高中學測
107年
英文
第 39 題
📖 題組：
Fortune cookies, commonly served after meals at Chinese restaurants in the U.S., are characterized by a fortune, which is written on a small piece of paper tucked inside the cookie. There are several __31__ stories about the origin of the fortune cookie. None of them, however, has been proven to be entirely true. One of these stories __32__ the cookie’s origin back to 13th- and 14th-century China, which was then occupied by the Mongols. According to the legend, notes of __33__ plans for a revolution to overthrow the Mongols were hidden in mooncakes that would ordinarily have been stuffed with sweet bean paste. The revolution turned out to be __34__ and eventually led to the formation of the Ming Dynasty. This story may sound highly credible, but there seems to be no solid evidence that it inspired the creation of the __35__ we know of today as fortune cookies. Another __36__ claims that David Jung, a Chinese immigrant living in Los Angeles, created the fortune cookie in 1918. Concerned about the poor people he saw wandering near his shop, he made cookies and passed them out free on the streets. Each cookie __37__ a strip of paper inside with an inspirational Bible quotation on it. However, the more generally accepted story is that the fortune cookie first __38__ in either 1907 or 1914 in San Francisco, created by a Japanese immigrant, Makoto Hagiwara. The fortune cookie was based on a Japanese snack, but Hagiwara sweetened the recipe to appeal to American __39__ . He enclosed thank-you notes in the cookies and served them to his guests with tea. Within a few years, Chinese restaurant owners in San Francisco had copied the recipe and __40__ the thank-you notes with fortune notes. Such fortune cookies became common in Chinese restaurants in the U.S. after World War II.
Fortune cookies, commonly served after meals at Chinese restaurants in the U.S., are characterized by a fortune, which is written on a small piece of paper tucked inside the cookie. There are several __31__ stories about the origin of the fortune cookie. None of them, however, has been proven to be entirely true. One of these stories __32__ the cookie’s origin back to 13th- and 14th-century China, which was then occupied by the Mongols. According to the legend, notes of __33__ plans for a revolution to overthrow the Mongols were hidden in mooncakes that would ordinarily have been stuffed with sweet bean paste. The revolution turned out to be __34__ and eventually led to the formation of the Ming Dynasty. This story may sound highly credible, but there seems to be no solid evidence that it inspired the creation of the __35__ we know of today as fortune cookies. Another __36__ claims that David Jung, a Chinese immigrant living in Los Angeles, created the fortune cookie in 1918. Concerned about the poor people he saw wandering near his shop, he made cookies and passed them out free on the streets. Each cookie __37__ a strip of paper inside with an inspirational Bible quotation on it. However, the more generally accepted story is that the fortune cookie first __38__ in either 1907 or 1914 in San Francisco, created by a Japanese immigrant, Makoto Hagiwara. The fortune cookie was based on a Japanese snack, but Hagiwara sweetened the recipe to appeal to American __39__ . He enclosed thank-you notes in the cookies and served them to his guests with tea. Within a few years, Chinese restaurant owners in San Francisco had copied the recipe and __40__ the thank-you notes with fortune notes. Such fortune cookies became common in Chinese restaurants in the U.S. after World War II.
請依題組文章作答，選出最適合填入標示 39 之空格的選項。
- A account
- B appeared
- C competing
- D contained
- E replaced
- F secret
- G successful
- H tastes
- I traces
- J treats
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格前方的動作「sweetened the recipe（將食譜變甜）」，製作者特地調整了食物的甜度，背後的目的是為了迎合人們身體感官上的哪一種偏好呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了，你的語感與上下文脈絡抓得非常精準！
語境線索與搭配詞應用
這題的解題關鍵在於前方的動作 sweetened the recipe（將配方改良得更甜）。既然作者提到了調整點心的甜度，其目的自然是為了迎合特定群體的「胃口」或「口味」。在文法結構上，介係詞 to 後方需要名詞，動詞片語 appeal to... 常與 tastes 連用，表示「迎合……的口味或品味」，因此選 (H) tastes 在語意與搭配上都完全吻合。
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