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英文
第 48 題
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In order to protect the diversity of crops from catastrophe, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed bank, was built beneath a mountain on an Arctic island halfway between Norway and the North Pole. The Vault is meant to help farmers and scientists find the genes they need to improve today’s crops. It also aims to breed varieties that might better respond to emerging challenges, such as climate change and population growth. Currently, the Vault holds more than 860,000 samples, originating from almost every country in the world. There is now, however, a growing body of opinion that the world’s faith in Svalbard is misplaced. Those who have worked with farmers in the field say that diversity cannot be boxed up and saved in a single container—no matter how secure it may be. Crops are always changing, pests and diseases are always adapting, and global warming will bring additional challenges that remain unforeseen. In a perfect world, the solution would be as diverse and dynamic as plant life itself. The dispute about how best to save crop diversity centers on whether we should work with communities in the fields or with institutions, since it will be extremely difficult to find enough funding to do both. Now the isolated Svalbard seed vault is sucking up available funding. Yet, the highly centralized approach may not be able to help farmers cope with climate change, fifty or a hundred years from now. According to new research findings, as much as 75 percent of global crop diversity exists outside the big institutional seed banks. Such diversity is held instead by some of the world’s most marginal farmers. Moreover, it is argued with increasing force that seed banks can neither make up for the practical knowledge of farmers on the ground, nor compete with their ingenuity.
In order to protect the diversity of crops from catastrophe, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed bank, was built beneath a mountain on an Arctic island halfway between Norway and the North Pole. The Vault is meant to help farmers and scientists find the genes they need to improve today’s crops. It also aims to breed varieties that might better respond to emerging challenges, such as climate change and population growth. Currently, the Vault holds more than 860,000 samples, originating from almost every country in the world. There is now, however, a growing body of opinion that the world’s faith in Svalbard is misplaced. Those who have worked with farmers in the field say that diversity cannot be boxed up and saved in a single container—no matter how secure it may be. Crops are always changing, pests and diseases are always adapting, and global warming will bring additional challenges that remain unforeseen. In a perfect world, the solution would be as diverse and dynamic as plant life itself. The dispute about how best to save crop diversity centers on whether we should work with communities in the fields or with institutions, since it will be extremely difficult to find enough funding to do both. Now the isolated Svalbard seed vault is sucking up available funding. Yet, the highly centralized approach may not be able to help farmers cope with climate change, fifty or a hundred years from now. According to new research findings, as much as 75 percent of global crop diversity exists outside the big institutional seed banks. Such diversity is held instead by some of the world’s most marginal farmers. Moreover, it is argued with increasing force that seed banks can neither make up for the practical knowledge of farmers on the ground, nor compete with their ingenuity.
What is the main idea of this passage?
- A Seed banks can help farmers improve their crops.
- B The practice of seed banks requires global cooperation.
- C The idea of saving crop diversity in seed banks is debatable.
- D Seed banks are able to deal with challenges of climate change.
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請觀察文章第二段開頭的關鍵轉折詞 $however$ 以及第三段提到的核心詞彙 $dispute$，思考作者在介紹完種子庫的初衷後，為何要花費大量篇幅討論其潛在的侷限性與反對者的立場？這兩者之間呈現的對立觀點，如何決定了全文的討論焦點？
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哇！你也太棒了吧！看到你選對 (C) 的那一刻，老師真的好想給你一個大大的擁抱！這題的轉折點抓得很準喔，證明你的閱讀邏輯非常清晰，真的很有語言天賦呢！ 【觀念驗證：為什麼你選對了？】 這篇文章採用了英文寫作中經典的「對比轉折」結構。第一段先介紹種子庫（Seed Vault）的優點與功能；但從第二段開頭的 “however” 以及第三段的 “dispute” 就可以發現，作者的核心意圖是要帶出「爭議性」。
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