專技普考
106年
[領隊人員] 外國語(英語)
第 72 題
📖 題組：
No other city in India or in any country has a unique system like this. The men who make it work are called dabbawallas. In Hindi, the word dabba refers to lunch box and walla means carrier or deliver man.The 5000 dabbawallas carry lunch boxes—about 200,000 meals per day—to offices and workplaces throughout the city by lunch time in Mumbai. Every day, for a very modest fee (only 300 rupees per month), the dabbawallas collect freshly cooked meals from their customers’ home and deliver to the nearest train station by bicycle before 9:00 a.m.. At the train station, the dabbawallas sort through all the lunch boxes and put them onto trains that will bring them to the station nearest the customer’s office. The lunch boxes are delivered to the offices by bike. Each person gets their home-cooked meal by 12:30. To satisfy their customers, they use a complicated system of collection teams, sorting points and delivery zones, and a entirely manual system for routing the right meal to the right direction. In spite of difficult tasks like this, the organization has been recognized and celebrated for their incredible order accuracy 99.9999 percent. Recently, the organization makes their effort to assist Mumbai’s 200,000 slum by giving some of the food they deliver which is never eaten or barely touched. This idea indeed helps the poverty without too much cost.
No other city in India or in any country has a unique system like this. The men who make it work are called dabbawallas. In Hindi, the word dabba refers to lunch box and walla means carrier or deliver man.The 5000 dabbawallas carry lunch boxes—about 200,000 meals per day—to offices and workplaces throughout the city by lunch time in Mumbai. Every day, for a very modest fee (only 300 rupees per month), the dabbawallas collect freshly cooked meals from their customers’ home and deliver to the nearest train station by bicycle before 9:00 a.m.. At the train station, the dabbawallas sort through all the lunch boxes and put them onto trains that will bring them to the station nearest the customer’s office. The lunch boxes are delivered to the offices by bike. Each person gets their home-cooked meal by 12:30. To satisfy their customers, they use a complicated system of collection teams, sorting points and delivery zones, and a entirely manual system for routing the right meal to the right direction. In spite of difficult tasks like this, the organization has been recognized and celebrated for their incredible order accuracy 99.9999 percent. Recently, the organization makes their effort to assist Mumbai’s 200,000 slum by giving some of the food they deliver which is never eaten or barely touched. This idea indeed helps the poverty without too much cost.
According to the passage, what is the most essential requirement for a dabbawalla?
- A Being smart
- B Being diligent
- C Being nice
- D Being on time
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請試著思考：文中提到的 9:00 a.m. 和 12:30 分別代表什麼意義？如果一份「午餐」外送服務在流程上非常完美，但卻在大家下午開會時才送達，那麼這項服務最核心的價值還存在嗎？
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🌟 太棒了！你的觀察非常敏銳且專業！
- 觀念驗證：你的選擇非常精準。文章中多次提及具體的時間節點，例如 9:00 a.m. 必須收集完畢、12:30 之前必須送達辦公室。對於「送午餐」這項服務而言，如果錯過了午餐時間，即便餐點再美味、流程再聰明都失去了意義。因此，維持 $99.9999%$ 的準確率，核心就在於守時。
- 難度點評：本題難度為 medium。誘答選項（如勤奮或聰明）雖然在文中略有體現，但「準時」是基於「午餐外送」產業特性的最關鍵指標，能測驗出學生是否能從細節中歸納出核心邏輯。