會計(高普考) 104 年英文考古題（共 25 題）
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第 1 題
Many cats who have spent a good deal of their time outdoors, such as       cats, do not seem to adjust to lifeindoors.
(A) stray
(B) male
(C) hairy
(D) grumpy
正解：A

第 2 題
E-cigarettes come highly recommended for the       smokers to effectively fight the deadly habit.
(A) clandestine
(B) recalcitrantlascivious
(C) tantamount
正解：B

第 3 題
We are seeking advice on how to best       our broken-up pool deck, hopefully making it look as before.
(A) advocate
(B) consume
(C) endorse
(D) renovate
正解：D

第 4 題
It is extremely difficult to please the       gourmet who has never rated a restaurant with "excellent."
(A) bellicose
(B) fastidious
(C) phlegmatic
(D) reminiscent|11150
正解：B

第 5 題
The website provides       to certain public records of the local town courts.
(A) access
(B) adage
(C) easel
(D) exile
正解：A

第 6 題
The government has instituted security regulations intended to prevent the entry of hazardous materialsor       into the country.
(A) illumination
(B) inducement
(C) convention
(D) contraband
正解：D

第 7 題
Shipments between two countries are international       and must comply with applicable regulations beforebeing cleared for entry.
(A) duplications
(B) transactions
(C) oscillations
(D) contentions
正解：B

第 8 題
A tax relief program       qualifying homeowners for increases in local property taxes on their primaryresidences.circumvents
(A) reimburses
(B) perp
(C) etratesintersects
正解：B

第 9 題
The regulations allow you to bring back only one liter of alcoholic       duty-free for personal use.obsession
(A) beverage
(B) paradox
(C) execution
正解：B

第 10 題
Regulatory mandates include tariff and duty      , security clearances, registration requirements, filings andshipment documentation.assessments
(A) consortium
(B) resemblance
(C) plausibility
(D) 請依下文回答第11 題至第15 題：To counter the lost fertility that comes with harvesting crops and land-tilling, farmers have relied on regularapplications of human-made fertilizers to maintain field productivity. Excessive application of fertilizers can,   11  ,further reduce natural soil fertility by introducing salts that kill microorganisms. Fertilizers can also provide an excessof nitrogen that stimulates populations of   12   bacteria to the point that too little organic matter is available to feedsoil bacteria, which then starve. Nitrogen leaching into lakes can lead to unnatural algal blooms that can consume all ofthe oxygen,   13   fish and plant life. When nitrogen contaminates domestic water wells, as has happened incommunities close to dairies and feedlots with inadequately controlled animal   14  , the “blue baby syndrome” canresult. Nitrates interfere with the oxygen-carrying ability of red blood cells and the effect can be especially serious forinfants. Most adults have an enzyme that converts the   15   red blood cells back to normal.
正解：A

第 11 題
paradoxically
(A) ironically
(B) fruitfully
(C) amicably
正解：B

第 12 題
(A)decompositionproductivity
(B)reconstruction
(C)sensibility
(D)
(A) decompositionproductivity
(B) reconstruction
(C) sensibility
正解：A

第 13 題
(A)stimulatingkilling
(B)kneading
(C)shooting
(D)
(A) stimulatingkilling
(B) kneading
(C) shooting
正解：B

第 14 題
(A)wastesmuseums
(B)
(C)pastrieslibraries
(D)
(A) wastesmuseums
(C) pastrieslibraries
正解：A

第 15 題
(A)erasedarrested
(B)cloned
(C)
(D)damaged|11150請依下文回答第16 題至第20 題：Much has been written about feng shui in English. At present time, the year of 2012, there are over 300 separatetitles in English and many thousands of websites on the subject. Yet 25 years ago the subject was virtually unheard ofin the United States and very difficult to discover amongst Western-educated Chinese. Before that there were onlybooks written by missionaries and colonial administrators living in the nineteenth century. Western interest wasprobably sparked by my first book, The Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui, which was written in 1976 when mostmaterial on feng shui was still available only in Chinese. Feng shui did not however become “dinner partyconversation” until the late 1980s, and Lillian Too did much to popularize it in the 1990s in the Western worlds.However, when interest in feng shui did finally gather speed, because of the lack of source material, manywell-meaning teachers and writers seemed to forget that it is a really precise and exacting subject, and extended it inways not originally part of its traditional Chinese roots. Now, although any science can be extended by new researchand testing, this has got to be done with a full knowledge of all that has gone before. It is sometimes forgotten that fengshui is not a branch of interior decorating, but a practical science in its own right. To put not too fine a point on it, a lotof later-day Western feng shui has been simplified beyond the point where it works, or has been invented or “intuited.”Often intuition has provided a key or a direction in which to look, but it is never sufficient in itself to declare “it mustbe so” because I feel it to be so. It therefore came as a delight and a breath of fresh air when I laid my hands on the newproject about feng shui.
(A) erasedarrested
(B) cloned
(D) damaged|11150請依下文回答第16 題至第20 題：Much has been written about feng shui in English. At present time, the year of 2012, there are over 300 separatetitles in English and many thousands of websites on the subject. Yet 25 years ago the subject was virtually unheard ofin the United States and very difficult to discover amongst Western-educated Chinese. Before that there were onlybooks written by missionaries and colonial administrators living in the nineteenth century. Western interest wasprobably sparked by my first book, The Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui, which was written in 1976 when mostmaterial on feng shui was still available only in Chinese. Feng shui did not however become “dinner partyconversation” until the late 1980s, and Lillian Too did much to popularize it in the 1990s in the Western worlds.However, when interest in feng shui did finally gather speed, because of the lack of source material, manywell-meaning teachers and writers seemed to forget that it is a really precise and exacting subject, and extended it inways not originally part of its traditional Chinese roots. Now, although any science can be extended by new researchand testing, this has got to be done with a full knowledge of all that has gone before. It is sometimes forgotten that fengshui is not a branch of interior decorating, but a practical science in its own right. To put not too fine a point on it, a lotof later-day Western feng shui has been simplified beyond the point where it works, or has been invented or “intuited.”Often intuition has provided a key or a direction in which to look, but it is never sufficient in itself to declare “it mustbe so” because I feel it to be so. It therefore came as a delight and a breath of fresh air when I laid my hands on the newproject about feng shui.
正解：D

第 16 題
According to the passage, which of the following is true about the books on feng shui?
(A) Before the mid-20th century, almost no one talked about feng shui in the United States.T
(B) he missionaries and colonial administrators were strong practitioners of feng shui.
(C) The first English book on feng shui was written by the author of the passage.
(D) Chinese scholars in the United States began to teach people what feng shui was in the 1970s.
正解：A

第 17 題
When did feng shui become popular among Western people?
(A) In the early 19th century.
(B) In the late 19th century.
(C) In the early 20th century.
(D) In the late 20th century.
正解：D

第 18 題
According to the author, what is feng shui?
(A) A dinner party conversation.
(B) An interior decoration.
(C) A practical science.
(D) A source material.|11150
正解：C

第 19 題
What does the author think about the later-day Western feng shui?
(A) "It must be so" is the learning attitude for mastering the skills of feng shui.T
(B) he faculty of invention makes a feng shui master scientifically professional.
(C) Intuition plays a key role for a feng shui master to look for the right direction.
(D) The studies of feng shui nowadays are generally too simplified to be scientifically precise.
正解：D

第 20 題
Which of the following most accurately states the main idea of the passage?
(A) The misleading understanding of recently published books on feng shui.T
(B) he crucial significance and urgent need to promote the science of feng shui.
(C) The personal pleasure and public demand to work on the project of feng shui.
(D) The historical development and recent studies of feng shui in the United States.請依下文回答第21 題至第25 題：The 1989 Loma Prieta quake (magnitude 7.0) struck in the early evening as a World Series baseball game wasabout to start between the two Bay Area teams, the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s. At least 60 people died,most of them   21   an elevated section of freeway near Oakland. Also, part of the eastern span of the Bay Bridgecollapsed,   22   the bridge for more than a month. The Marina District in San Francisco sustained heavy damagewhere   23   had been built on former bay land, filled many decades earlier. Such filled land loses its solidity,undergoing   24   and amplified movement during earthquakes. The   25   was to the south in the Santa Cruzmountains, where the cities of Watsonville and Santa Cruz sustained damage. In total, about 16,000 homes andapartment units were destroyed or damaged. The American Red Cross operated 45 shelters for months that housed, atthe peak, 6,000 people.
正解：D

第 21 題
(A)at the killing off of
(B)by the falling back of
(C)in the crumbling down of
(D)on the picking up of
(A) at the killing off of
(B) by the falling back of
(C) in the crumbling down of
(D) on the picking up of
正解：C

第 22 題
(A)building
(B)closing
(C)lifting
(D)paying
(A) building
(B) closing
(C) lifting
(D) paying
正解：B

第 23 題
(A)rescues
(B)ruins
(C)shocks
(D)structures
(A) rescues
(B) ruins
(C) shocks
(D) structures
正解：D

第 24 題
(A)demarcation
(B)encapsulation
(C)liquefaction
(D)ossification
(A) demarcation
(B) encapsulation
(C) liquefaction
(D) ossification
正解：C

第 25 題
(A)avalanche
(B)epicenter
(C)tornado
(D)tsunami
(A) avalanche
(B) epicenter
(C) tornado
(D) tsunami
正解：B

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