檢察事務官(偵查實務組) 94 年英文考古題

Modern women are under a lot of . Many of them have to work, go to school, and take care of their families. (A)pleasure (B)posture (C)pressure (D)presence

The dollar exchange rate today isn’t too , so let’s change our money later. (A)faithful (B)fearful (C)favorite (D)favorable

The most powerful group in the Congress receives the backing of more than one million supporters. (A)loan (B)lobby (C)loading (D)locker

It is important to adapt your behavior when traveling to another country so that you don’t insult or the localpeople. (A)attend (B)defend (C)forbid (D)offend

The children were by the teacher’s adventure stories and urged him to tell them more. (A)favored (B)fascinated (C)fatigued (D)falsified

The diet we choose to eat our likelihood of developing heart disease. (A)affects (B)effects (C)defects (D)rejects

When calorie intake exceeds , fat cells begin to multiply and consequently, people start to grow bigger. (A)accession (B)expenditures (C)installments (D)optimums

Tabloid magazines are notorious for their into people’s private lives. (A)explicating (B)insulating (C)delving (D)festering

It is of little use to be so and cynical about one’s life. (A)bumpy (B)grumpy (C)lumpy (D)limpid

Writing good compositions very difficult for a freshman. (A)is (B)been (C)are (D)being

Professor Wang his book. It’s here on the table. (A)forget (B)must forget (C)is forgetting (D)must have forgotten

She ate so much she hadn’t had a meal for days. (A)so that (B)so as (C)as if (D)as

Princess Diana called on South Pacific churches to drop their prejudices HIV and AIDS patients. (A)at (B)between (C)besides (D)against

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now contact with dangerous chemicals,from the moment of conception until death. (A)required to (B)requested to (C)subjected to (D)supplied to

The company claimed that they had developed stem cells which could replace damaged cells without anyharmful effect. (A)made-to-order (B)blow-by-blow (C)more-or-less (D)point-of-sale

Money is just like sex. You think of nothing else if you don’t have it and think of other things if you do. (A)Money and sex are the same. We can’t do away with either. (B)Money and sex are alike in their effects on our thoughts. (C)Money and sex play different tricks on our ways of thinking. (D)When we have money and sex then we keep thinking about them.

Appreciating nature’s splendor will soothe our sorrows, put things into much-needed perspective, and add arevitalizing brilliance to our life. (A)Our life can be much enriched and enlightened by appreciating nature. (B)Nature’s beauty will prolong our life. (C)When we need a viewpoint, we will find it in the beauty of nature. (D)The beauty of nature can cure us of diseases.

No other country changes as fast and as much as America; even the complexion of its own people changes. (A)America changes the fastest of all countries in the complexity of its racial issues. (B)The American infrastructure has changed faster than all other countries. (C)Among all countries, America changes the fastest, including the looks of its people. (D)After drastic changes over years, America has less complication of its own people.

The ginger lilies smelt so sweet that Paul noticed them when he first came into the living room. (A)It was the first time for Paul to come into the living room. (B)It was not the first time for Paul to come into the living room. (C)Paul saw the lilies first when he came into the living room. (D)Paul smelt the lilies when he came into the living room.

Many women are prone to Hello Kitty syndrome—that childlike enthusiasm some females have for anything fuzzy,pink or freakishly undersized. (A)Many women are afraid of things that are hairy, pink or small. (B)Many women were crazy about Hello Kitty when they were small children. (C)Many women are crazy about small and trendy things like Hello Kitty. (D)Many women are sick because they are crazy about Hello Kitty.Jane Seret is 14 and, as many high-aspiring girls do, she would like to go to Oxford, or perhaps London,for her university education. But she has one or two problems to overcome. First, she has to finish her primaryeducation—she didn’t go to school until she was nine—and next, someone has to pay for her secondaryeducation, the cost of which is roughly equivalent to most of a year’s earnings for a head of family living inher Kenyan village.She is in a better position than many like her. About half the girls in the rural region, not far from Nairobi,where she was born, are not in school at all. She is very lucky to be. “My parents lacked the money to educateme,” she says simply. “I really wanted to go to school.” At nine she was going to be forced into early marriageby her parents. She ran away and was taken in by the Kenyan school that has become her home and herprimary education.Of the 600 or so pupils attending the AIC (Africa Inland Church) girls’ primary school in Kajiado district,Kenya, 510 are boarders. Some are there because their homes are too distant, but many have run away atyoung ages from their Masai parents who were forcing them into marriage, which brings a dowry to theirfamilies. Some have escaped to avoid circumcision or because they have been raped. The school offerscounseling for trauma.But Kenya is a success story in a world where 58 million girls—far more than boys—are not in school.The majority live in sub-Saharan Africa and south and west Asia. Family traditions and the status of girls insociety apart, the cost of fees, textbooks and uniforms are a major disincentive.Other things keep girls out, too. In some parts of the world, schools are not safe places for girls—they areprey to physical and sexual abuse or even abduction. In others, wars and conflicts keep them away. In manytraditional societies, the low status of girls means parents don’t value their education. The catch-22 is that aneducated girl, in some cultures, may require higher dowry payments, which are unaffordable, reducing hermarriage prospects. In certain countries, weak government doesn’t provide enough quality schools, and boys,seen as a better investment, get the lion’s share.

What is the main idea of the passage? (A)There are schooling problems for African girls. (B)The Kenyan government has made an effort to provide schooling for girls. (C)The African marital customs deprive the girls of schooling. (D)Schooling for African girls is traumatic.

“Disincentive” in the fourth paragraph means _____. (A)problem (B)motivation (C)obstacle (D)goal

African girls are forced to marry early _____. (A)because of a handsome dowry (B)because they are raped (C)because it is the way they can go to school (D)because they have Masai parents

Kenya is a success story because _____. (A)the AIC offers primary education there (B)the schools there offer counseling for trauma (C)more girls in Kenya receive education as compared with other African countries (D)it is not affected by wars and conflicts

According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? (A)African boys have more opportunities for schooling. (B)Some African girls are sexually abused at school. (C)Many African households cannot afford the cost of schooling. (D)Good education for the girls means good chance for a marriage.

“Catch-22” in the last paragraph means _____. (A)dilemma (B)reason (C)tradition (D)situationFor those who fancied that they were building a United States of Europe, a combined power with morepeople and a bigger economy than the United States of America, the double “no” to the European Union’sconstitution from France on May 29, 2005, and the Netherlands on June 1, 2005, has been a cruel collisionwith reality. And yet ratifying the constitution was never going to be easy. Although legally just another treaty,the lengthy text consolidates all previous treaties and adds new power for Brussels, a combination that invitedopposition. With 11 countries putting the result to a popular vote, it was always likely that at least one wouldsay no. And, because it required approval from all 25 EU members, that made it unlikely that the constitutionwould ever enter into force.

The main purpose of the passage is . (A)to approve the ratification of the European Union’s Constitution (B)to question the validity of the European Union’s Constitution (C)to reinforce the consolidation of the European Union (D)to question the possibility of approval of the constitution from all EU members

According to the passage, which one of the following statements is true? (A)European Union exists as a power superior to that of the United States of America. (B)The double “no” to the EU constitution from France and the Netherlands is a glaring backfire to the ideal of EU. (C)Brussels obtains new power to invite opposition of the EU members. (D)The ideal of EU cannot be realized through ratifying the constitution.

The word “collision” in this passage means . (A)representation (B)conflict (C)competition (D)contrast

According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? (A)The lengthy constitution of EU invites consolidation rather than opposition. (B)The EU members fail to reach a consensus on the issues of the constitution. (C)Some EU members cherish the ideal of the powerful politics and the supreme economic system. (D)The citizens of France and the Netherlands voted “no” in a referendum to ratify the EU constitution.The industrial revolution that began to change the European landscape in the second half of the 18thcentury engendered a new world in which the witches, demons and ghouls of the past had no place. While thevampire draws its roots from the furthest reaches of human history, it is one of the last creations of a collectiveEuropean mind. Embodying age-old fears, this new-fashioned monster was born at the dawn of an era ofrationalism, in a rural Europe populated by superstitious peasants. Analyzed, dissected, even ridiculed by theencyclopedists of the 18th century, logically it should have vanished and become a simple museum curio.Indeed, in the second half of the 18th century, newspapers wrote little about vampires, so much more dazzledwere they by the prodigies of scientific progress and technology.At the beginning of the 19th century, newspapers occasionally mentioned the old Hungarian or Serbianvillage where people were still opening tombs to look for vampires, but such subjects appear to have held littleinterest for most readers, whose lifestyle had been thoroughly upset by the advent of, among other things,metallurgy, railroads, and gas lighting.

When did the witches, demons and ghouls of the past begin to vanish from European culture? (A)In the 1650s (B)In the 1750s (C)In the 1850s (D)In the 1950s

Vampires were born out of the imagination of the European _____. (A)hunters (B)soldiers (C)farmers (D)politicians

Vampires were created in Europe _____. (A)when rationalism began to rise (B)when superstition began to rise (C)when museums began to vanish (D)when newspapers began to flourish

What was the driving force that changed the European economic and social landscape? (A)The Industrial Revolution (B)The French Revolution (C)The press media (D)The encyclopedists

According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? (A)Vampires completely disappeared from European culture in the second half of the 18th century. (B)Hungarian or Serbian villagers were hiding vampires in the tombs. (C)In the 1780s, people were more interested in railroads and gas lighting than in vampires. (D)In the 18th and 19th centuries, newspapers did not report much on vampires.With the publication of Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, the author, Arianna Huffington, has sparked aspirited debate over the value of Picasso’s work. In the book, Huffington details the artist’s cruelties toward hiswives, mistresses, children, and friends. He once put out a cigarette on the cheek of his mistress FrancoiseGilot, and he beat another, Dora Maar. Huffington says the sadism crept into the art, and once peopleunderstand that, she implies, they’ll devalue much of his late work. In fact, she says, two collectors havealready sold some works after reading her book.However, art experts are crying foul, attacking the author’s bias and lack of scholarship. As DianeUpright, a director at New York’s Jan Krugier Gallery, says: “There’s power in the work. Whether this was agentle, sympathetic human being is irrelevant.” Robert Rosenblum, an authority on modern art at New YorkUniversity, is just as dismissive. “Anyone so ignorant as to sell his Picassos because of this book doesn’tdeserve to have them in the first place,” he says.Yet even the art world is finding it hard to ignore the Picasso potboiler. Partly because it’s socontroversial, the book seems heading for the bestseller list. Still, Huffington’s opus is likely to have far moresuccess enlivening conversations than depressing prices. Most of its contents have been known to Picassoexperts for years—with no deleterious effect on prices. “People will not stop buying Picassos because he wasnot a nice man,” says financier Asher Edelman, who owns several Picassos. Rosenblum points out many artistshave been scoundrels—or worse. Caravaggio, for one, killed a man in duel.If it has any effect at all, the book may help prices. “Bringing more attention to Picasso will increase theattention given to his art, and therefore to the market,” says Edelman.

In her book, Arianna Huffington describes Picasso as being _____. (A)arrogant (B)sly (C)stubborn (D)abusive

What do art experts think of Ms. Huffington’s book? (A)They disagree with Ms. Huffington’s views on Picasso’s art works. (B)They think the book helps them interpret Picasso’s late works. (C)They think the book increases their understanding of Picasso’s personal life. (D)They think the book may have a negative effect on the prices of Picasso’s works.

According to the passage, many people read Ms. Huffington’s book probably because _____. (A)the book is the subject of public controversy (B)they want to start collecting Picasso’s works (C)Ms. Huffington is an award-winning journalist (D)the book contains many pictures of Picasso’s late works

The word “deleterious” in the third paragraph means _____. (A)beneficial (B)cumulative (C)harmful (D)profound

What is the main idea of this passage? (A)The more controversial a book is, the better it will sell. (B)Picasso’s personality is reflected in his art works. (C)Many of Picasso’s works are not as valuable as people think. (D)Despite its popularity, Ms. Huffington’s book does not cause the prices of Picasso’s paintings to go down.