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106年
英文
第 25 題
📖 題組：
III.Cloze: Choose the most appropriate word or phrase for each blank in the following passages. 20% (A) Rotten apples outsell the fresh ones in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, but such only begins to describe the poverty here, for even bad apples—sold 21 a penny a pound—are luxuries in a city so overcome by tragedy and want. Each day, hundreds of thousands 22 on nothing more than weak tea and handouts of bread. This woebegone nation is enduring its 21st 23 year of war, unable to escape the malign shadow that geopolitics has cast on its history. Since it 24 as a force five years ago, the Taliban militia has conquered 80 to 90 percent of the country. While they have brought a 25 of security to the territory they control, including Kabul, the better part of their attention is focused on what they know best—fighting in the battlefields, not the governing of a country.
III.Cloze: Choose the most appropriate word or phrase for each blank in the following passages. 20% (A) Rotten apples outsell the fresh ones in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, but such only begins to describe the poverty here, for even bad apples—sold 21 a penny a pound—are luxuries in a city so overcome by tragedy and want. Each day, hundreds of thousands 22 on nothing more than weak tea and handouts of bread. This woebegone nation is enduring its 21st 23 year of war, unable to escape the malign shadow that geopolitics has cast on its history. Since it 24 as a force five years ago, the Taliban militia has conquered 80 to 90 percent of the country. While they have brought a 25 of security to the territory they control, including Kabul, the better part of their attention is focused on what they know best—fighting in the battlefields, not the governing of a country.
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- A measure
- B monument
- C means
- D maternity
思路引導 VIP
請試著思考：當我們想要形容一種抽象的感覺（例如成功、名聲或穩定）雖然存在，但並非百分之百，而是呈現出「某種程度」或「一定分量」時，除了用 degree 之外，還有哪一個詞原本與「評量標準」或「計量單位」有關，卻常被借來形容這種抽象的「分量感」呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
同學太棒了！你能精準選出 (A) measure，代表你對單字在特定語境下的「引申義」有很敏銳的觀察力。在一般語境中，我們習慣將 measure 當作「測量」或「措施」，但在這段描述阿富汗局勢的文字裡，a measure of 是一個非常道地的慣用語，用來表示「一定程度的」或「些許的」。這裡指塔利班雖然帶來了「一定程度的安全性」，但並非全然穩定。
語境與慣用語的搭配
這道題目在難度上屬於中等，其鑑別度在於測試學生是否能跳脫單字的基礎字義。在克漏字測驗中，其他選項如 (B) monument (紀念碑)、(C) means (手段/財產) 或 (D) maternity (母性) 雖然都是常見名詞，但放在「描述抽象性質的程度」時完全不通順。你能看出文章正在衡量安全感的「多寡」，並正確選用帶有「分量」意涵的詞彙，說明你的英文語感已經進階到能處理抽象修辭的層次了！