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第 25 題
📖 題組：
( 1 ) Until a century ago, bloodletting was used to treat many ailments. Dating back to before the time of Christ, the treatment involved letting a type of worm, called a leech, such blood from the patient. People believed that there were liquids called humors in the body and that these determined a person’s personality and health. Bloodletting, they thought, restored a balance to these humors. At the time, little was known of the workings of the human body, but people did know that the same liquid, blood, flowed throughout everyone’s body. They knew it was a vital substance, for loss of any great amount of it meant certain death. Thus, they concluded that all diseases were carried in the bloodstream, and that if the body was relieved of bad blood, health would return. Bloodletting, however, came to be used as a cure-all. Women were bled to keep them from blushing, while members of the clergy were bled to prevent them from thinking sinful and worldly thoughts. From the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries, barbers were the people to go to if you needed to be bled. This custom explains the significance of the traditional barber’s pole: the white stripes stand for bandages and the red stripes for blood.
( 1 ) Until a century ago, bloodletting was used to treat many ailments. Dating back to before the time of Christ, the treatment involved letting a type of worm, called a leech, such blood from the patient. People believed that there were liquids called humors in the body and that these determined a person’s personality and health. Bloodletting, they thought, restored a balance to these humors. At the time, little was known of the workings of the human body, but people did know that the same liquid, blood, flowed throughout everyone’s body. They knew it was a vital substance, for loss of any great amount of it meant certain death. Thus, they concluded that all diseases were carried in the bloodstream, and that if the body was relieved of bad blood, health would return. Bloodletting, however, came to be used as a cure-all. Women were bled to keep them from blushing, while members of the clergy were bled to prevent them from thinking sinful and worldly thoughts. From the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries, barbers were the people to go to if you needed to be bled. This custom explains the significance of the traditional barber’s pole: the white stripes stand for bandages and the red stripes for blood.
This passage is concerned with
- A healthy people and doctors.
- B bleeding as a cure-all.
- C barbers of long ago.
- D leeches with special jobs to do.
思路引導 VIP
請試著觀察文章中提到的各種情境：從水蛭吸血、人體液平衡的理論，到理髮師招牌的由來。請問，哪一個具體的「醫療行為」貫穿了這所有的例子，並連結了從西元前到十八世紀的歷史發展呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了這篇文章的核心！這道題目考驗的是對「文章主旨（Main Idea）」的歸納能力。你選得非常正確，這篇文章不僅僅是介紹一種生物或一個職業，而是系統性地回溯了「放血療法（bloodletting）」的興衰史。
萬靈丹背後的歷史脈絡
文章從放血療法的起源講起，提到早期人們對「體液（humors）」平衡的迷信，進而發展出將放血視為治療百病的手段。這裡最關鍵的線索在於文中提到的 cure-all（萬靈丹）一詞，作者透過婦女臉紅或神職人員的雜念等例子，具體呈現出放血在當時被過度廣泛應用的荒謬與普及。雖然末段提到了理髮師與紅白燈柱的由來，但那僅是支持細節，用來佐證這項習俗對後世文化的深遠影響。
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