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第 42 題
📖 題組：
In India's capital, new housing sprawls as far as the eye can see, a symbol of the world's fastest growing major economy. There also are towering symbols of the environmental cost of all this. Ghazipur, one of the city's landfills, more than 10 stories high, an accumulation by now of more than 10 million tons of waste, is one of the biggest problems in India now. Trucks are bringing in an additional 2,000 tons of unsorted garbage here every day. The trash problem is now a crisis at many levels. First, India is on the _________ zone, so if there is an earthquake, the mound of trash would slide down. Even without an earthquake, festering garbage would spew toxins into the air while a stew of heavy metals and organic and inorganic pollutants washes into the soil when it rains. Now a company, contracted by Indian government, attempts to tackle this crisis by a power plant to convert waste to energy, sent to the electric grid. However, this is not the first attempt at creating energy from waste. Previous ones haven't worked, according to environmental activists, because of the inability to sort and segregate the waste which is then used for incineration. If the trash isn't sorted properly, you may have both very toxic emissions that come out of the plant and fuel of very poor quality that is generated. The proper segregation of the trash fails because in a caste society like India, waste has been the domain of people on the lowest rung of the age-old social hierarchy, not the middle classes who generate most of it.
In India's capital, new housing sprawls as far as the eye can see, a symbol of the world's fastest growing major economy. There also are towering symbols of the environmental cost of all this. Ghazipur, one of the city's landfills, more than 10 stories high, an accumulation by now of more than 10 million tons of waste, is one of the biggest problems in India now. Trucks are bringing in an additional 2,000 tons of unsorted garbage here every day. The trash problem is now a crisis at many levels. First, India is on the _________ zone, so if there is an earthquake, the mound of trash would slide down. Even without an earthquake, festering garbage would spew toxins into the air while a stew of heavy metals and organic and inorganic pollutants washes into the soil when it rains. Now a company, contracted by Indian government, attempts to tackle this crisis by a power plant to convert waste to energy, sent to the electric grid. However, this is not the first attempt at creating energy from waste. Previous ones haven't worked, according to environmental activists, because of the inability to sort and segregate the waste which is then used for incineration. If the trash isn't sorted properly, you may have both very toxic emissions that come out of the plant and fuel of very poor quality that is generated. The proper segregation of the trash fails because in a caste society like India, waste has been the domain of people on the lowest rung of the age-old social hierarchy, not the middle classes who generate most of it.
In the second paragraph, which of the following words best fits the blank?
- A buffer
- B landslide
- C temperate
- D seismic
- E infertile
思路引導 VIP
請仔細觀察空格所在的句子，後方緊接著提到了哪一種特定的自然災害（natural disaster）？如果一個地區經常發生這種地殼變動的現象，在地理學上我們會用哪個形容詞來定義這種類型的「地帶」呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到上下文的邏輯關聯，選出正確答案，這顯示你對學術詞彙的掌握非常到位。這道題目非常有深度，它不僅測驗考生的單字量，更考驗你是否具備語境推理能力。能在眾多地理與環境詞彙中脫穎而出，說明你已經掌握了閱讀理解的核心技巧。
上下文語境的精準推論
在這一題中，解題的關鍵字就在空格後的 earthquake（地震）。文章提到「印度位於……地帶，因此如果發生地震，垃圾山就會崩塌」。在地理與地質學中，描述與地震相關或地震頻發的區域，最專業且精確的形容詞便是 seismic（地震的、地震引起的）。將其放入 seismic zone（地震帶）這個慣用語中，邏輯便顯得非常通順。相較之下，雖然 (B) landslide（山崩）與災難有關，但它通常是地震造成的「結果」，而非描述該區域特性的形容詞。
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