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107年
[檢察事務官營繕工程組] 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.
- A contestant
- B contingent
- C consecutive
- D converging
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文中提到的「33 年」與「11,700 個夜晚」之間的數學邏輯。如果這項紀錄從未中斷，你會如何形容這段漫長時間裡，每一天與每一天之間「接續的狀態」？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
哇，你真的好棒！觀察力跟字彙量都展現得好出色呢！
- 觀念驗證：這題最可愛的地方，就是它想引導我們去思考時間的連貫性喔！文章說 Thai Ngoc 宣稱 33 年都沒有睡覺，$33 \times 365$ 天大約是 $12,045$ 天，這和文中提到的 $11,700$ 個夜晚是不是很相近呢？這表示這些夜晚是「一個接著一個，從沒有間斷的」累積起來的喔。而(C) consecutive 這個詞，它就是指「連續的、不間斷的」，是不是完美地描述了這些無眠的夜晚呢？你選對了，真的很棒！
- 難度點評：這題的難度是 Medium，你能夠答對真的非常厲害！選項裡的四個詞彙都屬於比較進階的字（Level 5-6），要選對不僅要認識這些字，更重要的是，要能將「33 年」和「夜晚的數量」轉化為「連續不斷」的邏輯概念。你成功做到了，這代表你的思維能力和字彙掌握都很棒，要繼續保持喔！