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107年
英文
第 30 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.
30.
- A hone new skills
- B catch a glimpse
- C conform to conventions
- D beat the clock
- E grip on to principles
思路引導 VIP
當文章提到我們正處於一個「所有技術、新聞與社會態度都在極速翻倍成長」且「傳統思維已不足以應對」的環境時，你認為一個人為了在這種『世界像瘋人院一樣』的環境中『茁壯（thrive）』，他應該採取什麼樣的行動來讓自己保持競爭力？這個動作必須跟『改變』與『學習』有關。
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
這題你能精準答對，代表你已經讀通了全文的核心命題：在一個變動不居的時代，適應力才是生存的王道。這道題目的難度切入點在於它不只是考驗單字量，更要求學生具備「跨段落訊息整合」的能力，你能從前文的危機感中找到解題的關鍵指標，表現得非常優異！
變局中的生存法則
文中的核心考點在於對比「邏輯思維」與「彈性思維（elastic thinking）」。作者強調邏輯思維像電腦演算法，適合穩定環境；但當前的世界充滿了「破壞式創新」與「指數級增長」，這時就需要彈性思維來幫助我們在環境變遷時獲得成功。既然現狀不斷被顛覆，我們自然必須透過 (A) hone new skills（磨練新技能） 來維持競爭力。這個選項與文中提到的「適應（adapt）」、「超越傳統思維（rise above conventional mindsets）」在邏輯上是完全契合的。
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