圖書資訊管理 93 年英文考古題

英翻中：請將以下英文段落翻成中文。（20 分） “The White House ought to be kicking and screaming over the prospect that Congress will reject employer mandates, and thus any chance of universal health care. Yet this week, it has accepted that possibility with barely a murmur or moan.”

翻譯：請將以下中文段落譯成英文、英文段落譯成中文。 近年來思考大學教育的本質，不僅是強調未來職場的走向，更強調培養接受未來 變遷社會的全人教育。學校所學的技術或是專業知識，在短短的幾年內，由於科 技與經濟環境的變遷，可能就會喪失其競爭力與時代性。因此培養學生如何展現 其潛能與面對挑戰的能力，成為各大學多元教育的重要目標。（20 分） To begin with, after Sept. 11, the passage of time drew off the worst of the pain, but every month or so there came a disturbance—an orange alert, a dance-club bombing in Bali, a surface-to-air missile fired at a passenger jet—that showed the beast still at America’s door.（20 分）

英譯中：請將下列英文譯為中文。（20 分） 1. Last week, Amazon.com, the No. 1 online bookseller, just added an astonishingly clever feature called “Search Inside the Book.” Every page of some 120,000 in-print titles has been scanned into a vast computer database and can be accessed as text. This doesn’t mean you’ll be reading your favorite best sellers on Amazon for free; there are limits on how many pages you can browse in a single book. But it does mean you can do the kind of comprehensive search that most librarians could dream of. Enter weapons of mass destruction with Amazon’s search box, for example, and you don’t get only the dozen or so books in print with WMD in the title. You get all 1,690 books in the Amazon collection in which the author wrote that phrase. 2. The automated office, cable television, e-mail, artificial intelligence, computer-based instruction, and word processing are ideas whose time has come. All of these innovations share in common a technology centered around the computer and telecommunications industries and their abilities to provide communication through media other than print on paper. Such technologies will become commonplace in the relatively near future, and will have a permanent impact on individuals and on world society far beyond what is currently anticipated. The key issue for the future is how to shape these technological innovations so that they are appropriate for human living in a world society.

中翻英：請將以下中文翻成英文。（20 分） 教育部將發動全國英語、數學相關科系的大學生，幫助低收入戶、原住民、身 心障礙、單親及外籍配偶子女的國中小學生免費家教補習，有效解決英數兩科的雙 峰現象。

應用文：（30 分） 某外國觀光局長將訪問我國，瞭解我國各項觀光資源及相關之行政措施（如簽 證、免稅等相關規定），請向此局長作一英文簡報。首先，擬出簡報大綱（outline）， 再依大綱寫出大約300 字之簡報內容。大綱請依英文標準格式撰寫，簡報內容除觀 光資源外，應強調我國吸引國外觀光客之重要措施。

中譯英：請將下列各句中文譯為英文。（20 分） 過去，圖書館的功能主要在於收藏和保存圖書資料。 現代圖書館則能提供各種資訊服務，吸引各行各業的讀者。 面對二十一世紀資訊社會的來臨，現代人不免產生焦慮感。 我們必須培養人民具有蒐集、評估與有效運用資訊的能力。

應用文：（30 分） 請寫一封一百五十字左右之英文書信給國外媒體，抱怨其最近之報導充滿暴力、煽 情及低俗之內容，並進一步提出具體之建議。

英文作文：（30 分） Does the public use advertising or do the advertisers use the public? Do you agree that advertisers have taken over rational thought and we are fooled into blindly following along? Or do you think that, on the contrary, we are just waking up to our potentials as rational beings who can decide what should be needed. Write a 300-word essay about this issue and be sure to cite examples to illustrate your argument.

應用文：請根據下列情境寫一封英文信函。（30 分） 你是某公立圖書館的館員，在整理歸還的書籍時，發現有一本書（書名「現代 經濟學」）有嚴重缺頁破損的情形。請寫一封英文信給該書借閱人Peter Chen，告知 他該書的破損情形，並要求他以該書的原價賠償。【注意】：寫信時，不得使用自己 真實姓名，皆以Michael Lin 或Alice Lin 署名。

英文作文：（30 分） Read the following passage and write a 250-word comment upon its argument. Do you agree or disagree with the author? Why? Be sure to use some local examples to illustrate your points. “Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both.” --Dorothy L. Sayers, “Are Women Human?”

作文：請以下列題目寫一篇英文作文。（30 分） Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to so much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.