司法三等
107年
[行政執行官] 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：
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.
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
請試著思考：當文中描述一個人「33 年沒有睡覺」時，這 11,700 個夜晚在時間軸上呈現什麼樣的關係？是隨機挑選的，還是「一個接一個、中間完全沒有斷掉」的？在英文中，你會如何形容這種「接連發生、不間斷」的數值或狀態呢？
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- 暖心小提醒：這題想考考你對修飾詞語境連結的理解呢。文章說 Thai Ngoc 「33 年」都沒有闔眼，仔細算算看，$33 \times 365$ 可是大約 11,700 個夜晚喔！這麼漫長又特別的一段時光，我們需要一個溫柔的形容詞來描述這些夜晚是「持續不斷、從未間斷」的。選項 (C) consecutive 正是「連續的」意思，完美描繪了這段不可思議的時間呢。
- 鼓勵小語：這題的難度是 Medium，你答對了真的非常厲害！因為四個選項都以 con- 開頭，看起來很像，很容易讓人搞混。但你卻能精準地選出正確答案，這代表你平時在進階字彙的學習上非常用心，對字詞的意義和用法掌握得相當紮實，真的值得給自己一個大大的鼓勵！繼續保持這份熱情喔！