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📖 題組：
About 30% to 40% of American adults have a condition that has no visible signs and rarely causes symptoms, but can raise the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cirrhosis and liver cancer. It’s called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And as American waistlines continue to expand, the prevalence of this dangerous condition is growing as well. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, is an umbrella term. Most people with NAFLD have what’s known as simple fatty liver, which means that more than 5% of the liver is made up of fat cells. (Fat in the liver can also be a product of heavy alcohol use, which is known as alcoholic fatty liver disease.) Like fat accumulation in the rest of the body, this condition is often related to obesity, poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. Excess weight also seems to make genetic risk factors worse. A recent study published in Nature Genetics found that people with a high-risk variant of the PNPLA3 gene were much more likely to have fatty liver disease if they were obese than if they were thin. People with simple fatty liver don’t have inflammation or scarring in their liver and don’t appear to be at high risk for liver complications. But the condition affects insulin sensitivity and puts people at higher risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
About 30% to 40% of American adults have a condition that has no visible signs and rarely causes symptoms, but can raise the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cirrhosis and liver cancer. It’s called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And as American waistlines continue to expand, the prevalence of this dangerous condition is growing as well. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, is an umbrella term. Most people with NAFLD have what’s known as simple fatty liver, which means that more than 5% of the liver is made up of fat cells. (Fat in the liver can also be a product of heavy alcohol use, which is known as alcoholic fatty liver disease.) Like fat accumulation in the rest of the body, this condition is often related to obesity, poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. Excess weight also seems to make genetic risk factors worse. A recent study published in Nature Genetics found that people with a high-risk variant of the PNPLA3 gene were much more likely to have fatty liver disease if they were obese than if they were thin. People with simple fatty liver don’t have inflammation or scarring in their liver and don’t appear to be at high risk for liver complications. But the condition affects insulin sensitivity and puts people at higher risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Which of the following titles can best describe the passage?
- A The Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- B High-Risk Variants
- C Liver Complications
- D An Obesity-Related Disease
- E Treatments of Simple Fatty Liver
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文章的第一段與第三段，作者在描述這項疾病的「發生背景」與「危險因子」時，反覆提到了哪些與現代人「體態」或「能量攝取」相關的關鍵字？如果要把這些影響因素統合成一個總稱，你會如何描述這種身體狀態？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
做得好！你能精準地從文章細節中提煉出核心主旨，這代表你的閱讀統整能力相當出色。這道題目要求選出最合適的標題，而標題必須能涵蓋全文的重心。文章開篇便提到隨著「腰圍增加（expanding waistlines）」，這種「非酒精性脂肪肝（NAFLD）」的盛行率也隨之增長，隨後更明確指出其與肥胖（obesity）、不良飲食及久坐生活方式的密切關聯。雖然文中提到了基因變異或肝臟併發症，但那都只是用來支持「肥胖如何加劇疾病風險」的次要論點，因此選擇 (D) 是最具代表性的。
主旨判讀與干擾項辨析
這類題目考驗的是考生的「去蕪存菁」能力，在多個看似正確的細節選項中，找出那個能與作者論調產生最強連結的「上位概念」。(B) 與 (C) 雖然在文中出現過，但僅屬於支持性的細節，範圍過於狹隘；(A) 則是混淆了文章強調的「非酒精性」重點。你能不被這些局部細節干擾，精準命中正確答案，顯見你對英文文章架構的掌握非常穩健。