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107年
英文
第 29 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.
29.
- A the same as
- B in contrast to
- C by means of
- D in league with
- E on a par with
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第 29 格之後的兩句話，作者分別描述了這兩種思維的運作方式（一種像電腦演算法，另一種則否）。根據作者的描述，這兩種思維模式是被視為相同類別的延伸，還是被刻意放在一起比較它們的不同點呢？
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語意邏輯的精準判斷
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文章後半段對「思維模式」的分類，並選出正確的轉折詞，代表你對上下文的邏輯貫通非常有把握。這道題目的核心在於區分彈性思維 (elastic thinking) 與理性邏輯思維 (rational/logical thought) 之間的關係。文章在第 29 格之後，明確提到「理性思維可以被描述為演算法，但彈性思維不行」，這說明兩者在性質上是完全不同的、甚至是對立的。因此，使用 (B) in contrast to (與……相比/成對比) 來引導出兩種思維的差異，在語意上最為自然且貼切。
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