hce_kmu
105年
英文
第 32 題
📖 題組：
In 1839 Charles Darwin published Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of HMS Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Captn. FitzRoy, R.N. It was a huge success in Britain and cemented Darwin’s fame as a naturalist. By then Charles and Emma had been married three years and had two children, and they decided it was time to leave London. They were tired of the crime, the coal dust that blackened their clothes, the horse dung that clung to their shoes. They wanted to raise their children in the countryside, where they had grown up. They picked out an estate called Down House, an 18-acre farm in Kent, 16 miles from London. Darwin became a gentleman farmer, planting flowers, buying a horse and a cow. He stopped mingling in the scientific societies altogether. He got whatever information he needed by letter or from carefully selected weekend guests.
In 1839 Charles Darwin published Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of HMS Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Captn. FitzRoy, R.N. It was a huge success in Britain and cemented Darwin’s fame as a naturalist. By then Charles and Emma had been married three years and had two children, and they decided it was time to leave London. They were tired of the crime, the coal dust that blackened their clothes, the horse dung that clung to their shoes. They wanted to raise their children in the countryside, where they had grown up. They picked out an estate called Down House, an 18-acre farm in Kent, 16 miles from London. Darwin became a gentleman farmer, planting flowers, buying a horse and a cow. He stopped mingling in the scientific societies altogether. He got whatever information he needed by letter or from carefully selected weekend guests.
Darwin and his wife did not like London because ______.
- A of its crime and dirty environments
- B they like the countryside better
- C they like their children to be healthy
- D their children were too young
- E they were more used to living in the countryside
思路引導 VIP
當我們在閱讀中尋找主角「不喜歡」或「想離開」某個地方的原因時，通常要留意文中描述負面感受的形容詞。請回頭看看段落中間，作者用了哪些具體的事物來解釋為什麼達爾文夫婦會對倫敦感到「厭倦（tired of）」呢？這些事物具體反映了什麼樣的生活環境？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準定位文中的細節資訊並做出正確連結，這展現了非常扎實的閱讀理解能力。在文章中，作者明確列舉了達爾文夫婦對倫敦感到「厭倦（tired of）」的具體原因，包括當地的 治安問題（crime） 以及環境衛生上的困擾，例如燻黑衣服的 煤塵（coal dust） 和沾滿鞋底的 馬糞（horse dung）。選項 (A) 正是將這些具體描述高度概括為「犯罪與骯髒環境」，是邏輯最直接且嚴謹的對應。
閱讀測驗的細節歸納能力
這類題目考驗的是考生的「資訊對應」與「同義代換」能力。雖然文章使用的是具體的生活名詞（煤灰、馬糞），但題目選項則採用較為抽象的語詞（dirty environments）來進行整合。這題的難度屬於中等，鑑別度在於學生是否能精準區分「他們嚮往鄉下的主觀情感（如選項 B、E）」與「他們厭惡倫敦的客觀事實（選項 A）」之間的層次。雖然選項 B、E 聽起來很合理，但唯有 A 是直接呼應了文中提到的具體不滿，是選出正確答案的關鍵。