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課程名稱︰英文一 課程性質︰共同必修 課程教師︰朱偉誠 開課學院:文學院 開課系所︰外文系 考試日期(年月日)︰102/11/21 考試時限(分鐘):180分鐘 是否需發放獎勵金:是 (如未明確表示,則不予發放) 試題 : 註:底線以引號替代 Part1:[半張A4] 一、[中翻英、英翻中] 烈士 (English, 1%) 主播 (English, 1%) (飛機場)轉機 (English, 1%) 監視 (English, 1%) 預告片 (English, 1%) whistleblower (Chinese, 1%) peerage (Chinese, 1%) compliant (Chinese, 1%) gravel (Chinese, 1%) scheme (Chinese, 1%) nightdress (Chinese, 1%) 二、[造句] might as well (make a complex sentence to illustrate its usage, 3%) put (make a sentence by using it in the sense of "express", 3%) access (make a sentence by using it either as verb or noun, 3%) 三、[作文] Summarize Alice Munro's story "Gravel" in chronological ordermand at the end briefly give your own answer to the question that keeps bothering the story-teller (10%). Part2:[多張全頁A4] Note: All answers should be in English unless noted otherwise (as in translate and explain in Chinese). If there is an underlined part in the question, focus your answer on it; if not, answer the whole part (but not the omission). 1. The Half-Blood Prince (what is special about this title? 1%) 2. Britain welcomes an heir, born to a future King and ("gasp!") a commoner. (explain, 1%) 3. It sounds a little like a "straight-to-cable" (1) "Adam Sandler movie" (2): cute babies get switched around in the "maternity ward" (3), frazzled Mom and Dad don't notice, and "hijinks ensue" (4). (1. translate, 1%; 2. what kind of movie is this? 1%; 3. transale, 1%; 4. translate, 1%; left top) 4. We might as well speak of a bashful pole dance or an honest roofer. (why is that? 1%; left top) 5. The archaic "formulation" was pleasingly stuffy... (definition, 1%; left top) 6. It was the need for a new royal family and a steady supply of royal blood that... (explain in Chinese the point of this whole paragraph within the essay, 2%; left middle) 7. ... and damn the hemophilia (translate literally, 1%; left middle) 8. In 1917, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas "de-Germanized themselves into the Windsors" (1), "a name that sounded much better when Armistice Day rolled around" (2). (1. explain, 1%; 2. explain in Chinese, 1%; left middle) 9. In "its adopted land"... (reference, 1%; left middle) 10. ... because she was not only a commoner but also — "send the children from the room" — an American). (explain, 1%; left bottom) 11. After worjing — "working?" — for an airline company, Kate's parents founded a business ("business?"). (explain, 1%; left bottom) 12. It's almost American-style upward mobility, with a British twist: if you work hard and play by the rules, regardless of race, color or creed, you too can marry your daughter off to become the mother of a King! (Explain in Chinese what the "American-style mobility" would be without the twist and what the "British twist" tells us about the British? 2%; right top) 13. ... the new commoner King disrupts the "case" for royalty too. (definition, 1%; right top) 14. It creates a gap between "them and us" that is, in theory, unbridgeable. (reference, 1%; right middle) 15. All the trades in Britain, from bootmakers to distillers, fall over one another to receive the royal purveyor's endorsement... (translate, 2%; right middle) 16. Two centuries ago, the journalist William Cobbett noticed that "the Brits referred to the Royal Mint but the national debt". (first translate and then explain in Chinese why it is so as well as why the two words are in italics, 3%; right middle) 17. The anti-royalist "cause" is reeling. (definition, 1%; right bottom) 18. Besides, the new commoner King can count on a realm where all such contradictions are resolved... (which realm is this and how it resolves all these contradictions? 2%; right bottom) 19. Federal prosecutors have prepared a "sealed indictment" against him. (translate, 1%; left top) 20. At the same time, he has been lauded by Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, as a member of the ""young, technically minded"" generation ""that Barack Obama betrayed."" (explain why these two parts are in quotation marks, 1%; left top) 21. They see his leaks as a needed stand for individual freedom against the security-driven mass sureillance of a U.S.National Security Agency armed with the technology to gather and analyze the digital trails of our lives. (translate, 3%; left top) 22. So what is Snowdon? (summarize the two possible answers in Chinese, 3%; left middle) 23. I am not big on counterfactuals... (translate, 1%; left bottom) 24. ... nor how "it" has secretly acquired the phone records of... (reference, 1%; left bottom) 25. ... and, in the process, (1) high-level "security clearance" (2) to myriad folk who probably should not have it. (1. which word should precede here immediately? 1%; 2. explain, 1%; right top) 26. In short, a long-overdue debate about what the U.S. government does and does not do... (identify the main verb of this sentence, 1%; right middle) 27. ... the safeguards and oversight surrounding "it" and the Prism program ... (reference, 1%; right middle) 28. ... the United States has gone through a "Great Disorientation". (explain in Chinese what the phrase means as well as its concrete details, 2%; right middle) 29. Guantanamo "made a mockey of due process". (translate, 1%; right middle) 30. "If anything" he has doubled-down... (definition, 1%; right bottom) 31. Still, he has performed a "critical" (1) "service" (2). (1. definition, 1%; 2. explain in Chinese what service is it? 1%; right bottom) -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 111.251.150.73 ※ 編輯: NTUkobe 來自: 111.251.150.73 (01/24 19:35) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- < 作者: NTUkobe (台大科比) 看板: NTU-Exam 標題: [試題] 102上 朱偉誠 大一英文 期中考 時間: Fri Jan 24 20:08:53 2014 課程名稱︰英文一 課程性質︰共同必修 課程教師︰朱偉誠 開課學院:文學院 開課系所︰外文系 考試日期(年月日)︰102/11/21 考試時限(分鐘):180分鐘 是否需發放獎勵金:是 (如未明確表示,則不予發放) 試題 : 32. That was long in coming... (translate, 1%; introduction middle) 33. One reason Mounro has not achieved the wide fame many believe she merits is her focus on short fiction... (translate, 2%; introduction bottom) 34. ... the conversation ended with me failing to remember and her getting "cross". (definition, 1%; p.1 bottom) 35. ... but out of "contrariness" or fear of getting things wrong I pretended not do. (definition, 1%; p.1 bottom) 36. She "took to" barking at every car that went past... (definition, 1%; p.2 top) 37. ... and our mother stepped in to deflect him. (Why does she want to do that? 1%; p.2 top) 38. He had been thinking of wintering in our town anyway, before my mother "sprang" (1) "her surprise" (2). (1. definition, 1%; 2. reference, 1%; p.3 middle) 39. ... she liked to stir up the air in a room with thw "promise" of something you could even call merriment. (definition, 1%; p.4 bottom) 40. ""I did it for a "trick"." (definition, 1%; p.4 bottom) 41. One day when we were going down the lane for the mail, and were in fact not far from the box, my mother stopped and stood quite still. (why and what is the other unusual thing that has happended? 2%; p.5 top) 42. ... though I hadn't said a word a word or even played "the shuffling game with my boots in the snow". (explain in Chinese what the game is, 1%; p.5 top) 43. ... then what would I be saying? "That Vietnam was O.K."? That I might as well have gone to Vietnam? (explain in Chinese, 1%; p.6 top) 44. "You know "he"'d have those kids out of here like a shot," our mother said. (identify the reference and explain why would he want to do that? 2%; p.6 bottom) 45. The fact was, though we may not have put the two things together, the deeper she got into pregnancy the more she slipped back into behaving like an ordinary mother, at least when it was a matter of scarves we didn't need or regular meals. (translate, 3%; p.7 top) 46. After while, I realized thar I was being given instructions. (explain in Chinese what these instructions are and what actually happended, 4%; p.7 middle) 47. ... the little incline toward the trailer. (translate, 1%; p.8 top) 48. So many "games", with Caro. (definition, 1%; p.8 middle) 49. She didn't got into "labor" from the shock. (definition, 1%; p.9 top) 50. He has also said that he must have been sort of a "stick-in-the-mud" when my mother... (explain, 1%; p.9 bottom) 51. I have a "partner", Ruthann... (definition, 1%; p.10 top) 52. ... what she calls "routing" (1) ont "my demons" (2). (1. definition, 1%; 2. reference, 1%; p.10 top) 53. ... after seeing my picture in tje "Alumni Gazette". (explain why the phrase is italicized, 1%; p.10 top) 54. He looked for clothes at the "Sally Ann". (explain, 1%; p.10 bottom)