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IV. Essay Question
As an English teacher, you are invited to take part in organizing an upcoming international exchange program. Please write an essay responding to the following prompts, as if you were to take on this role:
■ What is the significance of international exchange programs for both students and the school as a whole?
■ Given limited time, how would you help students balance their academic responsibilities while preparing for exchange activities?
■ If your class included students with varying levels of English proficiency, how would you ensure that all students were able to participate actively and communicate effectively in English during the exchange?
III. Lesson Design
Please design a 50-minute English lesson based on the material provided. The lesson will be delivered entirely in English to a class of 36 senior high school students with mixed proficiency levels (A2–B2 on the CEFR scale). In your lesson plan, be sure to include teaching objectives, lesson procedures, and assessment methods. After the lesson plan, please briefly explain how this lesson reflects your teaching beliefs and why you think it would be meaningful for your students.
Every Taiwanese food lover knows about coffin bread and cow’s tongue cookies. But have you heard of these other unusually named foods from around the world?
Welsh Rabbit
No rabbits are harmed in the making of Welsh rabbit. Rather, it’s a simple dish of toast topped with melted cheese and sometimes sauces, spices, or even beer. It is eaten across the UK and likely doesn’t come from Wales. Why, then, is it called Welsh rabbit? Historians think it probably started as a joke—one meant to make fun of the Welsh by suggesting they were too poor to eat real rabbit meat.
Dutch Babies
Dutch babies are giant pancakes served with sweet treats like honey and fruit or savory foods like bacon and eggs. Unlike regular pancakes, they’re cooked in the oven, which makes them light and fluffy. They got their name when an American restaurateur started making German pancakes and mistakenly confused the German word for German, Deutsch, with Dutch. The name has stuck with the dish ever since.
Head Cheese
Despite its name, there is no cheese in head cheese. It’s actually a cold, savory jelly usually made with meat from a pig’s or calf’s head. It was first created in Europe hundreds of years ago. Back then, wealthy people got all the best meat, so poorer people had to be creative with what was left. These days, head cheese is less common, but it can still be found in countries from Scotland to Spain.
Ants on a Log
Ants on a log isn’t as scary as it sounds. It’s simply a celery stick (the “log”) cut in half, filled with peanut butter, and dotted with raisins (the “ants”). It’s an easy snack for kids to make and enjoy. Plus, there are lots of ways to change it up, like switching the raisins for other dried fruits, nuts, or chocolate chips!
So, when you’re feeling hungry, why not fill up on some “ants” or “babies”? Don’t tell anybody, though—they might think you’ve gone crazy!
Source: LiveABC. (2024, September). LiveABC English Digest
II. Handout Design
Please design a handout for 10th graders who are now learning the concept of participle construction (分詞構句) from scratch. Your handout should contain no more than 250 English words and 30 Chinese words.
IV. Reading Comprehension:
A growing body of research calls into question the ecological validity of highly sanitized laboratory environments in modeling complex biological phenomena. In a recent investigation, researchers explored how environmental exposure influences host immunity by relocating genetically identical mice from sterile laboratory housing to semi-natural outdoor enclosures. These “rewilded” mice displayed a pronounced increase in susceptibility to Trichuris muris, a gastrointestinal helminth frequently used in immunological studies due to its similarity to human parasites.
Under conventional lab conditions, mice mounted robust type 2 immune responses that effectively expelled the worms.However, when exposed to outdoor conditions, the same animals exhibited elevated worm loads and greater total biomass. The effect scaled with time spent outdoors, implying a cumulative influence of environmental complexity. Researchers attributed this to two interlinked mechanisms: a diversification of the gut microbiota and a shift in immune response bias. Outdoor microbial exposure introduced bacterial taxa that likely facilitated worm development and concurrently skewed immune signaling toward type 1 responses. Although beneficial for combating viruses and bacteria, such responses are ill-suited for clearing helminth infections.
This study reveals a critical shortcoming in traditional laboratory models: their failure to capture the dynamic interplay between host immunity and environmental variables. By minimizing ecological inputs, such models risk generating internally consistent but externally misleading conclusions. Immune systems are adaptive and context-sensitive—they do not function in isolation from their surroundings.
The authors advocate for integrating controlled ecological variation into experimental design. Rewilded models offer a closer approximation of real-world host-pathogen interactions and illuminate how environmental context can recalibrate immune
function. Such approaches may prove essential in improving the translational accuracy of preclinical findings, particularly for diseases shaped by microbiota diversity, pathogen load, and immunological trade-offs.
30. What broader implication does the study suggest for preclinical biomedical research? (A) That genetic homogeneity among lab animals undermines experimental reliability. (B) That standardized protocols are sufficient when microbial exposure is controlled. (C) That helminth infections are more dangerous than previously believed. (D) That environmental factors must be integrated to enhance translational relevance.
29. Which of the following best describes the authors’ proposed solution to the limitations of current experimental models? (A) Eliminating parasite exposure in experimental protocols. (B) Using only wild-caught animals in immunological studies. (C) Introducing controlled ecological variables to better simulate natural immune conditions. (D) Replacing in vivo models with computer-simulated immune systems.
28. Why do the authors highlight the parallel between Trichuris muris and human parasites? (A) To question its relevance as a model organism. (B) To argue that humans are also susceptible to rewilding effects. (C) To justify its selection as a valid proxy for studying human immunity. (D) To emphasize the evolutionary relationship between rodents and humans.
This is a large modal.
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