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第一部份：選擇題（共 10 題，占 20 分） 
說明：第 1 至第 10 題為單一選擇題。請選出一個最適當的選項填答於答案本上。每題答對得 2 分，答錯、整題未答不予倒扣。
(I) Vocabulary
Part I: Choose the best word to complete the sentence. 
 1. Tom inherited a fortune from his grandparents, but quickly _____ the money on new cars and luxuries he didn’t need.
 (A) collected (B) squandered (C) minted (D) alleviated

 2. Nowadays, scientists rely on the satellite signals for hints of _____ earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
 (A) compulsory (B) impending (C) optional (D) masterful

 3. Doctors have _____ a series of tests to determine the cause of the problem.
 (A) rebounded (B) displaced (C) initiated (D) eradicated

Part II: Choose the word that is closest in meaning to the underlined word in the sentence.

 4. Even after a blistering attack from the enemy, the fortress held.
(A) moderate (B) vehement (C) frustrating (D) woeful

 5. It is an old factory that has been renovated as office space.
(A) decimated (B) sanitized (C) vaporized (D) reconditioned

 6. Despite an inauspicious start, our team went on to win the game 30 to 20.
(A) unthreatening (B) inauthentic (C) ominous (D) conspicuous

(II) Discourse structure: Choose the best sentence from the box below for each blank in the passage.
 They were unlikely friends, Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the Scottish-born creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Houdini (1874-1926), America’s most important magician of the day. (7)___. But what brought them together was what, ironically, eventually drive them apart—spiritualism, the belief that one could communicate with the dead.

Conan Doyle had come to believe in spiritualism after his son was killed in World War I. (8) ___. Houdini, on the other hand, was deeply skeptical of spiritualism and took every opportunity to use his understanding of magical illusion to expose mediums and psychics he thought were fakes.

Soon after their correspondence had turned into a friendship, introductions from Conan Doyle allowed Houdini access to dozens of mediums during an extended tour of Great Britain. Unknown to Doyle, however, Houdini was far from becoming a believer: “Th more I investigate the subject,” he wrote, “the less I can make myself believe.” (9) ___.

Their dispute began when Houdini joined the Doyles for a séance, in which Lady Doyle suggested contacting Houdini’s beloved mother. Houdini did believe in an afterlife, so he agreed, but by the time Lady Doyle had filled 15 sheets with automatic writing she claimed had come from his mother, Houdini had only become further convinced that he was witnessing a fraud. (10) ___. Houdini’s mother had been a rabbi’s wife, and Houdini knew she never would never have used the Christian sign of the cross as Lady Doyle said she had; and, more convincingly, she had barely spoken English when alive and it now seemed that after death she had become totally fluent! It simply did not sound like his dear mother, and Houdini resented it. It was the beginning of the end of the friendship between Doyle and Houdini. 

(A) Although he left without saying anything, Houdini knew that he had not heard from his mother.
(B) On closer examination they appear to have plenty in common: both men were famous around the globe, and while their career paths were different, they were both extremely athletic and strong.
(C) Inevitably, despite a growing personal relationship, the two great men moved towards a confrontation.
(D) Conan Doyle became an expert in the field and even wrote a two-volume History of Spiritualism in 1926.
 

第二部份：填充題 （共10題，占20分） 
Please fill the 10 blanks in the following article by using the words as are shown below.

demographic    dipped      margins

tariff   tide    trawlers

undisputed     vendors

ride        weathered

War in Ukraine battering British fish and chips
Sun, Apr 03, 2022
By Brigitte Dusseau / AFP, Brighton, Englan

They have 1.__________ the storms of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic, and are fighting the 2.__________ of rising inflation, but thousands of Britain’s fish and chip shops could be sunk by the war in Ukraine.

At Captain’s, in the seaside resort of Brighton on England’s south coast, owner Pam Sandhu is normally not one to complain. Yet the shelves of her large refrigerators are empty when they should be full of fresh white fish ready to be 3.__________ in batter and deep fried, then served to hungry customers with piping hot chips. In ordinary times, Russia supplied between 30 and 40 percent of the fish sold in British fish and chip shops, mostly cod and haddock, said Andrew Crook, president of the National Federation of Fish Friers. Ukraine is the world’s biggest exporter of vegetable oil, which is used for deep frying what the federation calls Britain’s “4.__________ national dish.” “With this war in Ukraine, there is no fish available or a very small amount,” Sandhu told reporters. “Before we were ordering in large quantities. Now there is only a minimum order that we can get. The price has doubled from what we paid last year.” The vegetable oil has also become hard to come by, she said. Meanwhile, the UK’s introduction in the middle of last month of a 35 percent 5.__________ on the import of white fish from Russia has begun to bite. At the same time, fish and chip shop proprietors are also being hit by rising energy prices.

On a sunny spring Friday last month, Sandhu was worrying whether she would even have enough fish to get through the weekend. She has been in the business for 30 years, often working seven days a week, and said she has never known as many problems with supplies or pressure on costs. Sandhu’s restaurant has a terrace that looks out onto Brighton’s pebble beach and pier. She bought it three years ago and had planned to open in March 2020. Then came COVID-19, followed by rising inflation and now the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. It has been the perfect storm for fish and chips 6.__________.

Fish and chips, first served as a single dish in the 1860s, has long been a working-class staple, although 7.__________ and dietary changes have seen its popularity wane in the past few years. The takeaway favourite, covered in lashings of salt and vinegar, used to be wrapped in old newspaper and is typically served with mushy peas or tartare sauce. “We’ve always been seen as a cheap meal, so our 8.__________ have always been quite low and we work on volume,” Crook said. “Unfortunately now with the inflationary price, it is very difficult to protect your margins, in fact they’re wiped out.” Fish has become even more expensive because some British 9.__________ are staying in port due to the high cost of fuel. “It’s just not worth them going out and setting sail, so that’s further pressure on the supply of fish and it’s driving pressure further north,” he said. Meanwhile, the sales tax in the UK is going back up to 20 percent, having been cut to 12.5 percent during the pandemic.

All of which could put as many as 3,000 of the country’s 10,000 fish and chip shops out of business, Crook said. “It will probably happen in the next six months,” he said. “I think there is going to be that much pressure on people.” Sandhu is hoping that her reputation and the quality of her fish and chips will help her 10.__________ out the storm. She has not increased her prices, but is keeping a close eye on her competitors. “We have to keep the customer happy, but I can’t work for nothing. I have a home to feed,” she said. Cheaper hamburgers, hot dogs and sausage rolls are now on the menu. Regular customer Sharon Patterson said that she would keep eating at the restaurant, whatever happens. “Fish and chips have been part of my world ever since I existed,” Patterson said, sitting on the terrace alongside her mother, who is in her 80s. “We do have to keep supporting all our local businesses and as long as I can afford it, I will come down and have fish and chips whenever I can,” she said. “It’s part of my growing up. It’s part of my culture.”

1. 翻譯（15 分）及詮釋（15 分）
Please translate the following poem by Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) into Chinese and explain in English what the poem is 
about by using around 200-250 words.

Do not go gentle into that good night 
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Your Translation (in Chinese)

Your Interpretation (in English)

2. 短文寫作題 （共 1 題，占 30 分）
 Since the outbreak of COVID-19, most people have changed their lifestyles and modes of working. Last year, because of some measures of containing the virus, most of the teachers in Taiwan had to do online teaching for a long period of time.Although there are still some issues and problems in online teaching, distance education and e-learning seem to be the trend in the future. Write a short essay to discuss the pros and cons of online teaching and how we could integrate a virtual learning environment in English education.

參考解答

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填充

1. weathered 2. tide 3. dipped 4. undisputed 5. tariff 6. vendors 7. demographic 8. margins 9. trawlers 10. ride