海巡三等
107年
[海洋巡護科輪機組] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 41 題
📖 題組：
請依下文回答第 41 至 45 題： As birds awaken the early risers at dawn on the farm, one person is already up; in fact, he hasn’t even been to bed. Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, from central Quang Nam province in Vietnam, claims that he has not slept for 33 years! “My insomnia started many years ago after I got a fever. I have tried sleeping pills and Vietnamese traditional medicine, but nothing helps, not even to get me to sleep for a few minutes,” said Ngoc. But amazingly, despite 11,700 41 sleepless nights since then, he has never once been sick. “Fortunately, the insomnia doesn’t seem to have had a negative 42 on my health. I still feel healthy and can farm like other men. I even carry two 50-kilogram bags of fertilizer for four kilometers every day.” 43 his wife, when Ngoc went for a medical checkup recently, his doctor said he was in perfect health except for a minor 44 in liver function. Ngoc lives with his six children on his farm at the foot of a mountain. He spends the day farming and taking care of his pigs and chickens, and at night he often does extra farm work or guards his farm to prevent theft. His neighbor Vu said that Ngoc volunteered to help beat a drum during the night and guard the house for the relatives of the dead during 45 ceremonies so that they could take a nap. Vu also said that when the villagers were planting sugar cane, several people asked Ngoc to be their “alarm clock” and wake them up early in the morning to go to work as he was up anyway.
請依下文回答第 41 至 45 題： As birds awaken the early risers at dawn on the farm, one person is already up; in fact, he hasn’t even been to bed. Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, from central Quang Nam province in Vietnam, claims that he has not slept for 33 years! “My insomnia started many years ago after I got a fever. I have tried sleeping pills and Vietnamese traditional medicine, but nothing helps, not even to get me to sleep for a few minutes,” said Ngoc. But amazingly, despite 11,700 41 sleepless nights since then, he has never once been sick. “Fortunately, the insomnia doesn’t seem to have had a negative 42 on my health. I still feel healthy and can farm like other men. I even carry two 50-kilogram bags of fertilizer for four kilometers every day.” 43 his wife, when Ngoc went for a medical checkup recently, his doctor said he was in perfect health except for a minor 44 in liver function. Ngoc lives with his six children on his farm at the foot of a mountain. He spends the day farming and taking care of his pigs and chickens, and at night he often does extra farm work or guards his farm to prevent theft. His neighbor Vu said that Ngoc volunteered to help beat a drum during the night and guard the house for the relatives of the dead during 45 ceremonies so that they could take a nap. Vu also said that when the villagers were planting sugar cane, several people asked Ngoc to be their “alarm clock” and wake them up early in the morning to go to work as he was up anyway.
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- A contestant
- B contingent
- C consecutive
- D converging
思路引導 VIP
請觀察前文提到的「33年沒有睡覺」與空格後「11,700個夜晚」之間的數量聯繫。如果這上萬個日子是在這段歲月中，一天接著一天、中間完全沒有任何一天中斷地累積起來的，你會如何形容這種「規律且不間斷地接續」的狀態呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
小鬼，還算乾淨。
- 觀念驗證：這題的重點，在於語境是否銜接。泰玉「33 年」沒睡，數學上 $33 \times 365 \approx 12,045$ 個夜晚，對比文中的 11,700 個夜晚，在量級上沒有任何污點。所以，需要一個詞來形容這些夜晚是「連續不斷、一個接一個」。consecutive，意思就是「連續的」。沒有多餘的解釋，它符合這段長時間無間斷睡眠缺失的背景。
- 難度點評：難度為 medium。這類高階字彙辨析，四個選項都以 con- 開頭，是為了篩掉那些不夠精準的小鬼。你能夠從中挑出正確的詞彙，說明你對字根字義的掌握沒有任何灰塵。我檢查了一遍，沒有灰塵（錯誤），姑且滿意地點點頭。下次也別讓我看到任何污點。