高中學測
108年
英文
第 38 題
📖 題組：
My father started to suffer from memory loss right after his marriage. Or so my mother told us. She said they were married on May 26, while my dad’s memory told him it was June 25. This often __31__ their anniversary celebration, for his rose bouquet always came one month late. Mom seldom asked Dad to go shopping in the traditional market for her. But whenever Dad __32__ on going, she made sure that he brought a shopping list. Dad certainly had the list __33__ when he left for the market, but he would somehow forget it, and then would find it again only after he returned home. Of course, the __34__ that he made were based mainly on his memory of the list. Unfortunately, the items were usually different from Mom’s __35__ . My father’s poor memory gave him certain advantages, though. For instance, he was __36__ with many secrets in my family and our community. Because of his poor memory, he had the __37__ of hearing everyone’s private matters. The reason was __38__ : Dad would not remember any of it, we thought. As for our neighbors, they liked to invite my father to dinner so that they could tell him stories about their children, parents, friends, and pets. They also believed the secrets in their families would never be __39__ . They were quite right, for my father cared __40__ about who did what to whom. But there is one thing he would never forget: showing up for dinner on time.
My father started to suffer from memory loss right after his marriage. Or so my mother told us. She said they were married on May 26, while my dad’s memory told him it was June 25. This often __31__ their anniversary celebration, for his rose bouquet always came one month late. Mom seldom asked Dad to go shopping in the traditional market for her. But whenever Dad __32__ on going, she made sure that he brought a shopping list. Dad certainly had the list __33__ when he left for the market, but he would somehow forget it, and then would find it again only after he returned home. Of course, the __34__ that he made were based mainly on his memory of the list. Unfortunately, the items were usually different from Mom’s __35__ . My father’s poor memory gave him certain advantages, though. For instance, he was __36__ with many secrets in my family and our community. Because of his poor memory, he had the __37__ of hearing everyone’s private matters. The reason was __38__ : Dad would not remember any of it, we thought. As for our neighbors, they liked to invite my father to dinner so that they could tell him stories about their children, parents, friends, and pets. They also believed the secrets in their families would never be __39__ . They were quite right, for my father cared __40__ about who did what to whom. But there is one thing he would never forget: showing up for dinner on time.
請依題組文章作答，選出最適合填入標示 38 之空格的選項。
- A little
- B purchases
- C trusted
- D requests
- E insisted
- F ready
- G ruined
- H privilege
- I revealed
- J obvious
思路引導 VIP
請觀察第 38 格後面的「冒號（:）」，它引導的句子在功能上是在做什麼？如果後方直接給出了一個非常直截了當的理由，那麼在冒號前，我們會用哪種特質的形容詞來形容這個「原因」呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了，選 (J) obvious 完全正確！
句意邏輯與文意銜接
這道題的關鍵在於標點符號「冒號（:）」的作用。冒號在英文中常用於對前文做進一步的解釋或補充說明。前句提到「父親有聽取大家私事的特權」，接著指出「原因很 ______：因為我們認為爸爸根本不會記得。」由此可知，冒號後的理由既直接又理所當然，因此形容詞選 obvious（顯而易見的、明顯的）最符合文意脈絡。
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