課程名稱︰大一英文
課程性質︰共同必修
課程教師︰曾麗玲
開課學院：
開課系所︰
考試日期（年月日）︰2008/01/15
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金：是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
First-Year English
Final Examination
Fall 2007
I.Fill in the blanks. Allow one word for each blank. Choose from the following
list of vocabulary.20%
predictable inescapable impersonal assess accommodate adept accerlerate
rampant paradox habitat derive transient render edge curb preclude
succumb token grip misplaced misguided onslaught
The $3 dollars' reward is a ___1___ of the appreciation shown by the person
who lost his money and, one must add, it is not mandatory.
The episode of the teachers' taking up a collection of money for the boy showns
that the role models our children look up to these days are more confused and
___2___ about values than their young charges.
As a society, we seem to be losing a ___3___on our internal control; instead,
we rely on external material as a measure of our worth.
A steady diet of candy bars makes an ordinary apple or orange seem sour,
because our taste buds have been dulled by an endless ___4___of artificial
sweeteners.
The author analyzes American consumers' unhappiness in the stimulated endless
consumption, because the ever-lasting material choices simply ___5___ their
rat-race efforts toward impossible fulfillment.
The poltical right has been very ___6___ at mobilizing the pervasive anxiety
as a result of the cognitive dissonance facing modern consumers.
In a fierce global economy, Taiwan has unfortunately lost its ___7___ to its
Asian rival, Korea.
A person who doesn't believe in God might think that the universe is ___8___,
human being are on their own, and terrible things happen to them for no reason.
The author tries to convince us that we can ___9___ consolation from
recognizing that we live in a cruel universe.
It's important to protect the ___10___for the fire flies which used to being
seen easily on a summers'evening everywhere in the countryside.
II.Error analysis. First find the part which contains an error and then give
correction. 20%
1.A reward is a gift ; any gift should be at least met with the presumption of
A￣ ￣B￣
genuine gratitude in the part of the giver.
C￣ ￣D￣￣
2. Outraging at the apparent stinginess of the person who lost the cash, the
￣A￣￣￣B￣ ￣￣C￣￣
teachers took up a collection for the boy.
D￣
3.The act of returning money untouched is not entirely analogous with the
￣￣A￣￣ ￣￣B￣￣ ￣￣C￣ ￣D￣
achievement of a good grade.
4.One of the most clearly underlie message gets through in many TV commercials,
￣A￣￣ ￣￣B￣￣ ￣C￣￣
no matter what product they sell:That you deserve the best, that you should
￣D￣
have it now.
5.Our society constantly seems to require us performance of contradictory
￣￣A￣￣ ￣B￣￣C￣ ￣￣￣D￣￣￣
personality types.
6.Hedonism stimulated by mass consumption can be explained and analyzed in
￣￣A￣￣ ￣￣B￣￣￣ C￣
psychological term.
￣D￣
7.Any universe which could conceivably be a place for human beings must be one
￣A ￣B￣￣
which events have predictable consequences.
￣C￣ ￣￣D￣￣￣￣
8.Let's suppose: whenever children's lives were of risk from disease,
A￣ B￣ ￣C﹉
biochemistry would change its rules to save them.
￣D￣
9.The strength of steel and the temperature of boiling water would vary
￣A￣￣ ￣B￣
dependent on whether human lives were threatened by a given value.
￣￣C￣￣ ￣D￣
10.Even non-believers often wish the universe were a kinder, more forgiven
A￣ ￣￣￣B￣￣￣ C￣￣ ￣￣D￣￣
environment.
III.
Essay questions. Answer altogether THREE of the following questions(you are
given choices) by means of a well-written essay which contains an UNDERLINED
topic sentences. Failure to underline or misplacement of your topic sentence
will lead to loss of two points. There will be penalty on serious grammatical
errors in your writing. Keep the original question number as it appears
below. 60%
Choose one on "Money for Morality."
1.Explain the kind of problem Mary Arguelles observes in saying "With world
racing by us, we have no patience for a rain check on good deeds."
2.Explain Jesus's strategy in telling the parable of"The Good Samaritan."
Choose one on "Spend and Save."
3.How can Barbara Ehreneich's analysis of the psychic distress as a result of
paradoxical message infused in American consumerism be explained by Freud's
theory?
4.According to the author, what are the consequences of the "cognitive
dissonance" created by the spend and save messages?
Choose on from questions 5 & 6
5. Is the universe cruel? Why or why not?
6. What word or adjective would you choose for describing the universe in which
we live in? Why?
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