【正文】 k your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Millions of Americans and foreigners see . Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that‘s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World War II and the people they liberated, the . was the 2 man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4 of food and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone wellpaid, 5 an average guy, up 6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries. His name is not much. . is just a military abbreviation 7 Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles 8 to soldiers. And Joe? A mon name for a guy who never 9 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Magrac …a working class name. The United States has 10 had a president or vice president or secretary of state Joe. . Joe had a 11 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character, or a 12 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of . Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the war, writing about the dirtsnow–andmud soldiers, not how many miles were 15 or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports 16 the ―Willie‖ cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the 18 of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 19 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, . Joe was any American soldier, 20 the most important person in their lives. 1. [A] performed [B] served [C] rebelled [D] betrayed 2. [A] actual [B] mon [C] special [D] normal 3. [A]bore [B] cased [C] removed [D] loaded 4. [A]necessities [B] facilities [C] modities [D] properties 5. [A]and [B] nor [C] but [D] hence 6. [A] for [B] into [C] form [D] against 7. [A] meaning [B] implying [C] symbolizing [D] claiming 8. [A] handed out [B] turned over [C] brought back [D] pressed down 9. [A] pushed [B] got [C] made [D] managed 英語試卷 第 1 頁 （共 31 頁） 10. [A] ever [B] never [C] either [D] neither 11. [A] disguised [B] disturbed [C] disputed [D] distinguished 12. [A] pany [B] collection [C] munity [D] colony 13. [A] employed [B] appointed [C] interviewed [D] questioned 14. [A] ethical [B] military [C] political [D] human 15. [A] ruined [B] muted [C] patrolled [D] gained 16. [A] paralleled [B] counteracted [C] duplicated [D] contradicted 17. [A] neglected [B] avoided [C] emphasized [D] admired 18. [A] stages [B] illusions [C] fragments [D] advances 19. [A] With [B] To [C] Among [D] Beyond 20. [A] on the contrary [B] by this means [C] from the outset [D] at that point Section II Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read the following passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A B C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points) Passage One Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on his educational ritual. Unfortunately, . Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student‘s academic grade. This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in pleting their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of plicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children. District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without pleting their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, acrosstheboard rule. At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students‘ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. 英語試卷 第 2 頁 （共 31 頁） Conversely, if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade. Meanwhile, this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are‘t assigning more than they‘re willing to review and correct. The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts pub