台湾大学入学考试中心2020年英文试题
台湾大学入学考试中心2020年英文试题
九十五学年度指定科目考试试题
一、词汇(10%)
零为止。未作答者，不给分亦不扣分。
1.Mastery of English _________ us with a very important tool for acquiring knowledge and
information.
(A)accesses (B) conveys (C) deprives (D) equips
https://www.docsj.com/doc/2b5442108.html,nguages change all the time. Many words tliat were found m Shakespeare s works are no
longer in __________ use?
(A)absolute (B) current (C) repetitive (D) valuable
3.Do not just sit and wait __________ for a good chance to come to you. You have to take the
initiative and create chances for yourself.
(A)consciously (B) passively (C) reasonably (D) subjectively
4.Identical twins have almost all of their genes in common, so any ___________ between them is in
large part due to the effects of the environment.
(A)adoption (B) familiarity (C) stability (D) variation
5.People believed in the _______ o f the judge, so they were shocked to hear that he was involved
in the bribery scandal.
(A)inferiority (B) integrity (C) intimacy (D) ingenuity
6.The discovery of the new vaccine is an important ________ in the fight against avian flu?
(A)breakthrough (B) commitment (C) demonstration (D) interpretation
7.To avoid being misled by news reports, we should learn to ________ between facts and opinions.
(A)distinguish (B) complicate (C) reinforce (D) speculate
8.After the big flood, the area was mostly __________ . with only one or two homes still clinging to
their last relics?
(A)condensed (B) deserted (C) excluded (D) removed
9.In his speech. Dr. Huang presented all the reports about the energy crisis to ___________ the need
for developing new energy resources?
(A)command (B) formulate (C) highlight (D) regulate
10.Hearing the art critic's bitter and __________comments on her new pauitmg, Molly started a
heated argument with him.
(A) outrageous (B) unreliable (C) urgent (D) glorious
二.综合测验(20%)
To 24 museum feet, try not to have children look at too many things in one visit.1( is reported that young visitors get more out of a visit if they focus on 25 nine objects ? One and a half hours is the ideal time to keep their eyes and minds sharp. and their feet happy!
第26至30题为题组
In the desert of southwest Peru, enormous shapes, complex patterns, and thousands of perfectly straight lmes are cut mto the desert's surface ? They are known as the Nazca lines and they 26 500 square kilometers ? There are about fifty animal figures 27 275 meters long, including a monkey, a spider, and an 'owl mail/' The last of these lines were drawn about 1,000 years ago. More 28 is the fact that they can be viewed only from the air. Some people believe the Nazca Indians were 29 able to fly, perhaps in balloons ? Others say the lines were landing areas for alien spaceships ? Maybe the lines were to carry water for farming, or were used as a calendar. Tlie only thing certaui is that the Nazca lilies remam one of the world's most fascinating 30 mysteries ?
三、文意选填(10%)
第31至40题为题组
With one out of every two American marriages ending in divorce, custody of children has become an issue in the American society. Up until the late 1970s, it had been common practice in the United States to automatically 31 custody to the mother when a divorce occurred ?
However, since the 1970s ? this practice has been 32
? Most custody battles today are decided, in theory, on the basis of who is the more fit parent for the child. The reality, nevertheless, is that most women still win custody of their children in a 33 ? This legal change was the result of the social changes that 34 in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s ? These changes challenged many of the 35 roles men and women were expected to play. As a 36 , it is not uncommon nowadays to find women working outside their homes and being very 37 21. (A) boring
22. (A) almost
23. (A) efficiently
24. (A) affect
25. (A) no better than
(B) difficult (B) also (B) eventually (B) approach (B) no less than (C) cool (C) even (C) fortunately (C) assure (C) no more than (D) exciting (D) meanwhile (D) permanently (D) avoid (D) no sooner than
26. (A) circle
27. (A) far from
28. (A) amazing
29. (A) someday
30. (A) unchanged (B) contain (B) such as (B) hesitating (B) somehow (B) undetermined (C) cover (C) up to (C) interacting (C) sonictinie (C) unfolded (D) wrap (D) as much as (D) satisfying (D) somewhere (D) unsolved
about their careers and personal lives? It is also not 38 to see men accepting roles that were once considered the exclusive domain of women, such as shopping for groceries? driving their children to and from school, or cleaning their homes.
Because of the 39 in the divorce rate, the change in the roles that men and women are expected to play, and the changing attitude of the judicial system toward child custody, more men have started to 40 for and win custody of their children when divorce occurs?
(A)award (B) challenged (C) concerned (D) consequence
(E) divorce (F) fight (G) increase (H) took place
(I) traditional (J) unusual
四、篇章结构(10%)
讲明：第41至45题，每题一个空格.请依文意在文章后所提供的(A)到(E)选项中分不选岀最适当者，填入空格中，使篇章结构淸晰有条理，并将其英文字母代号标示在分，倒扣到本大题之实得分数为零为止。未作答者，不给分亦不扣分。
第41至45题为题组
Many people say that e-mail is just a faster way to deliver letters? The fact is that letter writing and e-mail are completely different processes. Handwritten or typed, letters travel in envelopes through actual space and take time getting from one place to another. 41 ? If I am writing on paper to my brother in Kenya, I will be less likely to coinplain about the breakfast I had tliis mommg. I will probably write about my relationships and some things tliat I've been thinking about. 42 People tend to regard letters as important. My brother might save my letter; he might read it back to me years from now.
43 It is instant, traveling from point to point. If you don't print it out, the message doesn't physically exist. With e-mail, geography is no obstacle and time is not important. _44 The ease of this kind of writing and sending probably makes for a different kind of comniunication. I can complain about the breakfast I had this morning or rattle on about friends and movies. That is because I am not so focused on style and profundity. 45 My brother might glance at my mail, have a laugh, and then delete it.
(A)E-mail is different?
(B)The downside is, I might be less likely to say something deeper.
(C)The time and distance, as a matter of fact, influence the letter-writer.
(D)I can zap a message to Kenya whenever I want to, and it gets there almost in a second?
(E)I will also take more care with my style, trying to write in a way that is interesting and worth reading.
五、阅读测验(22%)
第46至48题为题组
Rice balls with folded plastic wrappers separating the rice from the seaweed; a dozen kinds of cold tea in a dozen different bottles—enter any convenience store in Japan, and you're immediately struck by the great variety and quality of the packaging!
Japanese companies have been accused of over-packaging; but within the Japanese cultural context, that's not really true The Japanese tend to use more packaging because of a cultural emphasis on freshness and a lack of storage space at home. Moreover. they believe nice packaging adds value because it's a strong signal of quality. What's more, compared with Westerners, the Japanese are more connected with packaging as a symbol of appreciation, love and care. Packaging has, therefore, attained an important place in Japan' s economy. The packaging market is worth over ￥7.4 trillion. New packaging is introduced to Japanese store shelves at a rate of 20 percent per year, the highest rate in the world .In such an environment, a product has to have more than just a nice graphic design to differentiate it from its shelf-mates? The product has to speak to die consumer's needs with botli personality and practical value. Ill tliis changmg industry, nothing is really certain except one thing? You can be sure that the goods out there on display on the shelves of the convenience store will soon be looking rather different.
46.This passage is most likely taken from a _________ .
(A) cookbook (B) users manual (C) consumer report (D) fashion magazine
47.Which of the following is NOT a reason for the Japanese to use more packaging?
(A)Packaging helps to keep food fresh?
(B)Packaging helps the Japanese to show appreciation.
(C)The Japanese consider packaging a symbol of quality.
(D)Packaging is a way to compete with Westerners in economy.
48.The word ^shelf-mates'' in the second paragraph most likely refers to __________ .
(A) co-workers on the job (B) other products in the store
(C)customers5 need for other products (D) other graphic designs on the package
第49至52题为题组
Native Americans could not understand the white man s war oil the wolf. The Lakota, Blackfeet, and Shoshone, among other tribes, considered the wolf their spiritual brother. They respected die animals' endurance and lninting ability, and warriors prayed to hunt like them. They draped themselves in wolf skins and paws, hoping they could acquire die wolf's hiuiting skills of stealth, courage, and stamina?Plains Indians wore wolf-skin disguises on raiding parties? Elite Comanche warriors were called wolves ?
The white settlers' war on die wolf raged on. Western ranchers contmued to claim tliat thousands of cattle were killed every year by wolves. In 1884, Montana created its first wolf bounty—one dollar for every dead wolf, which increased to eight dollars in 1893? Over a period of thirty-five years, more than eighty thousand wolf carcasses were submitted for bounty payments in Montana. Moreover, the government even provided free poison. Finally, in 1914, ranchers persuaded the United States Congress to provide funds to exterminate wolves on public lands?
The last wolves ill the Ainerican West died hard. No place was safe, not even the nation's first national park, Yellowstone?The park was created in 1872, and from its very beginning. poisoned carcasses were set out to kill wolves? Nearly 140 wolves were killed by park rangers in Yellowstone from 1914 to 1926. In October 1926, two wolf cubs were trapped near a bison carcass. They were the last aiunials killed in the park's wolf control programs.
Ranchers had won the war against the wolf. Only in the northern woods of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan could the howl of native gray wolves be heard. The vast lands of the American West fell silent. The country had lost its greatest predato匚
49.The white man tried to kill the gray wolf because _________ ?
(A) it attacked people (B) it damaged the crops
(C)it was adored by the Indians (D) it threatened the life of his livestock
50.This passage was most likely written by someone who __________ .
(A)liked hunting wild animals
(B)made laws against the gray wolf
(C)advocated the protection of the gray wolf
(D)appreciated the gray wolf's hunting skills
51 ? What was an important reason for the fast disappearance of the wolf?
(A)The wolf could not have the cattle as food.
(B)The Indians killed the wolves for their skins?
(C)National park rangers killed most of the wolves?
(D)The government encouraged the killing of wolves.
52.The Indians respected the wolf because it ________ .
(A) was good at hunting (B) was good at disguising
(C)had beautiful skins and paws (D) was an enemy to the white man
第53至56题为题组
Recently, Dr. Stuart Campbell of a private health center in London published some ultrasound images of unborn babies between 26 and 34 weeks. The smiles of the babies in the pictures greatly shocked the public and were widely circulated on the Internet.
For the past two years, the doctor has used the medical facility in the center and has offered state-of-the-art 3-D/4-D scanning services to expectant parents? He performs an average of 30 scans a week. His outspoken entliusiasm for tliis blessed technology is refreshing. ^Parents lo*ue tliein/' he said. 1 hear so many couples laughing when they see the pictures■一its wonderftil.''
How have pro-abortion activists reacted after seeing the happy, grinning photos of these unborn babies?
Amie Carp, a conmieiitator for the Guardian who bills herself as a ^medical sociologist/' says the photos are simply misleading? and ridicules the anti-abortion lobby for being "intoxicated with evidence of a fetus5 hunianity." Australian Birth Control Services medical director Geoff Brodie complamed that the photos "will be picked up by those groups tliat use anything and everything to stop abortions but ignore die fact that women have a right to choice.'5
In America, the pro-abortion lobby is having the same hostile reaction. Il was bad enough when conventional 2-D sonograms revealed unborn hearts beating and blurry hands waving, but the abortionists are absolutely aghast over rapidly spreading access to 3-D/4-D ultrasound teclmology. A writer for die liberal American Prospect said that the new teclmology "blurred the distinction between a fetus and a newborn infant：
Despite these strong reactions from the pro-abortionists, the right of life takes precedence over a woman s right to choice. After all. notliing can be more persuasive than an unborn child's beaming face.
53.What is tlie author's attitude toward abortion?
(A) For it. (B) Against it. (C) Neutral. (D) Indifferent?
54.How have the pro-abortionists reacted to the photos of smiling unborn babies?
(A)All with disbelief and scorn?
(B)All with applause and appreciation.
(C)Some with respect and some with scorn.
(D)Some with applause and some with disappointment.
55.Which of the following people is most likely an anti-abortionist?
(A) Anne Carp. (B) Geoff Brodie.
(C)Stuart Campbell. (D) A writer for the American Prospect.
56.Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?
(A)It is wrong for doctors to publish pictures of unborn babies?
(B)For anti-abortionists a fetus is not the same as a living human being?
(C)Everybody agrees that a woman can decide whether to abort or not.
(D)Anti-abortionists are pleased with the ultrasound photos of unborn babies?
第二部分：非选择题(占28分)
一、英文翻译(8%)
2.未按题意翻译者，不予计分。
1、为提供一个无烟的用餐环境，许多餐厅不承诺室内抽烟。
2、尽管遭到许多瘾君子的反对，这对不抽烟的人的确是一大福音。
二、英文作文(20%)
2.文长至少120个单词。
提示：人的生活中，难免有遭人误解因而感到委屈的时候。请以此为主题，写一篇至少120 启发。
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