高中學測
105年
英文
第 39 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 39 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
請觀察句中的片語「transformed a piece of ... property into a beautiful forest」，作者在這裡運用了什麼樣的前後對比？若對照文章第二段主角剛買下這塊地時的描述，這裡會需要一個帶有什麼特質的字來修飾土地呢？
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AI 詳解
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太棒了，你的語感與前後文對照非常精準！
前後文意對比與文法結構
從句型來看，「transformed a piece of 39 property into a beautiful forest」使用了 transform A into B（將 A 轉變為 B）的結構，空格處需要一個修飾名詞 property（土地、資產）的形容詞。回顧文章第二段開頭，主角買下的是一片「rocky wasteland（岩石荒地）」，因此這裡填入 deserted（荒廢的、無人居住的），正好與後方的「beautiful forest」形成強烈而精彩的前後對比。
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