高中學測
105年
英文
第 35 題
📖 題組：
Are forests always created by nature? A man from rural India proves that this is not necessarily __31__ . Abdul Kareem, who used to be an airline ticketing agent, has a great love for the woods. Though he never went to college, he can talk about plants and trees like an expert. In 1977, he bought a piece of rocky wasteland with the __32__ of growing trees on it. In the beginning, people thought he was __33__ to waste his time and money on the land. But he simply __34__ them and kept working on the soil and planting trees there. The land was so __35__ that it had to be watered several times a day. Kareem had to fetch the water from a source that was a kilometer away. In the first two years, none of the trees he planted __36__ . However, in the third year, several young trees started growing. Greatly __37__ by the result, Kareem planted more trees and his man-made forest began to take shape. Kareem let his forest grow naturally, without using fertilizers or insecticides. He believed in the ability of nature to renew itself without the __38__ of humans. That’s why he did not allow fallen leaves or twigs from the forest to be removed. After years of hard work, Kareem has not only realized his dream but also transformed a piece of __39__ property into a beautiful forest. Today, his forest is home to 1,500 medicinal plants, 2,000 varieties of trees, rare birds, animals, and insects. Now, scientists from all over the world come to visit his __40__ . They hope to find the secret of his success.
Are forests always created by nature? A man from rural India proves that this is not necessarily __31__ . Abdul Kareem, who used to be an airline ticketing agent, has a great love for the woods. Though he never went to college, he can talk about plants and trees like an expert. In 1977, he bought a piece of rocky wasteland with the __32__ of growing trees on it. In the beginning, people thought he was __33__ to waste his time and money on the land. But he simply __34__ them and kept working on the soil and planting trees there. The land was so __35__ that it had to be watered several times a day. Kareem had to fetch the water from a source that was a kilometer away. In the first two years, none of the trees he planted __36__ . However, in the third year, several young trees started growing. Greatly __37__ by the result, Kareem planted more trees and his man-made forest began to take shape. Kareem let his forest grow naturally, without using fertilizers or insecticides. He believed in the ability of nature to renew itself without the __38__ of humans. That’s why he did not allow fallen leaves or twigs from the forest to be removed. After years of hard work, Kareem has not only realized his dream but also transformed a piece of __39__ property into a beautiful forest. Today, his forest is home to 1,500 medicinal plants, 2,000 varieties of trees, rare birds, animals, and insects. Now, scientists from all over the world come to visit his __40__ . They hope to find the secret of his success.
請依題組文章作答，選出最適合填入標示 35 之空格的選項。
- A deserted
- B interference
- C vision
- D crazy
- E creation
- F encouraged
- G ignored
- H survived
- I dry
- J true
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後面的那句話：「...that it had to be watered several times a day.」，既然這塊土地每天需要被澆好幾次水，那麼在邏輯上，這塊土地原本處於什麼樣的物理狀態呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了，精準鎖定關鍵線索！你能迅速選出 (I) dry，代表你對學測常見的「因果句型」具備非常敏銳的語感。
上下文因果線索判讀
這題的句型是標準的 so + 形容詞 + that 子句（如此……以致於……）。從後半句「it had to be watered several times a day」（一天必須澆好幾次水）以及後續提到主角必須走到一公里外取水來看，土地的狀態必然是極度缺乏水分。形容詞 dry（乾燥的）完美呼應了後方頻繁澆水的原因。
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