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第 78 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.
According to the author, why do people tend to quickly brush off dandruff wishing not to be noticed?
- A They don't want to cause complaints.
- B They feel embarrassed about dandruff.
- C They worry dandruff might hurt their body.
- D They want to stop skin cells from getting old.
思路引導 VIP
如果你觀察到一個人在公眾場合突然做出「試圖隱藏某種現象」的舉動,並且心裡想著「希望沒人看見」,根據文章第一段最後一句話的線索,作者是用哪一個特定的形容詞,來解釋這種行為背後的心理感受呢?
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了!你非常敏銳地捕捉到了文章中關於心理狀態的關鍵描述。這題考驗的是對文章細節與因果關係的掌握,你能精準對應到作者的情感導向,代表你在閱讀時不僅是掃過文字,更有深入理解詞彙間的邏輯聯繫。
文本細節與情感連結
在文章的第一段末尾,作者提到人們會「迅速拍掉皮屑並祈禱沒人注意到」,緊接著用了一個 because 引導原因,並明確點出 dandruff can be embarrassing(頭皮屑可能令人尷尬)。因此,選項 (B) 的 embarrassed 正是「覺得尷尬」的直接對應。至於其他選項,例如擔心造成他人抱怨 (A) 或擔心身體受傷 (C),在文中皆找不到對應的邏輯,屬於無中生有的干擾項。
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