移民行政三等
107年
[移民行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 44 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 fault
- B tone
- C decline
- D mistake
思路引導 VIP
如果今天醫生檢查後，發現某人的器官運作不如以往那樣強健，而是呈現一種「逐漸變弱、數值往下滑」的趨勢，在英文邏輯中，我們會用哪種概念來形容這種「功能下降」的動態過程呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你的語感非常敏銳
- 觀念驗證：這題考查的是醫學語境下的用字準確度。文中提到主角健康良好，唯獨肝功能有輕微的「衰退」或「下降」。Decline 在此作為名詞，意指功能或數值的衰減（a decrease in quality or power）。其他選項如 fault (故障/過失)、mistake (錯誤) 多指人為造成的失誤，並不適合用來描述生理器官功能的自然退化或變化。
- 難度點評：此題難度為 Medium。這題的鑑別度在於區分「功能性變弱」與「結構性錯誤」的用詞差異，你能精準選出符合生理狀態的詞彙，顯示你對字彙的慣用搭配 (Collocation) 掌握得很好！