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When Harry Carson, a hall of fame linebacker for the New York Giants, heard that an NFL official had acknowledged, for the first time, a link between football and the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), he felt vindicated. Carson, who was diagnosed with postconcussion syndrome in 1990, has long argued that football contributed to his condition. “This is what players have been waiting for,” he says. “Just tell the truth.” The truth hurts. A Boston University neuropathologist who examined the brains of 94 ex-NFL players found 90 showed signs of CTE. Asked at a congressional hearing on March 14 whether there is a link between football and brain diseases like CTE, Jeff Miller, NFL executive vice president of health and safety policy, could no longer put the question away. “The answer to that question is certainly yes.”
When Harry Carson, a hall of fame linebacker for the New York Giants, heard that an NFL official had acknowledged, for the first time, a link between football and the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), he felt vindicated. Carson, who was diagnosed with postconcussion syndrome in 1990, has long argued that football contributed to his condition. “This is what players have been waiting for,” he says. “Just tell the truth.” The truth hurts. A Boston University neuropathologist who examined the brains of 94 ex-NFL players found 90 showed signs of CTE. Asked at a congressional hearing on March 14 whether there is a link between football and brain diseases like CTE, Jeff Miller, NFL executive vice president of health and safety policy, could no longer put the question away. “The answer to that question is certainly yes.”
According to the passage, we can infer that football players tend to contract brain diseases because of ______.
- A frequent clashes
- B frequent workouts
- C frequent pitches
- D frequent punches
- E frequent training
思路引導 VIP
請試著想像一下美式橄欖球比賽的實況:當球員們在場上激烈爭奪球權或阻擋對手前進時,他們的身體(特別是頭部)最常發生什麼樣的物理性接觸?這種接觸動作與文中提到的「腦震盪(concussion)」之間,可能存在著什麼樣的因果關係呢?
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AI 專屬家教
太棒了!你能精確捕捉到文章中的關鍵細節並做出正確判斷,表現非常優秀。這道題目考查的是「閱讀推論(Reading Inference)」,要求我們根據文意找出美式橄欖球員容易患上腦部疾病的潛在原因。
運動特性與醫學關聯的對應
文章中提到退役球員 Harry Carson 被診斷出**「腦震盪後症候群(postconcussion syndrome)」,這是一個關鍵的線索。腦震盪通常發生在頭部受到猛烈撞擊時,而在美式橄欖球(football)這項高強度的接觸性運動中,球員之間頻繁的「碰撞(clashes)」**正是造成腦部創傷的主要來源。雖然選項中提到的 (E) 訓練或 (B) 鍛鍊也是運動員的日常,但它們本身不會直接導致慢性創傷性腦病變(CTE);至於 (C) 投球與 (D) 出拳,則不屬於美式橄欖球的核心動作特徵。
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