甲、申論題部分：（50％）
（一）申論題不必抄題，作答時請將試題題號及答案依照順序寫在申論試卷上，於本試題上作答者，不予計分。
（二）請以藍、黑色鋼筆或原子筆在申論試卷上作答。
一、英譯中：請將下列各段英文譯成中文。
（一）Driven by the intensely competitive media environment, many tabloid and cable stories focus on “bad guys” who have allegedly broken the law, covered up a mistake, harmed an individual or group, or done something morally questionable.（10％）
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（二）The rampage of capital from organized crime and corruption has seriously hurt our social peace and order and the development of democracy and the rule of law. It has also undermined the government's authority and credibility.（10％）
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二、中譯英：請將下列各段中文譯成英文。
（一）我們最近處理的一個案子中，有個跨國性消費品廠商遭媒體不實指控，卻不知該和那個政府官員或部門投訴，以致於商譽嚴重受損。（10％）
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（二）性騷擾事件已進入偵查或審判程序者，直轄市或縣（市）性騷擾防治委員會認有必要時，得議決於該程序終結前，停止該事件之處理。（10％）
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（三）法院認定犯罪事實要依據證據，沒有證據就不能作為判決的依據。因此，檢察官提起公訴時，就要負舉證責任，將他認定被告犯罪之證據提出來。（10％）
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乙、測驗題部分：（50％）
（一）本試題為單一選擇題，請選出一個正確或最適當的答案，複選作答者，該題不予計分。
（二）共 40 題，每題 1.25 分，須用 2B 鉛筆在試卡上依題號清楚劃記，於本試題或申論試卷上作答者，不予計分。
1 Modern women are under a lot of ＿＿＿ . Many of them have to work, go to school, and take care of their families.
（A）pleasure
（B）posture
（C）pressure
（D）presence
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2 The dollar exchange rate today isn’t too ＿＿＿ , so let’s change our money later.
（A）faithful
（B）fearful
（C）favorite
（D）favorable
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3 The most powerful ＿＿＿ group in the Congress receives the backing of more than one million supporters.
（A）loan
（B）lobby
（C）loading
（D）locker
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4 It is important to adapt your behavior when traveling to another country so that you don’t insult or ＿＿＿ the local people.
（A）attend
（B）defend
（C）forbid
（D）offend
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5 The children were ＿＿＿ by the teacher’s adventure stories and urged him to tell them more.
（A）favored
（B）fascinated
（C）fatigued
（D）falsified
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6 The diet we choose to eat ＿＿＿ our likelihood of developing heart disease.
（A）affects
（B）effects
（C）defects
（D）rejects
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7 When calorie intake exceeds ＿＿＿ , fat cells begin to multiply and consequently, people start to grow bigger.
（A）accession
（B）expenditures
（C）installments
（D）optimums
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8 Tabloid magazines are notorious for their ＿＿＿ into people’s private lives.
（A）explicating
（B）insulating
（C）delving
（D）festering
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9 It is of little use to be so ＿＿＿ and cynical about one’s life.
（A）bumpy
（B）grumpy
（C）lumpy
（D）limpid
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10 Writing good compositions ＿＿＿ very difficult for a freshman.
（A）is
（B）been
（C）are
（D）being
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11 Professor Wang ＿＿＿ his book. It’s here on the table.
（A）forget
（B）must forget
（C）is forgetting
（D）must have forgotten
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12 She ate so much ＿＿＿ she hadn’t had a meal for days.
（A）so that
（B）so as
（C）as if
（D）as
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13 Princess Diana called on South Pacific churches to drop their prejudices ＿＿＿ HIV and AIDS patients.
（A）at
（B）between
（C）besides
（D）against
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14 For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now ＿＿＿ contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
（A）required to
（B）requested to
（C）subjected to
（D）supplied to
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15 The company claimed that they had developed ＿＿＿ stem cells which could replace damaged cells without any harmful effect.
（A）made-to-order
（B）blow-by-blow
（C）more-or-less
（D）point-of-sale
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16 Money is just like sex. You think of nothing else if you don’t have it and think of other things if you do.
（A）Money and sex are the same. We can’t do away with either.
（B）Money and sex are alike in their effects on our thoughts.
（C）Money and sex play different tricks on our ways of thinking.
（D）When we have money and sex then we keep thinking about them.
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17 Appreciating nature’s splendor will soothe our sorrows, put things into much-needed perspective, and add a revitalizing brilliance to our life.
（A）Our life can be much enriched and enlightened by appreciating nature.
（B）Nature’s beauty will prolong our life.
（C）When we need a viewpoint, we will find it in the beauty of nature.
（D）The beauty of nature can cure us of diseases.
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18 No other country changes as fast and as much as America; even the complexion of its own people changes.
（A）America changes the fastest of all countries in the complexity of its racial issues.
（B）The American infrastructure has changed faster than all other countries.
（C）Among all countries, America changes the fastest, including the looks of its people.
（D）After drastic changes over years, America has less complication of its own people.
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19 The ginger lilies smelt so sweet that Paul noticed them when he first came into the living room.
（A）It was the first time for Paul to come into the living room.
（B）It was not the first time for Paul to come into the living room.
（C）Paul saw the lilies first when he came into the living room.
（D）Paul smelt the lilies when he came into the living room.
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20 Many women are prone to Hello Kitty syndrome—that childlike enthusiasm some females have for anything fuzzy, pink or freakishly undersized.
（A）Many women are afraid of things that are hairy, pink or small.
（B）Many women were crazy about Hello Kitty when they were small children.
（C）Many women are crazy about small and trendy things like Hello Kitty.
（D）Many women are sick because they are crazy about Hello Kitty.
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Jane Seret is 14 and, as many high-aspiring girls do, she would like to go to Oxford, or perhaps London, for her university education. But she has one or two problems to overcome. First, she has to finish her primary education—she didn’t go to school until she was nine—and next, someone has to pay for her secondary education, the cost of which is roughly equivalent to most of a year’s earnings for a head of family living in her Kenyan village.
She is in a better position than many like her. About half the girls in the rural region, not far from Nairobi, where she was born, are not in school at all. She is very lucky to be. “My parents lacked the money to educate me,” she says simply. “I really wanted to go to school.” At nine she was going to be forced into early marriage by her parents. She ran away and was taken in by the Kenyan school that has become her home and her primary education.
Of the 600 or so pupils attending the AIC （Africa Inland Church） girls’ primary school in Kajiado district, Kenya, 510 are boarders. Some are there because their homes are too distant, but many have run away at young ages from their Masai parents who were forcing them into marriage, which brings a dowry to their families. Some have escaped to avoid circumcision or because they have been raped. The school offers counseling for trauma.
But Kenya is a success story in a world where 58 million girls—far more than boys—are not in school. The majority live in sub-Saharan Africa and south and west Asia. Family traditions and the status of girls in society apart, the cost of fees, textbooks and uniforms are a major disincentive.
Other things keep girls out, too. In some parts of the world, schools are not safe places for girls—they are prey to physical and sexual abuse or even abduction. In others, wars and conflicts keep them away. In many traditional societies, the low status of girls means parents don’t value their education. The catch-22 is that an educated girl, in some cultures, may require higher dowry payments, which are unaffordable, reducing her marriage prospects. In certain countries, weak government doesn’t provide enough quality schools, and boys, seen as a better investment, get the lion’s share.
21 What is the main idea of the passage?
（A）There are schooling problems for African girls.
（B）The Kenyan government has made an effort to provide schooling for girls.
（C）The African marital customs deprive the girls of schooling.
（D）Schooling for African girls is traumatic.
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22 “Disincentive” in the fourth paragraph means ＿＿＿.
（A）problem
（B）motivation
（C）obstacle
（D）goal
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23 African girls are forced to marry early ＿＿＿.
（A）because of a handsome dowry
（B）because they are raped
（C）because it is the way they can go to school
（D）because they have Masai parents
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24 Kenya is a success story because ＿＿＿.
（A）the AIC offers primary education there
（B）the schools there offer counseling for trauma
（C）more girls in Kenya receive education as compared with other African countries
（D）it is not affected by wars and conflicts
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25 According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
（A）African boys have more opportunities for schooling.
（B）Some African girls are sexually abused at school.
（C）Many African households cannot afford the cost of schooling.
（D）Good education for the girls means good chance for a marriage.
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26 “Catch-22” in the last paragraph means ＿＿＿.
（A）dilemma
（B）reason
（C）tradition
（D）situation
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For those who fancied that they were building a United States of Europe, a combined power with more people and a bigger economy than the United States of America, the double “no” to the European Union’s constitution from France on May 29, 2005, and the Netherlands on June 1, 2005, has been a cruel collision with reality. And yet ratifying the constitution was never going to be easy. Although legally just another treaty, the lengthy text consolidates all previous treaties and adds new power for Brussels, a combination that invited opposition. With 11 countries putting the result to a popular vote, it was always likely that at least one would say no. And, because it required approval from all 25 EU members, that made it unlikely that the constitution would ever enter into force.
27 The main purpose of the passage is ＿＿＿ .
（A）to approve the ratification of the European Union’s Constitution
（B）to question the validity of the European Union’s Constitution
（C）to reinforce the consolidation of the European Union
（D）to question the possibility of approval of the constitution from all EU members
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28 According to the passage, which one of the following statements is true?
（A）European Union exists as a power superior to that of the United States of America.
（B）The double “no” to the EU constitution from France and the Netherlands is a glaring backfire to the ideal of EU.
（C）Brussels obtains new power to invite opposition of the EU members.
（D）The ideal of EU cannot be realized through ratifying the constitution.
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29 The word “collision” in this passage means ＿＿＿ .
（A）representation
（B）conflict
（C）competition
（D）contrast
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30 According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
（A）The lengthy constitution of EU invites consolidation rather than opposition.
（B）The EU members fail to reach a consensus on the issues of the constitution.
（C）Some EU members cherish the ideal of the powerful politics and the supreme economic system.
（D）The citizens of France and the Netherlands voted “no” in a referendum to ratify the EU constitution.
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The industrial revolution that began to change the European landscape in the second half of the 18th century engendered a new world in which the witches, demons and ghouls of the past had no place. While the vampire draws its roots from the furthest reaches of human history, it is one of the last creations of a collective European mind. Embodying age-old fears, this new-fashioned monster was born at the dawn of an era of rationalism, in a rural Europe populated by superstitious peasants. Analyzed, dissected, even ridiculed by the encyclopedists of the 18th century, logically it should have vanished and become a simple museum curio. Indeed, in the second half of the 18th century, newspapers wrote little about vampires, so much more dazzled were they by the prodigies of scientific progress and technology.
At the beginning of the 19th century, newspapers occasionally mentioned the old Hungarian or Serbian village where people were still opening tombs to look for vampires, but such subjects appear to have held little interest for most readers, whose lifestyle had been thoroughly upset by the advent of, among other things, metallurgy, railroads, and gas lighting.
31 When did the witches, demons and ghouls of the past begin to vanish from European culture?
（A）In the 1650s
（B）In the 1750s
（C）In the 1850s
（D）In the 1950s
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32 Vampires were born out of the imagination of the European ＿＿＿.
（A）hunters
（B）soldiers
（C）farmers
（D）politicians
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33 Vampires were created in Europe ＿＿＿.
（A）when rationalism began to rise
（B）when superstition began to rise
（C）when museums began to vanish
（D）when newspapers began to flourish
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34 What was the driving force that changed the European economic and social landscape?
（A）The Industrial Revolution
（B）The French Revolution
（C）The press media
（D）The encyclopedists
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35 According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
（A）Vampires completely disappeared from European culture in the second half of the 18th century.
（B）Hungarian or Serbian villagers were hiding vampires in the tombs.
（C）In the 1780s, people were more interested in railroads and gas lighting than in vampires.
（D）In the 18th and 19th centuries, newspapers did not report much on vampires.
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With the publication of Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, the author, Arianna Huffington, has sparked a spirited debate over the value of Picasso’s work. In the book, Huffington details the artist’s cruelties toward his wives, mistresses, children, and friends. He once put out a cigarette on the cheek of his mistress Francoise Gilot, and he beat another, Dora Maar. Huffington says the sadism crept into the art, and once people understand that, she implies, they’ll devalue much of his late work. In fact, she says, two collectors have already sold some works after reading her book.
However, art experts are crying foul, attacking the author’s bias and lack of scholarship. As Diane Upright, a director at New York’s Jan Krugier Gallery, says: “There’s power in the work. Whether this was a gentle, sympathetic human being is irrelevant.” Robert Rosenblum, an authority on modern art at New York University, is just as dismissive. “Anyone so ignorant as to sell his Picassos because of this book doesn’t deserve to have them in the first place,” he says.
Yet even the art world is finding it hard to ignore the Picasso potboiler. Partly because it’s so controversial, the book seems heading for the bestseller list. Still, Huffington’s opus is likely to have far more success enlivening conversations than depressing prices. Most of its contents have been known to Picasso experts for years—with no deleterious effect on prices. “People will not stop buying Picassos because he was not a nice man,” says financier Asher Edelman, who owns several Picassos. Rosenblum points out many artists have been scoundrels—or worse. Caravaggio, for one, killed a man in duel.
If it has any effect at all, the book may help prices. “Bringing more attention to Picasso will increase the attention given to his art, and therefore to the market,” says Edelman.
36 In her book, Arianna Huffington describes Picasso as being ＿＿＿.
（A）arrogant
（B）sly
（C）stubborn
（D）abusive
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37 What do art experts think of Ms. Huffington’s book?
（A）They disagree with Ms. Huffington’s views on Picasso’s art works.
（B）They think the book helps them interpret Picasso’s late works.
（C）They think the book increases their understanding of Picasso’s personal life.
（D）They think the book may have a negative effect on the prices of Picasso’s works.
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38 According to the passage, many people read Ms. Huffington’s book probably because ＿＿＿.
（A）the book is the subject of public controversy
（B）they want to start collecting Picasso’s works
（C）Ms. Huffington is an award-winning journalist
（D）the book contains many pictures of Picasso’s late works
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39 The word “deleterious” in the third paragraph means ＿＿＿.
（A）beneficial
（B）cumulative
（C）harmful
（D）profound
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40 What is the main idea of this passage?
（A）The more controversial a book is, the better it will sell.
（B）Picasso’s personality is reflected in his art works.
（C）Many of Picasso’s works are not as valuable as people think.
（D）Despite its popularity, Ms. Huffington’s book does not cause the prices of Picasso’s paintings to go down.
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