一、字彙測驗：請依句意在下列句子中選出最適當的答案，並請將正確答案前的英文字母、、或依題號寫在試卷上。（20％）
1. Linda came to the political ＿＿＿ because she loved listening to speeches.
（A）rally
（B）recreation
（C）reunion
（D）reservation
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2. An ＿＿＿ of goods tells how many there are of each article and what they are worth.
（A）input
（B）instruction
（C）inventory
（D）investment
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3. Feminine awareness has not killed chivalry, but it has subtly changed the rituals of social ＿＿＿ between the sexes.
（A）decline
（B）campaign
（C）freedom
（D）encounter
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4. His research has helped to ＿＿＿ several medical theories; more important, it suggests a whole new field of inquiry.
（A）circumscribe
（B）purify
（C）assign
（D）verify
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5. It would be nice to have another holiday, but we’ve got to be ＿＿＿ . We can’t really afford one.
（A）idealistic
（B）realistic
（C）real
（D）reasonable
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6. The Clinton administration is warning of the dire consequences if the US Congress refuses to ＿＿＿ the money that the US owes the UN.
（A）release
（B）refund
（C）rehearse
（D）reinforce
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7. Far from being ＿＿＿ , the old man was considered the sage of the neighborhood.
（A）virile
（B）senile
（C）shaking
（D）shrewd
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8. That experienced teacher realized that Eric’s stomach ache was merely a ＿＿＿ to keep him from taking the English test.
（A）subterfuge
（B）plight
（C）conflagration
（D）catastrophe
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9. He was a movie star who rose to stardom with “First Blood” and enjoyed a long career that ＿＿＿ in his portrayal of American heroes.
（A）principled
（B）reflected
（C）determined
（D）culminated
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10. The prisoner has been ＿＿＿ of many privileges that average citizens enjoy.
（A）deprived
（B）confirmed
（C）convinced
（D）informed
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二、英譯中：請將下列各段英文譯成中文。（30％）
1. The businesses that flourish in the twenty-first century are likely to be those that master the art of getting information from their customers. Through computer-mediated business transactions, customers will trade information about themselves in exchange for lower prices and convenience.
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2. A worker’s emotional skills may be far more valuable to a company than his or her technical skills. Those workers with the ability to cope with their own feelings—anger, sadness, and other emotional problems affecting productivity—stand a better chance of succeeding in an organization than brilliant but immature professionals.
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3. It is traditional in scientific publishing to retain data, instructions, details of procedure, and analyses so that copies may be made available in response to inquiries from interested readers. Therefore, you are expected to retain these materials for a minimum of 5 years after your article has been published.
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三、中譯英：請將下列各段中文譯成英文。（30％）
1. 不管規模是大是小，台灣的企業跟家族都脫離不了關係。家族一直是企業的基礎，在當代台灣 企業的創設、組織或擴展上，家族具有舉足輕重的影響力。
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2. 每年的九九重陽節的前一個週末，為全國的登山日。行政院體育委員會呼籲民眾一起投入登山 運動。藉著登山的機會，多看看台灣高山地貌與林相之美。
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3. 著作權法第四十七條第三項：「依法設立之各級學校或教育機構，為教育目的之必要，在合理 範圍內，得公開播送他人已公開發表之著作。」
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四、閱讀測驗：請詳讀下面文章後，在下列各題中選出最適當的答案，並請將正確答案前的英文字母（A）、（B）、（C） 或（D） ，依題號寫在試卷上。（20％）
In 1816, Tomas Jefferson warned: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and ＿1＿ .”
Futurists who construct scenarios about America’s future would ＿2＿ to heed these words, for the country is experiencing an epidemic of civic ignorance that, if unchecked, will irrevocably ＿3＿ the strength of the nation’s democratic institutions and make “the land of the free and the home of the brave” the empty words of a ＿4＿ song.
Democracy is one of the most precarious forms of government. ＿5＿ upon the wisdom and courage of ordinary people to do the right thing in situations ＿6＿ they are free to act selfishly or to do nothing at all. In such situations their conscience must be guided by their spiritual beliefs and ＿7＿ by the principles of justice enunciated in their laws and constitution. But if the people have ＿8＿ understanding of these beliefs and principles, they will have ＿9＿ the knowledge nor the incentive to act ＿10＿ as citizens.
1.
（A）will never be
（B）never will be
（C）be never will
（D）never will
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2.
（A）be well advised
（B）advise
（C）be advising
（D）be to advise
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3.
（A）undertake
（B）undermine
（C）understand
（D）undercharge
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4.
（A）forget
（B）forgetting
（C）forgot
（D）forgotten
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5.
（A）They depend
（B）It depends
（C）Which depends
（D）What depends
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6.
（A）where
（B）which
（C）what
（D）that
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7.
（A）to direct
（B）directing
（C）to be directed
（D）directed
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8.
（A）no
（B）not
（C）not a
（D）not an
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9.
（A）either
（B）no
（C）neither
（D）not
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10.
（A）responsibility
（B）responsible
（C）responsibly
（D）response
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