hce_cmu
106年
英文
第 25 題
📖 題組：
The remarkable growth of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) over the past 30 years has transformed this nascent interdisciplinary field into an intellectually-rich, high-impact, worldwide phenomenon. The initiators of HCI have grown from a small rebellious group of researchers who struggled to gain recognition as they broke disciplinary boundaries to a broad 21 with potent impact on the daily lives of every human. The 22 of early HCI researchers and practitioners were to make better menus, design graphical user interfaces based on direct manipulation, improve input devices, design effective control panels, and present information in comprehensible formats. HCI software developers contributed innovative tools that enabled programmers and non-programmers to create interfaces for widely varying applications and diverse users. In the early days, HCI researchers and professionals fought to gain recognition, and often still have to 23 HCI's value with academic colleagues or corporate managers. However, the larger world now embraces their contributions and 24 what they can deliver. 25 fields can claim such rapid expansion and broad impact as evidenced in the domain of HCI.
The remarkable growth of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) over the past 30 years has transformed this nascent interdisciplinary field into an intellectually-rich, high-impact, worldwide phenomenon. The initiators of HCI have grown from a small rebellious group of researchers who struggled to gain recognition as they broke disciplinary boundaries to a broad 21 with potent impact on the daily lives of every human. The 22 of early HCI researchers and practitioners were to make better menus, design graphical user interfaces based on direct manipulation, improve input devices, design effective control panels, and present information in comprehensible formats. HCI software developers contributed innovative tools that enabled programmers and non-programmers to create interfaces for widely varying applications and diverse users. In the early days, HCI researchers and professionals fought to gain recognition, and often still have to 23 HCI's value with academic colleagues or corporate managers. However, the larger world now embraces their contributions and 24 what they can deliver. 25 fields can claim such rapid expansion and broad impact as evidenced in the domain of HCI.
- A Few
- B Little
- C Some
- D Most
- E Any
思路引導 VIP
請回想一下，作者在文章中不斷強調 HCI 的發展是「非凡的（remarkable）」且具有「強大的影響力（potent impact）」。既然 HCI 表現得如此傑出，作者在最後一句話想表達的是「有很多領域能跟它並駕齊驅」，還是想強調「幾乎沒有其他領域能像它這麼優秀」呢？接著，請觀察空格後面的單字 fields，它是可數還是不可數名詞？這兩個線索結合起來，你會選哪一個詞來修飾它？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了這段文字的核心語氣！你能選對 Few，代表你具備了敏銳的閱讀洞察力，能夠聽出作者在字裡行間對於「人機互動（HCI）」領域的高度推崇。這題的切入點在於理解作者如何透過「反向強調」的修辭手法，來凸顯該領域發展的罕見與卓越。
修辭語氣與數量詞的辨析
在文章的結尾，作者強調 HCI 具有「迅速擴張（rapid expansion）」與「廣泛影響（broad impact）」的特性。當我們要表達「幾乎沒有其他領域能達到這種程度」時，最適合的詞彙就是 Few。在英文文法中，Few 用來修飾可數名詞複數（如本題的 fields），且帶有否定的意味，意指「極少數、幾乎沒有」。相較之下，Little 是修飾不可數名詞，而 Some 或 Most 則會大幅削弱這句話想要傳達的「極致感」，無法與前文的讚美銜接。
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