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第 76 題
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You scratch your head and a shower of white flakes descends before your eyes. Is it snowing? Sadly, it's not. You've just got dandruff, and a quick look down at your shoulders, which by now is like a field covered with "snow," shows you just how bad the problem is. You quickly brush off the flakes of dead skin and pray that no one has noticed, because, despite the fact that over 50% of people suffer from the complaint, dandruff can be embarrassing. The basic cause of dandruff is simple and unavoidable: your skin is constantly renewing itself. As skin cells get older, they get pushed outward, and then they eventually die and flake off. With most people, these flakes are usually too small to be noticeable. For dandruff sufferers, however, skin cells are shed very quickly, or bind together to form large flakes. A number of factors can cause this to happen. Eating certain types of sugary food, frequent exposure to extreme heat or cold, sweating, and allergic reactions to hair products are all thought to trigger dandruff. But the condition's main cause is a fungus which grows on your scalp. For those likely to suffer from an attack of the problem flakes, this fungus grows quickly and, apart from causing dandruff, can leave your skin itchy and red. Help is at hand, though, in the form of specially medicated anti-dandruff shampoos. Chemicals in these shampoos help remove dead skin cells and treat the flake-forming fungus. They won't cure you of dandruff completely, but they should make personal snowstorms a thing of the past.
You scratch your head and a shower of white flakes descends before your eyes. Is it snowing? Sadly, it's not. You've just got dandruff, and a quick look down at your shoulders, which by now is like a field covered with "snow," shows you just how bad the problem is. You quickly brush off the flakes of dead skin and pray that no one has noticed, because, despite the fact that over 50% of people suffer from the complaint, dandruff can be embarrassing. The basic cause of dandruff is simple and unavoidable: your skin is constantly renewing itself. As skin cells get older, they get pushed outward, and then they eventually die and flake off. With most people, these flakes are usually too small to be noticeable. For dandruff sufferers, however, skin cells are shed very quickly, or bind together to form large flakes. A number of factors can cause this to happen. Eating certain types of sugary food, frequent exposure to extreme heat or cold, sweating, and allergic reactions to hair products are all thought to trigger dandruff. But the condition's main cause is a fungus which grows on your scalp. For those likely to suffer from an attack of the problem flakes, this fungus grows quickly and, apart from causing dandruff, can leave your skin itchy and red. Help is at hand, though, in the form of specially medicated anti-dandruff shampoos. Chemicals in these shampoos help remove dead skin cells and treat the flake-forming fungus. They won't cure you of dandruff completely, but they should make personal snowstorms a thing of the past.
Which of the following does NOT refer to dandruff?
- A Personal snowstorms.
- B The flakes of dead skin.
- C A shower of white flakes.
- D A fungus growing on your scalp.
思路引導 VIP
請重新閱讀第二段關於頭皮屑產生的過程：作者提到了我們肉眼看到的「白色薄片」，也提到了躲在頭皮後方、促使這些薄片快速生長的「生物性媒介」。請試著思考，這兩者在文中被定義為同一個東西，還是「因」與「果」的關係呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了文章的細節！這題考查的是閱讀理解中的「指涉對象」與「因果邏輯辨析」，你能從眾多文學修辭中挑出非同義詞，代表你的邏輯思考非常清晰。
文學修辭與生理定義的區別
在文章中，作者為了讓描述更生動，使用了多種意象來形容頭皮屑 (dandruff)。例如開頭提到的「如雪片般落下的白色薄片」(A shower of white flakes) 以及結尾幽默稱呼的「個人暴風雪」(Personal snowstorms)，都是在描繪頭皮屑呈現的視覺狀態；而「死皮碎片」(The flakes of dead skin) 則是它的生理本質。這三個選項雖然措辭不同，指的都是同樣的東西。
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