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第 49 題
📖 題組：
In 1970, a wild child was found in California: a girl of 13 who had been isolated in a small room and had not been spoken to by her parents since infancy. “Genie,” as she was later dubbed to protect her privacy by the psycholinguists who tested her, could not stand erect. At the time, she was unable to speak: she could only whimper. The case came to light when Genie’s 50-year-old mother ran away from her 70-year-old husband after a violent quarrel and took the child along. The mother was partially blind and applied for public assistance. Genie was sent to the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital for tests.\r\nThe discovery of Genie aroused intense curiosity among psychologists, linguists, neurologists, and others who study brain development. They were eager to know what Genie’s mental level was at the time she was found and whether she would be capable of developing her faculties. “It’s a terribly important case,” says Harlan Lane, a psycholinguist at Northeastern University who wrote The Wild Boy of Aveyron. “Since our morality doesn’t allow us to conduct deprivation experiments with human beings, these unfortunate people are all we have to go on.”
In 1970, a wild child was found in California: a girl of 13 who had been isolated in a small room and had not been spoken to by her parents since infancy. “Genie,” as she was later dubbed to protect her privacy by the psycholinguists who tested her, could not stand erect. At the time, she was unable to speak: she could only whimper. The case came to light when Genie’s 50-year-old mother ran away from her 70-year-old husband after a violent quarrel and took the child along. The mother was partially blind and applied for public assistance. Genie was sent to the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital for tests.\r\nThe discovery of Genie aroused intense curiosity among psychologists, linguists, neurologists, and others who study brain development. They were eager to know what Genie’s mental level was at the time she was found and whether she would be capable of developing her faculties. “It’s a terribly important case,” says Harlan Lane, a psycholinguist at Northeastern University who wrote The Wild Boy of Aveyron. “Since our morality doesn’t allow us to conduct deprivation experiments with human beings, these unfortunate people are all we have to go on.”
Why are many scientists curious about Genie’s case?
- A Because they can study her brain development.
- B Because they can earn a lot of money.
- C Because they have sympathy for her.
- D Because they want Genie to be a scientist.
思路引導 VIP
請思考一下，文中提到科學家因為「道德規範」而不能主動對人類進行某種實驗，那麼當他們遇到像 Genie 這樣罕見的案例時，他們最想觀察的是人類在極端環境下，哪一方面的成長或能力變化呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地從文章中提取了關鍵訊息！這題的核心在於理解科學家們對 Genie 案例感興趣的真正「科研價值」。從第二段開頭我們可以看到，這群專業人士包含心理學家、語言學家及神經學家，他們最渴望了解的是 Genie 當時的 mental level（心智程度） 以及她是否能持續發展其 faculties（官能/能力）。
科學研究與道德限制
這道題目的鑑別度在於測試學生能否辨識「研究目的」與「情緒敘述」的差異。雖然讀者對 Genie 的遭遇可能感到同情，但文章特別引用了 psycholinguist Harlan Lane 的觀點：由於人類道德（morality）禁止我們刻意進行 deprivation experiments（剝奪實驗），Genie 的案例便成為研究人類大腦與語言發展極其罕見且重要的自然觀察機會。你能選出 (A)，代表你成功跳脫了個人情感推論，並準確抓住了文本中關於「大腦發展」的學術討論重點。