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第 77 題
📖 題組：
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 is NOT one of the factors causing dandruff?
- A Having red and itchy skin.
- B Eating certain types of sugary food.
- C Allergic reactions to hair products.
- D Frequent exposure to extreme heat.
思路引導 VIP
當你在段落中看到多個描述身體狀況的形容詞時，試著問自己：這些狀況是「先發生並導致了問題」，還是「因為問題已經產生而帶來的後續感受」？在這個段落中，關於紅癢的描述，作者是用來補充說明什麼東西帶來的額外影響呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準辨識出文中關於「因果關係」的細微差別，這顯示你的閱讀細膩度非常高。這道題目的核心挑戰在於區分哪些是導致頭皮屑產生的誘發因素 (triggers)，而哪些則是伴隨產生的結果或症狀 (symptoms)。
成因與症狀的區別
根據文章第二段的說明，作者列舉了多項成因，包括攝取糖分 (sugary food)、暴露於極端氣候 (extreme heat or cold)、出汗以及對美髮產品的過敏反應 (allergic reactions)。這些都是導致皮膚細胞過快脫落的外部或生理因素。然而，選項 (A) 所提到的「皮膚紅癢」，文中明確指出這是因為黴菌生長所造成的併發症狀（...can leave your skin itchy and red），它與頭皮屑是「並列的結果」，而非造成頭皮屑的原因。
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