阿甘

桃園市立武陵高級中等學校 111 學年度第一學期第 1 次正式教師甄選
英文 科初試試題卷 
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I. Vocabulary (10%)
1. The ______wedding of Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz has been criticized for its extravagance and the astronomical amount spent on the wedding.
(A) blasphemous (B) comatose (C) egregious (D) ostentatious

2. Some people dismiss smoking pot as a(n) ______, not a major crime that should be punished severely.
(A) peccadillo (B) espionage (C) oblivion (D) bigotry

3. The old man is ______ about his good old days as a famous and popular actor, and he keeps talking about his youth constantly though no one recognizes him.
(A) luminous (B) meddlesome (C) nostalgic (D) morbid

4. Saying that the stock would be a(n) ______ investment, the broker advised his clients against purchasing it.
(A) officious (B) precarious (C) pretentious (D) obnoxious

5. The ______ politician always tried to pick up a fight with his opponents so as to seek attention, which resulted in his failure to win the re-election.
(A) patronizing (B) preposterous (C) insidious (D) pugnacious

6. She’s constantly followed by ______ assistants who will do anything she tells them to so as to please her.
(A) obsequious (B) lugubrious (C) mercurial (D) mordant

7. His angry comments would only ______ tensions in the negotiation process between the two nations.
(A) preclude (B) acclimatize (C) exacerbate (D) pontificate

8. Xi Jinping is regarded by many as a(n) ______ to Putin’s war of aggression and the mastermind in 
undermining the existing liberal world order.
(A) martinet (B) emissary (C) raiment (D) accomplice

9. The Cannes Film Festival and its requisite parade of beauty looks are here to remind onlookers that ______style is back.
(A) inordinate (B) abstemious (C) sumptuous (D) derogatory

10. Julia Child remains the grande dame of American ______, a towering icon against whom few can compare in stature and influence.
(A) quandary (B) malevolence (C) gastronomy (D) repudiation

II. Discourse (9%)
Diabetes occurs when the pancreas is unable to produce enough insulin to maintain a normal concentration of the sugar glucose in the blood. In ___(11)___ cases, the blood-glucose concentration is very high, and large amounts of glucose are excreted in the urine. Primary diabetes has two forms: insulin-dependent and non insulin-dependent, both caused by ___(12)___ and genetic factors. Pancreas removal or damage causes ___(13)___ diabetes.

Insulin-dependent diabetes generally starts in childhood and is characterized by serious insulin deficiency, probably due to the ___(14)___ of the insulin—secretin cells of the pancreas. Without insulin, the person develops ketoacidosis, high levels of ketone bodies in the blood, causing lowered blood pH and possible heart failure, and coma caused by the very high blood glucose levels.

The non insulin-dependent form usually occurs in people over age 40. These people have higher-thannormal levels of insulin but are___(15)___ to its action; ketoacidosis is rare. Obesity can impair insulin action, so obese people are predisposed to this form of diabetes, ___(16)___ are populations that have recently adopted Western processed-food diets. Some women develop elevated glucose levels during pregnancy, called gestational diabetes. Glucose levels may return to normal after ___(17)___, but they have an increased risk of developing non insulin-dependent diabetes in the future.

The ___(18)___ of diabetes treatment is to restore blood glucose levels to normal. For obese people with non insulin-dependent diabetes, the treatment of choice is weight loss. If this does not ___(19)___, oral hypoglycemic agents, which act by stimulating the pancreas to secrete additional insulin, or insulin injections are required. People with insulin-dependent diabetes usually receive one or two daily injections of slowly 
absorbed insulin.

(A) secondary (B) destruction (C) suffice (D) birth
(E) environmental (AB) observation (AC) severe (AD) drawback
(AE) as (BC) nor (BD) resistant (BE) objective

III. Reading Comprehension (10%)
Close at hand is a bridge over the River Thames, an admirable vantage ground for us to make a survey.■ (A) The river flows beneath; barges pass, laden with timber, bursting with corn; there on one side are the domes and spires of the city; on the other, Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. It is a place to stand on by the hour, dreaming. But not now. Now we are pressed for time. ■ (B) Now we are here to consider facts; now we must fix our eyes upon the procession—the procession of the sons of educated men.

There they go, our brothers who have been educated at public schools and universities, mounting those steps, passing in and out of those doors, ascending those pulpits, preaching, teaching, administering justice, practicing medicine, transacting business, making money. It is a solemn sight always—a procession, like a caravanserai crossing a desert. … But now, for the past twenty years or so, it is no longer a sight merely, a photograph, or fresco scrawled upon the walls of time, at which we can look with merely an esthetic appreciation. ■(C) For there, trapesing along at the tail end of the procession, we go ourselves. And that makes a difference. We who have looked so long at the pageant in books, or from a curtained window watched educated men leaving the house at about nine-thirty to go to an office, returning to the house at about sixthirty from an office, need look passively no longer. We too can leave the house, can mount those steps, pass in and out of those doors, … make money, administer justice. …We who now agitate these humble pens may in another century or two speak from a pulpit.

Nobody will dare contradict us then; we shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—a solemn thought, is it not? Who can say whether, as time goes on, we may not dress in military uniform, with gold lace on our breasts, swords at our sides, and something like the old family coal-scuttle on our heads, save that that venerable object was never decorated with plumes of white horsehair. ■(D)You laugh—indeed the shadow of the private house still makes those dresses look a little queer. We have worn private clothes for so long. … But we have not come here to laugh, or to talk of fashions—men’s and women’s. We are here, on the bridge, to ask ourselves certain questions. And they are very important questions; and we have very little time in which to answer them. The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of all men and women forever. For we have to ask ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that procession, or don’t we? On what terms shall we join that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men? 

The moment is short; it may last five years; ten years, or perhaps only a matter of a few months longer. …But, you will object, you have no time to think; you have your battles to fight, your rent to pay, your bazaars to organize. That excuse shall not serve you, Madam. As you know from your own experience, and there are facts that prove it, the daughters of educated men have always done their thinking from hand to mouth; not under green lamps at study tables in the cloisters of secluded colleges. They thought while they stirred the pot, while they rocked the cradle. It was thus that they won us the right to our brand-new sixpence. It falls to us 
now to go on thinking; how are we to spend that sixpence? Think we must. Let us think in offices; in omnibuses; while we are standing in the crowd watching Coronations and Lord Mayor’s Shows; let us think … in the 
gallery of the House of Commons; in the Law Courts; let us think at baptisms and marriages and funerals. Let us never cease from thinking—what is this “civilization” in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? What are these professions and why should we make money out of them? Where in short is it leading us, the procession of the sons of educated men? 
 

Questions:
20. What is the main purpose of this passage?
(A) to present how critical an issue is.
(B) to highlight the social division in that era.
(C) to challenge the workability of an undertaking. 
(D) to remind women of how important a tradition is.

21. The author indicates that the procession in the passage
(A) has clearly become a celebrated feature every year. 
(B) also includes some women in certain uniforms at its end.
(C) has been less restricted in its exclusion of members.
(D) sparks a lot of questions as to whether it should continue to exist. 

22. Which sentence best supports your answer to the previous question? 
(A) Sentence (A) (“The…. Parliament.”)
(B) Sentence (B) (“Now…...men.”)
(C) Sentence (C) (“For……ourselves.”)
(D) Sentence (D) (“You…queer.”)
23. In the passage, the author chooses the location of the bridge because it
(A) is a perfect place to fantasize a dream for a bright future for women.
(B) symbolizes a transition of the past and present situations in England. 
(C) is within the setting of the historic past events the author refers to. 
(D) commands a good view of the procession of the sons of the educated men. 

24. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the figurative “sixpence” mentioned in the passage?
(A) luxury
(B) freedom
(C) tolerance
(D) recompens

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