英文問題 - 考試

※ 引述《luke1024 (doraemon)》之銘言：
: [考題] 國考歷屆考題與考題觀念討論(書裡看到的選這個)請附上想法、出處
: 各位先進好，在下最近在準備五等與郵局內勤櫃台業務的考試，近日練習志X在考場
: 發的考猜，發現有部分英文題不甚了解，望各位臥虎藏龍的高手們賜教在下，不才必
: 不勝感激!

小弟不才 先提供一些自己的看法 歡迎大家一起討論
其實英文科需要的是"仔細" 細心看題目 才不會在小地方掉分數

: No.1
: We need to balance ________ with their company by the end of this month.
: (A)paycheck (B)funds (C)checks (D)accounts
: 答案:(D) 疑問:account是帳戶的意思，但balance accounts是指平衡帳目的意思嗎?望高
: 手解答!

balance accounts也有結算 結清的意思

: No.2
: When you deposit a check, you will need to ________ it.
: (A) endorse (B)confirm (C)enclose (D)enrich
: 答案:(C) 疑問:我查字典(C)enclose是指圍繞、關閉住解，(Ａ)endorse是指在支票背書
: (B)confirm是確保之意(D)指使其豐富化，但把(Ｃ)套進去覺得整句很怪，是解答錯了嗎
: ？還是我理解有錯誤？好困惑。

這題如果是endorse(簽發支票) 那麼前面的介係詞應該是用Before
enclose除了圍繞 也有封起來的意思 這裡應該是指"用信封裝好"
(題外話 enclose也有"隨函附上"的意思)

: No.3
: Every year Canadian __________ about 75 percent of their exports to the
: United States.
: (A)businesses that sell (B)selling businesses (C)businesses sell (D)that sell
: to businesses
: 答案:(C) 疑問:我選(A)，只差一個that，that是可以省略還是本來就不該有的呢？　還
: 有，75 percent，
: 75個百分比，75是複數，為何percent不用加ｓ呢？我知道這是笨問題，但我好想知道喔
: ！

這裡並不需要用任何的關係子句 他就是一個簡單的直述句
主詞是Canadian businesses 動詞是sell 直接受詞about... 介係詞to 間接受詞USA
這是標準的授與動詞句型

至於percent不加s "個人覺得"是跟fish不加es一樣 代表一種集合名詞的概念
會加s或es應該是要強調很多種類的集合
(基本上記得percent大多不加s就好 以上觀念請版友指證)

: No.4
: The creature in the novel is an alien ________ language no one understands
: (A) whom (B)which (C)that (D)whose
: 答案:(D) 疑問:我選(C)，不行嗎？that不是可以替換許多關代如：whom、which、who嗎
: ？

這裡應該用的是所有格關係代名詞(後面有加language這個名詞)
所有格關係代名詞 跟關係代名詞是不一樣的

: No.5
: The _______ you work, the _______ you will succeed.
: (A)harder, more possible (B) harder, more possibly (C)hard, more possibly (D)
: hard, possible
: 答案:(B) 疑問:我知道(C)(D)必錯，但不懂為何要用副詞，莫非是要修飾動詞succeed嗎
: ？

hard修飾work possibly修飾succeed
兩個都是副詞比較級(hard形容詞副詞同形)

: No.6 cloze
: How to live longer is a topic that has fascinated mankind for centuries.
: According to a landmark study of nearly 7,000 adults in the United States,
: women can add up to seven years to their lives and men eleven to twelve years
: by following seven simple health practices :(1)Don’t smoke.(2)If you drink,
: do so only moderately. (3)Eat breakfast regularly. (4)Don’t eat between
: meals. (5)Maintain normal weight. (6)Sleep about eight hours a night.
: (7)Exercise regularly.
: Cutting calories may be __________ most significant life-style change you can
: make. Experiments have shown that in laboratory animals, a 40 percent calorie
: reduction leads to a 50 percent extension in longevity. “Eating less has a
: more profound effect on the aging process than does any other life-style
: change, “says a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
: “It is the only factor we know of in laboratory animals that is an
: anti-aging factor.”
: (A) one another (B)one of the (C)the other (D)the single
: 答案:(D) 疑問:我選(B)，請高手解答！

要看後文
這題的答案只有可能是B或D
如果選B 那麼後面應該是life-style change"s"
但這裡是單數的change 所以答案是D
其實後面的引言也可以幫助您選D

: No.7-9 cloze　不知諸位熱心的英文高手能把以下段落翻譯成中文給本人明白，在下不勝
: 感激。

我先簡單翻譯一下
Thomas Glass是公共健康領域的教授，他在災難引起的社會反應這個議題上，已經進行了
十餘年的研究．曾有人問他災難是否會引出人類的黑暗面此問題時，他是這樣回答的：
答案是否．事實上，災難通常會引出人類的光明面．從進化的觀點來看，可以得知這的確
是人類的趨勢．從我們祖父母那個世代，一直往前推進到人類的起源，我們會發現災難
其實是稀鬆平常的事．人類經歷了冰河時代．飢荒．戰亂．與動物競爭．與疾病，我們都
存活下來了．人類這個種族可以存活下來，是因為從一開始我們就會利用資源與合作．
如果災難帶來的是人類的黑暗面，那我們今天就不會在這了．

: Professor Thomas Glass is an expert in public health, who has studied social
: responses to disasters for more than a decade. When he was asked ____7_____
: disaster brings out the worst in people, he said the following. “The answer
: has to be no. In fact disasters tend to bring out the best in us. From an
: evolutionary point of view, it almost has to be this way. As recent as our
: grandparents’ _____8____ and going back 150,000 years to the beginning of
: human kind, disasters were a dime a dozen. Human beings survived ice ages,
: famine, attacks from rival groups, predation from animals, infection---and we
: didn’t survive because we were strong or fast. We survived as a species
: because in ____9____ , we tended to be very resourceful and cooperative. If
: it were the case that disaster brought out the worst in us, I don’t think we
: would be here.”
: No.7
: (A) what (B)which (C)whether (D)whatever
: 答案(C)疑問:我看不出來為何答案選(C)

要配合他的回答來看 AB的話 他的答案應該會是特定的災難類型
但是他的答案是他不覺得災難會引出人類的黑暗面 因此C才是正確答案

: No.8
: (A) geometry幾何學(B)genetics遺傳學(C)generosity慷慨(D)generation世代
: 答案(D)這題我查了字典就比較清楚了
: No.9
: (A) controversy矛盾(B)catastrophe大災難(C)causality因果關係(D)capability
: 答案(C)疑問:個別的字意思清楚，但放至句中就霧裡看花了！

causality除了因果關係，也有起源的意思
答案AD是一定不對 B的話應該要改複數
如果是我做這道題目 應該是會用刪去法來找答案...

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