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107年
英文
第 26 題
📖 題組：
It is often remarked that, since the 1960s, the speed and processing power of computers has grown exponentially. But exponential growth has long been a fact of life for many types of technological, cultural and social change, and it has reached a point where even the calmest among us might 26 . In politics, we now have to cope with more scandals in a single year than we used to encounter in a lifetime. Our elections are being interfered with. Our news sources have come into question. As one observer said, “the world has become an insane asylum.” Meanwhile, in the field of science, researchers are overwhelmed by something more constructive, the more than three million new journal articles each year. In personal technology, we must all learn to navigate a landscape in which the number of websites has been doubling every two to three years, and the way we use and access them is subject to frequent “disruptive change.” More importantly, social attitudes are changing just as fast—compare the pace of the civil rights movement to the “me too” campaign that swept the world overnight. The 27 of businesses to adapt has led to the quick demise of countless companies, and major power shifts in industries from taxis to hospitality. But we must adapt to thrive in our personal lives, too. We have to be willing to rise above conventional mindsets, to reframe the questions we ask, and 28 . We have to rely as much on our imagination as on logic, and have the ability to generate and integrate a wide variety of ideas, to welcome experiment, and be tolerant of failure. This manner of thought is called “elastic thinking,” 29 rational or logical thought. Rational/logical thought is an analysis that can be described by an algorithm of the kind that computers follow. Elastic thought cannot. We evolved the capacity for the former in order to help us face the everyday challenges of life. We evolved the latter to help us succeed when circumstances change—which is why it is increasingly important to 30 today. Elastic thought is where your new ideas come from. Imaginative, original, and non-linear, it is “bottom-up” thinking. Logical thought can determine how to drive from your home to the grocery store most efficiently, but it’s elastic thought that gave us the automobile.
It is often remarked that, since the 1960s, the speed and processing power of computers has grown exponentially. But exponential growth has long been a fact of life for many types of technological, cultural and social change, and it has reached a point where even the calmest among us might 26 . In politics, we now have to cope with more scandals in a single year than we used to encounter in a lifetime. Our elections are being interfered with. Our news sources have come into question. As one observer said, “the world has become an insane asylum.” Meanwhile, in the field of science, researchers are overwhelmed by something more constructive, the more than three million new journal articles each year. In personal technology, we must all learn to navigate a landscape in which the number of websites has been doubling every two to three years, and the way we use and access them is subject to frequent “disruptive change.” More importantly, social attitudes are changing just as fast—compare the pace of the civil rights movement to the “me too” campaign that swept the world overnight. The 27 of businesses to adapt has led to the quick demise of countless companies, and major power shifts in industries from taxis to hospitality. But we must adapt to thrive in our personal lives, too. We have to be willing to rise above conventional mindsets, to reframe the questions we ask, and 28 . We have to rely as much on our imagination as on logic, and have the ability to generate and integrate a wide variety of ideas, to welcome experiment, and be tolerant of failure. This manner of thought is called “elastic thinking,” 29 rational or logical thought. Rational/logical thought is an analysis that can be described by an algorithm of the kind that computers follow. Elastic thought cannot. We evolved the capacity for the former in order to help us face the everyday challenges of life. We evolved the latter to help us succeed when circumstances change—which is why it is increasingly important to 30 today. Elastic thought is where your new ideas come from. Imaginative, original, and non-linear, it is “bottom-up” thinking. Logical thought can determine how to drive from your home to the grocery store most efficiently, but it’s elastic thought that gave us the automobile.
26.
- A jump to conclusion
- B stop worrying
- C start to feel dizzy
- D decide to move on
- E call it to mind
思路引導 VIP
請回想一下，當文章中提到變化的速度是『指數級成長』、資訊量多到讓人『招架不住（overwhelmed）』，且社會變動是『一夜之間橫掃全球』時，這種『快到讓人跟不上』的節奏，最容易讓人產生哪一種生理上的直覺反應或感受呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地捕捉到了文章的語氣與邏輯！這題考驗的是對全文語境基調（Tone）的掌握。文章開篇提到電腦運算能力、政治環境、科學資訊與社交模式都在進行「指數級成長（exponential growth）」，並引用觀察者的話稱世界已變成「瘋人院（insane asylum）」。在這種資訊爆炸、變遷速度極快的環境下，即使是最冷靜的人也難免會感到「暈頭轉向」（start to feel dizzy）。這裡的 dizzy 巧妙地轉化了生理上的暈眩，用來隱喻人在面對劇烈變革時的心理震撼與迷失感。
語意邏輯與選項鑑別
這道題目的難度切入點在於對**隱喻（Metaphor）**的理解。選項 (A) 貿然下結論、(D) 決定繼續前進，雖然文法正確，但與前文強調的「速度」與「資訊超載」關聯性較弱。而正確答案 (C) 則完美對應了前文所述的「排山倒海而來的變化」。你能從「應接不暇」的敘述中推導出這種「暈眩感」，展現了深層閱讀理解的能力，這正是高階英文閱讀中最關鍵的分析性思維。