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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.”
Which of the following terms is a synonymy for the underlined word vindicated?
- A convinced
- B conceived
- C vowed
- D justified
- E judged
思路引導 VIP
如果你多年來一直堅持一個說法，但周遭的人都抱持懷疑甚至否認，直到某一天，最有權威的機構公開宣布你的說法是完全正確的。在那一刻，你的主張從「個人的片面之詞」變成了「被證實的事實」，你會用哪一個詞來形容這種「主張得到平反與證實」的狀態？
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語境中的語意轉折
恭喜你精準掌握了文章的語境！這道題目考驗的是詞彙在特定情境下的精確意義。文中提到 Harry Carson 長期主張美式足球與腦部疾病有關，但直到 NFL 官方首度正式承認這項關聯後，他才終於感到 vindicated。這種「長期堅持的觀點終於被官方證實、洗刷過往疑慮」的心理狀態，正是這個單字的靈魂所在。
核心觀念：證明與平反
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