高點113年學士後中醫第二次模擬考試題

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I. Vocabulary and Phrases

Questions 1-10: Choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.
1. Around 60 types of plants in Japan are recognized as causing hay fever,
but by far the worst _______ – provoking symptoms such as sneezing,
sore eyes, runny noses and more in a whopping 70 percent of sufferers –
is the native cedar tree.
(A) culprit (B) imprison (C) impediment (D) conviction
2. Thanks to negligent or outright incompetent medical professionals, there is
a thriving field in the legal profession that focuses solely on medical
_______.
(A) refutation (B) exponent (C) detriment (D) malpractice
3. In the days before anesthetics, an ability to operate speedily was a
decided plus. It meant that patients spent less time enduring ______ pain
as a surgeon cut into them.
(A) insidious (B) contingent (C) excruciating (D) putative
4. Since Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and billionaire magnate, announced
his journey to space that month, tens of thousands of people had come
together to ______ against his return to the planet.
(A) deny (B) subsume (C) remunerate (D) petition
5. The WHO is negotiating with Turkish authorities to make sure quake
survivors can access mental health services, noting that many people
______ by the quake to other areas of Turkey “will also need to be
reached.”
(A) displaced (B) replaced (C) emigrated (D) eradicated
6. Conventional wisdom suggests that by “_______,” we clear our minds

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 and relieve ourselves of the immediacy and accompanying stress of
making a decision.
(A) Standing the ground (B) Facing the music
(C) Sleeping on it (D) Ruling the roost
7. On the 18th of August 2019, Donald Trump confirmed he was considering
an attempt to buy Greenland. The US president’s interest was greeted
internationally with widespread _______ but with indignation in Greenland
and Denmark.
(A) predicament (B) hilarity (C) nostalgia (D) mollification
8. Mobile technology has become popular due to its easy access to abundant
resources and convenient connection with others, so students ______ it to
develop their language competence in the authentic environment.
(A) efface (B) diverge (C) consult (D) utilize
9. Habitat loss, exploitation and climate change are still the main threats for
thousands of species. These stressors often act _______.
(A) in concert (B) in scale (C) in addition (D) in return
10. Hamas has vowed to _______ Israel and has been responsible for many
suicide bombing and other deadly attacks.
(A) thaw (B) annihilate. (C) vindicate (D) bolster

II. Grammar and Structure

(Questions 11-20): Choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.
11. The clouded leopard is the first cat that genetically diverged 9.32 to 4.47
million years ago from the common ancestor of the Felidae. Several
million years ago, it reached Sundaland _______ it diverged 2.0–0.93
million years ago to a different species, the Sunda clouded leopard.
(A) which (B) , where (C) where (D) , which
12. Pigments appear as certain colors which are not absorbed ______
reflected.
(A) but (B) and (C) or (D) otherwise
13. The biggest reason why Vine failed was the lack of support ______ its
key stakeholders, namely the influencers on the platform.
(A) to provide with (B) that provided
(C) providing (D) it provided to

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14. ______ the US does not have a single definition for “mass shootings,”
the Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as an incident in
which four or more people are injured or killed.
(A) If (B) Because (C) While (D) Once
15. An acupuncturist in New Zealand accidentally pierced her patient’s lungs
while inserting needles into the patient’s shoulder, ________.
(A) and caused the organ collapse (B) and causing the organ to collapse
(C) causing the organ to collapse (D) caused the organ and collapsed
16. In response to the attack, Israel has declared war and launched
“Operation Swords of Iron,” striking what ______ are Hamas and Islamic
Jihad targets in Gaza.
(A) to be (B) it says (C) is found (D) they think
17. Which of the following sentence is grammatically correct?
(A) The practice of barbecuing during Mid-Autumn Festival actually
started less than three decades.
(B) Sweating over glowing coals as the aroma of singed meat permeates
the sultry evening air is a scene familiar with anyone who has
experienced the Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan.
(C) These commercial campaigns gradually led to barbecuing being
associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival in the minds of the
Taiwanese public.
(D) It is a salutary lesson in the power of advertising to not just
influencing consumer behavior, but altering the mores and traditions
of an entire society.
18. Which of the following sentence is grammatically correct?
(A) People should feel comfortable reporting repeat sidewalk violations
and perilous conditions to their neighborhood officials and
representatives.
(B) Everyone has the right to choose their mode of transportation, that is
exactly why safety is important so that everyone’s choice can be
supported.
(C) Traffic advocacy groups have been calling for more human-centric
urban designs that prioritize pedestrian comfort and safety than driver
convenience.
(D) The government vowed to crack down on vehicles that fail to yield to
pedestrians, and passed an amendment to raise the fine41 from
NT$3,600 to NT$6,000

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19. Which of the following sentence is grammatically correct?
(A) Aside from the issue of financial waste, the government has been
criticized for being slow to provide informations on the whereabouts
of the imported eggs.
(B) Organic peroxides, which are highly flammable, are used in a variety
of rubber products including gold ball cores.
(C) In 2011, a court ordered the company to pay compensation to five
workers who had accused the company for working overtime beyond
the legal limit.
(D) According to Taipei Mayor, a total of 197 households, with 367
people, had evacuated.
20. Which of the following sentence is grammatically correct?
(A) The claw machine arcade became so popular that the government had
to issue an increase in the production of $10 NT coins.
(B) Many articles contributed the growing enthusiasm in this side-hustle
to stagnating wages in Taiwan.
(C) There is some question as to that the claw machine arcade success is
sustainable, especially after such a period of growth.
(D) As the increase in supply outpaced an increase in demand; perhaps it
is a bubble about to bursting.

III. Cloze (Questions 21-40):

Choose the BEST answer for each blank in the passages.
Passage 1

Almost 2,000 insect species are turned into food, forming a big part of
everyday diets for two billion people around the world. Countries in the
tropics are the keenest consumers, because culturally, it’s acceptable. Species
in those regions are also 21 , diverse, and tend to congregate in groups or
swarms that make them easy to harvest. In Southeast Asia, huge tarantulas
are gathered, fried, and sold in the marketplace in 22 . In southern Africa,
the juicy mopane worm is a dietary staple, simmered in a spicy sauce or eaten
dried and salted. And in Mexico, chopped jumiles are toasted with garlic,
lemon, and salt.

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 Bugs can be eaten whole to make up a meal or 23 into flour, powder,
and paste to add to food. But it’s not all about taste. They’re also healthy. In
fact, scientists say entomophagy could be a cost-effective solution for
developing countries that are food insecure. Insects can contain up to 80%
protein, 24 , and are also high in energy-rich fat, fiber, and micronutrients
like vitamins and minerals.
Socioeconomically, bug production could uplift people in developing
countries since insect farms can be small-scale, highly productive, and yet
relatively inexpensive to keep. Insects can also be turned into more
sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like
vegetable peelings, which might 25 just end up rotting in landfills.

21. (A) small (B) few (C) much (D) large

22. (A) India (B) Papua New Guinea
(C) Cambodia (D) Somalia
23. (A) ground (B) grinded (C) grounded (D) grand
24. (A) the body’s vital building blocks
(B) to be the body’s vital building blocks
(C) are the body’s vital building blocks
(D) be the body’s vital building blocks
25. (A) not (B) otherwise (C) likewise (D) hence
Passage 2

Like other forms of art, music often has the capability to create
emotional reactions in the listener that 26 other forms of communication.
Though a single piece of music may elicit different reactions from different
listeners, any lover of music will tell you that those feelings are real! And if
they’re real, they’re 27 study.
One of the most valuable parts of music theory is giving names to
musical structures and processes, which makes 28 . Coming up with
terminology doesn’t just help us talk to others about music, though it actually
helps us learn.

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 It’s an important step, and a great place to start, but music theory is
much more than just coming up with names for things. When composers
write music — 29 it’s a classical era symphony 29 a bit of Japanese
post-shibuya-kei glitch techno — they are not following a particular set of
rules.
So while a lot of people think music theory is about learning the rules
for how to write music, that’s not quite right. Music theorists don’t create
rules for writing music; they look for patterns in music that is already written,
which leads to the most important question, 30 , as you study music
theory, you should be constantly asking yourself: why dissect music? What’s
the point of figuring out rules that composers themselves weren’t even
worried about?

26. (A) transcends (B) transcend

(C) is transcended (D) are transcended
27. (A) worth of (B) worthy (C) worthy of (D) worth to
28. (A) them more easy to be talked about (B) it easier to talk about
(C) it more easy to be talk about (D) them easier to talk about
29. (A) both, and (B) either, or (C) no matter, or (D) whether, or
30. (A) the one that (B) that (C) the one what (D) ×

Passage 3

While many Taiwanese consider the V-shaped, white patch of chest fur
as Taiwanese black bear’s trademark, this is simply false. 31 , plenty of
Asiatic black bears share this feature, and largely adapt to an arboreal
lifestyle around Asia.
Taiwanese black bear, also known as the Formosan black bear is one of
many subspecies of the Asiatic black bear, which is a medium-sized bear
species with black fur, a light brown muzzle, a short tail, bell-shaped ears
proportionately longer than 32 sticking out sideways from the head, and a
distinct white patch on the chest, which are likely V-shaped iconically.
For the subspecies, there are still characteristics that differentiate one
33 another. The Balochistan black bear of Pakistan has relatively short,

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coarse hair, and often reddish-brown. The Himalayan black bear, given the
climate of their habitat, has thicker fur with a smaller patch of chest mark.
The Indochinese black bear is lighter in color and the Tibetan black bear has
short, thin coat with little to no underwool. When it comes to size, the Ussuri
black bear that roams southern Siberia, northeastern China and the Korean
peninsula 34 . Besides a darker colored snout, the Japanese black bear is
not as heavy as those that live on the island of Taiwan. They both lack the
thick neck fur, and naturally, carry a V-shaped, white chest mark like their
35 cousins on the mainland.

31. (A) As a result (B) In truth (C) However (D) In addition

32. (A) other bears (B) those of other bears
(C) which of other bears (D) that of other bears
33. (A) between (B) and (C) from (D) with
34. (A) takes the cake (B) hits the sack
(C) takes the initiative (D) hits the spot
35. (A) far (B) related (C) distant (D) relative
Passage 4

No community has claimed Latin as its native tongue since the collapse
of the Rome Empire that sowed its grammar and lexicon across the ancient
world. For a language that officially 36 more than a thousand years ago,
however, it clings to life with all the tenacity of a Roman legion.
From the Renaissance through the 18th century, Latin served as the
lingua franca for a monumental wave of intellectual progress — to such
extent that its hold on the scholarly world is apparent even today. In the
37 , defendants challenge unlawful imprisonment by applying for habeas
corpus. In the laboratory, scientists assign names like Homo sapiens to each
newly discovered species.
From a linguistic perspective, the answer is straightforward: Latin drew
its final breath in the first millennium. That said, unlike biological death,
linguistic death occurs 38 and experts can place every language into one
of three categories.

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 A living language is one that people learn organically from infancy and
use in everyday life. Conversely, there are dead languages still studied and
spoken only in specific contexts, encompassing the “classical” languages.
Lastly, extinct languages, typically those of indigenous groups, 39 .
In this framework, Latin fits unambiguously in the second category. But
that classification is only clear in hindsight; paradoxically, no one living
during the period when it died could have established a definite time of death.
We can only 40 imprecisely from the future because Latin did not so
much die as morph into a plethora of descendants we now call the Romance
languages.

36. (A) died (B) had died (C) had been dead (D) was dying
37. (A) battlefield (B) judicial review (C) courtroom (D) jail
38. (A) in process (B) in stages (C) in groups (D) in need
39. (A) are without characters (B) no one is using them
(C) whose people die out (D) are no longer spoken at all
40. (A) be (B) do (C) be so (D) do so

IV. Reading Comprehension

(Questions 41-50): Choose the BEST answer for each question.
Passage 1

The practice of eschewing red meat and poultry but still eating seafood
is recommended to people who want to make better food choices, but don’t
want to go vegan or vegetarian. Fishing typically has a smaller carbon
footprint than factory farming; fish are often seen as less worthy of
compassion than land animals, and while wild-caught fish lives are cut short,
at least they don’t spend their entire existence in cages so small they can’t
turn around, like some factory-farmed animals.
Nearly a quarter of Americans report that they’re trying to eat less meat,
motivated more by concern for the environment than for animal welfare
because concern for the animals themselves tends to provoke more hurt
feelings and tense conversations than citing health or environmental reasons.

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 An average of farmed salmon yields just under four-and-a-half pounds
of meat. That’s over 30 times less meat than a single pig and over 100 times
less than a cow. Salmon and chickens produce a similar amount of meat per
animal, and both experience intense suffering on industrial farms, but farmed
salmon live roughly 26 times longer than chickens before reaching slaughter
weight, which means 26-fold more time spent in pain. And unlike farmed
land animals, lots of the fish we eat are carnivorous, so they eat a huge
number of bait fish before they make it to your plate. The typically farmed
salmon is fed 147 fish over the course of their short lives---which means
between 1700 and 3500 fish deaths per year from eating salmon alone. By
comparison, the typically American eats around 25 land animals in total per
year.
So, it’s little surprise that, according to one estimate, humans catch or
farm at least 840 billion to 2.5 trillion fish each year---at least 11 times to
combined number of cows, chickens, and pigs slaughtered globally. These
numbers are expected to increase---if more consumers change how they’re
eating to primarily help the climate. That is, a diet of small animals like
chicken or anchovies instead of large ones like cows has a smaller carbon
footprint but result in suffering and death for a far greater number of
individual animals.
Fortunately, there’s a simple way out of this dilemma, one that is better
for both animals and the climate: instead of swapping one animal for another,
eat fewer animals of any species and more plants.
excerpted from: https;//www.vox.com
41. What is the main idea of this passage?
(A) To introduce a dilemma which many people are trapped in.
(B) To illustrate that eating seafood is a better way than eating land
animals to decrease carbon footprint.
(C) To compare fish with chickens in many ways to show author’s
viewpoints.
(D) To demonstrate that having fish instead of other animals should not
be viewed as a solution to problems humans are confronted with.

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42.Which of the following statements about author’s attitude is CORRECT?
(A) The author believes that humans will remove many problems by
changing their diets.
(B) The author thinks that environmental problems are above animal
welfare.
(C) The author supports that humans should improve how they farm
animals.
(D) The author prefers fishing to farming.
43. According the second paragraph, what CANNOT be inferred?
(A) Animal welfare is a controversial issue among Americans.
(B) Americans concern more about animal welfare than environment.
(C) If animal welfare is taken care of properly, some Americans would
love to have meat as usual.
(D) Most Americans might not associate environmental problems with
their diets.
44. What does the word “eschew” in the first line mean?
(A) eat (B) promote (C) chew (D) avoid
45. According to the third paragraph, which of the following statements is
NOT CORRECT?
(A) An average pig can produce about 140 pounds of meat.
(B) 2.5 trillion fish equals to 2500 billion fish.
(C) A single cow can yield about 100 pounds of meat.
(D) A typical American eats about 2 land animals and 1to 2 fish per
month.
Passage 2

At age 23, Nellie Bly, who was one of a handful of female reporters in
New York City, accepted an unusual and dangerous assignment.
For years, rumors had swirled about conditions in one of the city’s most
notorious places, the “insane asylum” on Blackwell’s Island. Bly’s editor
suggested she have herself committed to the asylum for 10 days to expose the
real conditions, and Bly immediately agreed.
Working under an assumed name, she set out to prove herself insane.
She wandered the halls and nearby streets, refused to sleep, ranted and yelled
incoherently, and even practiced looking “crazed” in her mirror. Within days,

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the police were summoned. Bly claimed to be a Cuban immigrant, suffering
from amnesia. When Bly was diagnosed with dementia and other
psychological illnesses, she was sent by ferry to Blackwell’s Island, in the
East River.
Originally built to hold 1,000 patients, Blackwell was cramming more
than 1,600 people into the asylum when Bly arrived in the fall of 1887.
Extensive budget cuts had led to a sharp decline in patient care, leaving just
16 doctors on staff. But most disturbing of all was the prevailing wisdom of
the age regarding both the causes of mental illness and how patients should
be treated.
Bly quickly befriended her fellow inmates, who revealed rampant
psychological and physical abuse, leading to frequent illnesses. Some
patients were tethered together with ropes and forced to pull carts around like
mules. Food and sanitary conditions were horrific. Those who complained or
resisted were beaten, and Bly even spoke of the threat of sexual violence by
vicious, tyrannical staffers. Bly was shocked to discover that many of the
inmates were not insane at all. They were recent immigrants, mostly women,
caught up in a law-enforcement system in which they were unable to
communicate. Others had fallen through the cracks of society with few social
safety nets, ending up committed simply for being poor, with no family to
support them.
Bly’s was able to stick it out for 10 days before her editor arranged for
her release. Her first articles on her experiences were published within days,
and the series became a publishing sensation. A month after Bly’s articles
were published, a grand-jury panel visited the asylum to investigate.
Unfortunately, the hospital and its staff had been tipped off in advance.
Despite this effort at a cover-up, the grand jury agreed with Bly. A bill
that would increase funding for mental institutions was pushed through.
Abusive staff members were fired, translators were hired to assist immigrant

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patients, and changes were made to the system to help prevent those who did
not actually suffer from mental illness from being committed.
She quickly became a household name and one of the most famous
journalists in the world, while her exploits and achievements were made into
books, plays and a Broadway musical.
Source: https;//www.biography.com
46. What is the main idea of this passage?
(A) A perilous experience about a female reporter living in an insane
asylum for 10 days
(B) A process of how an average person became a household name
(C) A remarkable feat of a courageous reporter disguising herself to
expose cruelties
(D) A report that the health care system has neglected mental health for a
long time
47. According to the passage, which of the following statements is correct?
(A) Most reporters were male then.
(B) Many people were sick mentally so the insane asylum was crowded.
(C) Nellie Bly tried to befriend an inmate and encouraged her to stand
out.
(D) A grand-jury panel visited the asylum and brought light to more
secrets.
48. According to the passage, which of the following misconducts is not
what happened on Blackwell?
(A) Some patients were treated as animals.
(B) Some patients posed threat to their care takers.
(C) Some patients were beaten hard.
(D) Some patients were violated sexually.
49. In the last third paragraph, what does the phrase “tipped off” probably
mean?
(A) bribed (B) informed (C) concealed (D) made public
50. Being a reporter Nellie Bly may be described as ______.
(A) down to earth (B) swashbuckling
(C) discreet (D) investigative

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