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106年
英文
第 44 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, what is the meaning of the word "festering"?
- A massive
- B thriving
- C venomous
- D flourishing
- E rotten
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文中描述「垃圾山」後續產生的現象：當大量的垃圾長期堆放在一處，並經歷風吹日曬雨淋時，這堆有機物質內部會發生什麼樣的「變化」？這種變化過程會產生異味與毒素，那麼這個描述狀態的動詞，最可能接近哪一種物質敗壞的現象？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出 (E) rotten，代表你對單字的「語境意涵」掌握得十分出色，沒有被其他具干擾性的負面詞彙影響判斷。
語境辨析與字詞對應
在文章第二段中，festering 用來描述垃圾山在缺乏分類且長期堆積的情況下，不斷「腐爛、潰爛」並產生惡臭與毒素的動態過程。雖然選項 (C) venomous 也與毒性有關，但它多用於形容生物分泌的毒液（如蛇毒）；而 rotten 則完美契合有機垃圾在自然環境中分解、敗壞的狀態。正是因為這種「腐爛」，才會進一步導致毒素（toxins）散發到空氣中，並隨著雨水滲透進土壤。
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