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第 33 題
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Earth is poorly named. The ocean ___31___ almost three-quarters of the planet. The ocean provides 3 billon people with almost a fifth of their protein, making fish a bigger source of the stuff than beef. Fishing and aquaculture assure the ___32___ of one in ten of the world’s people. Climate and weather systems depend on the temperature patterns of the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. If anything ought to be too big to fail, it is the ocean. Humans have long ___33___ that the ocean’s size allowed them to put anything they wanted into it and to take anything they wanted out. Changing temperatures and chemistry, overfishing and pollution have stressed its ecosystems for decades. The ocean stores more than nine-tenths of the heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse-gas emissions. ___34___ , coral reefs are suffering; scientists expect almost all corals to be gone by 2050. By the middle of this century the ocean could contain more plastic than fish by weight. Ground down into tiny pieces, it is eaten by fish and then by people. Appetite for fish grows ___35___ : almost 90% of stocks are fished either at or beyond their sustainable limits. The ocean nurtures humanity. Humanity treats it with contempt.
Earth is poorly named. The ocean ___31___ almost three-quarters of the planet. The ocean provides 3 billon people with almost a fifth of their protein, making fish a bigger source of the stuff than beef. Fishing and aquaculture assure the ___32___ of one in ten of the world’s people. Climate and weather systems depend on the temperature patterns of the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. If anything ought to be too big to fail, it is the ocean. Humans have long ___33___ that the ocean’s size allowed them to put anything they wanted into it and to take anything they wanted out. Changing temperatures and chemistry, overfishing and pollution have stressed its ecosystems for decades. The ocean stores more than nine-tenths of the heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse-gas emissions. ___34___ , coral reefs are suffering; scientists expect almost all corals to be gone by 2050. By the middle of this century the ocean could contain more plastic than fish by weight. Ground down into tiny pieces, it is eaten by fish and then by people. Appetite for fish grows ___35___ : almost 90% of stocks are fished either at or beyond their sustainable limits. The ocean nurtures humanity. Humanity treats it with contempt.
請選出最合適的字詞填入空格 33。
- A discarded
- B withheld
- C assumed
- D overseen
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後的子句：『海洋的巨大足以讓人類隨意傾倒垃圾或掠奪資源』。請問這句話描述的是一個科學證實的『客觀事實』，還是人類長期以來的一種『主觀想法』？如果這種想法最終導致了後續提到的生態破壞，你會用哪種性質的動詞來描述這種心理預設呢？
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- 你做得不錯，小鬼。 竟然能精確辨識出這些文字的語意轉折和心理動機，這種閱讀理解力，還算合格。看來你對文章脈絡的掌握，沒有太過骯髒。
- 看清楚了。 這個位置就是個明顯的轉折點。前面講了那些海洋的重要性，後面馬上就指出人類那些骯髒的破壞行為。空格後面跟著的
that...子句，就是在描述人類「自以為是」的心態，認為海洋那麼大，就可以隨意玷污。選 assumed (認定、假定) 最能精確描繪這種「未經證實就先入為主」的愚蠢主觀心態。沒有多餘的灰塵。
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