財稅行政 95 年英文考古題

Children must be allowed to retreat into their own worlds without parental . (A)intrusion (B)designation (C)division (D)invitation

When listening to a CD or tape, I will put the on and close my eyes. (A)headband (B)headlight (C)headset (D)headrest

A good leader needs to provide a clear-cut for the followers. So they know what they are striving for. (A)context (B)discipline (C)remedy (D)vision

John was quite rude ; almost everyone in the community tried to his behavior. (A)catch up with (B)take up with (C)put up with (D)come up with

A movie Jackie Chan is coming up soom. (A)featuring (B)figuring (C)showing (D)containing

Tim is looking for a job, one that doesn’t involve so much travel. (A)eminently (B)incompetently (C)lucidly (D)preferably

She turned on the light to keep the creepy feelings . (A)at sea (B)at large (C)at bay (D)at ease

Although work experience is important, a bachelor’s degree is a for most employers. (A)compensation (B)management (C)momentum (D)prerequisite

John really . When he was criticizing his boss, his boss was just standing behind him. (A)put himself in the boss’s shoes (B)lived from hand to mouth (C)put his foot in his mouth (D)fell on his feet

Patience is the key to raise a child with a disposition. You always need to be prepared for uncontrollable behaviors. (A)benevolent (B)punitive (C)stringent (D)wayward

Conservationists assert that the wildlife losses have been severe and in some cases . (A)catastrophic (B)effusive (C)heliocentric (D)phonogenic

To a politician, a single error of judgment can be to career suicide. (A)mundane (B)climactic (C)complementary (D)tantamount

He to the waiter that he was ready to order food by closing up the menu folder in his hands. (A)showed (B)sent (C)signaled (D)signed

It is one thing to window-shop, to pull out your wallet and fork over the cash. (A)the other (B)another (C)other (D)others

What distinguishes this approach previous attempts to deal with breast cancer? (A)between (B)among (C)from (D)in

The new department store is advertised as a place you can find just about anything you might want to buy. (A)where (B)which (C)in there (D)in that

With an list of references, Dr. Lee’s research project proves to be a most thorough and complete study of the subject. (A)exhausted (B)exhaustible (C)exhausting (D)exhaustive

I’ve never met someone as as Amy. (A)kindly-heart (B)kind-heart (C)kind-hearted (D)kindly-hearted95 年公務人員特種考試關務人員考試試題代號：等 別 ：三等考試科 別 ：各科別科 目 ：英文全一張（背面）50160|50860

There’s no annual fee you use the credit card at least ten times a year. (A)unless (B)even if (C)although (D)provided that

I tried the tires. But I couldn’t. I need to find an automechanic to do it for me. (A)change (B)to change (C)exchanging (D)to exchange

The first time a customer asked for “just a rusty nail,” I, a waiter, gave an obligatory laugh, thinking he , not knowingthat it was the name of a drink! (A)is cute (B)being cute (C)is being cute (D)was being cute

Don’t worry and stay where you are. Firefighters are doing possible to get you out. (A)something (B)nothing (C)everything (D)each thing

We are entering a season when a lot of infectious diseases could . (A)break up (B)turn down (C)break with (D)break out

In a democratic society, everyone can his own human rights. (A)charge at (B)fight for (C)go without (D)do without

The reason we find celebrities is chiefly due to our craving for becoming a peeping Tom. (A)fascination (B)fascinate (C)fascinated (D)fascinating

The newspaper made a big fuss over the news of her marriage. (A)They splashed her marriage across the front page. (B)The newspaper greatly undermined her marriage. (C)The newspaper spread her marriage news with an usually broad brush. (D)The newspaper gave bright color to her wedding news.

The dollar will remain the key reserve currency for the foreseeable future. The United States is the dominant world power, andwith world power goes leadership of the currency. (A)The value of the dollar could rapidly decline because of big budget and trade deficits in the US. (B)Since the US is the dominant world power, people should buy up dollars. (C)A powerful dollar will lead the US to be the dominant world power. (D)The dollar will remain strong as long as the US remains the dominant world power.Picture a croaking frog 28 on a rock. Without even thinking about it, you know that the frog is alive and the rock is not.At a much deeper level, however, the difference between them 29 . They and all other things 30 the same particles(protons, electrons, and neutrons). The particles 31 into atoms, according to the same physical laws. At the heart of thoselaws is something called energy–a capacity to make things happen, to do work.

(A)squat (B)squats (C)squatting (D)to squat

(A)blinks (B)blurs (C)lures (D)lurks

(A)are composed of (B)are comprised of (C)are consisted of (D)consist in

(A)become organizing (B)have organized (C)have become organizing (D)have become organizedLacking teeth, whales gather food by gulping the seawater that contains it. Then they use their tongues to force the liquid outthrough a sieve of fibrous plates–the baleen–hanging from the roof of the mouth. Since the 32 is often described as strainingseawater, many people have the impression that the great whales swim around through the oceans with their mouths open, filteringplankton. In reality these mammals travel tremendous distances between sites where the right conditions 33 food–small fishand krill, in the case of humpbacks.Suppose one locates a milling ball of herring. The whale may lunge at the prey near the surface, plow down into their midst, ordive deeper and circle below the fish, blowing a ring of fizzing bubbles to act as a net, then rise up through the center. Sometimes theanimal blows different size bubbles depending upon the size of its prey. The lower jaw swings out from the upper jaw to open at a90–degree angle, or even wider; one to three dozen grooves on the throat expand; and what has been a sleek whale becomes a livingvat 34 as many as 15,000 gallons of water churning with fish.Where the dining is especially rich, humpbacks do all this in coordinated groups of as many as two dozen. As they 35to scoop up the food, they are likely to be screaming–filling the water with prolonged, piercing 36 that seem designed tofurther disorient the panicky, trapped targets.

(A)mouth (B)tongue (C)process (D)condition

(A)swallow (B)preserve (C)decompose (D)concentrate

(A)swollen by (B)fatigued by (C)surrounded by (D)sprinkled by

(A)dismiss (B)converge (C)converse (D)designate

(A)jaws (B)bubbles (C)flippers (D)shrieksFrom a historical perspective, successful intercultural communication has been an exception rather than a rule. The history ofhumankind details an ongoing antipathy and hostility toward those who are different. The twentieth century, for instance, sufferedtwo world wars and witnessed the introduction and use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons with potential to destroyhumankind. The world also endured the Holocaust and various smaller–scale conflicts such as those in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq,and Afghanistan. Now, the world is faced with the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and theensuing war on terrorism. In addition, there are numerous ongoing religious, ethnic, and tribal clashes that seem beyond resolution.The ongoing clash between primarily Hindu India and predominantly Muslim Pakistan over Kashmir, which occasionally leads themto the brink of nuclear war, is the case in point. In Indonesia, one of the most populous countries in the world, a bomb goes offoutside a Bali disco and a new wave of ethnic violence engulfs the country.

The main purpose of the passage is to . (A)emphasize the political crisis of the world (B)declare war against terrorism (C)write a history of world disasters (D)observe the turbulent situations of the world

According to the passage, which of the following statements if NOT true? (A)Successful intercultural communication is an exception in human history. (B)Ethnic, religious and political clashes in many places trigger wars. (C)Ethnic and religious conflicts around the world have been resolved through reconciliation. (D)Human history is fraught with violence and confrontation.

The “Holocaust” refers to . (A)the mass killing of Jews and others by Nazis during the Second World War (B)the large amount of destruction (C)the disaster caused by terrorists (D)the nuclear competition between America and Russia

The passage envisions . (A)an optimistic future of world peace (B)a constructive survey of world peace (C)a pessimistic future of world peace (D)an ambivalent status quo of world peace