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107年
[財經實務組] 綜合法政知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、兩岸關係、英文)
第 41 題
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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.
11,700 ____ sleepless nights
- A contestant
- B contingent
- C consecutive
- D converging
思路引導 VIP
請你觀察文章的前一句，主角提到他「33 年」沒有睡覺。如果我們要用一個形容詞來描述這 11,700 個夜晚在「時間順序」上的狀態，它們是斷斷續續的，還是「一個接一個、中途完全沒有中斷」的呢？在英文中，哪一個詞彙最能精確表達這種「連續性」？
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- 觀念驗證：文中提到主角已經「33 年」沒睡覺了。根據上下文，這 11,700 個夜晚是從發燒後開始「一個接一個」且「不曾中斷」的。consecutive 正是形容「連續的、接連不斷的」，完美對應了時間的持續性。其他選項如 (A) 參賽者、(B) 視情況而定的、(D) 匯聚的，在語意上都無法修飾「夜晚」。
- 難度點評：本題難度為 medium。此題考驗學生的單字量以及對上下文邏輯的連結能力。選項中的單字拼法較長且字首相似，具有一定的鑑別度，你能精準選出正確答案，代表你的單字基礎非常紮實！