical services for the country’s 23 million residents, scheduled to begin in September.
According to officials of the Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI), to provide hospitals and physicians the incentive needed for better treatment results, the BNHI is expecting to plunk down nearly NT$3 billion for those diagnosed with the five commonly seen illnesses, including cervical cancer, breast cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes, and asthma. Once the new policy is put in place, the above mentioned illnesses would be paid according to “results” of the medical services rendered instead according to the number of cases treated.
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3. According to Merrian-Webster, the word “r acism” didn’t even come into existence until 1936. The earlier term was “racialism,” often used in a value -free sense to describe a studying of the differences between peoples and races. But Hitler and the Nazis poisoned the idea that race distinctions could be anything but invidious, and so “racialism,” with its anthropological connotations, fell into disuse.
In the United States, the history of the word “racism” is bound up, of course, with the civil-rights movement. In the ’50s and ’60s, Americans were i nstructed that “racism” is what white Southerners inflict on black Southerners; in the’70s, the argument expanded, as academics and bureaucratics proclaimed white on-black racism to be the root cause of any and every inequality.
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三、中譯英：請將下列各句中文譯為英文（30％）
1. 法官說王先生沒有這部汽車的所有權。
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2. 年輕人愛夢想是很自然的，但他們也可能努力工作而使部分願望實現。
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3. 許多缺德的商人利用水災的機會抬升價格。
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4. 被告在證明有罪之前，都應假定是清白的。
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5. 漠視法律，我行我素是很危險的。
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四、閱讀測驗：請詳讀下面短文之後，在下列各題中選出最適當的答案，並將該答案前的英文字母（A）,（B）,（C）,或（D），依題號寫在試卷上（20％）
Age is a central topic in human thought. When young we regard ＿（1）＿ as something exciting, eagerly anticipating growing up, and when old－facing physical decline－as something ＿（2）＿ . We nearly always want to be an age we ＿（3）＿ .
One lesson to be learned from studying others’ lives is ＿（4）＿ every age has something special to offer. If we long to be older and more experienced, or if we crave eternal youth or ＿（5）＿ back to “ the good old days,” we will fail to live in the ＿（6）＿ and to use it to the full.
＿（7）＿ reading of thousands of biographies, I‘ve also fo und that, despite typical ways of growth and behavior at every age, there are always some ＿（8）＿ the pattern, being unusually early or unusually late in some respects. Whether ＿（9）＿ short busy lives or long happy ones, they have ignored the imagined limitations of time. ＿（10）＿ their enthusiasm and optimism, they teach us to make the best of life.
1.
（A）life
（B）youth
（C）aging
（D）age
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2.
（A）encouraging
（B）satisfactory
（C）depressing
（D）pleasant
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3.
（A）are
（B）do
（C）do not
（D）are not
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4.
（A）which
（B）what
（C）whether
（D）that
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5.
（A）come
（B）look
（C）see
（D）go
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6.
（A）past
（B）present
（C）future
（D）time
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7.
（A）After
（B）With
（C）In
（D）At
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8.
（A）who break
（B）who make
（C）who take
（D）who render
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9.
（A）owning
（B）having
（C）living
（D）making
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10.
（A）Of
（B）Toward
（C）On
（D）With
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