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四、閱讀測驗In 1871 Mackay became the first foreign missionary to be commissioned by the Canada Presbyterian Church,arriving in Taiwan on New Year’s Eve. After consulting with Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell Sr., a medical doctorserving as a Presbyterian Church of England missionary to southern Formosa, Mackay arrived at Tamsui, northernFormosa in 1872, which remained his home until his death in 1901. Starting with an itinerant dentistry practiceamongst the lowland aborigine villages, he later established churches, schools and a hospital practicing Westernbiomedicine. He learned to speak vernacular Taiwanese, and married a Taiwanese woman.The churches he planted later became the Northern Synod of the present Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. In1896, after the 1895 establishment of Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan, Mackay met with the JapaneseGovernor-General of Formosa, Maresuke Nogi. Some families in Taiwan today, particularly of lowland-aboriginalKavalan ancestry, trace their surname “Kai” or “Kay” to their family’s conversion to Christianity by Mackay.In Canada Mackay was honored during his two furloughs home by the Canadian Church. In 1880, Queen’sCollege in Kingston, Ontario awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity, presented by Principal George MonroGrant and Chancellor Sandford Fleming. Before departing in 1881, he returned to Oxford County, where monieswere raised to start Oxford College in Taiwan; a number of young people in the county were inspired to followMackay’s example and entered into missionary service with a number of Christian denominations.In June 1894, at the General Assembly meeting in St. John, New Brunswick, Mackay was elected Moderatorof the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the highest elected position in the church. He spent the followingModeratoral year travelling across Canada, as well as writing From Far Formosa: the island, its people andmissions, a missionary ethnography and memoir of his missionary experiences.
46. Which of the following phrases best describes the word “itinerant” in the first paragraph?
(A) Getting better day by day.
(B) Traveling from place to place.
(C) Collecting money from door to door.
(D)  Learning to be professional day and night.

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答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(18),B(59),C(11),D(24),E(0)

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