1. After George Floyd’s incident, a black young man in suburban Minnesota was fatally shot
by a police officer, sparking _________ “Black Lives Matter” protests and further
tensions over police violence across the United States of America.
(A) recumbent (B) judicious (C) subsequent (D) frigid
2. Smiles communicate confidence and build trust between the speaker and the audience. But
it doesn’t mean that the speaker should smile all the time. The focal point lies on that the
facial expressions should _________ with the message.
(A) synchronize (B) gainsay (C) probate (D) jeopardize
3. According to Leo Tolstoy, “art” in our modern society has become so _________ that
not only has bad art come to be considered good, but even the very perception of what art
really is has lost.
(A) germane (B) perverted (C) benevolent (D) rebarbative
4. After the dinner, Don sat around and _________ the new tax law enforced by the
government； he was upset and let everyone know it.
(A) exemplified (B) propagated (C) condemned (D) proliferated
5. The man was consistently _________ and concise, choosing to speak with fewer words
than his colleagues.
(A) laconic (B) obsolete (C) tenuous (D) verbose
6. The CEO of the multinational enterprise is always even-tempered； all of his employees are
often amazed by his _________ in a quandary or pressure-filled situations.
(A) penitence (B) exquisiteness (C) equanimity (D) belligerence
7. Tomorrow’s meeting between the two leaders is expected to break a diplomatic _____ that
has lasted for ten years.
(A) acolyte (B) divination (C) plebeian (D) stalemate
8. These children were excited to watch _____, a number of smaller enclosed cabins seating
two or four persons each, moving across the mountain.
(A) gondolas (B) grenades (C) jacuzzis (D) enigmas
9. The Native Americans treated those European immigrants with every consideration and
insisted upon their remaining in the camp until they had fully _____ from their hardships.
(A) estimated (B) recuperated (C) assimilated (D) tambourinated
10. Undergraduate students often ______ among various majors before deciding which degree
to pursue.
(A) validate (B) vaporate (C) vacillate (D) venerate
11. No answers could ______ the suffering of victims as encompassed by the poliovirus as she
was in the acute stages of illness.
(A) mitigate (B) indict (C) adulterate (D) infiltrate
12. In order to make his film about gangsters’ life more ______, the writer of the film tried to
consult real gangsters.
(A) nascent (B) plausible (C) precarious (D) transient
13. Officials in South Korea have withdrawn recently published guidelines for pregnant women,
following a public ______ for their use of outdated sexist stereotypes.
(A) hyperbole (B) censure (C) maverick (D) torpor
14. At the beginning of 2020, billions of desert locusts crossed the borders from the Arabian
Peninsula, ______ farmland and fields of crops and placing the food security of 32 million
people in danger.
(A) disparaging (B) duping (C) ravaging (D) explicating
15. Management and labor are learning to work _____, as has been evidenced by the sharp drop
in strikes.
(A) per se (B) once in a blue moon (C) between Scylla and Charybdis (D) in tandem
Ⅱ. Cloze It took two cases of covid-19 to plunge Perth, the capital of Western Australia, into lockdown on
April 24
th
. The state government announced a three-day “circuit-breaker” just as locals were gearing up
for a long weekend. “We can’t take any chance,” declared the premier, Mark McGowan.
Australian states keep ordering snap lockdowns because they are nervous about more ___16___ strains of covid-19. Some of the world’s strictest border controls have generally held the virus at bay.
Most foreigners are barred from entering the country, and returning citizens must quarantine for two
weeks in guarded hotels. When a case of the virus ___17___ , state premiers throw up defenses.
A single infected quarantine guard closed Perth for five days in February. The state of Victoria,
home to 6.7m Australians, went into a short lockdown after a cluster of 13 cases leaked from a hotel in
Melbourne. Brisbane, capital of Queensland, has been shut down twice since January. And that is just
this year.
The latest breach in Perth started with a man who fell ill after his isolation had ended. He caught the
virus in quarantine, from an infected traveler in another room, ___18___ fears about airborne
transmission within hotels. State leaders are hollering for an even tougher system. Most quarantine
hotels are in big cities, so one idea is to send travelers to better- ___19___ sites in quieter spots. Mr
McGowan wants the federal government to use air bases or a detention center on Christmas Island, an
Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. Queensland hopes to build a quarantine facility in the small city
of Toowoomba. Victoria ___20___ a “village-style environment” outside Melbourne.
Another suggestion is to clamp down even harder on travel. Border controls ban residents from
leaving ___21___ outsiders from coming in. Aussies can escape only for a handful of reasons, such as a
family funeral. Mr McGowan, however, thinks they are swanning off too easily. “If people want to go
overseas to covid-infected countries in the middle of a pandemic, then why should they come home and
risk the rest of us?” he asks.
The federal government, ___22___ , is asking for a sense of proportion. The quarantine hotels are “99.99% effective,” says the prime minister, Scott Morrison. Half a million people have passed through
them, notes the health minister, Gret Hunt. He calls it “one of, if not the, most successful systems in the
world.”
But voters back to fiercest isolationists. Mr McGowan declared Western Australia “an island within
an island” when the pandemic started, and cut it off from the rest of the continent for most of last year.
He is so popular that his opponent ___23___ a recent state election weeks before the first vote was cast.
Annastacia Palaszczuk, a strict guardian of Queensland’s borders, won a third term in October.
So when will Australia reopen to the rest of the world? The federal government has planned to ___24___ the adult population of 20m by October, but the roll-out is months behind schedule. Even when
everyone is fully ___25___ , officials say that travelers may still need some form of quarantine. A poll in
February found that 71% of Aussies want to keep the international border closed until the “public health
crisis has passed.” On that basis, they will be cut off for some time. 【題組】16. (A) slinky (B) contagious (C) feeble (D) ponderous
Ⅲ. Blank-filling（請忽略大小寫）
The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition.
This tradition itself is thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. An ancient statue of Venus, for
example, stood in a different traditional context with the Greeks, who made it an object of veneration,
than with the clerics of the Middle Ages, who viewed it as an (26)_____ idol. Both of them, (27)_____ , were
equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura. Originally the contextual integration of art in
tradition found its expression in the cult. We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of
a ritual—first the magical, then the religious kind. It is significant that the existence of the work of art
with (28)_____ to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. (29)_____ , the unique value of
the “authentic” work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic
basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the
cult of beauty. The secular cult of beauty, developed during the Renaissance and (30)_____ for three
centuries, clearly showed that ritualistic basis in its decline and the first deep crisis which befell it. With
the (31)_____ of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with the
rise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later. At the
time, art reacted with the (32)_____ of l’art pour l’art, that is, with a theology of art. This gave rise to what
might be called a negative theology in the form of the idea of “pure” art, which not only denied any
social function of art but also any categorizing by subject matter.
An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction must do justice to these relationships, for
they lead us to an all-important insight: for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction
(33)_____ the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art
reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. From a photographic negative, for
example, one can make any number of prints； to ask for the “authentic” print makes no sense. But the
(34)_____ the criterion of authenticity (35)_____ applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is
reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice—politics.
(AB) ceases to be (AC) doctrine (AD) however (AE) emancipates
(BC) advent (BD) ominous (BE) instant (CD) in other words
(CE) prevailing (DE) reference 【題組】26.
Ⅳ. Discourse
Like most of its Western counterparts, Taiwan’s long and arduous road to marriage equality begins
at fundamental respect for human rights.(36)_____ However, the bill faced massive opposition from
members of both the Cabinet (or the Executive Yuan Council, formed by the ruling Democratic
Progressive Party) and the Legislative Yuan (controlled by the Kuomintang-led, pan-Blue coalition).
While efforts from the grassroots to the top levels have been made through the years, it was in
2016 when proponents saw victory inching closer. The general election resulted in a parliamentary
majority for the Democratic Progressive Party — with most members now in favor of same-sex
marriage.
(37)_____ In June, a legislator and several civic groups urged the government to work harder toward
achieving such equality in schools, at an event marking the 15th anniversary of a law that raises gender
awareness among students and protects the rights of young people regardless of their gender identity or
sexual orientation.
(38)_____ Yeh Yung-Chih, whose body was found in a pool of blood, was bullied at school for being
“effeminate.” Yeh’s death prompted Taiwan’s Ministry of Education to modify its Gender Equality
Education Committee— literally “the committee of equality education of two sexes” — into the broader
Gender Equity Education Committee to promote gender education beyond the two sexes.
(39)_____ It states that the “school shall provide a gender-fair learning environment, respect and give due
consideration to students, faculty, and staff with a different gender, gender temperament, gender identity,
and sexual orientation.”
In 2006, the Kaohsiung branch of Taiwan’s High Court sentenced the school’s principal and two
other officials to five months, four months and three months, respectively, in prison for “neglecting the
degree of care required by their occupation.” (40)_____ Since then, tributes to the fallen teenager have referred to him as the “Rose Boy,” in the
representation of boys with feminine expressions. The results of the 2004 law have also been visible in
the island’s education system, particularly with the establishment of unisex bathrooms that “foster
respect and equality between the sexes.”
【題組】36. (A) By legalizing same-sex marriage, Taiwan may have become the most progressive place in Asia, but
its struggle for gender equality persists.
(B) Then came the Gender Equity Education Act.
(C) In the same year, the Taiwan Gender Equity Education Association published a book in memory of
Yeh, titled “Embracing the Rose Boy.”
(D) As early as 2003, its Executive Yuan proposed legislation granting marriages to same-sex couples
under the Human Rights Basic Law.
(E) That law is the Gender Equity Education Act, passed in 2004 in response to the controversial death
of a junior high school student three years earlier.
【題組】37. (A) By legalizing same-sex marriage, Taiwan may have become the most progressive place in Asia, but
its struggle for gender equality persists.
(B) Then came the Gender Equity Education Act.
(C) In the same year, the Taiwan Gender Equity Education Association published a book in memory of
Yeh, titled “Embracing the Rose Boy.”
(D) As early as 2003, its Executive Yuan proposed legislation granting marriages to same-sex couples
under the Human Rights Basic Law.
(E) That law is the Gender Equity Education Act, passed in 2004 in response to the controversial death
of a junior high school student three years earlier.
【題組】38. (A) By legalizing same-sex marriage, Taiwan may have become the most progressive place in Asia, but
its struggle for gender equality persists.
(B) Then came the Gender Equity Education Act.
(C) In the same year, the Taiwan Gender Equity Education Association published a book in memory of
Yeh, titled “Embracing the Rose Boy.”
(D) As early as 2003, its Executive Yuan proposed legislation granting marriages to same-sex couples
under the Human Rights Basic Law.
(E) That law is the Gender Equity Education Act, passed in 2004 in response to the controversial death
of a junior high school student three years earlier.
【題組】39. (A) By legalizing same-sex marriage, Taiwan may have become the most progressive place in Asia, but
its struggle for gender equality persists.
(B) Then came the Gender Equity Education Act.
(C) In the same year, the Taiwan Gender Equity Education Association published a book in memory of
Yeh, titled “Embracing the Rose Boy.”
(D) As early as 2003, its Executive Yuan proposed legislation granting marriages to same-sex couples
under the Human Rights Basic Law.
(E) That law is the Gender Equity Education Act, passed in 2004 in response to the controversial death
of a junior high school student three years earlier.
【題組】40. (A) By legalizing same-sex marriage, Taiwan may have become the most progressive place in Asia, but
its struggle for gender equality persists.
(B) Then came the Gender Equity Education Act.
(C) In the same year, the Taiwan Gender Equity Education Association published a book in memory of
Yeh, titled “Embracing the Rose Boy.”
(D) As early as 2003, its Executive Yuan proposed legislation granting marriages to same-sex couples
under the Human Rights Basic Law.
(E) That law is the Gender Equity Education Act, passed in 2004 in response to the controversial death
of a junior high school student three years earlier.
【非選題】 II. Essay questions（20 分）
Struggle between finishing what you have to teach on schedule and creating more class activities to
help students engage in learning is very common for high school English teachers in Taiwan. How
would you make your choice? Is it possible to achieve both? How would you arrange your teaching
plan to achieve both goals? (150-200 words)
【非選題】 Ⅲ. Cover Letter Writing（20 分）
The following is a recruitment advertisement in The Economist. Imagine you were a
qualified candidate, and met all the requirements and qualities for this job. Please write
a cover letter (250-300 words) for your application.
Director of Earth Observation Programmes Post based near Rome (Frascati, Italy) with frequent travel to ESA headquarters (Paris)
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the
development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver
benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
The Director of Earth Observation Programmes, is responsible for the design and delivery of
ESA’s Earth observation programmes, in line with the European Strategy for Space and with global
partners. The Director is responsible for the implementation of all ESA activities in Earth
observation (EO) and the preparation of new proposals in this area.
We are looking for candidates around the world, preferably with a technical or scientific higher
education (from masters level). The ideal candidate will have
in-depth experience in Earth Observation in an international context with partner organizations, an
excellent network of EO stakeholders and a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities.
Key qualities are an innovative spirit and a strategically-oriented mind, a proven capacity to lead
change and manage teams, excellent relationship management and negotiation skills and the
ability to influence high-level decisions. An excellent knowledge of English or French is required.
ESA is an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and
creating an inclusive working environment. For this purpose, we welcome applications from all
qualified candidates irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, beliefs, age, disability or
other characteristics. Applications from women are encouraged.
The detailed job profile and requirements are available at esa.int/careers. Applications should be
addressed, in the form of a cover letter, to the Head of the Human Resources Department and
submitted at the e-mail address: director2021@esa.int by 30 May, 2021.
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