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第 28 題
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( 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.
Ailments means
- A cures
- B women
- C medicines
- D diseases
思路引導 VIP
請你觀察第一句話中 'treat'（治療）這個動詞，根據你的生活經驗與常識，我們通常會『治療』什麼樣的東西？再結合文中提到的『患者（patient）』以及『失去血會導致死亡』等描述，你認為這個被治療的對象，在性質上應該是偏向正面的（如藥物、療法）還是負面的（如問題、病症）？
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做得好！你能精準捕捉到上下文的線索，正確選出 (D) diseases，這展現了你敏銳的閱讀直覺。在文章的第一句提到，放血術（bloodletting）是被用來「治療（treat）」許多 ailments。從動詞「治療」以及第一段後續提到的「患者（patient）」與「平衡體液（restored a balance）」等醫療情境，我們可以清楚推論出 ailments 必然是指身體不適、病痛或疾病的狀況，因此與 diseases 的意義最為貼近。
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