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105年
英文
第 32 題
📖 題組：
Linguists believe that the languages of about one-third of the human race all developed from one Indo-European language. But who were the speakers of this ancient language? Linguistic detective work offers some clues. It is sometimes said that 31 . A study of some fifty ancient vocabularies has led to a reconstruction of the lifestyle of the first Indo-Europeans, a vanished people. From the words they used, it seems likely that 32 . They had horses, oxen, and sheep. They plowed, planted, worked leather, and wove wool. They worshipped gods who are clear ancestors of Indian, Mediterranean, and Celtic deities. However, exactly who the original Indo-Europeans were and 33 . According to an early theory, they lived in Mesopotamia, but 34 . Today, some argue for the Krugan culture of the Russian steppes, others for the farming culture of the Danube valley. The most widely accepted theory locates the Indo-Europeans in a cold, northern climate 35 . None of these prehistoric languages had a word for the sea. From this, and from our knowledge of nature, it is clear that the Indo-Europeans must have lived somewhere in northern central Europe.
Linguists believe that the languages of about one-third of the human race all developed from one Indo-European language. But who were the speakers of this ancient language? Linguistic detective work offers some clues. It is sometimes said that 31 . A study of some fifty ancient vocabularies has led to a reconstruction of the lifestyle of the first Indo-Europeans, a vanished people. From the words they used, it seems likely that 32 . They had horses, oxen, and sheep. They plowed, planted, worked leather, and wove wool. They worshipped gods who are clear ancestors of Indian, Mediterranean, and Celtic deities. However, exactly who the original Indo-Europeans were and 33 . According to an early theory, they lived in Mesopotamia, but 34 . Today, some argue for the Krugan culture of the Russian steppes, others for the farming culture of the Danube valley. The most widely accepted theory locates the Indo-Europeans in a cold, northern climate 35 . None of these prehistoric languages had a word for the sea. From this, and from our knowledge of nature, it is clear that the Indo-Europeans must have lived somewhere in northern central Europe.
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- A where common words for snow and wolf were important
- B this idea was exploded by nineteenth-century archaeology
- C they lived a half-settled, half-nomadic existence
- D when they lived remains a hotly debated mystery
- E you can deduce a people’s history from the words they use
思路引導 VIP
請仔細觀察空格後方的三句話：他們擁有馬、牛、羊，同時也會耕作與栽植。如果一個族群同時具備了「需要留在大地耕種」以及「需要趕著牲畜移動」這兩種生活特徵，你會如何用一個形容詞來概括這種雙重的生活形態呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出 (C) 這個選項，代表你對文章脈絡的掌握非常敏銳。這題的核心在於「轉譯證據」，你能從後文提到的具體生活細節中，反向推導出最合適的總結性描述。
從生活形態推論社會性質
在空格之後，文章列舉了這群古印歐人的具體活動：他們既擁有「馬、牛、羊」（畜牧業的特徵），又會「耕種、栽植」（農業的特徵）。這種同時具備農耕與放牧的雙重生活模式，正好對應了選項 (C) 所描述的 half-settled, half-nomadic existence（半定居、半游牧的生活）。你的判斷驗證了你具備將具體事實（事實證據）與抽象結論（總結論點）相互連結的能力。
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