III. Grammar and Sentence Structure. Part A: Complete the sentence with the best choice. (Questions 31-35) 7.5 points 【單選題】每題 1.5 分，共 5 題，答錯 1 題倒扣 0.375 分，倒扣至本大題零分為止，未作答，不給分亦不扣分。

31. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, __________.
(A) giving my hand and my heart to this vote
(B) will I give my hand and my heart to this vote
(C) I give my hand and my heart to this vote
(D) that I give my hand and my heart to this vote
(E) I’m given my hand and my heart to this vote

27. Quite a few candidates admit that they have been tempted to be less than perfectly honest with their electorates. (A) The admission of candidates who tell white lies is a temptation. (B) Candidates spare no efforts attempting to perfect their honesty. (C) Electorates prefer candidates who are always perfectly honest. (D) More often than not candidates choose honesty to win votes. (E) The attraction to tell lies to voters is irresistible to candidates.

28. The development of an economical artificial heart is only a few transient failures away. (A) Artificial heart is crucial to economic development though it may fail. (B) The idiom “failure is the mother to success” does not always apply. (C) Low-cost artificial heart has to undergo transient failures to succeed. (D) Affordable artificial heart is soon going to be successfully developed. (E) Failure to develop artificial heart is due to poor economic situation.

29. He would be a rash man if he should venture to forecast the results of this event. (A) Anyone who dares to foretell the results of this event would be considered impetuous. (B) Venturing to boldly foretell the results of this event is an imprudent man’s business. (C) He would rather be a reckless man than to brazenly predict the results of this event. (D) The results of this event is anybody’s guess, reckless men are by no means exception. (E) He who predicts the results of this event would be considered too adventurous to be trusted.

30. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. (A) The search for ultimate wisdom lies in the pursuit of high dreams. (B) Wisdom comes to an end when high dreams get lost on the way. (C) The quest for unreachable high dream makes people gain wisdom. (D) As one loses more high dreams, one gains much more wisdom. (E) In the seeking of high dreams, wisdom is an indispensable tool.  

32. In the United States, thirteen should be considered a lucky number, __________. (A) for the nation started with thirteen colonies (B) whose thirteen colonies set up the nation (C) due to that thirteen nation-starting colonies (D) which nation was made up of thirteen colonies (E) for that the nation began with thirteen colonies

33. The loneliness of the city was brought home to me one early sleepless morning, __________, but by a single one of those same pigeons which I had seen from my hotel window. (A) by way of tossing people in lonely rooms (B) by people who had tossed in lonely rooms (C) not only by people tossing in lonely rooms (D) not by men like me tossing in lonely rooms (E) not tossing people in lonely rooms only

34. The mystery of how developing organisms choreograph the activity of their genes __________ is now being solved. (A) where form and function of cells are at the right place and at the right time (B) so at the right place and at the right time form and function the cells (C) so that cells form and function at the right place and at the right time (D) in which cells at the right place and time are formed and functioned (E) whose form and function for cells are at the right time and at the right place

35. From out the haze __________, invisible, and then the growl rose to a shriek as the plane plunged toward the earth. (A) where came the growl of a small airplane (B) coming a small airplane with growl (C) the growl of a small airplane coming (D) came the growl of a small airplane (E) in which a growling small airplane 

Part B : For each sentence, choose one underline part that contains faulty English. (Questions 36-40) 7.5 points 【單選題】每題 1.5 分，共 5 題，答錯 1 題倒扣 0.375 分，倒扣至本大題零分為止，未作答，不給分亦不扣分。36. This was a well-written  of current information,  the connection  nutrient stress, secondary compounds, A B C and herbivory rates in wetland plants could   

37.  the  of contemporary realist social work, this paper explores the ways  an ethnographic approach    the processes of classifying speakers as members of  of social groups.