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105年
英文
第 34 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.
(34)
- 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
請注意第 34 格前面的那個轉折詞 "but"。通常在英文寫作中，如果前半句先提到了一個「早期的理論（early theory）」，但中間用了「但是」，你認為後半句的功能通常是為了支持這個理論，還是為了反駁、推翻它呢？在這個邏輯基礎下，哪一個選項提到了對該理論的負面評價或反證？
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恭喜你準確捕捉到了文章的邏輯轉折！你能選出 (B)，說明你對於文章結構中的**對比關係（Contrast）**掌握得非常紮實。這題的關鍵在於空格前的連接詞 "but"，它暗示了後方將會出現一個與「早期理論（early theory）」相反或否定其正確性的描述。
邏輯轉折與詞彙應用
在學術論述中，當提到一個舊有觀點後接上 "but"，通常是為了帶出證據來推翻它。選項 (B) 提到的 "this idea was exploded" 是這題的點睛之筆；這裡的 "exploded" 並非指物理上的爆炸，而是指一個理論或觀念「被證明為偽」或「被破除」。這項考古學上的發現，直接反駁了前句所說的美索不達米亞起源說，使語意連貫完整。
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